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BEGLA-137 Solved Assignment 2023-24 for July 2023 and January 2024 Session
B.E.G.L.A-137
LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE
Assignment July, 2023 & January, 2024 Sessions
(Based on Blocks 1 – 4)
Course Code: BEGLA-137/ 2023-2024
Max. Marks: 100
Answer all questions.
- Fill in the blanks with suitable adverbs or prepositions to form phrasal verbs: (10)
- i) Please take ……………………………… your coat.
- ii) We have taken …………………………………….. a new project.
iii) I was taken …………………………… a doctor because I had been able to cure some people in the neighborhood.
- iv) Seeta takes ………………………………….. her mother.
- v) The old lady offered to take ……………………….. the homeless stranger.
- Give meanings of the phrasal verbs in the following sentences in a few words. (10)
- i) Don’t give in to the threats of the terrorists.
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- ii) The engine gives off steam.
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iii) They tried to cover up the evil dead.
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- iv) I fell for the beautiful girl.
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- v) We’ll see you off at the station
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- Fill in the blanks in the following sentences by using the correct forms of the words given below. Indicate in each case whether the word is used as a noun or a verb. (Each word has to be used twice, once as a noun and once as a verb.) pitch, race, litter, file, spell. (10)
- i) He usually …………………………….. the ball at the right place.
- ii) The cricket ………………………………… is wet today.
iii) Many thoughts ………………………….. through his mind when his son was
in the operating theatre.
- iv) I wish to see his personal …………………………………
- v) You have to feed the cat and its ……………………………………….
- vi) He has ……………………………………… the word wrongly.
vii) She came first in the 100-metre …………………………………………..
viii) The magician cast a …………………………………….. on her.
- ix) Please ……………………………………………….. this letter.
- x) ‘The muddy ground was …………………………………… with crawling worms’. (Khushwant Singh: The Mark of Vishnu)
- Write short notes on any four of the following. Give suitable examples. (5×4= 20)
- i) Alliteration
- ii) Assonance
iii) Rhyme
- iv) Onomatopoeia
- v) Rhythm
- What do you understand by Irony? Discuss in detail the following. (20)
- Irony of situation
- Irony in satire
- Ironic contrast
- Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: (10)
May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy The chooses right, and never find a friend. (William Butler Yeats: ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’)
- i) What kind of beauty does the poet want his daughter to have?
- ii) What are the hazards of being made beautiful overmuch’? How does the poet illustrate his point?
- Outline the main strategies for being polite while doing things with language.
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