Special English - Dr.BR Ambedkar University

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Srikakulam
I year B.A Degree – Special English Syllabus
w.e.f 2010-11 Admitted Batch
PAPER I – MODERN LANGUAGE
1: Old English
2: Middle English
Unit - I
3: English during Renaissance and after
4: Standard English
5: Word formation and Growth of Vocabulary
6: Foreign Influences – Latin
7: Foreign Influences – French
8: Foreign Influences – Scandinavian
9: Change of Meaning / Semantics
Unit - II
1: Sonnet: Wordsworth – “Scorn not the sonnet”
2: Ode to a Skylark – P.B.Shelley
3: Elegy: Grey – “Elegy Written in a Country church Yard
4: Ballad: W.B.Yeats – “The Ballad of father Gilligan”
5: Lyric: Robert Burns – “ A Red, Red Rose”
6: Dramatic Monologue: Browning “My Last Duchess”
Unit – III
1: Plot / Structure : Farell Mitchell – The best Laid Plans
2: Character: J.B Priestley – Mother’s Day
3: Dialogue: Anton Chekov: The Marriage Proposal
Unit – IV
1: Point of View: Kushwant Singh “The Interview”
2: Setting/Atmosphere: Edgar Allen Poe - the tell – tale heart
3: Style/Narrative Technique: O.Henry the Gift of the Magi
Reference Books:
1. A History of English Language – A.C.Baugh
2. A History of English Literature – W.J.Long

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Srikakulam
I year B.A Degree – Special English Model Question Paper
w.e.f 2010-11 Admitted Batch
PAPER I – MODERN LANGUAGE
Time : Three Hours
Answer all Questions
Section – A
Maximum: 100 Marks
a) Answer any TWO of the Following: 2x10=20
i) Write a brief note on the Scandinavian influence on the English Language.
ii) Examine the contribution of any one of the poets to the English Language.
iii) Discuss briefly any two of the important process of word formation
iv) Write short notes on any TWO of the following process of semantic charges:
(1) Association of Ideas
(2) Narrowing meaning
(3) Euphemism
(4) Prudery
b) Read the following passage and answer the following questions 5x2=10
NARWA and Haria were not blood brothers, though they so described
themselves. They had been born and had grown up in the same village near Almora,
and when old enough to work had adopted the same profession, basket making which
means that they were untouchables, for in the United Provinces baskets are only made
by untouchables. During the summer months Narwa and Haria worked at their trade in
their village near Almora, and in the winter months they came down to Kaladhungi
where there was a great demand for the huge baskets, measuring upto fifteen feet in
diameter, which they made foe our villagers for the storage of grain. In their hill
village near Almora they made their baskets of ringals – thin bamboo an inch thick
and up to twenty feet long, which grows at an altitude of four to ten thousand feet, and
which incidentally makes the most perfect of fly – rods – and in Kaladhingi they made
them of bamboos.
i) How can you say that Narwa and Haria are untouchable
ii)
iii)
iv)
What was their profession during the summer
Why do the villagers buy the huge baskets made by Narwa and Haria
What is material they used to make baskets in their village near Almora
v) What is material they used to make baskets in

c) Read the following poem and answer the questions that follows 5x2=10
Love came of Flora asking for a flower
That would of flowers be indisputed queen,
The lily and the rose, long, long had been
Rivals for that high honour. Bards of power
Had sung their claims. “The rose can never tower
Like the pale lily with her Juno mien’ –
‘But is the lily lovelier’ Thus between
Flower – factions rang the strife in Psyche’s
‘Give me a flower delicious as the rose
And stately as the lily in her pride’ –
“But of what colour’ – “Rose – red’. Love first chose.
Then prayed, - ‘No, lily –white, - or, both provide;’
And Flora gave the lotus, ‘rose-red’ dyed,
And ‘lily – white’, queenliest flower that blows.
i) What is the question that love put to Flora
ii) What is the claim of the bands of power
iii) What is the reason for the controversy of the flowers
iv) Which flower has became the ultimate queen
v) Give a suitable title to the poem.
Section – B
a) Write an essay in any ONE of the following 1x10=10
i) Sonnet ii) Balled
b) Write an essay on any ONE of the following 1x10=10
i) Examine the features of an elegy in “Elegu Written in a Country Churchyard”
ii) Discuss Robert Burn’s Lyricism in A Red, Red Rose.
iii) Write an eassy in the Character of the “Narrator” in my last Duchess.
Section – C
a) Answer any TWO of the following 2x10=20
i) Do you consider that The Best Laid Plans has a perfect plot Discuss.
ii) Examine the structure of the play The Best Laid Plans.
iii) Critically comment on the ‘Round Characters’ in Mother’s Day.
iv) Examine Chekon’s sense of humour in A Marriage Proposal.

Section – D
Answer any TWO of the following 2x10=20
i) Discuss Khushwant’s use of the point of view in The Interview
ii) Examine Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart as a psychological story
iii) Write as essay on the ‘atmosphere’ poe creates in The Tell Tale Heart
iv) Critically comment on O. Henry’s prose style in The Gift of Magi.