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4th August 2014, 02:10 PM
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State Eligibility Test Tamil Nadu previous year question papers of English
Will you please share with me the State Eligibility Test Tamil Nadu previous year question papers of English?
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4th August 2014, 02:49 PM
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Re: State Eligibility Test Tamil Nadu previous year question papers of English
As you want to get the State Eligibility Test Tamil Nadu previous year question papers of English so here it is for you: ENGLISH Paper - 111 SECTION - I Note : i) Answer both the questions. ii) Each question carries twenty marks. iii) Each answer should be given in 500 words. 1. Write an essay on any one of the following topics : (a) Literature as commodity. (b) The limitations of grand narratives. 2. Write an essay on any one of the following topics : (a) Modernism refers less to historical time than to a specific movement in the arts. (b) The death of the canon. SECTION - I1 Note : i) There are five Electives in this Section. Answer all the questions on any one of the Electives. ii) Each question carries fifteen marks. iii) Each answer should be given in 300 words. ELECTIVE - I Do you agree with the view that the future of English is unlikely to be one of unchallenged, monolingual supremacy ? How important is the acquisition of RP for learners of English as a second language in India ? The tendency to adopt new words from different languages is due to a variety of reasons. Explain any three such reasons with reference to English. ELECTIVE - I1 Assess the contribution of Virgil to the European epic tradition. What features of European thought and culture of the period are reflected in the term 'Enlightenment' ? Comment on Baudelaire's sensitivity with reference to Fle~irs d~i Mal. ELECTIVE - I11 How does Sarojini Naidu create an Indian ambience in her poetry ? Examine the implication of the title The God of Small Things. Analyse the representation of the subaltern in the fiction of Mahesweta Devi. ELECTIVE - N Bring out the chief features of the Harlem Renaissance, with suitable examples. Indicate the search for an African identity in the works of Chinua Achebe. Examine the presentation of the Australian landscape in the poetry of A. D. Hope. Why does Aristotle consider plot to be the most important element of tragedy ? Trace the relationship between New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. "There is not one feminism but many feminisms." Discuss with reference to contemporary feminist literary theory. SECTION - I11 Note : i) Answer all questions. ii) Each question carries ten marks. iii) Each answer should be given in 50 words. Can Hamlet be called 'a revenge tragedy with a difference' ? Outline the reasons for your view. Write a note on the Miltonic simile. Why is the Augustan Age so called ? What does Wordsworth mean by the phrase 'spots of time' in The Prelude ? What are the 'great expectations' in Dickens's novel of the same name ? Comment on the Fielding-Aziz encounter in the final section of Forster's Passage to India. Comment on the ending of The French Lieutenant's Woman. Explain Coleridge's term 'esemplastic imagination'. Explain the term 'intertextuality.' Note : i) Answer all questions. ii) Each question carries five marks. iii) Each answer should be given in 30 words. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow : All those times I was bored out of my mind. Holding the log while he sawed it. Holding the string while he measured, boards, distances between things, or pounded stakes into the ground for rows and rows of lettuces and beets, which I then ( bored ) weeded. Or sat in the back of the car, or sat still in boats, sat, sat, while at the prow, stern, wheel he drove, steered, paddled. It wasn't even boredom, it was looking, looking hard and up close at the small details. Myopia. The worn gunwales, the intricate twill of the seat cover. The acid crumbs of loam, the granular pink rock, its igneous veins, the sea-fans of dry moss, the blaclush and then the graying bristles on the back of his neck. Sometimes he would whistle, sometimes I would. The boring rhythm of doing things over and over, carrying the wood, drying the dishes. Such minutiae. It's what the animals spend most of their time at, ferrying the sand, grain by grain, from their tunnels, shuffling the leaves in their burrows. He pointed such things out, and I would look at the whorled texture of his square finger, earth under the nail. Why do I remember it as sunnier all the time then, although it more often rained, and more birdsong ? I could hardly wait to get the hell out of there to anywhere else. Perhaps though boredom is happier. It is for dogs or groundhogs. Now I wouldn't be bored. Now I would know too much. Now I would know. Answer the following questions : 15. Who is the speaker in the poem and what is her tone ? 16. What devices are used to convey the "boring rhythm" of the reported experience ? 17. What significance does the poet attach to "the small details" ? 18. What could be the conditions in which "boredom is happier" ? 19. How would you interpret the last two lines ? |
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