Karnataka state open university ba old question papers

I am doing BA 1st year form Karnataka state open university and looking for English subject question paper , if you have then tel me provide plz ??

[Kiran Chandar]

Yes I have Karnataka state open university BA 1st year English subject paper and providing on your demand :

SECTION – A
I. Annotate four of the following : (4×4=16)
a) Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country’s blood.
b) Husbands at church door she had five
Without other company in youth.
c) One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
d) All is if I have grace to use it so,
As ever in my great Task-master’s eye.
e) This casket India’s glowing gems unlocks
And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
f) But out alack ! he was but one hour mine,
The region cloud hath masked him from me now.
g) The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
h) Such thought to Lucy I will give
While she and I together live
Here in this happy dell.



SECTION – B
II. Answer any two of the following in not more than a page and a half
each : (2×9=18)
a) What are your impressions of Belinda in Pope’s poem ?
b) Bring out the contrast between Ulysses and Telemachus.
c) How does Arnold describe the world around him in ‘Dover Beach’ ?
d) How does Wordsworth associate the death of Lucy with the ennobling
influence of nature in human life ?

SECTION – C
III. Answer any two of the following in not more than a page and a half
each : (2×9=18)
a) Explain critically Dr. Heidegger’s experiment.
b) Describe the incidents which led to the tribulations and humiliations of the
Loisels.
c) What are Bacon’s views on studies ?
d) How does Dickens contrast fact and fancy through Sissy and Bitzer ?

SECTION – D
IV. Answer any two of the following in not more than a page and a half
each : (2×9=18)
a) What is the significance of the seven commandments introduced by Snowball
and Napoleon to the farm animals ?
b) Write a note on Boxer.
c) What is the role of Squealer in Animal Farm ?
d) Discuss Animal Farm as a political satire on the Russian Revolution.

V. a) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
It is in their attitude towards children that the Englishman and the Russian
are poles apart. In an English family discipline is the order of the day. A
favourite English proverb is “spare the rod and spoil the child’. This saying
was almost elevated into a gospel by Dr. Arnold, who built up public school
system on the basis of corporal punishment, side by side with Latin, football
and the Bible.
i) Who built up the public school system ? 2
ii) What is the favourite English proverb mentioned in the passage ? 2
iii) In what are the Englishman and the Russian poles apart ? 2
b) Choose one of the following and expand the idea in not more than
a page : (1×5=5)
i) Make hay while the sun shines.
ii) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
iii) Honesty is the best policy.
iv) Little drops of water make a mighty ocean.
c) Use two of the following idioms in sentences of your own : (2×1=2)
i) Greek and Latin
ii) Body and soul
iii) Kith and Kin
iv) Hue and Cry.
d) Change the voice of one of the following : (1×1=1)
i) A new bridge has been built across the river
ii) The students sang a song.
e) Provide synonyms for two of the following : (2×1=2)
i) Ability
ii) Feeble
iii) Lazy
iv) Kind.
f) Provide antonyms for two of the following : (2×1=2)
i) Bright
ii) Wisdom
iii) Bad
iv) Punctual.
g) Provide one word substitute for two of the following : (2×1=2)
i) A person who loves his own county
ii) One who goes on a journey to a holy place
iii) A period of two weeks
iv) A person whose wife is dead