Concurrent Course For Hon. Prog.: (Language Credit Course) English Language
Concurrent Course For Hon. Prog.: (Language Credit Course) English Language
Concurrent Course For Hon. Prog.: (Language Credit Course) English Language
(Write your roll no. on the top immediately on receipt of this question paper) Section A: Answer any three reference to the context out of six. Section B: Answer any two long questions out of five. Section A a. After the cruelest of winters the house still stood it was pale, washed clean by elements gone wild, and here and there a shutter dangled from a broken hinge. But the structure was sound, the corners had held. I walked around it slowly, studying every detail, the fine edge where window frame met clapboard the slice of shadow across the roofline, the old wooden railing around the porch. When I climbed the stairs toward the door, I heard the climbed the stairs toward the door, I heard the floor boards groan beneath my weight as they had always done. Hello yourself, old friend, I said. (i) Why is the writer surprised to find that the house still stood? What could have destroyed it? (ii) (iii) What saved the house from being destroyed? What details about the house does she note? 2 3 3
b.
He was the Dr. Johnson of Cricket as full of his subject, as kindly and as irascible, and just as dogmatic in his dispensations of authority. It has been well said of him on the field he took a second place to none, not even to the umpire. Even from
his seat in the pavilion where, according to all the rules and procedures of cricket, he was out of play, he must needs dominate the scene. (i) (ii) Why is W.G. compared to Dr. Johnson? How did W.G. dominated the scene whether he was on the field or off it? (iii) C. What kind of a person was W.G. grace? And he was rich yes, richer than a king And admirably schooled in every grace. In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. (i) (ii) Why do the first two, lines begin with And? 2 3 3 2
Comment on the phrase richer than a king. Can you think of another simile for a rich man? 3 3
(iii) D.
..we thought he was everything. What is everything here? This is the way autumn came to the tress: It stripped them down to the skin, Left their ebony bodies naked. It shook out the yellow leaves which were their Heart Scattered them over the ground. whoever wanted, trampled them out of shape; Not a single moan of protest was heard.
Does autumn come gently to the trees? How do you know? Do you think leaves are the hearts of trees? Who would have trampled the leaves out of shape?
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He was square faced- short, and agreeable in his manner, though rough, in the style of the streets rather than the barracks. He remembered the incident of the shooting well. It arose in the conversation by accident and to his great amusement he said that he had at last tumbled to where he had seen me before. It appeared that when the fixing started I had taken refuge in a small public latrine made of sheet iron and stakes. He had observed this, and it had made him laugh. (i) (ii) Describe the English Soldiers appearance. Why did the soldier remember having seen the writer? 4 4
F.
Write a letter to the MLA of your Area for the opening of a dispensary in your own village? 8x1=8 Section B
(Answer any two of the following in 200-250 words) Q1. Q2. Justify the title of the essay Coming Home.
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Do you think Cardus exaggerates W.G.s fame? or do W.G.s achievement seem to you to be worthy of such praise?
What is main idea of the poem Richard Cory? What makes the trees naked? What does the autumn strip? What according to you is the central idea of Seathls A simple Philosophy?