Name of the University : Netaji Subhas Open University
Name of the Exam : BDP Term End Exam
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Year: 2016
Subject: English

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BDP Term End English Question Paper :
First Paper : From the Beginnings to Chaucer : Literature and Language in Evolution
Time : Four Hours
Full Marks : 100

SECTION - A :
1. Answer any two of the following questions : 20 × 2 = 40
a) Write a critical essay on the development of Anglo-Saxon prose.
b) What picture of contemporary sociocultural life do you get from your reading of Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales ? Discuss.
c) Assess the extent and importance of the French influence on the English language.
d) Analyse the particular features of Shakespeare’s use of the English language.

2. Answer any three of the following questions : 10 × 3 = 30
a) Can Beowulf be called an epic ? Discuss.
b) Discuss the three categories of the Middle English Romance.
c) Discuss the effect of the Latin influence on English grammar and syntax.
d) Show how the Bible has influenced the English language.
e) Analyse and comment on the medieval morality play.
f) Comment on the use of irony and humour in the portrayal of the Wife of Bath.

3. Answer any two of the following questions : 5 × 2 = 10
a) How did the name ‘England’ come into being ?
b) Write a note on the religious elements in the Second Shepherds’ Play.
c) Write a brief note on Widsith.
d) What do you know about the Norman Conquest at 1066 ?

SECTION - B :
4. Phonemically transcribe any three of the following words & put the stress mark after transcription : 3 + 3
mountain, reed, scrub, sure, poor, colour, seat, afraid.
5. Choose any two vowel phonemes and any two consonant phonemes which occur in the following words and describe them : 1 × 4
mother, song, come, England, kitchen.

6. Scan any one of the following extracts, find the main metre and metrical variations, if any : 5
a) Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight ! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night ?
b) Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream For the soul is dead that slumbers And things are not what they seem.

7. Identify and explain any three of the figures of speech in any one of the following passages : 5
a) Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is What if my leaves are falling like its own The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone.
b) Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin and dies ; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs.