M.A. English

Each course British rime British Drama British Novel Aspects of Language forget comprise maven appointee of 100 tag. This assignment be tutor marked. Aims The TMAs be conceffred rrainly with priseing your industry and understanding of the course material. You are not required to manifold chunks of selective information from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may have acquired during the course of study. These assignments airn to t for each one as well as to assess your performance.Please en veritable that you read the texts and the ccompanying study guides that we have prepared for you. Let rne echo you must read all the texts prescribed. Do have got points as you go along. It there is anything you do not understand, please ask your Counsellor at the Study Centre for clarification. Once you are able to do the assignments satisfactorily, you will be ready to take the exam Nith confidence. Instructions Before attclnpting the assignme nt please read the following instructions carefully. 2 3 consider the distributor pointed instructicns about the assignments allotn in the Programme Guide elective course public lifes. save up your roll 1 ro. aflle, full address and date on the guide right corner of the first knave of your response sheet(s). Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the Narne of the Study Centre you are attached to in the centre ofthe first page ofyour response sheet(s). The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pages caref-ully. Write the relevant interrogative nuinber with each answer.You should redeem in your own handwriting Submission The terminate assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Study Centre allotted to you ty 3tr March, 2aL4 garfish Juty 2013 Session) and 30h Sept 201 i (for January 2014 Session). Please react the instructions minded(p) in the Programme Now read the following guidelines carefully out front respondent the incredulitys. GUIDELINES FOR TMA You will find it useful to keep the following points in mind 1. Planning Read the assignment carefully. Make close to points regarding each question and then rearrange these in a logical order.And please write the answers n your own words Do not not reproduce passages from the units. 2. 0rganisation Be a little more selective and analytic before drawing up a rough outline of your answer. In an essay-type question, give adequate attention to your introduction and conclusion. The introduction must offer your skeleton interpretation of the question and how you propose to develop it. The conclusion must ite cast your response to the question. In the course of your answer, you may like to make references to another(prenominal) texts or critics as this will add some depth to your analysis.Make sure that your answer ) is logical and coherent b) has clear connections between sentences and parag raphs c) is written right giving adequate consideration to your expression, style and infixation d) does not put across the number of words indicated in your question. 3. Presentation Once you are agreeable with your answers. you can write down the final version for submission, writing each answer neatly arid underlining the points you wish to emphasize. You may be aware(p) that you need to submit your assignment hefore you can appear for the Term residue Exams.Please remember to keep a copy of your completed ssignment, Just in case the one you submitted is lost in transit. Good luck with your subject area Note Remember the submission of ussignment is precondition of permission of appearing in examination. If you have not submitted the assignment in time you will not be allowed to appear in examination. one thousand thousand-OI British POETRY Programme MEG Max. Marks 1 Ast enrol MEG-OI ,TMA12013-1 4 In a formulaic class your teacher would have discussed your assignment with you, pointed out what made a good essay and what a bad one. We have done scarcely the same thing in Unit 52 of the British Poetry (MEG-OI) course.Read it carefully and discuss it with your counselor and class-fellows at the Study Centre. Thereafter square off upon a topic, i. e. a period or literary group in the history of British poetry. you may, if you wish, select a topic from the list given in sz. z. t (p. 70) in Block X. Alternatively, you could write on a British poet of your choice. you may write on a poet discussed in the units, i. e. on the syllabus, or even a poet we have not discussed in detail such as Robert Burns, G. M. Hopkins, R. S. Thomas, Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney. You may have heard some of our lectures on The Movement, Philip Larkin nd Ted Hughes on the EduSat.It may now be ready(prenominal) on e-gyankosh on wmw. ignou. ac. in You have yet another choice. Write an essay on a famous poem in slope literature. Having decide upon your topic, do your research an d then read section 36. 5 in Unit 36 in Block VIII for a model essay and a format for presentation. you may learn how to present your term paper/sessional essay from 36. 5. You must not quote from unconfessed sou rces. To sum up, write an essay on a period or a literarv group in British poetry or a British poet or a British poem in about 3000 words on the model provided in 36. (in unit 36).The full marks for the essay is 100. We look forward to reading your sessional essay. Sincerely yours Teacher MEG-02 BRITISH DRAMA ( shewd on Blocks 1-9) Programme Code MEG Assignment code NEG-02 120 1 3-201 4 Maximum Marks wait on the fbllowing questions in 300 words each. cover 2. the plot ot Dr. Faustus. low would you rate A Mid,cummer Nights Dream 3. Clomment on the indecisive bent of mind of Hamlet. (10) 4. What features make Alchemisl an allegory? 5. How is Playboy relevant as a comedy? instantly? 6. Comment on Pygmalion as a Shavian play. 7. What fbatures make send off in the Catherlra l a poetic drama? 8.Conrnrent on the title of 9. Waiting. tttr Discuss the theme of Look Back in Anger. 10. Irrorn among the plays you have read ingest any one that you have liked giving reasons lor your choice.Trace the development of ripe English fiction with specific referenc6 to the major shifts in literary vista during the nineteenth century. 20 2. Would it be correct to say that in tom turkey Jones, Fielding considers mariage to be a ere socio- economic arrangement under which women palpate continuously suppressed?Discuss. 3. Discuss the metaphor of the web in the setting of events and people relating to Bulstrode in Middlemarch. 4 Suggest the political and artistic implications ot placing the Orientalist paradigm. 5. How does naive realism ftnd expression in ofl Passage to British fiction of the 1960s? Base your answer on your understanding of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. MEG. 04 ASPECTS OF run-in course code All questions are compulsory Write swindle notes on any t wo of the following. Competence and performanceLangue and parole Conversion as a morphological device Falling shadiness and rising tone the conclusion India within stage. brietly the history ot language planning snowing clearly the tocus at each Give your own definiti* of language. What are the characteristics of human communication and how is it incompatible from animal communication? 20 What is foregrounding? Discuss this in name of deviant examples from your reading of literature. Pick out your own examples say how they are deviant, and what is the impact on the reader. What is the difference between pure vowels and diphthongs? How do you mark both?