IGNOU BEGLA-137 Language Through Literature - Latest Solved Assignment

1. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with words from the list below:

lame nestled Tell
beast experiments
wreathed hot
icy hand shadow
buried swallowed

i. I ……………………………………………….. close to her.
ii. The ……………………………………….. in a man may wake up, if he too much money.
iii. His face was ………………………… in smiles.
iv. ‘My autobiography is really a story of my ……………………………………………. (M.K. Gandhi: an Autobiography)
v. Youth is nimble, Age is …………………………………………………….Youth is ……………………………………….. and blood. (Shirley: ‘Death the Leveller’)
vi. Death lays his ………………………………..on kings. (Shirley: ‘Death and Leveller’ )
vii. Napoleon, the pig, was ……………………………..by the other animals in the farmyard.
viii. Life is but a walking ………………………………….(Shakespeare: Macbeth)
ix. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone ………………………………… where I lie. (A. pope: Ode on Solitude’)
x. The hungry river………………………………… down everything. (Tagore: Living or Dead’)

2. What meaning do the italicized words convey. Each word has a generally used meaning and in what shade of meaning it is used here. Explain.

i. You are acquitted of laziness.
ii. He was an assassin of all good virtues.
iii. It would be a crime to send the child out in the cold.
iv. The food was condemned as unfit for humans.
v. She was a victim of the mother-in-law’s tyranny.

3. Make two phrasal verbs from each of these verbs by adding adverb or/and a preposition,and use them in meaningful sentences:

i. get
ii. bring
iii.show
iv. put
v. round

4. Make sentences bringing out the difference in meaning in these pairs of words.

i. fare and fair
ii. tyre and tire
iii. grease and Greece
iv. gait and gate
v. hew and hue

5. a. What is ‘rhythm’? Explain.

b. Describe the metrical pattern in the following lines from Thomas Hardy’s poem The
Darkling Thrush.
I leaned upon a coppice gate
When frost was spectre-gray, And
Winter’s dregs made desolate The
weakening eye of day.

6. a. What is ‘alliteration’? Explain.

b. Point out the alliteration the following passages.
When the white feet of the baby beat across the
grass. The little white feet nod like white flowers
in a wind, They poise and run like puffs of wind
that pass, over water where the weeds are thinned.
(D.H. Lawrence: Baby Running Barefoo)

7. Write short notes on.

a. Simile
b. Metapphor
c. syneodoche
d. metonymy
e. personification.

8. Give the negative and question forms of the following sentences.

a. You called me.
b. I can borrow his scooter.
c. He will agree.
d. You had a good breakfast.
e. You used to be frightened of him.

9. Explain Repetition as a Rhetorical Device. Discuss various patterns of repetition.

10. Write polite forms for the following.

i. How much did these socks cost you.
ii. A has to put some additional chairs in his classroom. He wants some from B’s room
iii. A is visiting B. B offers him some tea (makes an offer): Have some tea.
iv. A has a headache and B makes an offer of help (makes an offer): I will give you an aspirin.
v. A’s bicycle tyres have very little air. He wants to use B’s Bicycle pump (asks for permission)

1. Fill in the blanks with suitable adverbs or prepositions to form phrasal verbs:

i) Please take ……………………………… your coat.
ii) We have taken …………………………………….. a new project.
iii) I was taken …………………………… a doctor because I had been able to cure some people in the neighborhood.
iv) Seeta takes ………………………………….. her mother.
v) The old lady offered to take ……………………….. the homeless stranger.

2. Give meanings of the phrasal verbs in the following sentences in a few words.

i) Don’t give in to the threats of the terrorists.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
ii) The engine gives off steam.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
iii) They tried to cover up the evil dead.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
iv) I fell for the beautiful girl.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
v) We’ll see you off at the station
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences by using the correct forms of the words given below. Indicate in each case whether the word is used as a noun or a verb.
(Each word has to be used twice, once as a noun and once as a verb.) pitch, race, litter, file, spell.

i) He usually …………………………….. the ball at the right place.
ii) The cricket ………………………………… is wet today.
iii) Many thoughts ………………………….. through his mind when his son was in the operating theatre.
iv) I wish to see his personal …………………………………
v) You have to feed the cat and its ……………………………………….
vi) He has ……………………………………… the word wrongly.
vii) She came first in the 100-metre …………………………………………..
viii) The magician cast a …………………………………….. on her.
ix) Please ……………………………………………….. this letter.
x) ‘The muddy ground was …………………………………… with crawling worms’. (Khushwant Singh: The Mark of Vishnu)

4. Write short notes on any four of the following. Give suitable examples.

i) Alliteration
ii) Assonance
iii) Rhyme
iv) Onomatopoeia
v) Rhythm

5. What do you understand by Irony? Discuss in detail the following.

a. Irony of situation
b. Irony in satire
c. Ironic contrast

6. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy The chooses right, and never find a friend. (William Butler Yeats: ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’)
i) What kind of beauty does the poet want his daughter to have?
ii) What are the hazards of being made beautiful overmuch’? How does the poet illustrate his point?

7. Outline the main strategies for being polite while doing things with language.