Derivational Prefixes

MEG-04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-04/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

i.             Derivational Prefixes

There is a small set of affixes in English which are attached at the beginning of a stem to modify its meaning. Some well-known examples are the negative prefixes un-,in-, and dis-. But negation is not the only modification of meaning the prefixes are used for.

Unlike most suffixes, the prefixes do not affect the grammatical category of the stem at all. So the grammar-based system is of no use. The change in meaning at least tells us exactly how the resulting word differs in meaning form the stem.

Here are some of the ways in which the prefixes modify the meaning of stem:

Negation: Prefixes like ...................................

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Title, theme of redemption and the imagery present in the novel The Stone Angel

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

10. Discuss the major aspects like the title, theme of redemption and the imagery present in the novel The Stone Angel.

       The Stone Angel is a novel that explores several ideas common to the novel of awakening: the survival of personality, the function of memory the importance of coming to terms with female sexuality, and the necessity of accepting the past in order to understand the present.  It has several thematic aspects.

Title
        There is a lot in a name, in a title. Titles are important as they should in some way express the theme of the book in a rather poetic way...................................................

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Two central motifs of the novel The Solid Mandala

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 10

9. Discuss the two motifs that are central to the novel The Solid Mandala.

Motif in a literary aspect, is a subject, an idea or a phrase that is repeated and developed in a work of literature. There are two major motifs that are central to the narrative namely Androgyny and Mandala motifs and some implications they have for the interpretation of the novel.

Androgyny motif

The allusions to Tiresias and the hermaphrodite Adam are the strongest manifestation of the androgynous figure in the text. A weaker version of this motif is ..........................

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Theme of Brathwaite’s poem “Angel/Engine"

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

8. What is the theme of Brathwaite’s poem “Angel/Engine”? Discuss in detail.

“Angel/Engine” is from the final section of Braithwaite’s 1977 collection Mother Poem. This section is entitled “koumfort” and in it’s the possibility of spiritual renewal is imagined. Coined from the Haitian Creole word for temple, the title of this section suggests ways in which African connections are preserved.

The “womanist” experience is central to this poem in which the first section mentions a series of relationships between women: the house belongs to the subject’s aunt, she was brought up by her “godma” and has a “foolish” daughter named “christofene.”

The poverty –stricken surrounding are evoked ........................................

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Aspects of Walcott's personal life in Midsummer

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

7. Midsummer explores aspects of Walcott’s personal life. Comment with examples from the poem.

Like Another Life, a sequence of lyrics from Walcott’s middle period of poetry, Midsummer is an exploration of aspects of the poet’s intensely personal moments of life.

                         In both collections, the influence of the American poet Robert Lowell’s much acclaimed Life Studies can be traced. Lowell’s work contains poetic and prose recollections of his family, his childhood and his mature experiences of marriage, imprisonment and hospitalization for mental problems. This started the trend of r what came to be called ‘’Confessional” poetry in which the revelation of the private universe with its entire attendant irrationally became acceptable.

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Role of irony and humour in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

6. What role do irony and humour play in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas? Substantiate your answer with examples from the text of the novel.

Any discussion on the use of irony and humor in A House for M.r Biswas would start with a look at the title and what it signifies. The title of the story by Seepersad Naipaul, on which it is based, is “They Called Him Mohun”, much more informal with a touch of closeness/intimacy, conveyed in the use of the first name.

The nature of humor in the novel varies. Sometimes it borders on pathos as when describing the education system sometimes there is a black edge to it is in the passages describing the way in which Mr. Biswas and Shama get married. At times it is ..............

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victimization and suppression of women in Ice-Candy-Man

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

5. Ice-Candy Man highlights feminist concerns like victimization and suppression of women in patriarchal societies. Discuss with special reference to the major female characters present in the novel.

The prominent characters in Ice –Candy-Man are mostly women, and at the center of them is Lenny-a girl child who is also the narrator. Though the paradigm of ‘woman-as-victim’ features in almost all writings on the theme of Partition, Ice-Candy-Man stands apart from the rest in its dramatization of this paradigm. The extensive featuring of women’s shared experiences of victimization in the communal riots is here complimented by a presentation of their oppression and the strategies to overcome the oppression.

            Lenny

We instantly recognize that Lenny in Ice-Candy-Man is far cry from the girl-child whose presence is patterned on ‘submission and subordination’. Though she is located on the margins of her milieu-as physically ‘handicapped’ ‘girl’ ‘child’ belonging to .........

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A Grain of Wheat as a complex portrayal of history.

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

 3. A Grain of Wheat is based on the Kenyan National Movement. Analyse the novel as a complex portrayal of history.

‘A Grain of Wheat’ written by Ngugi is a portrayal of traumatic phase in the history of Kenya. The so-called-Mau Mau, a phase in which sections of a highly complex society comprising of people belonging to various African tribes, white settlers and Indians acted and reacted to events of violence in a highly emotionally surcharged, and often contradictory manner.

As P. Ochola- Ojero comments : “ In A grain of Wheat , the author probes into the psychology of those characters who have undergone serious difficulties and consequent disillusionment but who during the time of emergency have found some meaning and purpose in life in the tough fight for their country’s independence”

However, the novel is not about the theme of betrayal alone.............................

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What geographical, socio-political and historical contexts have shaped the literature of Australia?

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

2,  What geographical, socio-political and historical contexts have shaped the literature of Australia?

  Ans :  Australia, the smallest of continents, the largest of islands, fifth among the world’s nations in area, had indigenous peoples living there for thousands of years before the British claimed the land as terra nullius-empty land-following Captain James Cook’s invasion in 1788. It established a penal colony and named it New South Wales. Other colonies of the British Empire were gradually added.

For a long time the narration of the history of Australia began with Cook’s invasion and the Aboriginal people were considered mere wards of the state rather that as full citizens in their own right. It was only in 1967, after a national referendum, where ninety percent of the white population voted in their favor, that the Aboriginal people got citizen ship rights. Initially Australia followed a .................................

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The impact of colonization, emancipation and the indentured system on the Caribbean identity

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks : 100

1. Discuss the impact of colonization, emancipation and the indentured system on the Caribbean identity

Ans:

The colonial encounter between the immigrants and the original inhabitants had a great impact on the culture, society and history of Caribbean. Any engagement with Caribbean literary production would be incomplete without an engagement with the colonial encounter and its impact.

Geographically, The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands and the surrounding coasts. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America.

The discovery of the Caribbean island by Christopher Columbus in 1492 led to.......................

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a. A lovely boy stolen from an Indian King; She never had so sweet a changeling. And jealous Oberon would have the child Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

                   A lovely boy stolen from an Indian King;

She never had so sweet a changeling.

And jealous Oberon would have the child

Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild.

Answer : These lines are taken from Shakespeare’s A Midsummers Night’s Dream. The lines are spoken by Robin Goodfellow, a mischievous fairy to one of the fairies. Robin is Oberosn’s jester, and his antics are responsible for many of the complications that propel the play.

During a conversation between Robin and the fairy, he says the king; Oberon is extremely angry and furious because his wife, Titania, has stolen ...................................................................................................

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Feminist reading of Wuthering Heights

MEG-03: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

In the novel Wuthering Heights, it is evident that the controlling power rests with the patriarch of the home. Whether it is the Earnshaw’s or the Linton’s, social power is in the hands of the head of the family which he imposes on the rest of the family.

Such a one-way exercise of power is accepted as a legal and moral right of the patriarch to discipline the members of the household. Catherine’s wildness, her refusal at being domesticated, is a rebellion against this authoritarian system. She does not rebel against her father or her husband openly, but her spirit refuses to accept the codes of discipline that are to be obeyed without questions. Since Heathcliff is an outsider ...................    

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a) And specially from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Canterbury they wende, They hooly blissful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan what they Were seeke

Answer :

MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN

ENGLISH

Term-End Examination

June, 2015

MEG-1: BRITISH POETRY

Time: 3 hours                                                  Maximum Marks: 100

Note: Answer question no. 1 and any four from the remaining ones.

1.      Explain with critical comments any two of the following passages with reference to their contexts :

a)      And specially from every shires ende

Of Engelond, to Canterbury they wende,

They hooly blissful martir for to seke,

That hem hath holpen whan what they

Were seeke.

            

           These lines are from The Canterbury Tales, which is the most famous and critically acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer, a late-fourteenth-century English poet. Little is known about Chaucer’s personal life, and even less about his education, but a number of existing records document his professional life. Chaucer’s original plan for The Canterbury Tales was for each character to tell four tales, two on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back. But, instead of 120 tales, the text ends after twenty-four tales, and the party is still on its way to Canterbury. Chaucer either planned to revise the structure to cap the work at twenty-four tales, or else left it incomplete when he died on October 25, 1400. Other writers and printers..........

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Bring out the salient features of Plato’s attack on poetry

ASSIGNMENT

(For July, 2015 and January, 2016 Sessions)

LITERARY CRITICISM & THEORY: MEG – 05

1.    Bring out the salient features of Plato’s attack on poetry.

Ans:

Plato, the great Greek philosopher who possesses stubborn views on art, poet and poetry unleashes a series of attacks on poetry. His views and opinions are largely mentioned in his Republic. Most of the opinions of Plato are objections to poetry. Plato definitely believed that poetry had power, and that power made people want to imitate what they saw in art. This sounds bad for him because of his metaphysical beliefs

According to Plato, the nature of universe is imitation (mimesis). He believed reality consists of various layers. The top layer is made up of ideas, and all the lower levels imitate those ideas. Plato regarded mimesis as mere representation, not expression which is creative. Plato argued that the poet who describes a chair in his poem is not true to the original. He believed in the existence of an absolute reality. It consists of ideal things, of which individual objects in this world are nothing but reflections or imitations. The painter or poet who imitates these individual objects is imitating and imitations and so producing something which is still further removed from reality. Eg: a chair exists firstly as idea, secondarily as an object of craftsmanship and thirdly as object of representation in art. Thus mimesis is thrice removed from reality.

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