Entrance Test for M.A. English
Objectives: This test aims at testing primarily the candidate's competence in language. It also test her background knowledge of literature, aptitude for literature and critical and creative ability.
Weightage of Marks
Qualifying
examination ---- 100 marks
Written entrance
test ---- 70 marks
Viva -
Voce
---- 30 marks
Total Marks = 200 marks
M.A.
(English)
E-Test
Attempted all Questions.
Marks: 70 Time: 2:30 hrs.
I.
Attempt a critical appreciation of the
following:
Books! 't is a dull and endless strife;
Come, hear the woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life
There's more of
wisdom in it.
And hark! how blithe the throstle
sings,
He too is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light
of things,
Let Nature be your teacher-----
Enough of Science
and of Art;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That
watches and
receives.
-------------------- (15 marks)
II Attempt an essay on one of the following:
1. Humour is the
salt of life.
2. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
3. Happiness
is an occasional episode in the general drama of pain -
4. Should SMS
language be used in
examination?
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III 1.
Insert articles wherever necessary.
-------Uneasy
paragraph appeared in The Times recently about ------- serious crisis.
within ------- last thirty years, not only natural gas but also other resources
on which we now depend will be running low. this assumes that we shall survive
-------- more immediate problems of land, food, population and water
supply which show every sign of Compounding -------crisis with in our life
time. Hope we shall not have to face such ---- crisis
again.
---------------- (6*1/2 = 3 marks)
2. Fill in the correct form of the verb.
(i) Fortune (favour) the
brave.
(ii) I (go) to the cinema tonight.
(iii) We (live) here for ten
years.
(iv) They (build) the bridge for several years.
(v) When she gets
her degree, she (study) at the university for six years.
(vi) I (write) the
letter before the
arrived.
------------------ (6*
1/2 = 3 marks)
3. Use the following phrasal verbs in sentences of your own.
(i). Bring up
(ii).
Come across
(iii). Get over
(iv). Drop out
(v). Look out
(vi). Put
on
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(6* 1/2 = 3 marks)
4. Correct the following sentences.
(i). Slow and steady win
the race.
(ii). The Arabian Nights are an interesting book.
(iii). Silver,
as well as gold, have fallen in price.
(iv). Either you or your friends had
stolen the book.
(v). Each of these qualities are to be found in
him.
(vi). Many a man come and
go.
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(6* 1/2 = 3 marks)
5. Identity the Subject , Verb, Object, Complement 7 Adverbial in the following.
(i). He painted the house
green.
(ii). Birds build nest on the tree branches.
(iii). She always
keeps her house neat and clean.
(iv). Her aunt is a dentist.
(v). The shop
was closed at 6 o'clock.
(vi). Seema sings a song
melodiously.
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(6*1/2 = 3)
6. Convert the sentences as directed.
(i). Everyone would die
for his
country.
(change into interrogative).
(ii). The sun having resin, the fog disappeared
.
(change into compound).
(iii). He confessed his
crime.
(changed into complex).
(iv). She said to her, "I am promoted in my
job".
(change into complex)
(v). The lion was wounded , but not
killed.
(changed into passive)
(vi). The audience loudly cheered the Mayor's
speech.
(changed into comparative).
(vii). Australia is the largest island in the
world.
(changed
into comparative degree).
(viii). The guide said to us," take a map if you go
walking up the
hills".
(changed into indirect)
(ix). How sweet is the
song!
(change into asserting)
(x). Who taught you
grammar?
( change into
passive)
-------------------(10* 1/2 = 5)
IV Attempt one of the following.
(i). Discuss the contribution of Indian writing in English. Elaborate with the help of any one Indian author you have read.
(ii). What are the
Characteristic features of Modern fiction? Discuss with the help of any on
author you have
studied.
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V. Explain
any five of the following literary terms.
(i).
Alliteration
(ii). Personification
(iii).
Hyperbole
(iv). Metaphor
(v). Oxymoron
(vi).
Transfered epithet
(vii). Onomatopoeia
(viii). Dramatic
monologue.
(ix). Soliloquy
(x). Romantic
Comedy.
---------------------- (5 * 1 = 5)
VI Match the following.
(i). publication of
lyrical
Ballads
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(ii). Nobel prize for
literature
b) John Keats
(iii). Famous social novelist of Victorian
Age
c) Younger Romantics
(iv). Glimpses of World
History
d) Rabindranath Tagore
(v). Where are the songs of spring? Ay
where are they e) Salman Rushdie.
(vi).
The King of the Dark
Chamber
f) Charles Dickens
(vii). Shelley, Keats and
Byron
g) 1798
(viii). Midnights
Children
h) Swedish Academy
(ix). Arundhati
Roy
i) Socialite Evenings.
(x). Shoba
de
j) The God of small
things.
-----------------------(10*1/2
= 5)