MEG-1,2,3 & 4Master’s Degree Programme in English (MEG) ASSIGNMENT (For July 2015 and January 2016 Sessions) Compulsory Courses of M.A. English – 1st Year) British Poetry-01 British Drama-02 British Novel-03 Aspects of Language-04 School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110 068 1 Assignment Number and the Name of the Study Centre you are attached to in the centre of the first page of your response sheet(s). 1 2 3 Read the detailed instructions about the assignments given in the Programme Guide for Elective Courses. …………………………………………… COURSE TITLE: ………………………………. 2 . You should write in your own handwriting. you will be ready to take the exam with confidence. ………………………………. 2016 (if enrolled in the January 2016 session). You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may have acquired during the course of study. ADDRESS:……………………………….. NAME: …………………………………. Instructions: Before attempting the assignment please read the following instructions carefully. The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this: ROLL NO. please ask your Counsellor at the Study Centre for clarification. Once you are able to do the assignments satisfactorily. Write your roll no. These assignments aim to teach as well as to assess your performance. Write the Course Title. 4 5 6 Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pages carefully. name. Let me repeat: you must read all the texts prescribed. Please ensure that you read the texts and the accompanying study guides that we have prepared for you. DATE: ………………………………. 7 Submission: The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Study Centre allotted to you by 31 March 2016 (if enrolled in the July 2015 session) and 30th Sept. Aims: The TMAs are concerned mainly with assessing your application and understanding of the course material. STUDY CENTRE: ……………………………. Do make points as you go along.Master’s Degree in English Assignments for 1st year Compulsory Courses Course Code: MEG Dear Student. This booklet contains all the assignments of the Compulsory Courses of MA (English) 1st year namely: MEG-01 MEG-02 MEG-03 MEG-04 British Poetry British Drama British Novel Aspects of Language Each course will comprise one assignment of 100 marks. full address and date on the top right corner of the first page of your response sheet(s). Write the relevant question number with each answer.. If there is anything you do not understand. ……………………………. This assignment will be tutor marked.. ASSIGNEMNT NO. Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes on the EduSat. To sum up. Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney. pointed out what made a good essay and what a bad one. you could write on a British poet of your choice. Alternatively. R.in You have yet another choice. do your research and then read section 36.S. We have done exactly this in Unit 52 of the British Poetry (MEG-01) course.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. Hopkins. Sincerely yours Teacher 3 .ignou. if you wish.e.MEG-01: BRITISH POETRY ASSIGNMENT Programme: MEG Max. We look forward to reading your sessional essay. a period or literary group in the history of British poetry. You may. You may have heard some of our lectures on The Movement.M. i.1 (p. select a topic from the list given in 52. or even a poet we have not discussed in detail such as Robert Burns. In a conventional class your teacher would have discussed your assignment with you. The full marks for the essay is 100.ac. i. Thereafter decide upon a topic. Read it carefully and discuss it with your counsellor and class-fellows at the Study Centre. It may now be available on e-gyankosh on www. G. on the syllabus. Write an essay on a famous poem in English literature.2. You must not quote from unacknowledged sources. write an essay on a period or a literary group in British poetry or a British poet or a British poem in about 3000 words on the model provided in 36. Having decided upon your topic.5. Thomas. 70) in Block X. You may write on a poet discussed in the units.e.5 (in unit 36). Marks: 100 Ast code: MEG-01/TMA/2015-16 Dear Student. But habit is a great deadener. 1 and any 4 of the remaining questions. 15 4. See. c. 15 5. Evaluate Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist as a comedy. see. my Christ. 8x5=40 1 Explain the following passages with reference to their contexts and supply brief critical comments where necessary : a. Marks: 100 Answer no.MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA ASSIGNMENT (Based on Blocks 1-9) Programme: MEG Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16 Max. Bring out the existentialist elements in Estragon and Vladimir. 15 4 . and both as light as tales. Down in the hole. put in two scales. Comment on the imagery and symbolism in Look Back in Anger. Bring out the pathos in Higgins’s character in the light of Shaw’s observation. It is not in time that my death shall be known. half a drop: Ah. lingeringly. Write in your own words a character sketch of Hamlet. laid him stretched out. I give my life To the Law of god above the Law of Man. where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul. Will even weigh. d. Astride of a grave and difficult birth. The air is full of our cries. We have time to grow old. 15 3. the grave – diggers puts on the forceps. and he split to the knob of his gullet. e. According to Shaw Professor Higgins has ‘touches of Sweet’. It is out of time that my decision is taken If you call that a decision To which my whole being gives entire consent. b. and you will nothing weigh: Your vows to her and me. Weigh oath with oath. 2. I hit a blow on the ridge of his Skull. 15 6. 9) Max. What is the importance of the Fairytale mode in Great Expectations? 20 4. Trace the development of modern English fiction with specific reference to the major shifts in literary perspective during the nineteenth century. 20 3.MEG . 20 5 .2016 (Based on Blocks (1 . explain with reference to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Marks: 100 Answer all questions. 1. Attempt a Marxist reading of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. 20 2. How is Jameson’s criticism of Conrad’s politics relevant to Heart of Darkness? 20 5.03 BRITISH NOVEL ASSIGNMENT 2015 . What do you understand by the term ‘Stream of Consciousness’. Give examples. Describe some of the features which separate Indian English from other varieties of English. 20 6 . Marks: 100 All questions are compulsory 1 Write short notes on the following giving examples where necessary.MEG-04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE ASSIGNMENT Course Code: MEG-04/TMA/2015-16 Max. 2 Discuss the general methodological principles of Saussure. 20 4 Discuss the growth of English in India. 20 5 What is the inflectional morphology and how does it differ from derivational morphology. 20 3 What is language planning? Why do we require it? Discuss the various types of language planning. i ii iii iv 20 Problems in defining a speech community The scope of Quantifiers Difference between Dialect and Register Blends in English morphology. Give examples to illustrate your answer.
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