18th NTRCA College Level English Written Exam 2024

18^th NTRCA Written Exam 2024
Position: Lecturer         Sub: English
                  Time: 03 Hours          Full Mark: 100                  

01. Answer any two of the following:                                                                      10x2=20

a) Who were the University wits? Discuss the contribution of the University wits to English Drama.

(b) What is 'Romanticism"? Evaluate the major English romantic poets and their contributions to English romantic poetry.

(c) Discuss E.M. Forster's symbolism with reference to the novel "A Passage to India".

(d) Who are the major writers of the Puritan Age? Discuss "The Paradise Lost" by Milton as an epic.

02. Answer any two of the following:                                                                      10x2=20

(a) What is a romantic comedy? Discuss "As You Like It" as a romantic comedy.

(b) How does Shelley build up the image of the west wind as a destroyer and preserver in "Ode to the West Wind"?

(c)How does Swift portray the negative side of human life in "Gulliver's Travels"?

(d) Comment on Shaw's views on love and war in "Arms and the Man".

03. Write short notes on the following terms (any four):                                       5x4=20

(a) Allegory (b) Satire (c) Fable (d) Ballad (e) Three Unities (f) Mock-epic (g) Elegy 

(h) Parable

04. Identify the figures of speech in the underlined parts of the following quotations and explain their functions:                                                                                      2x5=10

(a) She was trembling like a leaf.

(b) I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

(c) O Judgment! Thou art tied to brutish beasts.

(d) Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships.

     And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

(e) She is an open book.

05. Write a summary of the following passage:                                                                10

The coconut tree is very useful. People in the tropics depend on it. They make roofs for their houses from leaves. Fishermen take fibers from the tops of the coconut trees and make them into rope. They make fishing nets and sails for their boats too. But the nut is the most precious part of the tree. Farmers open the nuts and dry them. There goes into is oil in coconuts and they export this to other countries. It soap, toothpaste, ice-cream, paint and machine oil. The shell of the coconut is useful too. People make it into charcoal. There is milk in coconut too. It is good to drink and very pure. Doctors sometimes use this milk for drip feeds during the war, when they could not get pure water and sugar. Doctors use this milk for those patients who could neither eat nor drink.

06. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper emphasizing the importance of tree plantation in this epoch of climate change.                                                                       10

Or, Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing your concern about the outbreak of Dengue fever in the city.

07. Change the following words as directed and make sentences with the changed words (any five):                                                                                                                 05 

(a) Bath (verb)          (b) Bright (adverb)       (c) Heart (adjective)         (d) Enjoyment(verb)  (e) Choose (noun)    (f) Courage (adjective)  (g) Success (verb)           (h) Dramatic (adverb)

08. Use your own words to complete each of the following sentences. (any five)    1x5=5

(a) Scarcely had he reached the station …………………..

(b) A bad workman-quarrels ……………………………..

(c) They wash their hands and ……………………………

(d) It was five years since we ……………………………..

(e) Had I been you ………………………………………..

(f) It was high time for us …………………………………

(g) The old man walks carefully lest ……………………

(h) The car is too costly …………………………………..

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