BEGLA-137 2023-24 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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BEGLA-137: Language through Literature
Assignment July, 2023 & January, 2024 Sessions
(Based on Blocks 1 – 4)
Course Code: BEGLA-137/ 2023-2024
Max. Marks: 100
Answer all questions.
1. Fill in the blanks with suitable adverbs or prepositions to form phrasal verbs: (10)
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. (10)
i) Don’t give in to the threats of the terrorists.
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ii) The engine gives off steam.
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iii) They tried to cover up the evil dead.
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iv) I fell for the beautiful girl.
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v) We’ll see you off at the station
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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. (10)
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. (5×4= 20)
i) Alliteration
ii) Assonance
iii) Rhyme
iv) Onomatopoeia
v) Rhythm
5. What do you understand by Irony? Discuss in detail the following. (20)
a. Irony of situation
b. Irony in satire
c. Ironic contrast
6. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: (10)
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,
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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.