VNSGU BA 2019 1st Year 1801000101050022 English Paper 2 Question Paper

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First Year B.A. (Sem. I) Examination

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Instructions:

(1) Fill up strictly the details of = signs on your answer book
(2) Indicate your options clearly.
(3) Figures to the right indicate marks.

1. Identify the following speeches: (Any Five) 10
   1. "There's many a thing a man might know and might not have any wish for."

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   2. "It's a hard thing to be poor. All the world is against the poor."
   3. "(Public Man on Rationing Charge' would look nice in the Sunday papers"
   4. "Not really. Look at us. A few more pounds fore and aft and a few more grey hairs on top, but underneath we're just the same"
   5. “I wonder, now, am I as a great a fool as I think I am”
   6. "All this talk about fighting for youth and the future! When I got demobbed what chance had I in Chivvy Street?"

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   7. "If a person meditates too much, or hesitates, or talks about it, waits for an ideal of true love, he never gets it"
2. Bring out the humor in the play ‘A Marriage Proposal’ 13
   OR
   Sketch the character of the Sergeant as you find him in 'The Rising of the Moon'.

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3. What is drama? Explain the concept of tragedy and comedy. 13
   OR
   Give a detailed account of the origin and the growth of drama in England.
4. Briefly explain the following with examples: (Any Two) 14
   1. Farce
   2. Melodrama

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   3. Problem Play
   4. Comedy of Humors

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