University of Calicut Previous Years Question Paper & Answer

University : University of Calicut
Course : B.A

Semester : SEMESTER 1

Subject : Reading Poetry

Year : 2022

Term : November

Scheme : 2015 Full Time

Course Code : ENG 1B 01

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FIRST SEMESTER (CBCSS—UG) DEGREE EXAMINATION
NOVEMBER 2022

English
ENG 1B 01—INTRODUCING LITERATURE
(2019—2022 Admissions)
Time : Two Hours anda Half Maximum : 80 Marks
I. Answer the following questions in two or three sentences. (2 marks each) :
1 Choose the correct phrasal verb from the parenthesis :
(1) He ———— his hat. (put on, put down).

(ii) They

— this afternoon’s meeting (called out, called off).
2 What are adjuncts? Identify the adjunct in the following sentence.
He spoke uneasily.
3 Pick out the hyperboles from the given lines and explain how they signify.
“Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun!”
4 Mark the caesura in the following lines from Macbeth :
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent but only
Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other- How now ! What news ?

5 What do you mean by ‘Polyphony in literature ? Give example.

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