Model Question Paper of B.A. III Year (NEP) - English Literature- Major- I (English Language: Structure and Translation) for the Students of MP– SET- II

Hareshwar Roy,
B.A. III Year - English Literature- Major- I (English Language: Structure and Translation) – SET-II
Time: 3 Hours Max.M. 70/ Min.M. 25
Section – A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Attempt all questions. Each question carries 02 marks. (50 Words) 5x2= 10
Q01. What is Linguistics?
Q02. What do you mean by ‘Phonology’?
Q03. What do you mean by ‘Allophones’?
Q04. What is ‘Homonym’?
Q05. What do you mean by ‘Allomorphs’?
Section – B (Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Attempt all five questions. Each question carries 06 marks. (250 Words) 5x6= 30
Q06. What is the difference between phonetics and phonology?
OR
How did the Great Vowel Shift change the pronunciation of English?
Q07. Write a short note on ‘Morphology’.
OR
Write a short note on ‘English Dialects’.
Q08. Discuss ‘meaning-based translation’.
OR
Write a short note on ‘Word Accent’.
Q09. Discuss ‘limitations of IC Analysis’.
OR
Write a short note on IPA symbols.
Q10. Is there a difference between a phoneme and an allophone in IPA?
OR
How does word order affect the meaning of a sentence in translation?
Section – C (Long Answer Type Questions)
Note: Attempt any two questions. Each question carries 15 marks. (500 Words) 2x15= 30
Q11. Write an essay on ‘Characteristics and Development of English Language’.
Q12. Discuss ‘Approaches to the Study of Language’.
Q13. Write an essay on ‘Ambiguities and Translation’.
Q14. What is ‘IC Analysis’? Answer in detail.
Q15. Write an essay on ‘Linguistics’.
Location: B-37, City Homes Colony, Jawahar Nagar Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India
Currently Dr. Roy is working as Professor of English at Govt. P.G. College Satna, Madhya Pradesh. He is the author of the following books: (1) Diasporic Articulation in the Novels of M.G. Vassanji (2) A Study of M.G. Vassanji 's Novels (3) Varieties of Indianity in the Works of M.G. Vassanji & Rohinton Mistry (4)Diaspora & Indian Diaspora: A Brief Study (5) Short Notes of English Literature - I (6) Short Notes of English Literature - II (7) हमार पहचान ह भोजपुरी - भोजपुरी कविता संकलन (8) हमरा प्यार हो गइल - भोजपुरी गज़ल संकलन (9) भोजपुरी कविताएँ

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