BEGLA-137 Language through Literature Solved Question Paper June 2024

BEGLA-137 Language through Literature Solved Question Paper June 2024

Language through Literature
Course Code: BEGLA-137

1. Read the passage given below and answer the
questions that follow :
In the first week of June 1982, I began a
secular pilgrimage deep into the Alakananda
valley. My destination was Gopeshwar, a town
that clings to a hill somewhat short of
Badrinath, and the living deity I wished to pay
tribute to was Chandi Prasad Bhatt, founder of
the Chipko Movement.
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Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born in a family
of priest who tended the temple of Rudranath.
It is part of the ‘Panch Kedar’, the five
Himalayan temples dedicated to Shiva, the
most venerated of which is Kedarnath. As a
boy, Chandi Prasad went up often to the family
shrine, the journey also alerting him to local
traditions of folk ecology. When he walked
through the alpine pasture he had to take off
his shoes so as not to harm flowers. In one four
kilometre stretch above the Amrit Ganga, there
was a ban on spitting, coughing and pissing : on
anything all the that might cause pollution in
the river below. There were taboos on plucking
plants before the festival on Nandasthmi, in
September.
Once, on the walk to Rudranath, Chandi
Prasad met a shepherd burning the flowers of
the sacred and beautiful Brahmakamal. He
asked why, it being the week of Nandasthmi,
and the shepherd answered that he wouldn’t
have, normally, except his stomach ached
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horribly and the extract of the flower would
cure him. But, the offender quickly added, he
had broken off the plant with his mouth, like a
sheep, so that the deity would think it nature’s
natural order rather than the hand of man at
work. He acquired such informal education in
ecology. He joined the Garhwal Motor Owners
Union (GMOU) as a booking clerk. With the
GMOU he was posted up and down the
Alakananda villages. He says, his year selling
bus tickets alerted him to the social diversity of
India.
(Reference of the passage : Fluency in English
by MacMillan, Page No. 78)
(a) Why narrator calls his journey a ‘secular
pilgrimage’ ? 2
(b) Which activity was banned during the
week of Nandasthmi festival ? 2
(c) The incidence of the shepherd in the
passage points out what aspect of Indian
national life ? 2
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(d) Find a word from the passage which is
same as ‘reverence’ and make a sentence of
the word. 2
(e) Identify and name the liberty device used
in the phrase ‘secular pilgrimage’. 2
2. Write short notes in about 150 words each on
any two of the following : 10 × 2 = 20
(a) Homophones
(b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Rhythm
(d) Cohesion
3. Indentify and explain the figure of speech in
the following sentences : 10
(a) The plants in her house silently begged to
be watered.
(b) Barry bought a book to bring to the
backyard barbecue.
(c) Can you spare your wallet ?
(d) He is running faster than the wind.
(e) Deep down you are really shallow.
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4. Match the modal verbs/phrases with their
meanings : 10
(A) Must be (1) Nearly impossible
(B) Could be (2) Almost certain
(C) Might be (3) Possible but unlikely
(D) Can’t be (4) Necessary
(E) Need to (5) Possible
5. Complete the sentences by using the correct
form of the words given : 10
(a) The sculpture looks ………….. simple. In
fact it was extremely complicated to make.
(deceive)
(c) Advances in technology mean that the
world of film is constantly ……………
changes. (Go)
(c) Raj ……………. Delhi last weekend. (visit)
(d) My uncle ……………… a watch for me on my
next birthday. (send)
(e) It ……………… heavily yesterday. (rain)
(f) Why does she not ……….. to school. (go)
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(g) I …………… sugar for ` 40 a kilo. (sell)
(h) When we travel, my sister usually ………. .
(sleep)
(i) After listening the joke Sumit
started ………… . (giggle)
(j) We …………….. in the bus tommorrow
morning. (travel)
6. Fill in the blanks in the passage below with the
most appropriate idioms given in the box. Make
necessary changes to the idioms to make them
grammatically fit in with the sentence : 10
keep/place in perspective; a flair for;
established pattern; draw your attention to;
like a duck into water; toy with an idea
(a) I would like to ………….. the fact that this
area has gone without water for a whole
week.
(b) Reena took to acting……………… .
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(c) She had ……………. singing and dancing
which made up for her inability to learn
her script.
(d) My father wanted me to follow the ………..
and practice law like he did and his father
before him.
(e) But since I very much wanted to be a
singer I …………….. of running away from
the home but could not muster the courage
to do so.
7. Use correct articles in the following sentences :
5
(a) We should eat …………… apple a day.
(b) He is ……………. intelligent student.
(c) He is ………….. university student.
(d) Give me …………….. book I gave you
yesterday.
(e) Always help …………….. poor and needy.
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8. (a) Fill in the blanks with the most
appropriate linking words indicating a
casual or temporal relation : 5
(i) There was hardly any space for me
next to my son ……….. . I decided to
lean back against the window and sit
through the night.
(ii) ………………. permanent dieting is
hardly fun, many people prefer a cash
diet. This can be not only harmful to
health but also self-defeating. …………
just a day or two on a crash diet, the
body decides that famine has struck
and lower downs the basal
metabolism.
(iii) Don’t skip breakfast ……….. you are
more likely to overeat later in the day
and you will have less energy.
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(iv) We …………… live in Defence colony.
…………….. we used to live in
Paharganj.
(v) I will lend you my car ………… you
need it.
(b) Name the rhetorical device used in the
following sentences : 10
(i) Oh, world of the free nations, on this
day of our freedom, we greet you.
(ii) Ours has been an epic struggle,
covering many years and costing many
lives. It has been a struggle, a
dramatic struggle. It has been a
struggle of heroes.
(iii) My country has taken knowledge from
all over the world and has offered the
knowledge and wisdom to the world.
She will stand in forefront of the
civilization, she will carry her lamp
into the darkness of strife and
struggle.
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(iv) The battle for freedom is over. The
struggle for peace begins.
(v) Men and women together, men and
women of a common humanity.
9. Define the following giving suitable
examples : 10
(a) Paradox
(b) Antithesis
(c) Allegory
(d) Imagery
(e) Satire