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IGNOU BEGE-105: UNDERSTANDING PROSE DEC 2017 QUESTION PAPER
Note: Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. Your answers should be in approximately 400 words each, unless stated otherwise.
Q1. Comment upon the nature and functions of narrative prose in Alan Moorehead’s The Blue Nile.
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Critically appreciate the passage from Wole Soyinka’s “Aké” as an autobiographical narrative.
Q2. What do you know about different kinds of descriptive writings? Give examples from H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds.
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Comment upon Charles Dickens’ use of diction and imagery in the passage from the novel Bleak House included in your course.
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Q3. What are your views on Anne Frank as a writer and humanist with reference to her Diary?
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Write a critical appreciation of Margaret Laurence’s “My Final Hour”.
Q4. The novel, The Binding Vine is about family relationships. Give examples from the text to support your answer.
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Comment upon Shashi Deshpande’s views on marriage in The Binding Vine.
Q5. Do you understand Bill Aitken’s “Travels by A Lesser Line” as a travelogue? Give examples from the text.
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What do you understand by non-fictional prose and the art of letter writing with reference to Nehru’s letter to Indira Gandhi — “The Quest of Man”?
Q6. What techniques are used by Richard Wright to project the miseries of the Blacks in “Twelve Million Black Voices”?
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Write a summary of Edmund Leach’s “Men and Learning”.
Q7. Write short notes on any two of the following:
(a) Short story
(b) Autobiography
(c) Descriptive Prose and Expository Prose
(d) Essay Writing