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SECITOI{ I! I.ANGUAGE SI(IITJS

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There are 25 questftrns to answer.
All questions carry OtlE lrlARK each.
Put a Uck mark (/)
in the box ag inst the onect answer.

hooe thc dgltt ltem lbom the opUons ghtcn belo$r, filllng ln, orruting or rcpladng
a3 neoe69aty.

1. I'm not a verv domestic soft of person. what this means is that the speakel
tr (a) prefers to have a domestic help.
U (b) does not like home life very much.
n (c) is a stay-at-home sort of person.
n (d) doesn't like to leave home for work.

2. Kamala took Ute decision to resolve matters amicably before the meefing to Mahesh
from disrupting the proceedlngs.

tr (a) o<empt
n (b) prompt -
n (c) preempt
f, (d) promote

3, Eadt of the partrrers of the Company to ontribute in the mobilisation of deposits.

n (a) was e,rpecfied

n (b) were oeected
n (c) be o<pected
n (d) noneoftheabove

4. Pick out tfre conect tense-forms of mlell in tte bllowing series:

n (a) srrrell, sruelled, srvollen

n (b) swell, srvelt, sr,velt
n (c) svnelf srvelled, swelled
n (d) slrrell, nrnlled, swollen
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Find the synonym for cataclysmic

n (a) apocalyptic
n @) systemaUc
n (c) deadly
n (d) qstemic

6. Find the synonym for catachresis

tr (a) conection
n (b) distortion
[ (c) significaUon
n (d) o<ptanation

7. The study of the prlnciples and processes by which sentences are constructed
in
pafticular languaoes is called

n (a) syntax.
f (b) rhetoric.
n (c) structuralism.
n (d) morphology.

8. Pick the odd one out in the series.

n (a) century
T (b) central
T (c) centipede
f, (d) cent

9. A_ of paper needs to be bought.

fI (a) choir
tr (b) quore
tr (c) quire
n (d) chora

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10. The poor man has to look after a large family of his own and his broffire/s, not to mention his old
parenb who live in the village. The phrase not to mention is used_.
n (a) to introduce extra informaUon
n (b) to mention something unpleasant
n (c) to introduce an inelevant fact
f, (d) not to mention but to inform

11. People for their pensions assume they should invest a lot of their money in ttre
stock market.

n (a) saving
I (b) save
n (c) saved
tr (d) are saving

12. Look at the pairs of sentences below. Pick the cornect option from the four:

A) Allthe pafticipants have been classified into groups.

B) Allthe pafticipants have been dassified.
X (a) A is the better of the two sentences
n (b) B ls the better of the two sentences
f (c) Both A and B are equally good.
f, (d) Neither A nor B is a good sentence.

13, The study of words in a given language is called

n (a) lo<ical.
I (b) lo<icology.
n (c) lo<is.
n (d) lexiological.

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14. Find the antonym for o<culpate

n (a) acquit
n (b) vindicare
tl (c) dear
tl (d) acorse

15. The bus-stop is Just around the corner, it will take you just two minutes _fuot.
I (a) on
n (b) by
n (Q neither (a) nor (b)
n (d) boft (a) and (b)

16. The meting was cancelled due to the absence of a quorum. A guorumis

f, (a) a standard of behavlour.

n (b) the maximum number of people allowed at a meeting.
tr (c) ttre minimum number of peoph required to hord a meeting.
n (d) lack of decorum.

17. Mant first walk on the moon made,history.

r re* underlined phnse means:
X (a) history that was tmmediately forgotten.
! (b) was historically inelevant to everyone other than those who did it.
n (c) was important enough to be featured in history books.
D (d) was not even recorded in historicaldocuments.

18. Pick the odd one out in this series.

tl (a) autocncy
n (b) automafrc
tl (c) autonomy
tr (d) automobite

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19. The passive form of the sentence, 'The speaker held the microphone to his mouth' is

f (a) The microphone was holding up to the speakers'mouth.

I (b) Up to his mouth the speaker held the microphone.
n (c) The microphone was held up to the speaker's mouth.
n (O The speaker's mouth to the mlcrophone was held.

20. 'It seems very pretty', she said when she had finished it,'but i(s ntherhard to understand!'

Choose the correct form of indirect speech.

tr (a) She said it is pretty hard to understand, but did not finish it.
n (b) She said that it seemed very pretty but was rather hai'd to understand.
tr (c) She said it seems very hard and finished it.
X (d) She finished it and said it is very pretty.

21. *I beg your pardon?" said Alice. 'tlt isn't respectable to beg," said the King.

Choose the correct form of indirect speech.

[ (a) Alice begs the King to padon her with a lot of respect.
n (b) Alice respectfully begged the King to pardon her who did not respond.
tr (c) Alice begged the King's pardon who replied that it wasn't respectable to beg.
tr (d) The King responded by respecffully pardoning Alice's begging.

22. The study of meaning in language is

U (a) pedantics
I (b) semanucs
n (c) romantics
n (Q dramatics

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23, Pick the odd one out ln the series.

tr (a) demonology
n (b) demognphy
tr (c) democracy
n (d) demotic

24. Idenfi the figure of speech in the following sentence:

All hands to the deck.

tr (a) metaphor
tr (b) metonymy
tr (c) synecdoche
n (d) hyperbole

25. Because of its location in the tropics Kenya_ hot weather.

x (a) almost always expenienes

tr (b) o<perience always alrnost
n (c) never expeniences
n (d) almost o<periences never

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Depaftment of English

M.PHIL. ENGLISH ENTRANCE EHMINATION, JUNE 2012

SECTION: II
LITERATURE: ESSAY

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wrile an essay on any oNE of the following in the space provided on pages 9-14.
Credit will be given for essays which are shirply focused and suitably iilu;rated.

l. Is there an Indian Way of Reading?

2. The Rediscovery of English Metaphysical poetry in the 20s century
3. The Myriad-minded Shakespeare
4. The Elghteenth Century as the Age of the Novel
5. Freedom and Fiction AND the Fiction of Frcedom
6. The Popular in the postcolonial
7. Mimesis
8. Gender and Genre
9. As Others see US
10. The Discipline of Cultural Studies

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