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Department of English
M.PHIL ENGUSHENTRANCE EXAMINATION, JUNE 2012


1. not a very domestic sort of person. What this means is that the speaker

prefers to have a domestic help.

does not like home life very much.

is a stay-at-home sort of person.

doesn't like to leave home for work.


2. Kamala took the decision to resolve matters amicably before the meeting Mahesh from disrupting the proceedings.

exempt

prompt

preempt

promote


3. Each of the partners of the Company contribute in the mobilisation of deposits.

was expected

were expected

be expected

none of the above


4. Pick out the correct tense-forms of swell in the following series:

swell, swelled, swollen

swell, swelt, swelt

swell, swelled, swelled

swell, swolled, swollen

5. Find the synonym for cataclysmic

apocalyptic

systematic

deadly

systemic


6. Find the synonym for catachresis

correction

distortion

signification

explanation


7. The study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages is called

syntax.

rhetoric.

structuralism.

morphology.


8. Pick the odd one out in the series.

century

central

centipede

cent


9. of paper needs to be bought.

choir

quore

quire

chora

10. The poor man has to loOk after a large family of his own and his brother's, not to mention his old parents who live in the village. The phrase not to mention is

to introduce extra information

to mention something unpleasant

to introduce an irrelevant fact

not to mention but to inform


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

saving

save

saved

are saving


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

All the participants have been classified into groups.
All the participants have been classified.

A is the better of the two sentences.

B Is the better of the two sentences.

Both A and B are equally good.

Neither A nor B is a good sentence.


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

lexical.

lexicology.

lexis.

lexicological.


14. Find the antonym for exculpate

acquit

vindicate

dear

accuse

15. The bus-stop is just around the corner, it will take you just two foot.

on

by

neither nor

both and

16. The meeting was cancelled due to the absence of a quorum. A quorum is

a standard of behaviour.

the maximum number of people allowed at a meeting.

the minimum number of people reqUired to hold a meeting.

lack of decorum.

17. Man's first walk on the moon made history. The underlined phrase means:

history that was Immediately forgotten.

was historically Irrelevant to everyone other than those who did it.

was important enough to be featured in history books.

was not even recorded in historical documents.


18. Pick the odd one out in this series.

autoarcKy

automatic

autonomy

automobile


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

The microphone was holding up to the speakers' mouth.

Up to his mouth the speaker held the microphone.

The microphone was held up to the speaker's mouth.

The speaker's mouth to the microphone was held.


20. seems very pretty', she said when she had finished it, 'but it's rather hard to understand!'

Choose the correct form of indirect speech.

She said it is pretty hard to understand, but did not finish it.

She said that it seemed very pretty but was rather hard to understand.

She said it seems very hard and finished it.

She finished it and said it is very pretty.


21. "I beg your pardon?" said Alice. "It isn't respectable to beg," said .the King. Choose the correct form of indirect speech.

Alice begs the King to pardon her with a lot of respect.

Alice respectfully begged the King to pardon her who did not

Alice begged the King's pardon who replied that it wasn't respectable to beg.

The King responded by respectfully pardoning Alice's begging.


22. The study of meaning in language is

pedantics

semantics

romantics

dramatics


23. Pick the odd one out In the series.

demonology

demography

democracy

demotic

24. IdentifY the figure of speech in the following sentence: All hands to the deck.

metaphor

metonymy

synecdoche

hyperbole


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

almost always experiences

experiences always almost

never experiences

almost experiences never


Write an essay on any ONE of the following in the space provided on pages 9-14. Credit will be given for essays which are sharply focused and SUitably illustrated.

26. Is there an Indian Way of Reading?

27. The Rediscovery of English Metaphysical Poetry in the 20th century

28. The Myriad-minded Shakespeare

29. The Eighteenth century as the Age of the Novel

30. Freedom and Fiction AND the Fiction of Freedom

31. The Popular in the Postcolonial

32. Mimesis

33. Gender and Genre

34. As Others see US

35. The Discipline of Cultural Studies