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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
U.G.DEGREE EXAMINATION GENERAL ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER NOVEMBER 2017
16UEL3GE01 ENGLISH THROUGH ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
Date: 02-11-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 09:00-12:00
I. Answer TEN of the following questions in about 150 words (excluding the application- oriented
questions) each: (10x10=100 Marks)
1. Write five aphorisms on the theme of 'Higher Education.'
2. Imagine that you are stranded in an alien planet and in order to escape you need to strike a conversation
with an extraterrestrial. Write down a conversation between this extraterrestrial and yourself in about
fifteen exchanges.
3. Write a sonnet featuring on the theme, 'Youth and Internet' or Personality.'
4. Attempt an essay on the relevance of Electronic Literature in enhancing your fluency of the language.
5. Write an introduction to a short story featuring on the theme, attributing meaning and purpose to the life
of fellow human beings with the opening line: "Life is full of sniffles, sobs and smiles. With sniffles
predominating."
6. Read the opening lines of the following poems and formulate a poem on 'the time-tested aspect of
beauty' in about ten lines.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness;
By John Keats
When Beauty and Beauty meet
All naked, fair to fair,
The earth is crying-sweet,
And scattering-bright the air
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. Write five different 'Twitters' on issues of social concern.
8. Write your impressions on the text, 'Water Like Air.'
9. Write about the poet's state of mind in the poem, Am.'
10. Are you able to identify with the poet persona in the poem, 'The Milky Give reasons for your
response.
11. Write three Haiku poems on the theme, 'Nature, the Supreme Being.'
12. Compose ten instructions for an online game on 'Vocabulary Learning.'

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