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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
U.G .DEGREE EXAMINATION GENERAL ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER APRIL 2017
EL 4055 ENGLISH THROUGH FOLKLORE
Date: 19-04-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 09:00-12:00
I Answer any TEN of the following in two sentences each: (10 x 3 30)
1. What is Folklore?
2. What were the instructions given by the daimyo to Tomodata?
3. Who is Goolahwilleel?
4. Define a Fable and give examples.
5. Who came down from the sky as a falcon in the Egyptian Cinderella?
6. When do the swallows arrive in Southern Africa?
7. What are the different types of folk songs?
8. Why did the king finally banish thunder and lightning?
9. What are the features of a fairytale?
10. What is the significance of Wolf in Cherokee culture?
11. What did Jack find in the field?
12. What did Anancy collect in a Calabash?
II Write an essay on any ONE of the following in about 300 words: x 10
13. What are the major themes in American folklore? Give examples.
14. What are the different types of Folklore? Give examples.
15. What are the predominant themes in Aboriginal folklore? Give examples.
III Write a paragraph on any THREE of the following in about 200 words each: x 10 30)
16. Honesty is the best policy
17. Face is the index of the mind
18. Money can't buy happiness
19. Unity is strength
20. All that glitters is not gold
IV Narrate a story with any ONE of the beginnings given below:
21. In the beginning, the men and women were very kind to one another... Then one day
OR
22. In a small village in Andamans there lived two brothers named...
V Paraphrase the folk song in your own words: x10
23. Sleep, little pigeon,
And fold your wings,
Little blue pigeon
With velvet eyes;
Sleep to the singing
Of mother-bird swinging
Swinging the nest
Where her little one lies.
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Away out yonder
I see a star,
Silvery star
With a tinkling song;
To the soft dew falling
I hear it calling
Calling and tinkling
The night along.
In through the window
A moonbeam comes,
Little gold moonbeam
With misty wings;
All silently creeping,
It asks; "Is he sleeping
Sleeping and dreaming
While mother sings?"...
But sleep, little pigeon,
And fold your wings,
Little blue pigeon
With mournful eyes;
Am I not singing?
See, I am swinging
Swinging the nest
Where my darling lies.
VI Answer the following Question: (1x 10
24. Draw a picture of folk dance forms in India using Warli art and describe it in five sentences.
25. (For Visually Challenged Students Only) Write an essay on the folk musical instruments from
different countries around the world.