This is a solved assignment of BEGLA 137, Language through Literature. This post helps IGNOU students to prepare assignments in order to write their Term-end examination. One thing you have to remember is that you are not supposed to copy this assignment as it is. You can just consider it as a model one.
Answer all questions.
- Discuss the relationship between Language and Literature. Also, comment on how literary language is different from ordinary language. (20)
- Read the whole of the poem Baby Running Barefoot by D.H. Lawrence given below and try to answer the questions given at the end. (10)
(a) What is the picture that comes to your mind when you read the poem?
(b) Make a list of the similes used by the poet.
(c) How do the similes make the description more vivid to us?
- Insert appropriate modal auxiliaries in the blanks. The required meanings are given in
brackets:- i) You ………must…… do as you are told. (strong obligation: tone of command)
- ii) Children ……can………be very noisy. (theoretical possibility)
- iii) As a child, I. ……could……… recite the whole of Gita. (general ability in the past)
- iv) He ……will/shall…….. be very annoyed with me to write a letter like that. (a necessary conclusion from evidence)
- v) He was so weak he ……could……. n’t even raise his hand. (general ability in the past)
- vi) You ………will…….. consult a specialist if you want to. (permission)
- vii) He ……used to……… smoke heavily. (habit in the past)
Make five words using each prefix ‘pre’ and ‘non’.