IGNOU BEGLA-137 December 2024 Previous Year Question Paper

Q1.Read the extract given below and answer the questions : Far below Bowed the Ganga, quick and clear, above frowned the jutting bank. Hill dark with the wood s and scarred with the torrents were gathered around. Govinda, the great teacher, sat on the rock reading scriptures, When Raghunath, his disciple, proud of his wealth came and bowed to him and said, “I have bought my poor wealth, unworthy of thy acceptance.” Thus saying, he displayed before the teacher a pair of gold bangles studded with costly gems and emeralds. The master took up one of them, twirling it round his finger, and the stones darted shafts of light. Suddenly it slipped from his hand and rolled down the bank into the water. Name of the poem : Govinda’s Disciple By : Rabindranath Tagore (Reference of the Extract : New Gem’s English Reader, Grade 7. Ratna Sagar)

(i) What does the expression, ‘Hills dark with woods’ mean ? 2

(ii) What do you understand by the phrase ‘scarred with torrents’ ? 2

(iii) Why did Govinda throw the gold bangles into the river ? 2

(iv) What lesson does Govinda not teach to his disciple ? 2

(v) Identify and name the literary device used in, ‘and the stones darted shafts of light’.

Q2.Write short notes in about 150 words each on any two of the following : 10×2=20

(i) Refutation

(ii) Monologue

(iii) Proximity

(iv) Rhetoric

Q3.Identify and explain the figure of speech in the following sentences : 10

(i) This is the beginning of the end.

(ii) She is as skinny as a toothpick.

(iii) Has Mike got wheels ?

(iv) Mohan is hungry wolf, he can eat a lot.

(v) The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free. [ 4 ]

Q4.Complete the sentences of Column A using modal verbs from the Column B : 10 Column A Column B A. The pavement is welt. It ………. rained during the night.

Q5.could have B. The storm struck at midnight when most people …...… fast asleep.

Q6.can’t have C. You …… lost the key.

Q7.must have been D. Twenty years ago nobody ………. … imagined how popular mobile phones would become.

Q8.must have

Q9.Complete the sentences using the best suitable phrasal verbs in the correct tense : 10

(i) I had v ery imaginative parents in that they always ……. new things for us to do. We were never bored.

(ii) My older brother was like a hero to me. He was someone I always ……….. and respected.

(iii) I think I enjoyed the film so much because I really …….. the young boy and understood what he was going through.

(iv) I’m having some trouble ………. the solution to this equation.

(v) We’re going to have to …………. our vacation until next year.

Q10.Complete the sentences by using the correct form of the words given : 10

(i) The two leaders ……….. for talks later this afternoon. (meet)

(ii) Are you ..…. my questions or not ? (listen)

(iii) I never ……… why we have to pay so much tax. (understand)

(iv) I ……… any of Dickens’ novels. (read)

(v) National No -Smoking week …….. on October 24. (start)

(vi) You ……… a new scooter last week. (buy)

(vii) Mohan …….. us the way to the hospital. (show)

(viii) My grandparents ……… hurriedly. (walk) (ix) ………… is my favorite sport. (swim) (x) The farmer …… beautiful plants. (grow)

Q11.(a) Use correct articles in the following sentences : 5

(i) She wants to become …….. engineer.

(ii) My sister will come in …….. day or two.

(iii) Spring is …….. best season of …….. year.

(iv) The game has come to ……… end.

(v) …………… gold of South Africa is exported to many countries.

(b) Unscramble the jumbled up sentences : 5

(i) Saved / every / coin / single / he / copper.

(ii) Them / fell / asleep / but / under / of / both / a / tree.

(iii) Disappeared / saw / woke / they / up / when / had / their / axe / they.

(iv) Horse / loved / rocking / boy.

(v) My / lost / I / in / way / the / storm.

Q12.Write a short note on ‘personification’ in about 150 words. 10 [ 8 ]

Q13.Define the following giving suitable examples : 2×5=10

(i) Satire

(ii) Antithesis

(iii) Metonymy

(iv) Simile

(v) Allegory