IGNOU BEGLA-137 December 2025 Previous Year Question Paper

Q1.Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : Spring Nothing is so beautiful as spring— When weed s, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush [ 2 ] BEGLA–137 Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blossoms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.

Q2.What is all this juice and all this joy ? A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning [ 3 ] BEGLA–137 In Eden garden–Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O Maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

(a) What does the wo rd ‘wheels’ in line 2 indicate ? 2

(b) Which two words indicat e the beauty of the weeds ? 2

(c) Which words do tell us that the thrush’s song is sharp and clear ? 2

(d) In what sense are pear tree leaves ‘glassy’ ? 1 [ 4 ] BEGLA–137

(e) Which word indicates that the sky appears to be coming down ? 2

(f) What period of man’s life does ‘Mayday’ refer to ?

Q3.Write short notes in about 150 words each on any two of the following : 10×2=20

(a) Homophones

(b) Metonymy

(c) Metaphor

(d) Personification

Q4.Identify and explain the figure of speech in the following sentences : 10

(a) They poise and run li ke pu ffs of wind that pass.

(b) To be or not to be—that is the question. [ 5 ] BEGLA–137

(c) The Oval Room was the source of the watergate.

(d) I’ll make him eat his words.

(e) Excess of ceremony shows wa nt of breeding.

Q5.Match the modal verbs/phrases with their meanings : 10

(a) Will be

(i) Possible

(b) Could be

(ii) Actions in future

(c) Ought to be

(iii) Probability

(d) Would have to

(iv) Didn’t happen in past

(e) Should have to

(v) Didn’t happen but wish it had happened [ 6 ]

Q6.Complete the sentences by using the correct form of words given below : 10

(a) The boy failed his examinations. (boast)

(b) Please shorten your meeting and c ome

(c) The patient is ill and may not be able to like much longer. (serious)

(d) The little girl hums to herself. (cheer)

(e) Desmond gave up his seat to old lady in the bus. (grudge)

Q7.Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate idioms given in the box : 10 Blessing in disguise; costs an arm and a leg; Devil’s advocate; the cold shoulder; missed the boat

(i) Rahul and didn’t enroll while there was a discount. [ 7 ] BEGLA–137

(ii) They gave Sohan and de nied invitation to lunch.

(iii) Telling about stocks to friends is like as it might be cheap but risky also.

(iv) Getting latest iPhone .

(v) Loosing a clerical job was for me as after that I got officer’s job.

Q8.Use correct articles in the following sentences : 10

(a) Rahul is trying to become IAS officer.

(b) Ducati is expensive car. [ 8 ] BEGLA–137

(c) Sachin is god of cricket.

(d) Always help poor and needy.

(e) I love to sail over water.

Q9.Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate linking words : 10

(i) Take an umbrella it rains.

(ii) Rahim won the race his lack of training.

(iii) Tom is rich Sam is poor.

(iv) severe illness he left the examination.

(v) The place is good safe. [ 9 ]

Q10.Define the following giving suitable examples : 10

(a) Personification

(b) Metaphor

(c) Paradox

(d) Antithesis

(e) Irony