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BACHELOR OF ARTS (GENERAL)
(BAG)
Term-End Examination
June, 2025
BEGLA–137 : LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Attempt all questions.
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
In the first week of June 1982, I began a secular pilgrimage deep into the Alakananda valley. My destination was Gopeshwar, a town
that clings to a hill somewhat short of Badrinath, and the living deity I wished to pay tribute to was Chandi Prasad Bhatt, founder of
the Chipko Movement.
Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born in a family of priest who tended the temple of Rudranath. It is part of the ‘Panch Kedar’, the five
Himalayan temples dedicated to Shiva, the most venerated of which is Kedarnath. As a boy, Chandi Prasad went up often to the family
shrine, the journey also alerting him to local traditions of folk ecology. When he walked through the alpine pasture he had to take off his shoes so as not to harm flowers. In one four kilometre stretch above the Amrit Ganga, there was a ban on spitting, coughing and pissing : on anything all the that might cause pollution in the river below. There were taboos on plucking
plants before the festival on Nandasthmi, in September.
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Once, on the walk to Rudranath, Chandi Prasad met a shepherd burning the flowers of the sacred and beautiful Brahmakamal. He asked why, it being the week of Nandasthmi, and the shepherd answered that he wouldn’t have, normally, except his stomach ached horribly and the extract of the flower would cure him. But, the offender quickly added, he had broken off the plant with his mouth, like a sheep, so that the deity would think it nature’s natural order rather than the hand of man at work. He acquired such informal education in ecology. He joined the Garhwal Motor Owners Union (GMOU) as a booking clerk. With the GMOU he was posted up and down the Alakananda villages. He says, his year selling bus tickets alerted him to the social diversity of India.
(Reference of the passage : Fluency in English by MacMillan, Page No. 78)
(a) Why narrator calls his journey a ‘secular pilgrimage’ ?
(b) Which activity was banned during the week of Nandasthmi festival ?
(c) The incidence of the shepherd in the passage points out what aspect of Indian national life.
2. Add prefixes to the following words to make opposites :
(a) Comfortable
(b) Necessary
(c) Like
(d) Valid
(e) Regard
3. Indentify and explain the figure of speech in the following sentences : 10
(a) The plants in her house silently begged to be watered.
(b) Barry bought a book to bring to the backyard barbecue.
(c) Can you spare your wallet ?
(d) He is running faster than the wind.
(e) Deep down you are really shallow
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4. Define any two of the following literary devices with suitable examples in about 100 words each :
(a) Synecdoche
(b) Understatement
(c) Tension
(d) Paradox
5. Write short notes on any two of the following
with suitable examples in about 100 words
each : 2×5=10
(a) Allegory
(b) Hyperbole
(c) Euphemism
(d) Onomatopoeia
6. Correct the following sentences : 2×5=10
(a) Me and my friends went to the park to play soccer.
(b) She don’t like Pizza but she likes Pasta.
(c) The book, which was written by J. K. Rowling is my favourite.
(d) I went to the store to buy some apples and oranges, but they was all sold out.
(e) Me and my friends is going to the Mall today
7. Fill in the blanks with suitable propositions : 10
(a) The cat is hiding …………… the couch.
(b) The bird is sitting …………….. the branch.
(c) He goes to bed ……………. 10:00 p.m. everyday.
(d) The players practice running ……………. the treadmill.
(e) He is going to market ……………. foot.
(f) Rohan is reading a book ……………… the beach.
(g) Most children are studying ……………. the library these days.
(h) I am going to see a movie …………….. my friends.
(i) The cup was kept ……………. the plate.
(j) The flowers were arranged beautifully ……………. the vase.
8. Make sentences with the following phrasal verbs : 5×2=10
(a) Break down
(b) Come across
(c) Take off
(d) Wear off
(e) Get along
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9. Identify and explain the figures of speech in the following sentences in about 100 words each :
(a) Her eyes were stars shining in the night.
(b) She sells sea-shells by the seashore.
(c) He has a heart like stone.
(d) Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for the country ?
(e) It was raining cats and dogs
10. (a) Add suffixes to make adjective forms :
(i) Hope
(ii) Care
(iii) Green
(iv) Danger
(v) Milk
(b) Use the following words in sentences as directed :
(i) Consume (adjective)
(ii) Dance (adjective)
(iii) Defend (adjective)
(iv) Harvest (verb)
(v) Crush (adjective)
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