Model Test on Correction

Model Test

Full marks: 55 Time: 1 hour

1. Heard the noise the boy woke up.
2. How many money is there?
3. Are there some rice?
4. There are five Rahim in our class.
5. There are a lot of water in this glass.
6. The committee is divided in its opinion.
7. I and you are happy.
8. I saw a dead cow walking in the road.
9. Each of the boys do his duty.
10. Every man have to meet death.
11. All is lost, nobody is alive.
12. All is lost, nothing are inactive.
13. The color of his eyes are blue.
14. The players in the field is taking rest.
15. Jamal and Rahim has gone to his native village.
16. The headmaster and secretary are present.
17. The headmaster and the secretary is present.
18. Bread and butter are my favorite food.
19. Slow and steady win the race.
20. Time and tide waits for none.
21. Each boy and each girl have a pen.
22. Every boy, every girl and every child were welcomed.
23. No teacher and no student help the poor boy.
24. Rahim and not his friends have helped the poor.
25. Sarmin as well as her sisters have done well in the examination.
26. The Headmaster along with the students have planted the plants.
27. Mr. Rahim accompanied by his relatives have attend the party.
28. Either he or his brother are guilty.
29. Neither the Headmaster nor other teachers has attend the ceremony.
30. I, you and Rahim are present.
31. You, Rahim and I are guilty.
32. My father and I did their best.
33. The jury were unanimous in their opinion.
34. The family is divided in its opinion.
35. The family have been living here for three years.
36. Forty miles are a long way.
37. Ten mounds are a heavy weight.
38. Two thirds of the students is present today.
39. Cattle is grazing in the field.
40. The clergy is happy.
41. The news are false.
42. The scissors is blunt.
43. One dozen of bananas are sufficient.
44. A pair of shoes are on the table.
45. Gulliver’s Travels are a famous book.
46. The United States of America are a rich country.
47. The pious is happy.
48. To walk are a good exercise.
49. Walking are a good exercise.
50. The Muslims is a brave nation.
51. It is I who is your friend.
52. There are a big tree in front of our University.
53. There is two high schools in our village.
54. One of the boys are absent.
55. We reached after the sunset there.

Answers of the Correction
1. Hearing the noise the boy woke up.
2. How much money is there?
3. Is there some rice?
4. There are five Rahims in our class.
5. There is a lot of water in this glass.
6. The committee are divided in their opinion.
7. You I and are happy.
8. Walking in the road I saw a dead cow.
9. Each of the boys does their duty.
10. Every man has to meet death.
11. All are lost, nobody is alive.
12. All is lost, nothing is inactive.
13. The color of his eyes is blue.
14. The players in the field are taking rest.
15. Jamal and Rahim have gone to their native village.
16. The headmaster and secretary is present.
17. The headmaster and the secretary are present.
18. Bread and butter is my favorite food.
19. Slow and steady wins the race.
20. Time and tide wait for none.
21. Each boy and each girl has a pen.
22. Every boy, every girl and every child was welcomed.
23. No teacher and no student helps the poor boy.
24. Rahim and not his friends has helped the poor.
25. Sarmin as well as her sisters has done well in the examination.
26. The Headmaster along with the students has planted the plants.
27. Mr. Rahim accompanied by his relatives has attended the party.
28. Either he or his brother is guilty.
29. Neither the Headmaster nor other teachers have attended the ceremony.
30. You, Rahim and I are present.
31. I, You and Rahim are guilty.
32. My father and I did tour best.
33. The jury was unanimous in its opinion.
34. The family are divided in their opinion.
35. The family has been living here for three years.
36. Forty miles is a long way.
37. Ten mounds is a heavy weight.
38. Two thirds of the students are present today.
39. Cattle are grazing in the field.
40. The clergy are happy.
41. The news is false.
42. The scissors are blunt.
43. One dozen of bananas is sufficient.
44. A pair of shoes is on the table.
45. Gulliver’s Travels is a famous book.
46. The United States of America is a rich country.
47. The pious are happy.
48. To walk is a good exercise.
49. Walking is a good exercise.
50. The Muslims are a brave nation.
51. It is I who am your friend.
52. There is a big tree in front of our University.
53. There are two high schools in our village.
54. One of the boys is absent.
55. We reached there after the sunset.

Kinds of Reading Skill

How many reading skills are?

There are four reading skills. They are a. Skimming b. Scanning c. Average Reading and d. Study Readying

1. Skimming: The purpose of skimming is to have a general idea of what a text is about. More, specifically, we skim a text to know:

a. How it is organized

Technique of Reading

How should we read?

How we should read a piece of text basically depends on why we read the text. That is, depending on our objectives of reading the text. We may need to read it:

Slowly

Quickly

Intensively

Purpose of Reading

Why do we read?

Generally we read a topic or a text with a view to knowing and understanding some preliminaries reading. Moreover we read texts- 

  

1. To get some information

2. To learn new words and their usages

What is Reading

What is Reading?

Reading: Reading is simply defined as a possess whereby we look at and understand what is written. Reading consists of two key factors- one is Reading and another Understands. Some readers read word by word, some readers read sentence by sentence.

Tennyson is The Revolutionary Poet of Victorian Era

Discuss, Alfred Lord Tennyson is the revolutionary poet of Victorian Era.

The life and works of Tennyson are remarkable to all. From the beginning to the end of his life he seems to have been dominated by the impulse of poetry. His poems are full of knowledge. He has created his poetry about ‘Politics’. ‘Lady’, ‘religion’, ‘Science’ and ‘Society’.

Alfred Lord Tennyson is considered as the

Shelley as Revolutionary Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley as Revolutionary Poet

1. Social change:

2. The Revolution of Shelley was a spiritual awakening:

3. After bad days come the good days: “If winter comes shall spring be far behind?”

4. Shelley’s revolutionary eagerness has shown in Ode: “To A Skylark”:

5. A true born child of the French Revolution:

6. His Dream:

7. His Idealism:  

Lord Byron’s attitudes towards love and marriage

Discussion about Lord Byron’s attitudes towards love and marriage

1. Different types of love

2. Unhappy Marriage

3. Marriage is Poisonous

4. Loveless marriage is nothing

5. Women are more aggressive than men

6. Marriage cannot bring peace without proper combination

Super Natural Elements of S.T. Coleridge

Super Natural Elements of S.T. Coleridge

S. T. Coleridge is the greatest English poet of supernatural. His supernatural imagination is controlled by thought and study. He has employed refined, suggestive and psychological methods of mystery and horror in the poem.

There are a number of impossible, incredible and fantastic situations.

Dryden’s Defends of English Drama

Dryden praises highly in English Drama and tries to establish its superiority over French by offering many arguments some of which are as follows-

1. Lively imitation of nature: The French dramatists managed their plots with greater skill and they observed the loss of comedy and the decorum (rules/norms) of the stage with greater exactness than the English. But a play is expected to be a just and lively imitation of nature.

Short Essay of Dramatic Poesy

Discuss in the essay: The essay is written moral less in the form of a dialogue or debate. It takes place among four speakers who have been given borrowed names but who have been identified with certain actual person of literary eminence of Dryden’s time. The speakers are critics (Sir Robert Howard) Eugenics (Charles Sackville), and Meander (Dryden himself). The four men agree that they should confine their discussions to drama and should not take into account other branches should not take into account other branches of literature.

  

Touch-Stone Method

The Touch-Stone Method: Arnold suggests that we should have always in our minds, lines and expressions of the great masters of poetry, and that we should apply those lines and expressions as a touch-stone method to other poetry. Of course we are not to require these other poetry to resemble (similar) those lines and expressions. Even these other poetry may be dissimilar.

Poetic Diction

Poetic Diction: Diction means word choice and poetic diction means language and usage peculiar to poetry. A collection of some special words which have been used in the poetry is called poetic diction. Diction is used between poetic and other language. Spenser’s use of archaisms in Farie Queene is very popular.

Process of Poetic Creation

Discuss about Definition of Poetry and Process of Poetic Creation.

Definition of Poetry: William Wordsworth has given the definition of poetry, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility (soundless atmosphere)”. Without any trying it comes from powerful feelings.

Process of Poetic Creation: The process of poetic creation occurs through four stages:

Romantic Concept of the Poet and His Function

Discussion about Romantic Concept of the Poet and His Function

a. Ordinary Individual: A poet differs from an ordinary individual not in nature but in degree.

b. Speaking to Men: A poet is essentially a man, speaking to men not speaking to other poets.

c. Living Sensibility: He has more living sensibility than others.

Function of a Poet

Short Note about The Function of a Poet

Generally a poet is he who is able to use the best words in the best orders. Wordsworth emphasizes that self-gratification is not the aim of a poet. His fiction is not the aim of a poet. His purpose is to communicate to others about his own thoughts, feelings and his own pleasure. For this reason Wordsworth calls upon the poet to come down from the ivory tower (tower of knowledge) saying, “Poets do not write for poets alone but for men.”

Romantic Movement of English Literature

Romantic Movement of English Literature

The Romantic Movement or period flourished in England during the 18^th and 19^th Centuries. It was the most prominently personified by seven renowned poets- Samuel Taylor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, John Keats and Lord Byron.

Invocation

Invocation: Invocation is the noun form of invocate that means to seek inspiration, courage, encourage and guidance from the goddess when somebody is going to start any hard work; especially in the beginning of an Epic. As an epic is a hard and long narrative poem, on a great and serious subject, so before writing the epic Paradise Lost the author John Milton seeks inspiration from the holy spirits. So, it can be said that invocation means asking God or goddess for inspiration at the beginning of any difficult activities especially in an epic. John Milton begins Paradise Lost with the invocation, Sing, “Heavenly Muse.”

Short note about Hell:

Short note about Hell: Hell is a boundary less place which is covered with fiery gulf. It is a dungeon and horrible place. There is no light, no peace, no food but darkness is available here. The relines are sorrow, doleful and shades. Happiness and rest can never be seen here without difficulty.

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

As virtuous men pass mildly away,    And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say,    "The breath goes now," and some say, "No," So let us melt, and make no noise,    No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys    To tell the laity our love.

Seven Sleepers:

Seven noble sleepers of Ephesus hid themselves in a cave in order to escape from the persecution (punishment) of Christians. The entrance (doorway) of the cave was blocked up. The seven men slept there for nearby two hundred years and then they came out, still youths in the region of the younger Theodosius. The two lovers in “The Good Morrow” composed by John Donne slept for a long, long time and it was only when they woke up that they started making love to each other. 

Fable

Fable: Generally, a fable is a short and fairly simple story which is designed to teach a moral lesson. Most of the characters of the fable are often animals and they play an important role like the human beings. The fables of the Greek slave Aesop are the most familiar.

Explanation, She stopped, she looked at her....... she could not explain.from The Garden Party

Explanation 03: She stopped, she looked at her brother. ‘Isn’t life’, she stammered, ‘ isn't life’. But what life was she could not explain.

The quoted lines have been extracted from Katherine Mansfield’s familiar short story ‘The Garden Party’. In this line the writer has explained us how Laura felt when she visited the dead man’s bereaved (mourning) family after the party was over.  

 Laura persisted (continued) to stop the party when she learnt about the death of the young man in the neighborhood. Her sister and mother chided (rebuked) her for this matter, calling her absurd (silly) and sentimental,

Explanation, There lay a young man...... from them both. from The Garden Party

Explanation 02: There lay a young man, fast sleep- sleeping so soundly, so deeply, that he was far, far away from them both.

The quoted line has been extracted from Katherine Mansfield’s well-known short story ‘The Garden Party’. In this line the writer has explained about the reaction and inner feeling of Laura when she saw the dead body of the young man. 

As Laura was born and brought up in a wealthy and royal family so she did not know what poverty was and what want was. Before visiting the poor family she had never seen death in her life. It was in the first time of her life that she had encountered death.

Explanation, You’ll have to go, Laura; you’re the artistic one. from The Garden Party

Explanation: 01. You’ll have to go, Laura; you’re the artistic one.

The line has been mentioned from Katherine Mansfield’s famous short story, The Garden Party. This is a speech made by Mrs. Sheridan to her youngest daughter Laura. The line shows the activity of Laura.

After many difficulties the Sheridan family fixed a date for their garden party. The weather of the day was ideal and the sky was without a cloud. On the day when the workmen came to put up the marque, Laura went to her mother to know where the marquee would be put up but her mother wanted to be free from the party and stay like a guest.

Contribution and Place of I.A. Richards As A Psychological Critics

What is Psychological Criticism? Discuss about Contribution and place of I.A. Richards as a psychological critics. 

Generally, psychological school of criticism wants to make criticism more scientific by applying psychological knowledge to its problems. It is itself divided into two groups, one would 'explain' about the works of art, and other finds more attractive psychological investigation of the processes of appreciation. The psychological critic tries to search the hidden objects behind a work of art. The psychological criticism of literature began in 1900 with the publication of' Freud's Interpretation of Dreams.

Character of Joe Gargery in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.

Discussion about the Character of Joe Gargery in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.

1. A Good Natured Foolish Man:

2. His Deep Affection for Pip:

3. Kind and Sympathetic to All:

4. Well-built Person:

Character of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.

Discussion about the Character of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.

1. Frustrated Love and Disappointment:  

2. Pip’s First Contact with Miss Havisham:

3. The Unconcerned Miss Havisham:

4. A Pathetic Creature:

Character of Abel Magwitch in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

Discussion about the Character of Abel Magwitch in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.

a. Magwitch’s encounter with Pip in the beginning character: His Ugly Humor:  

b. His Decision to Make a ‘Gentleman’ of Pip:

c. A Mixed Character:

d. His Deep Affection for Pip:

Character of Estella in Dickens’ Great Expectations.

Discussion about  the Character of Estella in Dickens’ Great Expectations.

1. Young Conductress:

2. Taught to Charm and Reject:

3. Changing after the Influence of Estella:

4. Wishful Thinking:

5. Pip’s Artificial Mind: