University of Al-Qadisiyah Time: 3 hours

College of Education Date: 25/ 6/2018

Dept. of English M . A Entrance Exam / 2018-2019

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Part One : Linguistics

Q1/ With examples , attempt the following : ( 15 M. )

1. Ferdinand de Saussure's (1916) 'langue' and 'parole', as contrasting terms in linguistics , are used

to distinguish between the language system and instances of its use within the language . Explain

2. In contrast to Chomsky's (1965)theory of competence, "an ideal speaker —listener in a completely

homogeneous speech community", Hymes' (1971) ' communicative competence' focuses on the speakers'
knowledge and ability for the appropriate use of language in relation to the context in which it is used and
evaluated .Explain

3.English has not won the battle to be the world's language through a trail of imperial strength, but rather by
its propensity for acquiring new identities ,its range of varieties and above all its suitability as a flexible
medium for literary and other types of creativity. Discuss

Q2 / To the point, in brief and with examples ,comment on the following : (15 M.)

1. "By claiming the kind of closeness in relationship associated with a family member , the speaker's choice of
address term is an attempt to create solidarity".

2. "Texts must have a certain structure that depends on factors quite different from those required in the
structure of a single sentence".

3. "The single most obvious way in which the relationship between language and context is reflected in the
structures of languages themselves ,is through the phenomenon of deixis".

4. "Whereas the traditional study of regional dialects tended to concentrate on the speech of people in rural

areas ,the study of social dialects has been mainly concerned with speakers in towns and cities '' .

5. '' In recent years, the study of which words occur together and their frequency of co-occurrence has

received a lot more attention in corpus linguistics '' .

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Q3/ Choose the correct option: (20 M.)

1. The ------ tone is the one about which least needs to be said ,and which is usually regarded as more

or less neutral.

a. fall-rise b. rise c. fall

2. ………. format for testing vocabulary is generally preferable particularly when based on connected text

rather than single sentences

a. Matching items b. Word sets c .Gap-filling

3. ' The train ' in ' the train stopped ' is ……….. .

a. S affected b. S agentive c. S instrumental

4.……….. led the way in applying principles from structural linguistics in developing the Audio-Lingual Method.

a. Skinner b. Fries c. Labov

5. Human language can communicate about things that are absent as easily as about things that are present.

This phenomenon is called ………… .

a. creativity b. duality c. displacement

6. The predeterminers 'all, both and half ' have ' of-constructions ' , which are optional with nouns and

and obligatory with ……….. .

a. plural nouns b. personal pronouns c. quantitative determiners

7. When/s/ followed by one of /p ,t, k, f, m, n, I, w, j/ in words such as ' spy, sky, small, sleep and suit ",

they are described as sequences of ……… .

a. two consonants finally b. three consonants initially c. two consonants initially

8. A shift in teaching the target language in the late 1970s and early 1980s was made from a linguistic

structure-centered approach to a ………. Approach.

a. Cognitive Code b. Communicative c. Psychological

9.The clause type of the newspaper headline ' MOON DUST VANISHES ' is ………. .

a. SV b. SVO c. SVCs

10. The meanings of the bound bases italicized in biblio phile is ……….. .

a. life study b. book lover c. earth writing

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11. ………. is the attempt to divide lexical items into component parts.

a. Componential analysis b. Constituent analysis c. Conversational analysis

12.The degree to which a test measures what is supposed to measure is called ……… .

a. usability b. reliability c. validity

13. The vowels in the word 'banana' are ………. .

a. diphthongs b. vowel sequences c simple vowels

14. The population of New York is greater than ……… .

a. Chicago b. that of Chicago c. Chicago's

15." Linking" and "intrusive r" are special cases of ……… .

a. elision b. assimilation c. juncture

16. A number of nouns such as ' bottle, butter, chair and vacation' have come to be used ,

through ……… , as verbs.

a. derivation b. conversion c. backformation

17. A total change within the paradigm 'go, goes ,going ,went ,gone' is called ………. .

a. suppletion b. affixation c. transformation

18. Paul said, ' I am feeling ill '. The reported speech of this sentence is ……… .

a. Paul said that I was feeling ill b. Paul said that he is feeling ill

c. Paul said that he was feeling ill

19. The lexical relation between 'mole (on skin)' and 'mole(small animal)' is called ………. .

a. synonymy b. homonymy c. hyponymy

20. Yesterday, John and Jim played tennis. They began at 10 o'clock and finished at 11:30. So, at

10:30,they ……… tennis.

a. are playing b. played c. were playing

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Part TWO : Literature

Q1 / Choose the most suitable choice. (20 marks)

Questions 1-4 are based on the following passage :

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters
acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen "King Lear," never shall we find the good
king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughter and their
lapdogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father's timely tear. Whatever
evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our
minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have
fixed for them .... Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but
unethical. We would prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the tired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns
out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.

1. The passage argues that

a. "stability of type" is more common in real life than literature.

b. It is a waste of time to reread works of literature.

c. We expect humans to act as consistently as fictional characters do.

d. Great works of literature written by unknowns often pass unnoticed.

2. The passage calls into question the concept of

a. Mimesis.

b. Hamartia.

c. In medias res.

d. Deus ex machina.

3. The passage refers explicitly to

a. Crime and Punishment.

b. Don Quixote.

c. Madame Bovary.

d. Faust.

4. The passage appears in a work in which a

a. Woman I made to wear a red letter on her bodice.

b. Man remains youthful while a portrait of him ages.

c. Man is wakes up to find that he has become a giant insect.

. d. Man becomes obsessed with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter

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QUESTIONS 5-10 ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE: -

Let other better mould the running mass

Of metals, and inform the breathing brass,

And soften into flesh a marble face;

Plead better at the bar; describe the skies,

5 And when the stars descend, and when they rise.

But, Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway,

To rule mankind, and make the world obey,

Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way;

To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free:

10 These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.

5. Which of the following most accurately describes the passage ?

a. The speaker defends himself as a royal citizen but expresses regret over the state of the arts in Rome.

b. The speaker complements Greek culture for its achievement in arts and science, and singles out

administration as a Roman art.

c. The speaker deplores the widespread use of slaves in the ancient world.

d. The speaker claims that Roman culture is superior to all others in the range and diversity of its

achievements.

6. As used in line 6, "sway" most nearly means

a. Power.

b. Resolve.

c. Wisdom.

d. Tact.

7. Line 9 presents an example of

a. Apostrophe.

b. Chiasmus.

c. Periphrasis.

d. Zeugma

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8. Which of the following words or phrases has been omitted as understood after "worthy" (line 10) ?
a. Of
b. Before
c. Beside
d. According to
9. Which line of the translated passage is an Alexanderine ?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 8
d. 10
10.The passage is from
a. Chapman's translation of Homer.
b. Dryden's translation of Virgil.
c. Sydney's translation of Ovid.
d. Longfellow's translation of Dante.
11. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition ?
a. The Epic.
b. The Comic.
c. The Occult.
d. The Tragic.
12. In what sort of verse did Shakespeare compose much of his plays ?
a. Alliterative verse.
b. Sonnet form.
c. Iambic pentameter.
d. Dactylic hexameter
13. In which language the stories of Canterbury Tales are written ?
a. French.
b. Latin.
c. Middle English.
d. English.
14. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in
French, English, and German literatures ?
a. Beowulf.
b. Arthur.
c. Augustine of Canterbury.
d. Alfred
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15. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance" emerged, initially apply ?
a. A work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire.
b. A story about love and adventure.
c. A Roman official.
d. A work written in the French vernacular.
16. Which literary form, developed In the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
a. The heroic epic.
b. The morality play.
c. The romance.
d. The limerick
17. Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers ?
a. The Pope.
b. The Holy Roman Emperor.
c. The King of England.
d. The King of France.
18. The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by :
a. Wyclif.
b.Thomas more.
c. John Lyly.
d. Robert Greene
19. What is Faerie Queene ?
a. An allegory.
b. An epic.
c. A ballad.
d. A sonnet.
20. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land ?
a. Oedipus.
b. Grail legend of Fisher King.
c. Philomela. .
d. Sysyphus.
21. Who invented the term 'Sprung rhythm' ?
a. Hopkins.
b. Tennyson.
c. Browning.
d. Wordsworth.
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22. Who coined the phrase 'Egotistical Sublime' ?
a. William Wordsworth.
b. P.B.Shelley.
c. 5. T. Coleridge.
d. John Keats

23. Shelley's Adonais is an elegy on the death of :

a. Milton.
b. Coleridge.
c. Keats.
d. Johnson.

24. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, Is known as :
a. Spenserian Stanza.
b. Ballad.
c. Ottava Rima.
d. Rhyme Royal.

25. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry :
a. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
b. William Shakespeare.
c. Earl of Surrey.
d.John Milton.

26. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by ?
a. The Pre-Raphaelites.
b.John Ruskin.
c.Walter Pater.
d. Matthew Arnold.

27. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson "Faith un-faithful kept
him falsely true."
a. Oxymoron.
b. Metaphor.
c. Simile.
d. Synecdoche.

28. Who calls poetry "the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge" ?
a. Wordsworth.
b. Shelley.
c. Keats.
d. Coleridge.

29. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem "Ode to the West Wind" ?
a. Rime royal.
b. Ottava rima.
c. Terza rima.
d. Spenserian Stanza

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30. The phrase 'Pathetic fallacy' is coined by :
a. John Milton.
b. S.T.Coleridge.
c. Thomas Carlyle.
d. John Ruskin.
31. The most notable characteristic of Keats' poetry is :
a. Satire.
b. Sensuality.
c. Sensuousness.
d. Social reform.
32. "Heaven lies about us in our Infancy". In which poem does this line occur ?
a. "Immortality Ode".
b. "Tintern Abbey".
c. "The Second Coming".
d. "Leda and the Swan".
33.The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe
is known as :
a. The Great Order of Life.
b. The Great Chain of Being.
c. The Great System of Shakespeare.
d. The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker.
34. A poem that deals in an Idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as :
a. a Protestant Poem.
b. a Petrarchan Sonnet.
c. an extended metaphor.
d. a pastoral poem.
35.What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning of a sonnet ?
a. Octave.
b. Volta.
c. Iambic Pentameter.
d. Petrarchan.
36. Over what period of time doesloyce's novel Ulysses take place ?
a. A week.
b. 24 hours.
c. A lifetime.
d. 6 months
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37. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
a. The heroic couplet.
b. Blank verse.
c. Free verse.
d. The ode.
38. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry ?
a. Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology.
b. An effort to represent human nature.
c. Use of the rhymed couplet.
d. Fantastic comparisons.
39. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the :
a. Troubadour.
b. Skald.
c. Minstrel.
d. Bard.
40. In which of the following poetic forms was Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night "
written ?
A. sonnet
B. ode
C. vilanelle
D. ballad
Q2/In short and compact paragraphs, define FIVE of the following. Refer to examples to clarify. (15 Marks)
Alienation effect ; caricature ; objective correlative ; decorum ; apology ; archaism ; ode ; vers libre

Q3/ Since its emergence, the novel evinced experimentation and perfection in narrative technique. Develop
an essay in which you show the major narrative techniques the novelists used from the eighteenth century
to the first half of the twentieth century. Always make reference to representative novelists and novels.

(15 Marks )
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The Examining Committee

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