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IGNOU BEGLA-137 - Language Through Literature

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Language Through Literature

BEGLA–137 teaches students about the use of vocabulary in the English language and literature. It includes subjects such as literary devices, structure words, and rhetorical devices. Topics covered in BEGLA–137 are extension of meaning, literal vs metaphorical meaning, multiple meanings, the study of literary texts, sound patterns, figures of speech, structure and lexical words, style, use of repetition and questions, and politeness.

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IGNOU BEGLA-137 Code Details

  • University IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
  • Title Language Through Literature
  • Language(s) English
  • Code BEGLA-137
  • Subject English
  • Degree(s) BAG, BCOMG
  • Course Core Courses (CC)

IGNOU BEGLA-137 English Topics Covered

Block 1 - Understanding the Relationship between Language and Literature through Vocabulary

  • Unit 1 - Literal versus Metaphorical Meaning
  • Unit 2 - Extension of Meaning
  • Unit 3 - Multiple Meanings
  • Unit 4 - Study of Literary Texts

Block 2 - Literary Devices

  • Unit 1 - Sound Patterns
  • Unit 2 - Figures of Speech-1
  • Unit 3 - Figures of Speech-2
  • Unit 4 - Figures of Speech-3

Block 3 - Structure Words

  • Unit 1 - Structure Words-1
  • Unit 2 - Structure Words-2 Auxiliaries
  • Unit 3 - Structure Words in Discourse-1
  • Unit 4 - Structure Words in Discourse-2

Block 4 - Rhetorical Devices

  • Unit 1 - An Introduction to Rhetoric
  • Unit 2 - Structure and Style
  • Unit 3 - Use of Repetition
  • Unit 4 - Use of Questions
  • Unit 5 - Doing Things with Language: Politeness
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IGNOU BEGLA-137 (July 2023 - January 2024) Assignment Questions

1. Fill in the blanks with suitable adverbs or prepositions to form phrasal verbs: i) Please take ……………………………… your coat. ii) We have taken …………………………………….. a new project. iii) I was taken …………………………… a doctor because I had been able to cure some people in the neighborhood. iv) Seeta takes ………………………………….. her mother. v) The old lady offered to take ……………………….. the homeless stranger. 2. Give meanings of the phrasal verbs in the following sentences in a few words. i) Don’t give in to the threats of the terrorists. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ii) The engine gives off steam. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… iii) They tried to cover up the evil dead. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… iv) I fell for the beautiful girl. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… v) We’ll see you off at the station …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences by using the correct forms of the words given below. Indicate in each case whether the word is used as a noun or a verb. (Each word has to be used twice, once as a noun and once as a verb.) pitch, race, litter, file, spell. i) He usually …………………………….. the ball at the right place. ii) The cricket ………………………………… is wet today. iii) Many thoughts ………………………….. through his mind when his son was in the operating theatre. iv) I wish to see his personal ………………………………… v) You have to feed the cat and its ………………………………………. vi) He has ……………………………………… the word wrongly. vii) She came first in the 100-metre ………………………………………….. viii) The magician cast a …………………………………….. on her. ix) Please ……………………………………………….. this letter. x) ‘The muddy ground was …………………………………… with crawling worms’. (Khushwant Singh: The Mark of Vishnu) 4. Write short notes on any four of the following. Give suitable examples. i) Alliteration ii) Assonance iii) Rhyme iv) Onomatopoeia v) Rhythm 5. What do you understand by Irony? Discuss in detail the following. a. Irony of situation b. Irony in satire c. Ironic contrast 6. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy The chooses right, and never find a friend. (William Butler Yeats: ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’) i) What kind of beauty does the poet want his daughter to have? ii) What are the hazards of being made beautiful overmuch’? How does the poet illustrate his point? 7. Outline the main strategies for being polite while doing things with language.

IGNOU BEGLA-137 (July 2022 - January 2023) Assignment Questions

1. Discuss the relationship between Language and Literature. Also comment on how the literary language is different from ordinary language. 2. Read the whole of the poem Baby Running Barefoot by D.H. Lawrence given below and try to answer the questions given at the end. When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass The little white feet nod like white flowers in a wind, They poise and run like puffs of wind that pass Over water where the weeds are thinned. And the sight of their white playing in the grass Is winsome as a robin's song, so fluttering; Or like two butterflies that settle on a glass Cup for a moment, soft little wing-beats uttering. And I wish that the baby would tack across here to me Like a wind-shadow running on a pond, so she could stand With two little bare white feet upon my knee And I could feel her feet in either hand. Cool as syringa buds in morning hours, Or firm and silken as young peony flowers. (a) What is the picture that comes to your mind when you read the poem? (b) Make a list of the similes used by the poet. (c) How do the similes make the description more vivid to us? 3. Insert appropriate modal auxiliaries in the blanks. The required meanings are given in brackets: i) You ............... do as you are told. (strong obligation: tone of command) ii) Children ...............be very noisy. (theoretical possibility) iii) As a child, I. ............... recite the whole of Gita. (general ability in the past) iv) He ………..... be very annoyed with me to write a letter like that. (a necessary conclusion from evidence) v) He was so weak he ............. n't even raise his hand. (general ability in the past) vi) You ................. consult a specialist if you want to. (permission) vii) He ............... smoke heavily. (habit in the past) viii) He …………….. come tomorrow. (weak possibility) ix) ‘ ……..... I order a coffee for you?’ (offer) x) ‘……....... you mind opening the door?’ (polite request) 4. Make five words using each prefix ‘pre’ and ‘non’. 5. Make five words using each suffix ‘ism’ and ‘ship’. 6. Put the bracketed verb in the correct form in the following sentences and identify the verb phrase type: i) He is (sing). __________________ ii) Arun may be (expel). _____________________________________ iii) He has (accept) his mistake. ________________________________ iv) You ought (accept) your mistake. ____________________________ v) Arun has been (watch) the game for two hours. ________________ vi) This song has already been (sing) twice._____________________ vii) As a young man, I used (walk) seven miles a day. _________________ viii) He should have been (punish) for his carelessness. _________________ ix) I was (lead) to believe that the matter had (be) settled.____________________ x) This programme is (be) watched by millions of people all over the country._____________________________ 7. Read this passage from the story The Lost Child by Mulk Raj Anand and answer the questions given at the end. It was the festival of Spring. From the wintry shades of narrow lanes and alleys emerged a gaily clad humanity, thick as a crowd of bright-coloured rabbits issuing from a warren, and entering the flooded sea of sparkling silver sunshine outside the city gates, sped towards the fair. Some walked, some rode on horses, others sat, being carried in bamboo and bullock-carts. One little boy ran between his parent's legs, brimming over with life and laughter, as the joyous, smiling morning, with its open greetings and unashamed invitations to come away into the fields, full of flowers and songs. “Come, child, come,” called his parents, as he lagged behind, arrested by the toys in the shops that lined the way. He hurried towards his parents, his feet obedient to their call, his eyes still lingering on the receding toys. As he came to where they had stopped to wait for him, he could not suppress the desire of his heart, even though he well knew the old, cold stare of refusal in their eyes. “I want that toy,” he pleaded. His father looked at him red-eyed in his familiar tyrant's way. His mother, melted by the free spirit of the day, was tender, and giving him her finger to catch, said; “Look, child, what is before you.” The faint disgust of the child's unfulfilled desire had hardly been quelled in the heavy, pouting sob of a breath, “M—o—th—e-r”, when the pleasure of what was before him filled him eager eyes. They had left the dusty road on which they had walked so far to wend its weary way circuitously to the north, and had entered a footpath in a field. It was a flowering mustard-field, pale, pale, like melting gold, as it swept across miles and miles of even land, a river of yellow light, ebbing and falling with each fresh eddy of wild wind, and straying at places into broad, rich tributary streams, yet running in a constant sunny sweep towards the distant mirage of an ocean of silver light. Where it ended, on a side stood a dense group of low, mudwalled houses put into relief both by the lower forms of a denser crowd of yellow-robed men and women and by high-pitched sequence of whistling, creaking, squeaking, roaring, humming noises that rose from it, across the groves, to the blue-throated sky like the weird, strange sound of Siva’s mad laughter. (a) What words and phrases in the opening paragraph suggest the festive mood of the crowd? (b) In the first paragraph, what is the crowd of people compared to? What figure of speech is it? (c) Give the meanings of the following expressions: i) a gaily clad humanity ii) lagged behind iii) receding toys iv) red-eyed v) circuitously vi) put into relief (d) The mustard field is compared to a river of yellow light. Write the comparison in your own words. (e) The whistling, creaking, squeaking, roaring, humming noises’ are likened to ‘Siva’s mad laughter. What does this comparison suggest? (f) What literary device has the writer adopted in the use of words such as ‘whistling’, ‘creaking’, ‘squeaking’, ‘roaring’ and ‘humming’?
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