ENG101 Assignment No. 1 Spring 2016 Solution

English Comprehension (ENG101)

Spring 2016

Assignment No. 1

Total Marks: 20

 Spring 2016_ENG101_1

Solution 

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Q1. Write a summary of the following passage avoiding wordiness and undesirable repetition. In addition, explain the meanings of the words in bold keeping in mind the context of the given passage.                                                                                                          

Note: Write the explanation of the words in sentence form rather than writing one word meaning.

[Marking Scheme: Summary: 5 Marks, Word Meanings: 1*5 =5, Total Marks: 10]

A large number of people enjoy reading murder mysteries regularly. As a rule, these people are not themselves murderers, nor would these people really ever enjoy seeing someone commit an actual murder, nor would most of them actually enjoy trying to solve an actual murder. They probably enjoy reading murder mysteries because of this reason: they have found a way to escape from the monotonous, boring routine of dull everyday existence.

To such people, the murder mystery is a realistic fantasy. It is realistic because the people in the murder mystery are, as a general rule, believable as people. They are not just made up pasteboard figures. It is also realistic because the character who is the hero, the character who solves the murder mystery, solves it not usually by trial and error and haphazard methods but by exercising a high degree of the logic and reason. It is absolutely and totally essential that people who enjoy murder mysteries have an admiration for the human faculty of logic.

But murder mysteries are also fantasies. The people who read such books of fiction play a game. It is a game in which they suspend certain human emotions. One of these human emotions that they suspend is pity. If the reader stops feeling pity and sympathy for each and every victim that is killed or if the reader stops feeling terrible horror that such a thing could happen in our world of today, that person will never enjoy reading murder mysteries. The devoted reader of murder mysteries always keeps in mind the goal of arriving at the final solution to the mystery through logic and observation offered in the book. It is a game with life and death. Whodunits hopefully help the reader to hide from the hideous horrors of actual life and death in the real world.

Q2. Listen carefully to the audio clip entitled “Chekov as an Innovative Writer” by following the link given below and then answer the questions that follow it:

https://soundcloud.com/oupacademic/chekhov-as-an-innovative?in=oupacademic/sets/anton-chekhov-about-love-and-other-stories-an-audio-guide

 (Your answers should be exclusively based on the information shared in the audio clip.)  

[Marking Scheme: 6+2+2= 10]

(a) Focus on the vocabulary/diction used by the speaker in this audio clip. Underline the words from the given list which have NOT been used by the speaker in the introduction of “Chekov as an Innovative Writer.”                      

                                                                       

Listening Tip: While listening to the audio clip, strike out the words from the given list which are used by the speaker. It will help you trace the correct answer.

1-     Contemporary

2-     Conventional

3-     Dismantle

4-     Assemble

5-     Quirky

6-     Prosaic

7-     Existentialism

8-     Alienation

9-     Reconcile

10- Cliché

11- Paradox

12- Ellipsis

13- Metaphor

14- The cherry orchard

15- Marginalize

(b) Name the impressionistic device used by Chekov in his writings.   

(c) What is the most extraordinary quality of Chekov’s writing style as mentioned by the

     speaker?    


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