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ASSIGNMENT 2(Fall 2009) ENGLISH COMPREHENSION (ENG 101)

Q1. Define ‘Time relaters’ and ‘value words’ with examples. 3+ 2 =5




Q2-Complete the paragraph by choosing words from the list given. 10


commit, penalties, further, misdoing, occur, protests, enlist, injustices, forced, tragedy.


Those examples of poetic justice that----------in medieval and Elizabethan literature, and that seem so satisfying, have encouraged a whole school of twentieth-century scholars to “find”------------ examples. In fact, these scholars have merely----------- victimized character into a moral framework by which the injustices inflicted on them are, somehow or other, justified. Such scholars deny that the sufferers in a -------------- are innocent; they blame the victims themselves for their tragic fates. Any ----------- is enough to subject a character to critical whips.
Yet it should be remembered that the Renaissance writer Matteo Bandello strongly ------- the injustice of the severe ----------------- issued to women for acts of disobedience that men could, and did, --------------- with virtual impunity. And Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Webster often ------------ their readers on the side of their tragic heroines by describing -------------- so cruel that readers cannot but join in protest.

Solution:
Q1. Define ‘Time relaters’ and ‘value words’ with examples. 3+ 2 =5

Time relaters:
These words relates the time in sequence. In activities such as scheduling, doing routine activities, and conducting and describing experiments, it is important to recognize the sequence of events. Events do not simply occur in isolation, they occur either before, during, or after other events. This time sequence may be chronological, logical, or causal.

Value words
The words that are used to express taste and preferences, to express decisions and choices, to criticize and evaluate, to advise, warn, persuade, praise, and encourage. Their function is to guide our own choices and those of other people by commending or prescribing




Q2-Complete the paragraph by choosing words from the list given. 10

Those examples of poetic justice that occur in medieval and Elizabethan literature, and that seem so satisfying, have encouraged a whole school of twentieth-century scholars to “find” further examples. In fact, these scholars have merely forced victimized characters into a moral framework by which the injustices inflicted on them are, somehow or other, justified. Such scholars deny that the sufferers in a tragedy are innocent; they blame the victims themselves for their tragic fates. Any misdoing is enough to subject a character to critical whips.
Yet it should be remembered that the Renaissance writer Matteo Bandello strongly protests the injustice of the severe penalties issued to women for acts of disobedience that men could, and did, commit with virtual impunity. Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Webster often enlisit their readers on the side of their tragic heroines by describing injustices so cruel that readers cannot but join in protest.

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