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

TOTAL MARKS: 15

Due Date: 19.11. 2009

Objective:

  • To evaluate and enhance students’ understanding and conceptual learning of the subject.
  • To examine vocabulary, inferring skills and understanding of text through cloze paragraph.
  • To enable them to comprehend any text by sharpening the reading skill.

Instructions:

  1. Late assignments will not be accepted.
  2. Plagiarism will never be tolerated. Plagiarism occurs when a student uses work done by someone else as if it was his or her own or just copy pastes the material from handouts or any internet source without rephrasing it in his/her own words.

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.

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