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English Literature.

Junior.

AS YOU LIKE IT.

1. Describe the character and action of Touchstone, and illustrate your answer by quotations.

2. Explain how Rosalind brings everything to a happy conclusion.

3. Give the meaning and derivation of the following words :I thrasomical, bandy, conceit, gesture, quip, atone, defied.

4. Annotate carefully the following passages, assigning each to the proper speaker.

(i) ""Tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon." (ii) "We quarrel in print by the book."

(iii) "I sometimes do believe and sometimes do not,

(iv)

As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.'
"Every of this happy number

That have endured shrewd days and nights with us,;
Shall have the good of our returned fortune."

(v) “He uses his folly like a stalking horse."

5. Paraphrase: Act V., Sc. 4, 1. 28—34.

English Grammar.

Junior.

1. What various relations do Prepositions express? Give examples to explain your answer.

2. How are Prepositions classified?

3. How can you distinguish Prepositions from Adverbs?

4. Parse fully the underlined words in the following sentences-He went past the house at half-past six. The lane near the field is as near a way as the road. He was two minutes behind time, so missed the train, and was left behind. The dog lay down quite tired.

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5. Analyse:

"The day is cold and dark and dreary,

It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
And at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary."

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2. Give, in your own words, Touchstone's description of a quarrel at court.

3. Give examples of Scriptural allusions in Act V.

4. Quote Silvius's description of being in love.

5. Junior Paper, No. 3.

6. Junior Paper, No. 4.

7. Analyse:

"The heathen philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape, would open his lips, when he put it into his mouth, meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and lips to open."

English Grammar.

Senior.

1. What is the primary use of prepositions?

2. How are prepositions classified? Illustrate your answer by examples.

3. Give the five principal rules of Syntax.

4. Analyse the following passage, and parse fully all the underlined words:-She was considering in her own mind, as well as she could (for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up, when suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

English Language and Literature..

Higher Local.

(a) SHAKESPEARE, TEMPEST; (b) BACON, ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, BOOK I.; (c) ADDISON, SPECTATOR, CRITICAL ESSAYS; (d) HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

(a)

1. What is the probable date of the Tempest? Name any incidents and allusions in Act I. that may be supposed to refer to contemporaneous events.

2. Comment fully on the grammar of the italicised words in the following :—

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"What cares these roarers for the name of king?"

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

That the world owes."

(iv)

"Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air."

"This is no mortal business, nor no sound

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

3. Give the exact meaning of :

"He's gentle and not fearful."

"I will be correspondent to command,
And do my spriting gently."

"My prime request.'

"The fringed curtains of thine eye advance."

(v)

"The ditty does remember my drown'd father."

(vi)

"Urchins

Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,

All exercise on thee."

Say what is meant by the burden of a song, and comment on Shakespeare's pronunciation of the word aches. Quote an example from this play.

4. Explain the names: Bermoothes, Argier, Setebos.

(b)

1. Politicians have affirmed that learning tends to make men more ready to argue than obey. What authorities are quoted as holding this opinion, and how does Bacon meet the charge?

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Give a short account of Layamon's Brut.

2. Name the chief religious poems of this period (Conquest to A.D.. 1300), and say briefly what you know of each.

3. Describe The Owl and the Nightingale.

SPECIAL PERIOD.

4. (i) What were the Interludes of John Heywood? How did they differ from morality plays? Trace briefly their influence on the growth of our English Drama.

(ii) Make brief notes, critical and descriptive, on Ralph

Roister Doister. Give its date.

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English Language.

GLO-SAXON READER; ALFRIC ON THE OLD
TESTAMENT, l. 151-333.;

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tantives hana, tunge, tá, and say to which Explain the modern plurals kine, oxen, "pression Lady Day.

etween god and se gōda? Decline of (i) se blinda mann, (ii) glada dagas..

did the English language drop its inflexions? What results follow neces

phenomenon? .

do you mean by the comparison of adjectives? Trace Lory of the formation of the comparative and superlative. istinguish between modern latter and later, and discuss the words near and nearer.

5. Put into Anglo-Saxon :—

(i) The strong sword for the good man.
(ii) To the wise words of the oldest prophet.
(iii) With fierce warriors of great kings.
(iv) Very mighty men in many wonders.

6. Parse-Twa suna, 1. 154; yfelan, 1. 164; gingstan, 1. 189; bearnum, .1. 207; farende, 1. 238; and derive hæðengild, bilewitnis, lagu, and modern wont; and criticise the modern provincialism, "a deal heavier.”

7. Render the following passages into modern English Ælfric, ll. 161—172, 186-209, 217-222, 257-269, 290-307, 316-333; and explain the phrases to lace, 1. 177, se Pharáo, 1. 217, and the word deer in the line

Rats and mice and such small deer.

(Shakespeare.)

8. Give a short account of Elfric, and point out the chief merits of his writings.

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