I Year - II Semester - English - Book Back Questions
Book Back Questions with Answers for English - I Year - II Semester
Unit - I Prose
1.3.1 - The Refugee by K.A. Abbas
SYNOPSIS ‘The Refugee’ by Abbas, is a moving and thought provoking story of people who were upro...
1.3.2 - The Lion and the Lamb by Leonard Clark
SYNOPSIS Conqueror’s Escape: The Bostock and Wombwell’s with their men and animals were on the ...
1.3.3 - The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
SYNOPSIS The story revolves around a semi-barbaric king who tries to reform and refine his subje...
1.3.4 - The Sky is the Limit by Kalpana Chawla
SYNOPSIS Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-American astronaut who was a mission specialist on the spa...
Unit - II Poems
2.3.1 - The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
Book Back Questions 1. How does Wordsworth use imagery to bring out the main idea in the poe...
2.3.2 - Gift by Alice Walker
Book Back Questions 1. Justify the title “Gift”. The title “Gift” is justified because the ...
2.3.3 - O What is That Sound by W. H. Auden
Book Back Questions 1. How does the poem “O What Is That Sound” contrast the male world of t...
2.3.4 - Ode to the West Wind by P. B. Shelly
Book Back Questions 1. What aspects of the wind does Shelley emphasize? In “Ode to the West...
Unit - III Short Stories
3.3.1 - The Fortune Teller by Karel Capek
Book Back Questions 1. Write an essay on the irony in “The Fortune Teller”. “The Fortune Te...
3.3.2 - The Postmaster By Rabindranath Tagore
Book Back Questions 1. Why did the postmaster speak of his family to Ratan? The postmaster ...
3.3.3 - The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde
Book Back Questions 1. What makes you feel Alan was a good painter? Alan Trevor is shown as...
3.3.4 - The Dying Detective by Arthur Canon Doyle
Book Back Questions 1. What disease is Holmes supposed to be suffering from and what are the...
Unit - IV One-Act Plays
4.3.1 - The Death Trap by Saki (H.H. Munro)
Book Back Questions 1. Write on the appropriateness of the title “The Death Trap”. The titl...
4.3.2 - The Dear Departed: A Comedy in One Act by Stanley Houghton
Book Back Questions 1. Why did the sisters compete with each other to have the old man with ...
4.3.3 - The Sheriff’s Kitchen By Ronald Gow
Book Back Questions 1. Write an essay on how Little John rescued Robin Hood from the Sheriff...
4.3.4 - The Anniversary by Anton Chekkov
Book Back Questions 1. ‘Female company is uplifting’ – How is this disproved in the play “Th...
Unit - V Communicative Grammar
5.1.1 - Affirmative Statement
Using Affirmative Sentences Although not essential to conveying clear thought, it would be rathe...
5.1.2 - Framing Questions
The interrogative pronouns who, what, whom, whose, which and the interrogative adverbs where, whe...
5.1.3 - Prepositions
A preposition is a word used to link nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a sentence...
5.1.4 - Error Correction
Methods of Error Correction 1. Certain nouns possess a singular form but still represent plu...
5.1.5 - Analogy
An analogy is a comparison of two things to highlight their similarities. Often the things being ...
5.1.6 - Phrasal Verbs
A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and an adverb or preposition, for example ‘shut up’ or ...
5.1.7 - Expressions to Ask Permission
There are various ways of giving and asking permission. Type 1 May I (please)…? This i...
5.1.8 - Order of Adjective
In many languages, adjectives denoting attributes usually occur in a specific order. Generally, t...
5.1.9 - Connectives
A connective is a word or phrase that links clauses or sentences. Connectives can be conjunctions...
5.1.10 - Verb
What is a verb? A verb is one of the main parts of a sentence or question in English. In fact, ...
5.1.11 - Negative Sentences
Negative sentences state that something is false or basically the opposite of the truth. We are a...
5.1.12 - Singular and Plural
REGULAR NOUNS Most singular nouns form the plural by adding –s. EXAMPLES Singular P...