Bachelor's Degree Programme

EEG-06

Bachelor's Degree Programme (BDP)

ASSIGNMENTS 2004

Understanding Poetry

Elective Course in English-06

School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068 ELECTIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH-06 (EEG-06) Assignment 1-6

Programme:BDP Course Code: EEG-06

Dear student,

As we explained in the Programme Guide for Elective Courses, you will have three assignments for the Elective Course in English-06. All three assignments are Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs) and carry 100 marks each. The blockwise distribution of assignments is as follows:

Assignment Coverage 1 Blocks 1, 2 and 3 2 Blocks 4 and 5 3 Blocks 6 and7

Aims: The TMAs are concerned mainly with assessing your application and understanding of the course material. You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may acquire during the course of your study. These assignments aim to assess your performance as well as to teach.

Instructions: Before attempting the assignment please read the following instructions carefully:

1) Read the detailed instructions on assignments given in the Programme Guide for the Elective Courses. 2) Write your Roll Number, Name, Full Address and Date on the top right corner of the first page of your response sheet(s). 3) Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the Name of the Study Centre you are attached to on the first page of your response sheet(s).

The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this:

Roll No. …………………………. Name …………………………. Address ………………………….

Course Title ……………………….... Assignment No. ……………………….. Study Centre ………………………… Date ……………………………

4) Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pages carefully. 5) Write the relevant question number with each answer. 6) You should write in your own handwriting. 7) Submission: the completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Study Centre allotted to you.

2 GUIDELINES FOR WRITING THE ASSIGNMENTS

As you know the various assignments (1 to 3) are based on different block(s) of the course on poetry. Soon after you have read the relevant block(s) do the assignment relevant to that/ those block(s). This will help you test and digest the material you have studied.

In answering a question you must pay attention to the number of words you are expected to answer the question in. Answers that are either too long or too short are not liked by examiners. e Through these assignments we wish to train you to be systematic.

You may benefit by organizing your ideas before writing out your answer. One of the simple ways of organizing an essay or a talk is to say what you are going to say; say it; and then say what you have said. Obviously the idea is to have a short introductory section to every essay type question to be succeeded by a fairly lengthy (5 to 7 paragraphs) discussion on the main points and to be summed up briefly in a concluding paragraph at the end. Try this method and see how it works.

Try to send a neat answer script to you study centre. If necessary, prepare a fresh draft for submission. This will ensure that your Counsellor will be able to give you some guide-lines for improvement.

Once you receive your Counsellor's comments read them carefully and if possible discuss them with him/ her. Hope everything works out well and you find the work exciting and rewarding.

3 Elective Course in English-VI (EEG-06) Understanding Poetry ASSIGNMENT-1 (Based on Blocks 1,2 and 3)

Max. Marks: 100

Answer 1 and 2 and any three of the remaining questions. Every question carries 20 marks.

1. Scan any two of the following passages and comment on their prosodic features :

a) May thou month of rosy beauty, Month when pleasure is a duty, Month of bees and month of flowers, Month of blossom laden bowers.

b) Confusion shame remorse despair, At once his bosom swell The damps of death bedewed his brow, He shook, he groaned, he fell.

c) I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the bird and the brute

2. Explain any two of the following with reference to the context, supplying brief critical comments of your own:

a) But, O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return : Thee Shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves With wild thyme and gadding vine o’ergrown, And all their echoes mourn :

b) The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The Oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war –

c) Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. 4 d) And sometime like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cider-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings, hour by hour.

3 `In his sonnets, Shakespeare deals with the eternizing power of poetry.’ Discuss this statement with special reference to the sonnets you have read.

4 Examine the `Metaphysical’ elements in `The Sun Rising’.

5. How does Gray express universal truths in simple but elegant language in his `Elegy’.

6. `The Daffodils’ is remarkable for its accuracy of description. Would you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

7. Examine `The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ as a poem of sin, suffering and redemption.

8. Do you agree that Byron in `Childe Roland’ mocks man and his achievements? Illustrate your points with the help of the excerpts prescribed for you.

5 Elective Course in English-VI (EEG06) Understanding Poetry ASSIGNMENT -II (Based on Blocks 4 & 5)

Max. Marks: (10x4)+(20x3)=100

Answer question number one and a total of three from groups B and C, selecting at least one from each group.

Group A

1. Explain any four of the following with reference to the context, supplying brief critical comments of your own:

a) The Earth, sayest thou ? The Human race ? By me created ? Sad its lot ? Nay : I have no remembrance of such place : Such world I fashioned not .

b) Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotus-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.

c) A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each !

d) Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still.

e) Was he free ? was he happy ? The question is absurd : Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

f) I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees : all time I have enjoy’d Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, …

Group B

3 ‘To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield’ – to what extent does ‘Ulysses’ express the poet’s belief of facing life at all cost.

4 The Duke in `My Last Duchess’ is a person who would not like but there is also a certain attractiveness in the manner in which he is depicted. Would you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

5 Critically appreciate either `God Forgotten’ or `The Darkling Thrush’. 6 Group C

6. Compare `The Journey of the Magi’ with `The Express’.

7. In `The Wild Swans at Coole’ Yeats presents a contrast between change and permanence. Show how the poet brings out this contrast.

8. On the basis of your study of the twentieth century poets write an essay on new directions in post-war English poetry.

7 Elective Course in English-VI (EEG06) Understanding Poetry ASSIGNMENT -III (Based on Blocks 6 & 7) Max. Marks: (10x4)+(20x3)=100 Answer question number one and a total of three from groups B and C, selecting at least one from each group.

Group A 1. Explain any four of the following with reference to the context, supplying brief critical comments of your own: a) Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanquished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame. b) When I heard the Earth-Song I was no longer brave My avarice cooled Like lost in the chill of the grave. c) With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz – Between the light-and-me- And then the windows failed – and then I could not see to see – d) When, finally, we reached the place, We hardly knew why we were there. The trip had darkened every face, Our deeds were neither great nor rare. Home is where we have to gather grace. e) How often I think of going There to peer through blind eyes of windows or Just listen to frozen air. f) Now she looks for the swing In cities within fifteen suburbs And tries to be innocent About it Group B 2. ‘Passage to India’ by Whitman shows the historic sequence of events, loaded with a deep spiritual meaning. Explain. 3 Beauty is the sole legitimate province of ‘The Raven’. Discuss. 4 Longfellow’s ‘Psalm of Life’ is a documentation of the American spirit of pragmatism. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer. Group C 5 Discuss Sarojini Naidu’s ‘Palanquin Bearer’ as a pageant of rhythmic movement. 6. Explain how irony and compassion both coexist in ‘Night of the Scorpion’. 7 ‘A Missing Person’ depicts Jayant Mahapatra’s concern for the identity crisis of the Indian woman. 8 EEG-01

ASSIGNMENTS 2004

Elective Course in English-01

School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068 ELECTIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH-01 (EEG-01) Assignment 1-3

Programme:BDP Course Code: EEG-01

Dear student,

You will have three assignments for the Elective Course in English-01. All three assignments are Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs) and carry 100 marks each. The block-wise distribution of assignments is as follows:

Assignment Coverage 1 Blocks 1-4 2 Blocks 5-7 3 Blocks 1-7

Aims: The TMAs are concerned mainly with assessing your application and your understanding of the course material. You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may acquire during the course of your study. These assignments aim to assess your performance as well as to teach.

Instructions: Before attempting the assignment please read the following instructions carefully:

1) Read the detailed instructions about the assignments given in the Programme Guide for the Elective Courses. 2) Write your Roll Number, Name, Full Address and Date on the top right corner of the first page of your response sheet(s). 3) Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the Name of the Study Centre you are attached to in the centre of the first page of your response sheet(s). 4) Do not plan to take the terminal examination for the course if you have not done the assignments set for it first. You will not be permitted to do so.

The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this:

Roll No. …………………………. Name …………………………. Address ………………………….

Course Title …………………………. Assignment No. ……………………….. Study Centre ………………………… Date ……………………………

5) Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pages carefully. 6) Write the relevant question number with each answer. 7) You should write in your own handwriting. 8) Submission: the completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Study Centre allotted to you. Please read the instructions given in your Programme Guide.

2 Elective Course in English-01 (EEG-01) Assignment 1 (Based on Blocks 1-4) Maximum Marks: 100

1. (a) Explain the meaning of the following passage: Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 5 (b) Give examples from this passage of i) the use of images or word pictures 2 ii) the extension of the meanings of words 3 2. Frame sentences using

i) the word ‘light’ as a noun, as an adjective, as a verb, and as an adverb; 4 ii) the word ‘tank’ in two different meanings; 2 iii) the word ‘home’ as a noun, as an adverb, as an adjective, and as a verb. 4 3. Rewrite the following sentences, correcting the forms and expressions that deviate from normal English. i) our dear sister is departing for foreign in two three days. ii) I would like to clarify that the Ministry’s policy has not changed. iii) I know swimming. iv) He performed many charities in the course of his life. v) What you think of prospects of world peace? 5 4. Explain the underlined expressions in the following sentences: i) I’m afraid our sugar ration isn’t in yet. ii) I’ve a good mind to ring him up. iii) Times are hard for all of us. iv) You expect me to lay on a decent party at such short notice? v) He’s putting off his visit for three months. 5 5. Read the following poem and answer the questions given below: I have seen dawn and sunset on Moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like Slow old times of Spain; I have seen the lady April bringing In the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain. John Masefield; Beauty 3 i) What does the use of the present perfect in lines 1 and 3 indicate? Construct another sentence of your own to illustrate this use of the present perfect. 2 ii) What are the things of beauty that the speaker has seen? 1 iii) What is the point in comparing dawn and sunset to ‘slow old times’? 1 iv) Why is April spoken of as a lady? 1 6. Explain the underlined words and expressions in the following passage:

I decided that I should put him at ease, that I should assume him that I would be clumsy no more, but try to become polished and make up for my vegetarianism by cultivating other accomplishments which fitted one for polite society.

Gandhi: ‘The story of My Experiments with Truth’ 5 7. a) Turn the following sentences into question forms:

i) You had a good breakfast. ii) You really think that you can treat me as a boy. iii) It could have happened to anyone. 3 b) Insert correct prepositions in the blanks in the following sentences:

i) You have to read ______the lines to get the full meaning. ii) Most _____ the world’s great books are available _____ reprint editions. iii) You establish a property right _____ paying ______a book. 5 c) Fill in the blanks in the following sentences using the words ‘in’ ‘form’, ‘of’, ‘whenever’, ‘or’, ‘at’, ‘and’. You can use a word more than once.

i) ______we tend to become completely absorbed ______an enterprise ______idea, it is a good thing to stand off ______it now _____again ______look ______it ______the most dispassionate point _____view possible. 9 d) Make a list of the auxiliary verbs in the following sentences:

i) The power of curiosity is reflected in the myths and legends of the human race. ii) The pilot does not become alarmed when his airliner is engulfed in a heavy cloud mess. 3 8. a) Point out the phrasal verbs in the following sentences and explain their meanings:

i) Where shall I put up? ii) The results bear out my theory. iii) She was brought up by her aunt. iv) I called up my teacher. v) As soon as he came round, we took him to hospital 5 4 b) Describe the structure of the following words by indicating i) the root, ii) the affixes, iii) If there is more than one affix, the order in which the affixes are added, and (iv) the type of formation at each step (eg. noun adjective) information sympathise dishonest illegible decentralization 5 9. a) Describe the structure and function of the following compounds (e.g., noun + noun = noun) and give their meanings: oil painting, blackboard, good-for-nothing, dry dock, countdown. 5 b) Use the following phrasal verbs in sentences and give their meanings: let off, take in, pull down, run down, make out. 5 10. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: On night as I lay in deep sleep upstairs, I heard my mother call and a sharp not of alarm in her voice roused me. ‘Hamlin’, she called, ‘get up at once. You must go for the doctor. Your father is very sick. Hurry! ‘I hear you; I’m coming, I called as I flew into my clothes, still partly asleep. Mother met me with a white, frightened face. ‘Your father is in terrible pain. Go for the doctor, at once.’ I could hear my father cry out as I lighted the lantern and put on my coat. It was one o’clock in the morning, and the wind was cold as I carefully made my way through mud and rain to the barn. The thought of the long, dark miles to town made my hands shake, but as the son of a soldier I could not fail in my duty. i) What do the words ‘alarm’ and ‘roused’ indicate? 2 ii) Pick a phrasal verb from the passage. 1 iii) What words indicate the seriousness of the situation? 2 iv) Why did Hamlin walk carefully to the barn? 1 v) In what sense were the miles ‘long’ and ‘dark’? 2 vi) What is a soldier’s duty? 1 vii) Pick the modal auxiliaries in the passage, and give their meanings. 4 viii) What is meant by ‘flew into my clothes’? 1 ix) Narrate the incident in your own words. 5 6 Elective Course in English-01 (EEG-01) Assignment 2 (Based on Blocks 5-7)

Maximum Marks: 100

1. Explain the meanings of the following passages and point out the literary devices used:

i) Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread if does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine press. ii) When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle me, the wickets rattle me; the sight of the money rattles me; everything rattles me. iii) She stood by the window and looked out dully at a grey cat walking on a grey fense in a grey backyard. iv) He was so thin, so old, so pale, and so slow he could have taken his place in the nearby post-mortem room without attracting attention. v) I stood in the midst of a superfluity of mirrors while the tailor measured me as unemotionally as if I had been a corpse. 20

2. (a) Explain the meaning of the following passage and point out the literary and rhetorical devices used:

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean roll! Ten thousand Fleets sweap over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin-his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain’ He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan Without a grave, unknell’d uneoffind, and’ unknown. (Byron) 10

b) i) What is the prevailing metre in the above passage? How many beats occur in the first line? Which syllables are stressed? 6 ii) What is the rhyme scheme in this stanza? 3 iii) Find one example of assonance in the passage. 1 3 (a) Read the following sentences and indicate the most likely situations in which they will be spoken:

i) You young people one too fond of city life. ii) Could you get me a first class ticket to Bombay please? iii) Would you mind if I didn’t go? iv) I beg your pardon, Sir? v) What can I do for you today? 10 6 (b) Change the following sentences into their polite forms:

i) How much did these socks cost you? ii) I want to know his address. iii) We should ask Ravi for his opinion. iv) Come in and sit down. v) I think she’s wrong. 10 4. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

Raju welcomed the intrusion- something to relieve the loneliness of the place. The man stood gazing reverentially on his face. Raju felt amused and embarrassed. ‘Sit down if you like’, Raju said, to break the spell. The other accepted the suggestion with a grateful nod and went down the river steps to wash his feet and face, came up wiping himself dry with the end of a chequered yellow towel on his shoulder, and took his seat two steps below the granite slab on which Raju was sitting cross-legged as if it were a throne, beside an ancient shrine.

The branches of the trees canopying the river course rustled and trembled with the agitation of birds and monkeys settling down for the night. Upstream beyond the hills the sun was setting. Raju waited for the other to say something. But he was too polite to open a conversation:

i) What is the setting for Raju’s meeting with the other man? 2 ii) What was the man’s attitude towards Raju? What do you think was the reason for it? 2 iii) Why did Raju feel, both ‘amused and embarrassed’? 2 iv) Explain the phrase ‘break the spell’ 2 v) What does a nod indicate? Why was the man grateful? 2 vi) Where was Raju sitting? Where did the other man sit down? 2 vii) Give examples of word pictures in the passage. 2 viii) Comment on the author’s literary style 6 5. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best seller- unread, untouched. (This deluded individual owns wood pulp and ink, not books.)

The second has a great many books a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. (This person would probably like to make books his own, but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance.) The third has a few books or many-every one of them dogeared and dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to back. (This man owns books).

7 i) What according to the author’s are the three kinds of book owners? 6 ii) What are your views on the subject? 4 iii) What does it mean to own a book? 2 iv) Give examples of the use of metaphor in the passage. 2 v) Use the following words and phrase in sentences of your own:

continual deluded dip into restrain scribble in 5 vi) Give examples of compound words used in the passage. 1

8 Elective Course in English-01 (EEG-01) Assignment 3 (Based on Blocks 1-7) Maximum Marks: 100 1. a) Frame sentences using i) the word ‘time’ as a noun and as a verb; ii) the word ‘bank’ as a noun, in two different meanings; iii) the word ‘duty’ in two different meanings. iv) the word ‘dump’ as a verb, in its literal meaning and in its extended meaning; v) the word ‘state; as a noun, in two different meanings. 10 b) Explain the meanings of the following sentences and point out the literary devices used: i) It is common for most people to consider themselves ‘young’ no matter what their mirrors or their aching joints may say. ii) Life’s but a walking shadow. iii) I wandered lonely as a cloud. iv) All her hopes for the future crumbled to nothing v) The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, round which are intertwined her racial memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. 10 2 a) Identify the prepositions in the following passage. In each case quote the entire prepositional phrase which the preposition introduces and underline the preposition:- Let us charter a rocket to take us to the moon so that we can actually walk on its surface. Our rocket must be shot off at a high speed, for if it starts at any lesser speed it will merely fall back to earth 10 b) Use the correct auxiliary verbs in the blanks in the following sentences. i) I ______fill’d with such delight. As prison’d birds_____find in freedom. ii) I still_____not altogether understand____it not cost a great deal for rent? iii) If you _____ not pay rent, you _____ get turned out into the street iv) You _____ be tried and we _____ shown you everything now. v) Now you _____ going to be angry with me. vi) She _____ leave us a bit on account 10 3. a) Use the following phrasal verbs in sentences of your own and give their meanings; turn down; sort out; put on; take back; pick up 10 b) Explain the meaning of the following passage and point out the literary devices used: O judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! Bear with me, My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause, till it come back to me. 9 10 4. a) Explain the meaning of the following poem and point out the literary devices used by the poet.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for easter tide.

Now, if my threescore years and ten Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. 10 b) i) Describe the metrical patterns in the first four lines of the above poem. 4 ii) What is the rhyming pattern in the poem? 2 iii) Give examples of the use of alliteration and assonance in the poem. 4

5. a) What is the communicative functions of the question form in each of the following sentences?

i) Did I tell you that Mr. Rao was paying us a visit? ii) What’s he coming for? iii) Why don’t they let you know what it’s all about? iv) When did you say he was coming? v) Will you send him my address? 10 b) Read the following passage and answer the questions below:

One fine day, beyond the tamarind tree, the station building was ready. The steel tracks gleamed in the sun; the signal posts stood with their red and green stripes and their colourful lamps; and our world was neatly divided into this side of the railway line and that side. Everything was ready. All our spare hours were spent in walking along the railway track up to the culvert half a mile away. We paced up and down our platform. A gold mohur sapling was planted in the railway yard. We passed through the corridor, peeping into the room meant for the stationmaster.

i) How does the author make the scene so vivid and interesting? 5 ii) Explain the following words:

tracks, gleamed, signal, stripes, neatly, culvert, platform sapling, corridor, peeping. 5 10 AWR

ASSIGNMENTS 2004

Application Oriented Course In Writing for Radio

School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068 APPLICATION ORIENTED COURSE IN WRITING FOR RADIO

Assignments 1 and 2 (2004) Dear Students,

The assignment booklet for the Application Oriented Course in Writing for Radio, is being sent herewith. It contains a total of 2 assignments both of which must attempted by you. Each assignment carries a total of 50 marks.

The following is the distribution of the assignments as based on each block.

Assignment-1 Based on Blocks 1 & 2 Assignment-2 Based on Blocks 3 & 4 Objectives

The main objective of any tutor marked assignment is to see how the students are able to understand the course materials and how well they can reproduce it in their own words.

Since this is an application oriented course our main aim through these assignments is to see how well you are able to apply the knowledge you have gained.

In this course, you have learnt about Writing for Radio in an application oriented way. Therefore, in these assignments we have also given questions through which you can show your knowledge of the subject.

Instructions

Before beginning your assignment, keep the following points in mind:

1. Please read the instructions given in the Programme Guide for the AOCs carefully.

2. On the first page of your answer booklet, please write your enrolment number, name, address and date.

3. On the same page please write your course title, assignment number and the name of your study centre.

The first page of your assignment booklet will be as follows:

Course Title: .…………………………. Name : ……………………………… Assignment No.: ………………………….. Address: ...……………………………. ……………………………… ……………………………… Enrolment No.:…………………………

4. Use only foolscap size paper for writing your answers and tie up the papers properly.

5. Remember to number your answers correctly. 2 6. Answer the assignments in your own handwriting.

7. Send your answer booklet to the coordinator of your study centre by the due date.

Instructions for Assignments

Before answering the questions, keep the following instructions in mind:

1. Two types of questions have been asked in these assignments. The first being comprehension questions based on the course material. The second type of questions are application oriented questions. Your answers to the first type of questions should be informational or analytical. And answers to the second type of questions will be more application oriented. This is because our primary aim is to teach you to write for Radio.

2. For answering the first 5 questions in each assignment, you must read your units carefully. For the last 5 questions, apart from reading the units, you should also listen to the programmes broadcast on the radio.

3. Your answers should be precise and as far as prescribed within the word limit.

4. We strongly suggest that you retain a copy of each of your assignments for your personal records.

Wishing you all good luck!

3 Application Oriented Course in Writing for Radio Assignment–1 (Based on Blocks 1 and 2)

Max. Marks: 50

1. Write an essay on the function, the types and the rules for the use of narration in writing for radio/radio talks.

2. “Writers for the radio must always have the presenter in mind.” Discuss.

3. What do you understand by the term “Public Service Advertisement”? How does it differ from commercial advertisement?

4. “Broadcast news is written for the ear rather than for the eyes.” Comment.

5. What are the functions of a good moderator? Elucidate.

Application Oriented Course in Writing for Radio Assignment–2 (Based on Blocks 3 and 4)

Max. Marks: 50

1. Write a note on the importance of words in a radio play.

2. How does the element of “incongruity” make people laugh?

3. How would you develop the technique to using the right language in a broadcast?

4. You have been asked to make a radio presentation on Literature. How would you go about it?

5. How can the radio be enhanced to suit the needs of Distance Education?