Subjective / Written Questions (25)
1. Explain the major features of descriptive, narrative and expository prose, with suitable examples.
2. Discuss the role of figures of speech in prose writing.
3. What is prose rhythm? Discuss its importance in effective prose.
4. Critically examine Francis Bacon's treatment of study in “Of Studies”.
5. Discuss Bacon's aphoristic prose style in “Of Studies”.
6. Examine the social observation in Richard Steele's “The Spectator Club”.
7. Discuss memory, childhood and nostalgia in Charles Lamb's “Dream Children”.
8. Explain the central argument of A. G. Gardiner's “On the Rule of the Road”.
9. Discuss Robert Lynd's treatment of human behaviour in “One's Habits”.
10. Compare the prose techniques of any two prescribed prose selections.
11. Explain the importance of coherence and unity in paragraph writing.
12. What is a topic sentence? Discuss its role in paragraph development.
13. Explain the process and principles of writing a précis.
14. Differentiate descriptive, narrative, reflective and argumentative essays.
15. Discuss the essential features of formal and informal letters.
16. Explain effective presentation of diaries, notes, tables, charts and graphs.
17. Discuss the principles of effective news writing.
18. What is an editorial? Distinguish it from a news report.
19. Discuss the purpose and features of a letter to the editor.
20. Explain the meaning and major forms of advertising writing.
21. Discuss interview and blog writing as forms of mass communication.
22. Explain the distinction between a morpheme, stem and root.
23. Differentiate free and bound morphemes with examples.
24. Explain inflectional and derivational affixes.
25. Describe noun phrase structure, including pre/post-modification, relative clauses and prepositional phrases.