ASSOCIATE.

ENGLISH (Associateship).

Tuesday, June 18th, 1912.-Afternoon, 2.30 to 5.30.

Not more than six questions are to be attempted. The Essay must be taken by EVERY candidate. When a question contains two or more parts, the answers must be given consecutively.

Work neatly.

1. Write an Essay, of two or three pages, on one of these subjects :(a) The pastime of watching games.

(b) The Yellow Race to-day.

(c) Adult suffrage.

(d) The greater loss-to have no Music, or no Poetry, in the

(e)

world.

"O to be in England,

Now that April's there."

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2. (a) Analyse the following passage-i.e., show exactly what share is taken by each of its clauses and sentences in expressing the full meaning of the writer :

Now, whether it were by peculiar grace,

A leading from above, a something given,

Yet it befell that in this lonely place,

When up and down my fancy thus was driven,

And I with these untoward thoughts had striven,

I saw a man before me unawares,

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

(b) Parse the words now, leading, above, thoughts, striven, before. (32)

3. Paraphrase:—

When in the chronicle of wasted time

I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights;
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have expressed
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies

Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And for they looked but with divining eyes,

They had not skill enough your worth to sing :
For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongue to praise,

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5. Cunt, w wyyvistes, exteen. ʼn wi sa giving your reasia :4, Buton yon now I are infalttie.

, Having wirered motionless for an hour, the fog suddenly ten und et as free.

He kept on trying to malicionaly interrupt the speaker.

daging from his hair, he might be seventy.

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The tavy commences to take notice.

Men of to-day care for themselves as well as women.
"Fall fathom five thy father lies;

Of his bones are coral made."

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6. (a) Examine the meanings of the following words: — aggravate, wxasperate; efficacious, efficient; elicit, eliminate; impertinent, irrelevant; impudent, insolent; ill-timed, untimely.

(b) Hate what prepositions are used with these words :—acquit, confer, differ, eager, expert, immune. (36)

7. Comment on these remarks:

(a) In an early age verse is handed down, while prose perishes. (b) An expert writer needs few italics.

The Latin element in a man's style will vary according to

his subject.

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8. Give the meaning of these words and phrases:-ad captandum argument, dramatic irony, ex parte statement, oblique narration, solecism. Illustrate your answer by examples.

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9. Define a metaphor; and show that, although a good metaphor is necessarily false, it has advantages over a simile, though a simile is always true. Point out the metaphors in the following passage and convert one of them into a simile :- "His words certainly struck me; but I was especially impressed by the personality of the man. He must be a very rock amid the storms and currents of party strife."

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