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১. সামাজিক নিয়ন্ত্রনের বাহনগুলো আলোচনা কর।
২. স্থানীয় সরকার কী? বাংলাদেশের গ্রামীণ উন্নয়নে স্থানীয় সরকারের ভূমিকা আলোচনা কর।
৩. আমলাতন্ত্র কী? বাংলাদেশে আমলাতন্ত্রের বৈশিষ্ট্য আলোচনা কর।

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Congratulations all of the students of 1st year honours in English.

Here, 8 students out of 11 have obtained more than 3.00 from Climax English Private Home

The Second Anniversary of Climax English Private Home.
May 10, 2012.

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জাতীয় বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় : প্রথম ও চতুর্থ বর্ষ অনার্স পরীক্ষার সময়সূচি সোমবার বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের এক সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে জানানো হয়, আগামী ১১ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে চতুর্ত বর্ষ এবং ২১ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে প্রথবর্ষের পরীক্ষা শুরু হবে।

It is notified all the students of first year (2012-13) that your Honours Part-1 examination will be held from September 21, 2014.
You will get your examination routine soon.

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Suggestions
1st Year (2014)
English

Prose

Broad questions:

Non-fiction

1. Discuss Bacon’s prose style.
2. Trace the historical background of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
3. Discus the theme of death, birth and rebirth according to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
4. Why did Orwell decide to kill the elephant at last?
5. Trace the bad effects of imperialism according to the essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’.
Or, Discuss the theme of imperialism according to the essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’.

Fiction

1. What aspects of child psychology are explored in ‘Games at Twilight’?
2. ‘Araby’ presents man’s universal search for an unattainable ideal.—Discuss.
3. Discuss the theme of transformation according to the story ‘Araby’.
4. Discuss the use of irony in the story ‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’.
5. What type of class conflict do you find in the story ‘The Garden Party’?

Short questions (Non-fiction)
1. What is aphorism? Discuss the aphoristic style of the essay “Of Studies”.
2. What according to Bacon should be the aim of studies?
3. How do different studies cure the diseases of the mind?
4. What is unfinished work in Lincoln’s ‘Gettysburg Address’?
5. Discuss the theme of freedom and equality in Lincoln’s famous speech “Gettysburg Address”.
6. What was the reason of Tagore’s rejecting Knighthood?
7. Comment on Tagore’s patriotism/ nationalism according to his “Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood”.
8. What autobiographical elements do you find in the essay “The River and the Rains”?
9. What pictures of rainy season do you find in the essay “The River and the Rains?”
10. Why did the writer shoot the elephant at last?
11. What is imperialism? Trace the bad effects of imperialism.
12. How did the Burmese people express their anti-European feelings?
13. What is the background of Luther’s speech “I Have a Dream”?
14. What was Luther’s dream?
Short questions (Fiction)
1. Who is the ant in Maugham’s short story “The Ant and the Grasshopper”? Or, discuss the characters of George in the short story “The Ant and the Grasshopper”.
2. Who is the grasshopper in the story “The Ant and the Grasshopper”? Or, discuss the characters of Tom in the story “The Ant and the Grasshopper”.
3. How does Tom blackmail his elder brother in the story “The Ant and the Grasshopper”?
4. How does Tom differ from George in his attitude to life?
5. Discuss the theme of transformation in the story “Araby”.
6. What autobiographical elements do you find in the story “Araby”.
7. What is the protagonist of the short Araby trying to achieve and why?
8. What obstacles prevent the narrator from achieving his goal?
9. How does the boy’s felling before going to the bazaar and after returning from the bazaar?
10. How was the attitude of Mrs. Sheridan towards the neighborhood? Or, discuss the character of Mrs. Sheridan in the story “The Garden Party”.
11. What is detective story? What elements of detective story do you find in the story “Tell-Tale Heart”?
12. What is psychological thriller? What elements of psychological thriller do you find in the story “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
13. Why did the narrator of the story “The Tell-tale Heart” finally confess his guilt?
14. What is the significance of the evil-eye in the story “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
15. Discuss the setting of the story “Cat in the Rain”.
16. Discuss the use of symbols and images in the story “Cat in the Rain”.
17. What has Ravi discovered by the end of the story “Games at Twilight”? Or, why was Ravi depressed towards the end of the story?
18. What was the reason for which Ravi hide himself long time in a dark shade?
Short notes (Fiction)
1. Evil-eye/ vulture like eye
2. Fable
3. Araby
4. Mangan’s sister
5. Short story
6. Fiction
7. Laura
8. The American wife
9. The game of hide and seek
10. Funeral game
Short notes (Non-fiction)
1. Essay
2. Aphorism/ aphoristic style
3. The battle of Gettysburg
4. The American Civil War
5. Jalianwallahbag Massacre
6. Rabindranath Tagore
7. Knighthood
8. Martin Luther King
9. Sahib
Explanations (Non-fiction)
1. Some books are to be tasted ………………………… and digested.
2. Reading maketh a full man ……………. Exact man.
3. We must strongly assert that it can claim no political expediency, far less moral justification.
4. The very least I can do for my country is to take all consequences upon myself in giving voice to the protest of millions of my country men, surprised into a dumb anguish of terror.
5. To compare small things with great, it is our Nile.
6. Feelings like these are the normal by-products of imperialism.
7. I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.
8. So we have come to cash this check.
9. We cannot walk alone.
10. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
11. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
Explanations (Fiction)
1. His eye would trouble me no more.
2. Villains! I shrieked, “Dissemble no more! I admit the deed!”
3. It is not fair, I tell you, it’s not fair. Damn it, it is not fair.
4. But he always he said that the money you spent on necessities was boring; the money that was amusing to spend was the money you spent on luxuries.
5. Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.
6. My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
7. The padrone made her feel small and at the same time really important.
8. George was not listening. He was reading his book. His wife looked out of the window where the light had come out in the square.
9. Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their mind. Clean.
10. He had wanted victory and triumph—not funeral.

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Suggestions 2014
First Year (English)

Poetry
Part-C
Four/five questions should be answered out of seven
1. How does Dylan Thomas treat childhood in the poem ‘Fern Hill’?
2. Discuss the theme of the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”.
3. Discuss Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers as a protest against male dominated society.
4. What is sensuousness? Examine “To Autumn” as a sensuous poem.
5. Comment on the treatment of nature in “I Wandered Lonely as a cloud”.
Or, What is the theme of the poem” I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?
6. Who was Ozymandias? What universal truth does his statue reflect?
7. Discuss the treatment of love in the poem ‘Sonnet-43’.
8. Comment on the theme of death and immortality in the poem ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’.
9. How does Hughes treat human nature in Pike?

Part- B
Five questions should be answered out of eight

Sonnet-XVIII Or,
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
-William Shakespeare
Short questions:
1. How does Shakespeare glorify his friend in the poem “Sonnet-XVIII”?

Short Notes: 1. Sonnet
2. Shakespeare

Explanations:
1. Every fair from fair sometimes declines ……………..
2. So long as men can see of eyes can see ……………..

The Good-Morrow
-John Donne

Short Questions
1. Consider ‘The Good-Morrow’ as a love poem.

Short Notes:
1. Metaphysical poetry
2. Seven sleepers den

Explanation:
1. For love all love of other sights ………………. Everywhere
2. If our two loves be one or thou and I
Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
-William Wordsworth

Short Questions:
1. Discuss the figures of speech used in the poem ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’.
2. Discuss the romantic elements in the poem ‘I Wandered Lonely as s Cloud’.

Short Notes:
1. Romanticism
2. Daffodil
Explanation:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought.

Ozymandias
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Short questions:
1. What irony do you find in the poem “Ozymandias”?

Short Note:
1. Ozymandias
Explanations:
1. My name is Ozymandias ………………. Despair.
2. Round the decay ………………………. Far away.

To Autumn
-John Keats

Short Questions:
1. Discuss the figures of speech used in the poem ‘To Autumn’.
2. What are the songs of Autumn?
3. Bring out the sensuous qualities from the poem ‘To Autumn’.
4. What is an ode? Consider ‘To Autumn’ as an ode.

Short Notes:
1. Sensuousness
2. Ode

Explanation:
1.Where are the songs of spring ……………….. music too.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
-Robert Frost

Short Questions:
1.What is a foil? Discuss about the foil character in the poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’.
2. What images and symbols do you find in the poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’?
3. How does Frost treat nature in his poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’?

Short Note:
1.Foil character

Explanation:
1.The woods are lovely dark and deep ……….. I sleep.

Fern Hill
-Dylan Thomas

Short Questions:
1. What are the childhood fantasies expressed in the poem ‘ Fern Hill’?
2. Comment on the imagery used in the poem.

Explanation:
1.Time held me green ……………. the sea.


Pike
-Ted Hughes

Short Questions:
1. In what way does Ted Hughes treat human nature in ‘Pike’?
2. How does Ted Hughes use imagery in ‘Pike’?
3. Describe the theme of violence in the poem ‘Pike’.

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
-Adrienne Rich

Short Questions:
1. What is feminism? Describe Rich’s feminist concern in his ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’.
2. What was the condition of women in 20th century?
3. Comment on the symbols used in the poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’.
4. Contrast Aunt Jennifer with that of tapestry tigers.

Short Note:
1. Feminism

Explanations:
1.The massive weight of uncle’s …………..hand
2. The tigers in the panel ………………unafraid.

Delight in Disorder
-Robert Herrick

Short Questions:
2. How does the poet portray his beloved in his poem ‘Delight in Disorder’?

Explanation:
1. A sweet disorder in the dresses …………………….. wantonness.
2. Do more bewitch me …………………………..every part.

How do I Love Thee?
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Explanations:
1. I love thee freely …………….. praise.
2. I love thee with the breath ………………… after death.

Because I Could not Stop for Death
-Emily Dickinson

Short questions:
1. Find out the mystic elements from the poem ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’.
2. Discuss the theme of immortality in the poem ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’.
3. Bring out the metaphysic elements from the poem ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’.

Explanations:
1. Since then ‘tis centuries ……………..eternity.
2. We passed the school ………………..setting sun.

No Second troy
-W.B Yeats

Short Questions:
1. What personal and political elements do you find in the poem ‘No Second Troy’?
2. Why does not the poet blame Maud Gonne in the poem ‘NO Second Troy’?
3. Discuss the elements of myth and legend in the poem ‘No Second Troy’.

Short Notes:
1. Troy
2. Helen
3. Maud Gonne

Explanation:
1. Why what could she have done ……….. to burn.

Snake
-D.H Lawrence

Short Questions:
1. Discuss the allusions in the poem ‘Snake’.
2. Discuss the suggestiveness/teaching of the poem ‘Snake’.
3. What was the poet’s reaction after attempting to kill the snake?

Short note:
1. Albatross
2. Snake

Ode on the Lungi
-Kaiser Haq

Short Questions:
1. Discuss the satire and irony in the poem ‘Ode on the Lungi’.
2. Give a description of Lungi.

Explanations:
1. I celebrated my lungi,
And I sing my lungi
2. The lungi is an elaborate fig leaf

Rhetoric and prosody

Rhetoric
Prosody

1. Simile
2. Allusion
3. Metaphor
4. Personification
5. Hyperbole
6. Climax
7. Pun
8. Imagery

1. Rhyme
2. Accent
3. Couplet
4. Tercet/triplet

Scansion

1. I met a traveler from an antic land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a visage, lies, whose frown,

2. My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works. Ye mighty and despair!

3. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sights
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

4. Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,

5. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep

6. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the durling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

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Suggestions
1st Year (2014)

Writing Skills

About Writing Skills
“Writing Skills”…………… it is a skill. So we think suggestion is not enough for this part. Your own skill that is ability of ‘free hand writing’ is very very important for this part. For B part different topics should be known in details. Writing Skills is a fertile land for the students to show their creativity. So memorizing would not be reliable.

About B part

Read the theory of the different topics in details and follow the question of the previous year and try to solve different models.

English Writing Skills
(B part)
Paragraph

1. Define paragraph.
2. Name different types of paragraphs.
3. What are the characteristics/features of a paragraph?
4. What is the structure of a paragraph? Or, what are the parts of a paragraph? Or what steps do you follow in writing a paragraph?
5. What is the topic sentence in a paragraph?
6. What do we need to do to write a good topic sentence?
7. What is cause and effect paragraph?
8. What do you understand by paragraph developed through contrast?
9. What is the difference between comparison and contrast paragraph?
10. What does a developer /a body do in a paragraph?
11. What is the relation between a topic sentence and a terminator/conclusion in a paragraph?
12. Give the layout of a paragraph.

Essay

1. Define essay.
2. What is the structure of an essay?
3. What does an introduction contain in an essay?
4. What is the relation between introduction and conclusion?
5. What are the types of essay?
6. What is descriptive essay? /What is the function of a descriptive essay?
7. What is narrative essay? /What is the function of a narrative essay?
8. What is expository essay? / What is the function of an expository essay?
9. Show difference between descriptive and expository essay.
10. Show difference between descriptive and narrative essay.
11. What do you mean by critical essay?
12. Give description of the three basic parts of an essay.
13. Write about argumentative essay.
14. What is the relation between paragraph and essay?
15. Show difference between paragraph and essay.

Report

1. Define report.
2. What are the types of report?
3. Give the format of a report.
4. What is news report? What is the structure of a news report?
5. What is the structure of a long report?
6. What is the structure of a short report?
7. What is glossary?
8. What is an appendix?
9. What is bibliography?
10. What is a letter of transmittal?
11. What is the difference between long report and short report?
12. In what way a report is similar to an essay?
13. In what way a report is different to an essay?
14. What does a cover page contain in a long report?
15. What is the difference between report and essay?

Letter and application

1. Name some kinds of letter.
2. How many parts are there in a private letter?
3. Write a format of a job application.
4. Give a format of a CV.
5. What is business letter?
6. What is the difference between formal and informal letter/writing?
7. What is resume? What is the difference between bio-data and resume?
8. Give the structure of a formal letter or how many parts are there in a formal letter?

Story writing

1. What is a short story?
2. What should be the length of a short story?
3. What is climax in a short story?
4. Write about anti-climax.

Writing Skills (Part C)

Paragraph

1. Paragraph and essay
2. The novel and the short story
3. Country life and city life
4. Family life and hostel life
5. Hortal
6. Patriotism
7. Traffic
8. Load shedding
9. Gender discrimination
10. Price hike/ price spiral

Essay
Part C

1. Women empowerment
2. Cricket in Bangladesh
3. Political restlessness
4. Environment Pollution
5. Global worming
6. Advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones

Report writing
Part C

News report
1. Write a report for the news paper about a terrible road accident
2. Write a news report about price hike
3. Two girls are attacked with acid. Write a report on it.
4. Write a report on the cricket match between India and Bangladesh
5. Write a report about a terrible fire incident.
6. Write a report about the celebration of Pohela Boishakh.

Letter writing
Part C

1. To the managing director of a multinational company for the post of a computer operator.
2. To the editor of a newspaper:
a) Smoking in open place
b) Campus violence
c) Drug addiction
d) Price hike
e) Hortal

3. Application:

a) To the principal to increase the library facilities
b) To the principal for the establishment of a canteen.
c) To the principal for granting some money for a study tour.

Story writing
Part C

(For story writing renowned story and story based on fables can help you more. So try to read such kind of stories more and more)
1. Don’t tell others to do what you can’t do yourself.
2. A wise judge
3. Look before you leap.
4. The greedy are sure to lose
5. A good deed is often repaid
6. Necessity is the mother of invention
7. Don’t trust a flatterer

Amplification
Part C

1. A little learning is a dangerous thing
2. Industry is the mother of good luck
3. Failure is the pillar of success
4. If winter comes can spring be far behind
5. A stich in times saves nine.
6. We live in deeds not in years
7. Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

NOTICE
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Questions-

1. What are the four great tragedies of Shakespeare?
2. Which date is celebrated as 'Shakespeare Day' by the fans and enthusiasts?
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4th Year Results (NU)
Sub: English
Published: 18/05/2014

Comparison
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College/Total Examinee/2nd cls/highest /2nd cls%

Raj Col: 156/ 105/ 1113/ 67%

Dha Col: 143/ 96/ 1082/ 67%

Az Haq Col: 182/ 151/ 1124/ 83%

Edwrd Col: 206/ 121/ 1095/ 58%

Edn Col: 221/ 186/ 1141/ 84%

Ttmr Col: 282/ 184/ 1085/ 65%

Ctg Col: 186/ 135/ 1118/ 72%

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