Here I am giving you information about entrance examination for admission in M.A (English) course offered by Delhi University

Eligibility Criteria for M.A (English) in Delhi University
You have to completed B.A Honours degree with minimum of 60% marks in the qualifying examination.
Reserved category candidates like OBC/SC/ST/PwD need to have 55% marks only.

Delhi University M.A English Entrance Exam Pattern
-There will be three sections for the entrance test.
-First section comprises objective model questions of 60 marks.
-Second section will be based on a passage of prose or verse and include questions for 20 marks.
-Third section includes a short essay model question (based on a general literary topic).
-This section also carries 20 to make a total of 100 marks for the whole test.

MA English entrance exam paper :
There are 10 questions in all. Ensure that you answer all questions. Please answer all questions in the space provided. 1. Use the correct forms of the verbs given in brackets to complete the following sentences

a. If I…. ……….(be) as strong as you, I …………………..(kill) you.
b. If anybody had asked me I …………………(can tell) them everything.

2. Use appropriate question tags to complete the following sentences:

a. You will stay till lunch,……………..………...…..?
b. Don’t tell my mother,………………………?
c. I love coffee, ……………………….……..?

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:
I began by arguing……..literature did not exist……..in that case can……….theory exist either? There……two familiar ways in……… any theory can provide ……..with a distinct purpose……….identity. Either it can…………..itself in terms of……..particular methods of enquiry,….it can define itself in terms of the particular object that is being enquired into.

Correct the following sentences
a. The hostel is not suitable for disabled.
b. They are arriving on March the 25th.
c. The train fare is very cheap.

Explain the differences in the sense of plum in the two sentences given below:
a. I like plum jam very much.
b. She has managed to get a plum job.

Choose the appropriate word given in brackets to fill the blanks:
a. You should never ………………….between a husband and wife. (intervene/interfere)
b. We use rice, cereal and vegetables as the …………………… diet. (staple, stable) c. I think the politician………………….….the crowd to violence. (incited/inspired) d. Please …………………………... the posters off the wall. (peal/peel)

Develop (in about 200 words) the following outline to write a coherent paragraph, and also suggest an appropriate title.

literature – a vague term—different societies, different times, and different notions of literature—some talk of distinction between fictional and factual, imaginative and historical, creative and non-creative etc—some focus on language—literature as a special kind of or use of language—difficult to define precisely—questions of value, attitude, outlook arise---some kind of qualitative judgement involved—some way related to life ,reality, man’s response to these—various theories, various assumptions about literature—traditional distinction between literature-non-literature disappearing

Write an essay in not more than 250 words on any one of the following topics.
a. Theatre of the Absurd
b. Victorian Novel
c. Restoration Comedy

Write short notes in not more than 75 words on any five of the following: sonnet, picaresque novel, neoclassicism, catharsis, metaphor, imagination

Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow it: The Stranglehold of English Lit Those questions, sister, Those questions stand stab jab and gore too close to the centre! For if we had asked why Jane Austen’s people carouse all day and do no work would Europe in Africa have stood the test of time? and would she still maul the flower of our youth in the south? Would she? Your elegance of deceit, Jane Austen, lulled the sons and daughters of the dispossessed into a calf-love with irony and satire around imaginary people. While history went on mocking the victims of branding iron and sugar-plantations that made Jane Austen’s people wealthy beyond compare! Eng. Lit. , my sister, was more than a cruel joke- it was the heart of alien conquest.

a. Who is the speaker in the poem?
b. What does the reference to Jane Austen suggest?
c. What is meant by “ history went on mocking”?
d. How is irony used in this poem?
e. How does English literature becomes a mask of “conquest” in the colonies under British Empire?