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Posted By: S.Yamininagarajan Member Level: Diamond Posted Date: 01 Jun 2008
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2005 Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) General principles of writing Question paper
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Test Papers / Previous Question Papers of IGNOU DCE1 General Principles of Writing June 2005
DIPLOMA IN CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
June, 2005
DCE-1 : GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF WRITING
Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100
(Weightage 70%)
Note : This paper has two Sections, A and B. Answer any five questions, choosing at least two from each section. All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION A
1. Write a short essay on the importance of "authenticity" to creative writing. (350 - 400 words) (20)
2. "A writer has to be his own first and foremost critic." Discuss. (350 words) (20)
3. It is generally said that the initial urges to write a story or a poem should be given time to mature and take root. Do you agree ? (350 - 400 words) (20)
SECTION B
6. Write a short story of not more than 400 words on any one of the following topics : (20)
(a) All that glitters is not gold
(b) There's many a slip between the cup and the lip
(c) A stitch in time saves nine
7. Write a short story beginning with the following lines. Build it to a climax but do not concluide it. (350 words) (20) The house was now burning fiercely. Both my mother and my father were trapped inside. I was the only one who could help but I was so exhaustd already I didn't know if I would last even a minute if I entered the burning house again....
8. Read the poem given below carefully and answer the questions given at the end : (10+10=20)
The Gentle Waves Pavilion
A pool as green as pea-soup. Four sleek fish,
Red as pimentos, push through bubbly scum.
A vagrant sparrow from a rocky niche
Looks critically on. Two lovers come
To gaze at fish and foreigner in the park
And talk and cuddle by the moss-tunked tree
And with a pen-knife hack their names through bark
For (if the tree survives) posterity.
Vikram Seth
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