English Comprehension (ENG101) usman ghani
Spring 2016
Assignment No. 1
Total Marks: 20
Q1. Write a summary of the following passage avoiding wordiness and undesirable repetition. In addition, explain the meanings of the words in bold keeping in mind the context of the given passage.
[Marking Scheme: Summary: 5 Marks, Word Meanings: 1*5 =5, Total Marks: 10]
Summary:
In our society most of the people take pleasure in sense of murder ambiguity. Even they are not murderers and never like anyone committing a murder. They just enjoy the scary to get rid of routine life boring duties. They take it as a daydream because the hero solves it not usually by just for glance but there is a solid consistent reason behind it. The other reason is that it may be respect for the human sense of Logic and the people who are interested in it certain of them having human emotions. As I said early that the people take pleasure in sense of murder ambiguity if there is no Suspense of victim that is killed and terrible horror that could happen in it , then no one read these mysteries and hopefully it help the reader to hide from the horrors of life and death in the real world.
Meanings:
Ø Monotonous:
“SAME AS”, “Same kind”
Monotonous is the daily routine boring work as usually we done in daily life
Ø pasteboard figures:
Tightly coupled, closely joined etc
pasteboard figures is like the real world people and murderers are not the same like they are not closely joined. Means both are not the same
Ø suspend:
Hang up, delay
suspend is like the people in mystery didn’t feel ashamed to tell their murder mysteries
Ø Haphazard:
Randomly .messy
Haphazard is that the hero in the story used different ways to solving the murder mystery
Ø Whodunits:
Mystery novel
Whodunits is just like a mystery novel consists of murder mysteries
Q2. Listen carefully to the audio clip entitled “Chekov as an Innovative Writer” by following the link given below and then answer the questions that follow it:
https://soundcloud.com/oupacademic/chekhov-as-an-innovative?in=oupacademic/sets/anton-chekhov-about-love-and-other-stories-an-audio-guide
1- Contemporary
2- Conventional
3- Dismantle
4- Assemble
5- Quirky
6- Prosaic
7- Existentialism
8- Alienation
9- Reconcile
10- Cliché
11- Paradox
12- Ellipsis
13- Metaphor
14- The cherry orchard
15- Marginalize
(b) Name the impressionistic device used by Chekov in his writings.
(c) What is the most extraordinary of Chekov’s writing style as mentioned by the
speaker?