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Osmania Degree Sem 5 from 2024-25 Solitude  by   Henry David Thoreau Unit 1 Prose ABOUT THE AUTHOR Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, naturalist and philosopher. He was famous for having lived the principles of 'Transcendentalism, as documented in his classic work Walden. Transcendentalism was a nineteenth-century American literary, philosophical, religious and political movement with a fundamental belief in the unity of all creation and the innate goodness of people and nature. It is society and its institutions that corrupt the purity of the individual; humanity's best emerges when they are truly 'self-reliant' and independent. Thoreau was also a great champion of civil liberties as seen in his essay 'Civil Disobedience. ABOUT THE ESSAY In 1854, Thoreau published Walden; or, Life in the Woods. In eighteen chapters, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near W...

Question Paper  Sem 4 -April 2025 TEXT I met a traveller from an antique land,  Who said 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone  Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,  The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;  And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away: GLOSSARY antique /æn'ti:k/ ancient trunkless/traŋklas/ the trunk (torso, or main body) of the statue is missing shattered/Jætəd/ broken into very small pieces visage//vızıdy/ a person's face wrinkled lip/rinkid lip/ 'to wrinkle one's lips' means to frown or pout in anger sneer/snia/ a look, remark or tone ...

 Osmania University English  Sem 1 Unit 2 Palamuru University Sem 2 Unit 1. Video lesson in English IF - By RUDYARD KIPLING   If you can keep your head when all about you        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,     But make allowance for their doubting too;    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,     Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,     And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;        If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     And treat those two impostors just the same;    If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken     Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fo...

  Osmania University Degree English                        Semester II                          Syllabus                                     & Model Pa per JUNE  2025            Previous Question Paper JUNE / JULY 2024 Answers:- 1. a) old news- oxymoron b) loves c) did d) Japanese 2. a) could b) motor+hotel c) did d)hyperbole 3. a) b) quickly c) picture+element d) Barking- Gerund (non finite verb)  4.a) simile b) was watching c) to understand d) has 5 a) irregular pattern - oxymoron b) been teaching c) d) don't   Unit 5 - Post-Reading Decision-making In life we are constantly making decisions. A person who makes timely and well-considered decisions is more successful than others. Some decisions are simple and straight...

Osmania Sem 5 Of Studies (excerpt) Unit 1 INTRODUCTION 'Of Studies' is an essay by Francis Bacon (15611626), an English philosopher, lawyer, statesman, a patron of libraries but remembered chiefly for the worldly wisdom of his essays. Most of the sentences in his essays read like proverbs. 'Of Studies' is from his collection, Essays or Counsels: Civil and Moral published in 1597. This aphoristic essay highlights the importance of studies and the value of learning. Bacon classifies the uses of studies and discusses the effects of reading, writing and conversing. He describes the different kinds of books and how to read them while also pointing out how different kinds of people use studies. TEXT Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatenes and retiring: for ornament, is in discourse, and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by...

Osmania University New Syllabus with effect from 2024-25 OU UG English Sem 5  Backlog March 2025  November 2024 Question paper paper pattern  -Blue Print Vocabulary 1 - One word substitute - unit 1 Vocabulary 2 - Words often confused- unit 1 Vocabulary 3 - Formal and informal words unit 1 Unit 1  Poetry-  The Lotus by Toru Dutt Love came to Flora asking for a flower That would of flowers be undisputed queen, The lily and the rose, long, long had been Rivals for that high honour. Bards of power Had sung their claims. " The rose can tower  like pale lily with her Juno mein- "But is the lily lovelier?" Thus between Flower-factions rang the strife in Psyche's bower. "Give me a flower delicious as the rose And stately as the lily in her pride"-- "But of what colour?"--"Rose-red," Love first chose, Then prayed,--"No, lily-white,--or, both provide;" And Flora gave the lotus, "rose-red" dyed, And "lily-white,"--the ...