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MA English Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2013)

Poetry Subject Code : MAEH-101

Paper Code : JPP-81 Time : 2:40 Minutes

M.Marks : 60

Section – A

ANNOTATIONS

Q.No.1. Attempt any three of the following passages- 3 x 6 = 18

A. Of studies took he mooste cure and mossteheede. Noghyt o word spak he

moore than was neede. And that was sed in forme and reverence. And

short and quyk and full of hy sentence. Sownyage in moral vertu was his

speche. And gladly wolde he leave and gladly teche.

B. All is not lost: the unconquerable will, And study or revenge, immortal

hate. And courage never to submit or yield ; And what is else not to be

overcome?

C. Shadwell alone of all my sons of he who stands confirmed in full

stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence But Shadwell

never deviates in to sense.

D. Whether the nymph shall break Diana‟s law. Or some frail china jar

receive a flaw: Or stain her honour, or her new brocade: Forget her prayers

or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace atg a ball: Or whether

heav‟n has doomed that shock must fall.

E. From Helicon‟s harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress

take: The laughing flowers, that round the blow; drink life and fragrance

as they flow.

F. I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe;

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water‟d it in tears,

Night and morning with my tears;

And I sunned it with smiles,

And with soft deceitful urles.

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Section – B

ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

All questions are compulsory: 13 x 4 = 52

Q2. “He has taken into compassof his „Canterbury Tales‟ the various manners and humours

of the whole English nation of his age. Not a single character has escaped him”. Illustrate

this statement about Chaucer.

OR

“Shakespearean sonnets are explorations of the human spirit in confrontation with time,

death, change, love, lust and beauty”. Discuss.

Q3. “He (Milton) projects himself, his feelings; knowledge, and aspirations into the

characters of his epic”. In the light of this remark discuss Paradise Lost as an

autobiographical poem.

OR

Discuss John Donne as a metaphysical poet, commenting on the new techniques

introduced by him.

Q4. Dryden‟s „Mac Fleckase‟ is perhaps the best specimen of personal satire. Discuss.

OR

No other English poem is at once so brilliant and so empty as the „Rape of the Lock‟.

Examine this statement.

Q5. Consider Gray as a true pioneer of Romanticism in English Poetry.

OR

Compare Cellins and Gray as poets.

OR

Write an essay on Blake‟s mysticism with special reference to the poems you have read.

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MA First Semester Examination (Year 2013)

Drama Subject Code: MAEH- 102

Paper Code: JPP-82 Time : 3 Hours

M.Marks : 70

Section A

ANNOTATIONS

Q.1. Attempt any three of the following passages- [3×6=18]

A. “……What of Pythian fire

The oracles, the prophesying birds,

The screams above us? I was killing my father;

Now he lies in his grave, and here I am

Who never touched a weapon….”

Or

“But if you only knew, down deep, what pains

Are fated to fill your cup before you reach

that shore, you’d stay right here, preside in

our home with me and be immortal.”

B. “What piece of work is a man, how noble

in reason, how infinite in faculties, in

form and moving, how express and

admirable, in action and how like an

angel, in apprehension how like a god:

C. “Then must you speak

Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;

Of one, not easily jealous, but being wrought,

Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand

Like the base Indian threw a pearl away

Richer than all his tribe;”

D. “Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,

And burned is Apollo’s laurel bough,

That sometime grew within this learned man,

Faustus is gone, Regard his hellish fall,

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise

Only to wonder at unlawful things,

Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits….

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E. “ What’s a musician unless he play?

What’s a tall man unless he fight?

For indeed, all this, my wise brother stands upon absolutely.”

F. She pin’d in thought;

And with green and yellow melancholy

She sat like patience on a monument,

Smiling at grief.

Section ‘B’

ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

All questions are compulsory: [13×4=52]

Q.2. Examine the character and role of Jocasta in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.

OR

Critically analyse Homer’s technique of plot construction in his classic epic, The

Odessey.

Q.3. according to the views of Coleridge and Schlegel Hamlet is the tragedy of

reflection. Discuss and support your arguments with suitable examples from the

text.

OR

“Evil has nowhere else been portrayed with such mastery as in the character of

Iago.” Comment critically on A.C. Bradley’s quote with reference to Iago’s

character.

Q.4. Discuss Shakespear’s representation of the two worlds – the ideal and the real in

his play As You Like it.

OR

Critically discuss the thematic structure of the play, Twelfth Night.

Q.5. Doctor Faustus is not a tragedy at all; it is a straight forward morality play.

Discuss.

OR

Critically discuss Ben Jonson’s theory of Humours with special reference to

Every Man in His Humour.

OR

Discuss briefly Marlowe’s contribution to the development of English Drama

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M.A. First Semester Examination (Year 2013)

FICTION Subject Code : MAEN-103

Paper Code : JPP-83 Time : 3 Hours

M.Marks : 70

Section – A (Short Answer Questions)

All questions are compulsory- [5x4=20]

1. Richardson could unlock the female heart. In the light of above remark discuss the novel

„Pamela‟.

OR

Discuss the plot structure of „Tom Jones‟.

2. Bring out the chief characteristics of Daniel Defoe as a novelist.

OR

Bring out the historical features of Sir Walter Scott‟s novel „Kenilworth‟.

3. Comment on the title „Pride and Prejudice‟ by Jane Austen.

4. Bring out the theme of conflict between nature and culture as exemplified in the novel

„Wuthering Heights‟

OR

Discuss George Eliot as a psychological novelist.

5. What role does money play in the life of the characters in “Great Expectation.

OR

Write a brief note on Hardy‟s Pessimism.

Roll No.

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Section – B

ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

All questions are compulsory: [5x 10 = 50]

Q.6. Bring out the salient features of Richardson‟s “Pamela”.

OR

Comment upon Fielding‟s art of novel writing with special focus on his theory of novel.

Q.7. Briefly enumerate the adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

OR

Discuss Walter Scott‟s “Kenilworth” as a novel of selfishness versus selflessness and

ambition versus love.

Q.8. Comment upon Jane Austen‟s use of gentle irony in “Pride and Prejudice”.

OR

Consider “Vanity Fair” as a satire on the early 19th

century British Society.

Q.9. Discuss “Wuthering Heights” as a hanowing tale of passion and tragedy with a sunny

ending.

OR

Briefly discuss the various themes of “Mill on the Floss” and various issues raised by

George Eliot in the novel.

Q.10. “Great Expectation is about love, family and rejection”. Discuss.

OR

Is rejection of marriage the central didactic point of the novel “Jude the Obscure”?

Briefly comment on Hardy‟s attitude to marriage in the novel.

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MA English Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2013) Subject Code : MAEH- 104

Paper Code: JPP-84

PROSE

Section A

ANNOTATIONS

Time: 3 Hours

M.Marks: 70

Q.1. Attempt any three of the following passages- [3X6=18]

A. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate

saying against perfidious or neglecting friends

as if those wrongs were unpardonable;

You shall read (saith he) that we are

commanded to forgive our enemies; but

You never read, that we are commanded

to forgive our friends.

B …….but even without that, a man learneth

of himself, and bringeth his own

thoughts to hight, and whetteth his

wits as against a stone, which itself

cuts not. In a word, a man were better

relate himself to a statua, or picture,

than to suffer his thoughts to pass

in smother.

C. What are the pleasures you propose?

To eat before you are hungry, drink

before you are athirst, sleep before

you are tired, to gratify Appetites before

they are raised, and raise such

Appetites as Nature never planted.

D. He abounds in several frugal maxims,

amongst which the greatest favourite

is. “A penny saved is a penny got”. A

general trader of good sense is

pleasanter company than a general

scholar; ………..

E. Then I told how good she was to all

her grand-children, having us to the

great-house in the holydays, where I in

particular used to spend many hours

by myself, in gazing upon the old

busts of the twelve Caesars………, till the

old marble heads would seem to

live again or I be turned into marble

with them; ………..

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F. Pleasures are more beneficial than

duties because, like the quality of

mercy, they are not strained, and

they are twice blest.

Section ‘B’

ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

All questions are compulsory: [13x4 = 52]

Q.2. Establish that Bacon’s prose style has influenced posterity, using the essays of

Bacon that you have studied.

OR

Samuel Johnson’s “Lives of the English Poets” and the English Dictionary have

earned him a special place in Literature. Justify.

Q.3. Steele’s “Spectator Club” has six portraits. Discuss what his aim was in doing

this.

OR

Addison and Steele are usually remembered together. Elaborate.

Q.4. Goldsmith’s “Man in Black” is actually a deep reflection upon the war within a

man’s soul. Comment.

OR

“Dream Children” is an essay that rouses empathy in the heart of the reader. Do

you agree? Why?

Q.5. “A Plea for Gas Lamps” appears rather frivolous; yet R.L. Stevenson is speaking

of greater things. Discuss.

OR

Bertrand Russell the intellectual influenced and offended many during his life,

lived through the two World Wars. Comment.

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