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Assignment
MA
tnglish
year.
Paper
Submit
assignment n
any ive
of the
following:
1.. Discuss
he
mainworksof
literature
efore
Chaucer'
2.
Writean etsay
fon
the
iterary chievements
f Chaucer.
3.
Writea detai led
ssay n
Renaissance
ovement
nd
ts mpact
n
English
iterature.
4. Whatwere he
chief eatures
f
metaphysical
chool
f
poetry?
Discuss
ith
reference
o
i ts
ch ie f
roponents?
5.
Wr i tea no teon he
cont r ibu t ion
f John
Mi l ton
o
LnSl ish, i t c ra tu rc .
6 . Whatwere
he
soc io
o l i t i ca lcond i t ionsf
Rcs to ra t ion
er iod
ndhowdo
hese
ef lec tn
he
f te ra tu re f he imes? o
7. Whatwere
he
main eatures
f neoclassical
ge
and
how
did
,hese
ef lect n the
poetry
f the
t imes?
8.
Discusshe
growth
and
popular i ty
f
'essay'
with special
eference
o
Bacon, ddison nd
Steele.
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1. Discuss r.
:austus
s
a morality
play
2. Comment n
he Renaissance
pir i t
n
Dr.Faustus,
3. Writea detai led
oteon
he supernatural
lemenlin
A
Midsummer
ight 's
Dream.
4. Comment n he heme
of
Shakespeare's
Midsummer
ight 's
ream.
5.
Discuss
he chief
ual i t ies
f Homlet
s
a
tragedy'
6.
To
be
or
not
o be
orms he central
ssue
n Hamlel '
Discuss.
7 Discuss
ocio
ol i t ical
ackgroun
of The
Alchemist .
8. Discuss chool
or
Scandals
sa comedy.
P a p e r
l l
1. Write a note on
Prelude
o
Canterbury oles
s
a social
ocuments.
2. At tempta
cr i t ical
valuat ion
f
Donne's
The
Good
Morrow ,
3.
Discusshe ove
poetry
f
John
Donne.
4. I 'he
poet ic
tyte
f Paradise
ost matcheshe
grand
heme
t deals
ith.Discuss.
5, Attempt
pen portrayal
f Satan
n Paradise
ost
by
Milton.
6.
Discuss heRape f
the Lockas a
mockepic.
7. Cr it ical lyppreciate
ut t inB
asa romant ic
oem.
8.
Discuss ordsworth
s
a
poet
of Man
and
Nature.
Pape
lV
.1
Discuss
an ie l e foe 'sc ln t r ibu t iono
the
deve lopment
f [ : ng l r sh
ove l n hebas is f
your
reading f Robinson
rusoe.
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?-. Discussom ones sa comic pic n
prose'
3.
Comment
n he
heme
of
love
and
marr iage
n Tom
ones'
4.
Discuss
ul l iver 's
avels
s
a
sat ire
n
human
nature'
5.
commenl
on
the
significance
f
the
title
of
the
novel
Pride
nd
Preiudice
6 . C o m p a r e a nc j c o n t r a s t th e c h a r a c t er o f B i n g l e y a n d D ar c y i n t h e n c l v e| P r i d e a n d P r e j u d
7.
Discuss
vanhoe
s
a
histor ical
ovel '
Paper
1. . Write
a
note
on
he
salient
eatures
f
old
English'
?- .
Discuss
he
French
nd
Scott ish
nf luence
n
English'
3. Writea detai led oteon heart iculatoryystem f speechmechanism'
4.
C lass i f y
onophthongs
f
Ing l ish
P '
5 . W h a t i s i n t o n a t i c r n a n d w h a t a r e t h e d i f f e r e n t f u n c t i o n s i t p e r { o r m s ?
6 , D e f i n e m o rp h o | o g y a n d d i s c us s i n d e t a i l i n f | ec t i o n a | m o r p ho | o g y .
7. Write
an
l lustrat ive
ssay
n
der ivat ional
orphology'
8.
What
s
meant
y
syntax?
iscuss
if ferent
orms
of
sentences'
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Second
ssignment
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Paper
L. Discusshe salienteatures f the Romant ic ovementn English iterature.
2. Write
a note
on
he
prose
writ ings
f
the Romant ic
er iod.
3. Who
were
major
ear ly
Victor ian
r i ters
ndwhat
were
heir i terarV
chievements?
4. Write
a detai led
oteon he
PreRaphaeli te
ovement.
5.
Discuss
he majorvoices
n
iterary
r i t ic ism
n
he
Victor ian
er iod.
6. Trace
he major
nf luencesn he modernist ovement
n English
iterature.
7.
Write
a
note
on
he womennovelistsf he
post
modern
er iod.
8. What
wasmovement
oetry
ndwhowere tsexponents.
Paperl
1. Discuss
he
play
Wait ing
or
Godotasan absurd
lay.
2. Though
t
seems s f
nothing appensn he
play,
ctionsctually
lay
very mportant
olen
Waitingor
Godot.
Discuss
3. Discuss
he
main
heme
n he
play
Pygmalion
y
Shaw.
4,
Discuss
haw's
reatment f the myth
of
Pygmalion
5 . Murder
n he
Cathedra ldea lsi than nd iv idua loppos i t ion
o au thor i t y , i scuss .
6. Write
a note
on
the
plot
andstructure f
he
play
Murder
n
the Cathedral.
7 . l s t us t i f iedo labe lOsborne 'sookBacknAnger sa k i t chen ink rama? ive easons .
B.
Discuss
immy
and
Clif fasa
foi l o
each ther
n LookBack
n
Anger.
Paper
l l
Cr i t ical ly
ppreciate
he
poem
Ode
on
a
Grecian rn.
Discuss
eats
s
poet
of beauty
ndsensuousness.
Comment
n he hand l ing f d ramat ic
ono loguen he
bas is
f
he
ead ing
f he
poems
prescr ibed
n
your
syl labus.
1. .
2 .
3 .
.4.
Comment
n the
opt imist ic t t i tude
f
the
protagonists
n
he
poems
y Robert rowning
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5.
MVLastDuchess
nfolds
he character
f the
)uchess
s
vividly
s hat of
the speaker imself
D iscuss ,
6.
Cr it ical lyppreciatehe
poem
Dover
Beach'
y
Matthcw
Arnold.
7 . Do
you
h inkArno ld
sa
pess im is t ic
oe t .
Give easons .
8.
Discuss
B
Yeats
sa
modern
oet,
Paper
V
1. Discuss
Wuthering
Heights s
a
story
of
passionate
ove
and revenge.
2. Discuss
he
art
of
character izat ion
n he novel
Wuther ing eights y Emily
Bronte,
3.
Discuss
he themeof self
improvement
n Greot
Expectotions.
4, Comment n the fairy ale
elements
n he novel
n
GreotExpectotions,
5. Discuss
he
plot
construct ion
f
Middlemarch
y
George
l iot .
6. Givea pen portraitof Dorothean Middlemorch.
7. Comment n the
role
of
fate
and chance
n
the novel
TheMoyor
of Casterbridge.
8 . Do
you
h ink
Henchard
smore
inned
ga ins t
han
inn ing?
ive
easons .
Paper
1. . Trace
he
history
f
Ingl ish
n India.
2 . D iscuss
omemajor
prob lems
f
Ind ian
earners
f Eng l ish .
3.
Write
a comprehensive
oteon he
Direct
methdd f teaching f English
anguage.
4. Whatare
he
eatureshat
make
rammar
ranslat ion
ethod
he
most
popular
method
f ELT.
5. What
s
styl ist ics?
hat are
he
dif ferent
chools
f styl is i tcs?
6. Dist inguishtyle rom styl is i tcsnddiscusstyle sdeviance,
7 Writenotes n any ou r
of the
ol lowing:
i .
Al l i terat ion
i i ,
Meter
i i i . l r ony
tv .
v i .
Modernism
Picaresque
lmagery.