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[Maximum Marks : 200

Number of Questions in this Booklet : 26

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1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of this page. 2. Answers to short answer/essay type questions are to be given in the space provided below each question or after the questions in the Test Booklet itself. No Additional Sheets are to be used. 3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below : (i) To have access to the Test Booklet, tear off the paper seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet without sticker-seal and do not accept an open booklet. (ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions in the booklet with the information printed on the cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the question booklet will be replaced nor any extra time will be given. 4. Read instructions given inside carefully. 5. One page is attached for Rough Work at the end of the booklet before the Evaluation Sheet. 6. If you write your name or put any mark on any part of the Answer Sheet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries, which may disclose your identity, you will render yourself liable to disqualification. 7. You have to return the Test booklet to the invigilators at the end of the examination compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the Examination Hall. 8. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen. 9. Use of any calculator or log table etc. is prohibited. 10. There is NO negative marking.

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This paper is of two hundred (200) marks containing four (4) sections. Candidates are required to attempt the questions contained in these sections according to the detailed instructions given therein.

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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. To examine the dark mysteries of the blood with headless heed and swirl, to know the rush of feelings swift and flowing as water. Some inexhaustible spring within our twin and triple selves; The new face I turn up to you no one else on earth has ever seen.

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Why is the poet so confident of his/her love ?

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What is meant by dark mysteries ?

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How are feelings qualified in the poem ?

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What is the meaning of twin and triple selves ?

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What does the new face suggest in the poem ?

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Point out the major features of the University Wits.

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Underline the dramatic significance of the end of Dr. Faustus.

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What does Restoration signify in the literary history of England ?

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Explain the significance of invocation in Miltons Paradise Lost Book I.

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What is heroic couplet ?

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Define Gothic novel.

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Define Coleridges concept of secondary imagination.

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Explain Shelleys definition of poetry.

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Define Utilitarianism.

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What is Walter Paters concept of Art for Arts Sake ?

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What are the main features of Georgian poetry ?

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What is meant by Cinemetoscope technique in The Waste Land ?

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Comment on the elements of pathos and horror in the poetry of Philip Larkin.

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What are the hall marks of New Criticism ?

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What is Russian Formalism ?

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Elective - I History of English Language and English Language Teaching 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Bring out the influence of the Authorized Version of The Bible on the English language. What are the distinctive features of Indian English ? How would you adopt the behaviourist model to the teaching of English ? Illustrate. Distinguish Competence from Performance in English language teaching ? What is testing and evaluation ? How can it be improved ? OR Elective - II European Literature from Classical Age to the 20th Century 21. Assess the contribution of Henrik Ibsen as a playwright of social and political issues. 13 P.T.O.

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Bring out the significance of Charles Baudelaire as a symbolist poet. Write a note on Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment as a psychological novel. Examine the element of irony in Sophoclegs Oedipus Rex. Discuss the significance of Rainer Maria Rilke as a poet of religious sensibility. OR Elective - III Indian Writing in English and Indian Literature in English Translation

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Bring out the major features of Indian novel in English in the Post Rushdie era. Evaluate the elements of Indianness in Nissim Ezeikels poetry. Discuss Mahesh Dattani as a playwright of social issues. Evaluate Tagores Gitanjali as an oriental text. Assess the role of translation in the emergence of Indian literary identity. OR Elective - IV American and Other Non-British English Literatures

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Examine Emily Dickenson as a poet of intensity personal and private feelings. How does Arthur Miller reconcile social cause and individual responsibility in his plays ? How does Margaret Atwood address the question of Canadian identity in Surfacing ? Judith Wrights modernism is a fine blend of the traditional and the modern in Australian Culture. Discuss. Is it possible to assess Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart on the Aristotelean Canon of tragedy ? Give reasons for your answer. OR Elective - V Literary Theory and Criticism

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Comment on Platos concept of the poet in The Republic. What are the demerits of Shakespeare according to Dr. Johnson. What does Eliot mean by his remark that a critic is concerned not with the pastness of the past but its presence ? Post-Colonial Criticism is to a great extent an examination of power and powerpolitics. Elaborate. What are the main postulates of Kate Millets Sexual Politics. 14

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New Perspective on the Teaching of English Language and Literature in India. OR Transcendentalism in Nineteenth Century American Literature. OR The Theatre of the Absurd OR Comparative Literature as Literary Discourse. OR Ethnicity and Diversity in Modern Indian English Poetry.

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