MA Eng. Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2014) Roll No.

Poetry
Subject Code: MAEH-101
Paper Code: JPJ-81
Time : 3.00 Hours
M.Marks : 70

Section ‘A’
ANNOTATIONS

Q1. Attempt any three of the following passages: -

3x6 = 18
A. For if a preest be foul on whom we truste;
No wonder is a lewed man to ruste:
And shame it is if a prest take keepe,
A shiten shepherde and cleue sheepe
Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yiv
By his elennesse how that his sheep sholde Iyve.

B. The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven,
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be all but less than he
Whom thunder hath made greater?

C. Sinking he left his drugget robe behind

Borne upwards by a subterranean wind.
The moutle fell to the young prophet‟s part
With double portion of his father‟s art.

D. An cease, rash youth; desist ere tis too late

Fear the just gods and think of Seylla‟s fate
Changed to a bird and sent to flit in air
She dearly pays for Nisus‟ injured hair.

E. Fair laughs the Morn, and soft zephyrs blow

While proudly riding o‟er the azure realm
In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes;
Youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm;
Regardless of the sweeping\ whirlwind‟s sway,
That hush‟d in grim repose, expects his evening prey.

F. Can I see another‟s woe,

And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another‟s grief,
And not seek for kind relief?

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 Section ‘B’
ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

All questions are compulsory:

13x4 = 52
Q2. “In all literature there is nothing that touches or resembles „The Prologue‟. It is the
concise portrait of an entire nation”. Illustrate this statement.

OR

Examine Shakespeare‟s treatment of the theme of love in his sonnets in the Dark
Lady sequence.

Q3. Examine the characterization of Satan in Book I of Paradise Lost.

OR

“John Donne was essentially a love poet”. Discuss his love poems in view of this
remark.

Q4. Compare and contrast Dryden and Pope as masters of satiric portraiture.

OR

“The Rape of the Lock” is more than any other poem, a characteristic product of the
life and literary tendencies of the age. Discuss.

Q5. Discuss the chief characteristics of “Gray‟s Poetry”.

OR

“The genius of Collins is essentially Romantic”. Discuss.

OR

Give an estimate of Blake‟s importance in the revival of Romanticism during the

eighteenth century.

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 MA Eng. Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2014)
Roll No.
Drama
Subject Code: MAEH- 102
Paper Code: JPJ-82
Time : 3.00 Hours
M.Marks : 70
Section A
ANNOTATIONS

Q.1. Attempt any three of the following passages- 3 x 6 = 18

A. Alas! All out! All known, no more concealment!
O light ! May I never look on you again,
Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting,
Sinful in marriage, sinful in the shedding of blood!
OR
So long as the gods grant him power,
Spring in his knees, he will never suffer affliction.

B. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sick lied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn away
And lose the name of action.

C. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul-

Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!
It is the cause, Yet I’ll not shed her blood,
Nor scar that white skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alabaster.

D. Those that are good manners at the

Court are as ridiculous in the
Country as the behavior of the
Country is most mockable at the
Court. You told me you salute not
at the court, but you kiss your
hands! that courtesy would be
uncleanly, if courtiers
were shepherds.

E. Nor read the grammar of cheating I had made,

To my sharp boy at twelve, repeating still
The rule, “Get money, still get money boy,
No matter by what means; money will do
More, boy, than my letter.

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F. Have not I made blind Homer sing to me
Of Alexander’s love and Oenon’s death?
And hath not he that built the walls of Thebes
With ravishing sound of his melodious harp
Made music with my Mephistophilis?

Section ‘B’
ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

All questions are compulsory: 13 x 4 = 52

Q.2. Examine Oedipus as a tragic hero in the light of Aristotle’s conception of a tragic
hero.

OR

What picture of religion and social life of ancient Greeks does Homer give us in
his famous epic The Odessey?

Q.3. Critically discuss Hamlet as a revenge play.

OR

Discuss how jealousy forms the dominating pattern of Othello as a tragedy.

Q.4. “As You Like It is the comedy of happy love….” Amplify.

OR

Analyze the role of Viola in breaking through the walls of both Olivia’s and
Ossino’s self deceptions.

Q.5. “To a considerable extent Dr. Faustus is a one-man play”. Discuss.

OR

It has been said that Jonson’s chief aim in his comedies is the satirical portraiture
of character. Justify the statement with special reference to Every Man in His
Humour.

OR

Write a critical estimate of Ben Jonson as a dramatist.

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 MA Eng. Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2014)
Roll No.
Fiction
Subject Code: MAEH-103
Paper Code: JPJ-83
Time : 3.00 hours
M.Marks : 70

Section ‘A’
(Short Answer Questions)

All questions are compulsory-

5x4 = 20

1. Comment upon the subtitle „Virtue Rewarded‟ of Richardson‟s Pamela.

OR

Critically comment upon Henry Fielding‟s use of the pursuit motif in „Tom Jones‟.

2. Briefly enumerate Daniel Defoe‟s art of story-telling.

OR

Discuss the title “Kenilworth” and its aptness.

3. Comment upon the limitations of Jane Austen as an artist.

OR

Discuss the character of Becky Sharp.

4. Discuss the importance of using multiple narrators in “Wuthering Heights”.

OR

Briefly discuss the relationship of Maggic Tulliver and Tom Tulliver.

5. What role does Magwitch play in Pip‟s life?

OR

What does „Father Time‟ signify in the novel „Jude the Obscure‟?

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 Section ‘B’
ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

All questions are compulsory:

5x 10 = 50

Q.2. Bring out the salient features of „Tom Jones‟ as a Bildunsroman novel focusing on the moral
development of Tom.

OR

What do you understand by epistolary novel? Discuss „Pamela‟ as an epistolary novel.

Q.3. Discuss „Robinson Crusoe‟ as a tale of adventure.

OR

Bring out deft mixing of history and fiction in the novel „ Kenilworth‟ by Sir Walter Scott.

Q.4. Evaluate “Pride and Prejudice” as a novel dealing with themes of money and marriage.

OR

„Vanity Fair‟ is a novel with a hero, discuss.

Q.5. “Wuthering Heights” is a tale of love and revenge, discuss.

OR

Discuss “Millon the Flosi” as an autobiographical novel.

Q.6. Comment on the aptness of the title “Great Expectation”.

OR

Discuss „Jude the Obscure‟ as an attack on the institutions of education, marriage and religion
held very dear in England.

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 MA English Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2014)
Roll No.
Subject Code: MAEH- 104
Paper Code: JPJ-84
PROSE

Section A
ANNOTATIONS
Time : 3 Hours
M.Marks: 70

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

A. When nature is “so careless of the single life”,
why should we coddle ourselves into the
fancy that our own is of exceptional
importance? Suppose Shakespeare had been
knocked on the head some dark night
in Sir Thomas Lucy‟s preserves, the world would
have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher
gone to the well, the scythe to the corn and the
student to the book and no one been any wiser of the loss.

B. But the conservative, while lauding

progress, is ever timid of innovation;
his is the hand upheld to counsel
pause; his is the signal advising
slow advance.

C. By how much the more, men ought to

beware of this passion, which loseth
not only other things, but itself! As for the
other losses, the poet‟s relation doth well
figure them: that he that preferred
Helena, quitted the gifts of Juno and Pallas.

D. The sorting of a suit of ribbons is

reckoned a very good morning‟s work;
and if they make an excursion to
a mercer‟s or a toy shop, so great a
fatigue makes them unfit for anything
else all the day after. Their more serious
occupations are sewing and embroidery,
and their greatest drudgery, the
preparation of jellies and sweetmeats.

E. As he was musing on his present

condition, and very much perplexed
in himself on the State of Life he
should chuse, he saw two women
of a larger stature than ordinary
approaching towards him.

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F. As other men of his age will take notice
to you what such a minister said upon
such and such an occasion, he will
tell you when the Duke of Monmouth
danced at court, such a woman was
then smitten, another was taken with
him at the head of his troop in the park.

Section ‘B’
ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

All questions are compulsory: 13x4 = 52

Q.2. What Bacon said, in his lifetime, regarding “Friendship”, does it hold true in this
Age and Time? Discuss.

OR

Comment on Johnson‟s „Pope‟ keeping in mind Boswell‟s praise for this

particular „life‟.

Q.3. Addison Mentions Francis Bacon in one of the essays you have studied. Why
does he do so? What does he try to emphasise thus? Elaborate.

OR

The Tatler, the Guardian and the Spectator brought the „Essay‟ and two essayists
who birthed them, into the limelight of popularity. Comment.

Q.4. “Welcome the coming, speed the parking guest”. Elaborate and analyse with
reference to the concerned essay.

OR

Evaluate Godsmith as an Essayist of value.

Q.5. Keeping “True Success” in focus delineate Bertrand Russell as a successful

literary figure.

OR

The two pieces of Stevenson‟s writing that you have studied, what is the picture
that you form of the man and writer?:- A man who celebrates life or a pessimist.
Clarify.

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