LITERARY CRITICISM PAPERS 2008-2014

PAST PAPERS - CRITICISM (2008 - 2014)
PAPER IV - LITERARY CRITICISM

1. YEAR 2008 (2nd Annual)
OBJECTIVE
1. (a) Choose the correct option. (05)
(i) Belsey wrote ____________ (novels, critical practices, politics, morals)
(ii) Raymond Williams was __________ (critic, novelist, dramatist, story writer)
(iii) The poet is the product of a __________ (culture, society, impulse, imagination)
(iv) Imitation is a mirror of __________ (art, poetry, society, mankind)
(v) Response of suffering is ___________ (remorse, redemption, painful, reactionary)
(b) Write True or False. (10)
(i) A poem may be prosaic and piece of prose may be poetic.
(ii) A critic is perfect and advanced in understanding a piece of Literature.
(iii) The role of a critic is to advise the writers.
(iv) A real poem or fiction may cause a deeper and wider critical theory.
(v) Aristotle does not arrive in relation to man.
(vi) Aristotle does not arrive at the conception of an ideal structure of tragedy.
(vii) A person having contradictions in himself can understand person much better.
(viii) Eye and knowledge do not come together but object and subject.
(ix) Language is indefinitely productive.
(x) Meaning is a fixed essence.
(c) Fill in the blanks. (05)
(i) History is the most __________ form of Literature.
(ii) Tragedy has its __________ appeal.
(iii) Tension of __________ are basis of tragedy.
(iv) Secular ideas __________ after Renaissance.
(v) The Greeks had __________ values in Tragic Hero.
2. Answer every questions in two lines. (20)
(i) What is the place of cathersis in tragedy?
(ii) What is 'Anti-climax' is drama?
(iii) What is Balled in poetry?
(iv) What is the importance of plot in tragedy?
(v) Define the term 'mock epic'.
(vi) Explain Renaissance in two lines.
(vii) What is unnecessary Jorgon?
(viii) What does common sense propose?
(ix) What do you mean by utilitarianism?
(x) What do you mean by Hegel and Hegelians?
SUBJECTIVE
Attempt any THREE questions. All questions carry equal marks. Be brief and to the point.
3. What are the three dramatic unities? What is the justification of their use in drama? (20)
4. Discuss Raymond Williams as a critic. (20)
5. What contributions did Lecan and Macherey make to be the modern critical method? Discuss
with reference to Belsey's critical practice. (20)
6. What is the importance of contemporary ideas in evolution of tragedy according to Raymond
Williams? (20)
7. Describe in your own words the modern critical method in the light of Belsey's critical
practice. (20)
8. COMPULSORY:
Critically evaluate the following: (20)
When all the worlds is young, lad
And all the tree are green;
And every goose is a swam, lad,
And every lass a queen;
They hey for boot and horse, lad;
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad
And every dog his day.
OR
Steaming through metal landscape on her lines;
She plunges new eras of wild happiness,
Where speed throws up strange shapes;
Broad Curves;
And parallel clean like the steel of Guns,
And last further than Edinburg or Rome
Beyond the crest of the world
She reaches night,
Where only a low stream line brightness
Of phosphorus on the tossing hills is light.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
2. YEAR 2009 (1st Annual)
OBJECTIVE
1. (a) Choose the correct option. (05)
(i) According to Aristotle the tragic hero must be: (good, bad, no good nor bad, a common man)
(ii) Poetry appeals to: (mind, emotion, sight, aesthetic sense)
(iii) Elegy is derived from Greek word for a song of: (happiness, mourning, beauty, tranquility)
(iv) Tragedy is different from comedy because of: (object, means of imitation, manners of
imitation, plot)
(v) Raymond William's concept of tragedy is: (Marxist, Capitalist, Aristocratic, Metaphysical)
(b) Tick True or False. (10)
(i) Comedy brings pleasure.
(ii) Aristotle stressed upon characters greatness.
(iii) Similes and metaphors add beauty in poetry.
(iv) The role of a critic is to admire the writer.
(v) A great piece of Literature possesses a limited appeal.
(vi) Every language is productive.
(vii) Literature has not concern with history and tradition.
(viii) The followers of Marx always try to give art only one adjective 'Progressive'.
(ix) Poetry is not spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
(x) The writer's views play an important role in creating the atmosphere of tragedy.
(i) Raymond Williams died in __________.
(ii) Cathrine Belsey belonged to ___________.
(iii) Comedy deals with __________.
(iv) Raymond Williams is a recognized critic of ___________.
(v) Spenserian stanza contains ___________ lines.
2. Answer the following questions. Answer should be in one or two lines. (20)
(i) What is Raymond Williams concept of tragedy?
(ii) What does Plato say about poetry?
(iii) What is the opinion of Aristotle about three unities in the play?
(iv) What subject does Belsey deal in critical practice?
(v) What is the importance of plot in Greek Tragedy?
(vi) What is rhetorical prose?
(vii) What is the difference between poetry and prose?
(viii) What is the difference between novel and short story?
(ix) What is the importance of character in modern play?
(x) The subject of 'Republic' is politics. Comment.
SUBJECTIVE
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. Be brief and to the point.
3. What are the four essentials of characterization according to Aristotle? (15)
4. What are the methods of extracting meanings out of creative text as described by Catherine
Belsey? (15)
5. Critically examine Raymond Williams essay 'Tragedy and the Traditions'. What relationship
does Raymond Williams discover between tragedy and contemporary ideas? (15)
6. What relationship does Raymond Williams discover between tragedy and contemporary ideas?
(15)
7. What are the various types of plot as narrated by Aristotle? (15)
8. Critically evaluate ONE of the following poems. (15)
(i) If we got rid of wathes
The trains would cease to run,
We could not fight a battle ship
Or aim at battle gun.
Nor tune the little engines
Which fill the towns with fumes
And send men with a vengeance
Quite rightly to their tombs
If we got rid of watches
And wanted to approach
The Pallid peopled cites
We'd have to hire a coach
OR
Our gated were strong, our walls were thick
So smooth and high, no man could win,
A foothold here, no clever trick
Could take us, have us dead or quick
Only a bird could have got in.
What could they offer us for bait?
Out captain was brave and we were true
There was a little private gate
The wizened warder let them through
OBJECTIVE
1. (a) Choose the most correct answer. (05)
(i) Raymond Williams was a: (novelist, critic, dramatist, Marxist)
(ii) Belsey wrote about: (novel, critical practices, politics, morals)
(iii) A tragic hero is liked for his: (innocence, indolence, simplicity, tragic end)
(iv) Raymond Williams was born in: (England, Oxford, Cambridge, Lancaster)
(v) Raymond William's concept of tragedy is: (Marxist, Aristotelian, Shakespearean, Hegel)
(b) Tick True or False. (10)
(i) Aristotle was influenced by Homer.
(ii) A poet is product of society.
(iii) Imitation is mirror of life.
(iv) The character is more important than plot.
(v) Evil conquers in comedy.
(vi) Catherine Belsey belonged to England.
(vii) Belsey was a novelist.
(viii) Aristotle was a Greek philosopher.
(ix) Plato wrote Republic.
(x) Epics are seldom popular.
(i) Raymond Williams is a recognized critic of __________.
(ii) Belsey wrote about ___________.
(iii) Aristotle admired his teacher ___________.
(iv) Comic Hero is liked for his ___________.
(v) Tragic Hero is the ___________ figure.
2. Write short answers of the following in one or two lines. (20)
(i) 'A poem may be prosaic'. Is it possible?
(ii) Is every critic perfect in understanding?
(iii) What is the difference between comedy and tragedy?
(iv) What are the three unities in a plat?
(v) Is language a tool for productivity?
(vi) 'Meaning is a fixed essence'. Explain.
(vii) Eye and knowledge are object and subject. Explain.
(viii) What is the place of suffering in tragedy?
(ix) What are the three meanings of imitation?
(x) Real poem can cause deeper critical taste. Explain.
SUBJECTIVE
Attempt any FOUR questions, including question No. 8 which is COMPULSORY. All
questions carry equal marks.
3. The tragic pleasure is that of pity and fear and the poet has to produce it by a work of
imitation. Discuss in the light of the concept of Imitation by Aristotle. (15)
4. Discuss Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy with reference to any tragedy that you have read. (15)
5. How does Raymond Williams trace the rank of the tragic hero from the Classical to the
modern time? (15)
6. What, according to Belsey, is the difference between Common Sense and Critical Theory?
(15)
7. Differentiate between the Dialectical and the Rhetorical text. How does each determine the
role of the reader differently? Discuss in the light of Catherine Belsey's Critical Practice. (15)
8. Critically evaluate ONE of the following poems. (15)
(i) She looks at me with innocent eyes.
Ans breathes the sound of butterflies
She dances by in graceful glide,
She lights the way to love.
In tinkled, fairly tones she sings
And bids me dance in rainbow rings
To climb the stairs of crystal light,
She takes my heart in loving hands,
To live among the stars.
(ii) Every one suddenly burst out singing
And I was filled with such delight
And prisoned birds must find their freedom
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark green field; on; on; and out of sight
Every one's voice was suddenly lifted,
And beauty came like the setting sun
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away .......... but every one
Was a bird, and the song was wordless,
The singing will never be done.
OBJECTIVE
(i) Catherine Belsey analysis is more particular about: (human experience, man's subconscious,
superstitions, human psychology)
(ii) 'The Waste Land' is written by: (Shakespeare, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce)
(iii) A tragic hero is liked for his: (innocence, indolence, bravery, tragic end)
(iv) Mock Epic is a kind of satiric writing which deals with: (lofty aims, lowly subjects, serious
moods, melancholy)
(v) A poet is a product of: (culture, society, impulse, tradition)
(i) In modern tragedy heroes and heroines are great men and women.
(ii) Galsworthy adopted the technique of Shakespeare.
(iii) Completely virtuous man is suitable for Shakespearean tragedy.
(iv) Bertolt Brecht was a communist playwright.
(v) Raymond Williams was a short story writer.
(vi) Evil conquers in drama of life.
(vii) Aristotle was the teacher of Socrates.
(viii) The idea of tragedy must be related with the past.
(ix) In classical tragedy, the stress was put on dignified endurance.
(x) Raymond Williams posits himself as a omniscient critics.
(i) Tragedy represents __________ which is complete in itself.
(ii) Raymond Williams is famous for his book ___________.
(iii) According to Belsey's point of view human mind can be divided into __________ portions.
(iv) Literature helps to develop man's __________ qualities.
(v) Hegal says beauty provides us intellectual and __________ freedom.
(i) Define the term comedy.
(ii) Meaning is a fixed essence. Explain.
(iii) What is the difference between poetry and prose?
(iv) Define the term Renaissance.
(v) What is heroic couplet?
(vi) Define the terms classicism and romanticism.
(vii) What is Elegy?
(viii) What were the themes of Medieval Drama?
(ix) Define the term comic relief.
(x) What is the role of a reader in reading a text?
SUBJECTIVE
Attempt any FOUR questions including questions No. 8 which is COMPULSORY. All
4. Discuss Aristotle's concept of imitation. (15)
Williams? (15)
6. Describe in your own words the modern critical method in the light of Belsey's Critical
Practice? (15)
7. What, according to Belsey, is the difference between common sense and critical theory?
8. Critically evaluate ONE of the following poems:
(i) He thought he'd list perhaps
Off-hand like ___ Just as I ___
Was out of work ___ had sold his traps ___
No other reason why.
Yes: quaint and curious was is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half -a- crown.
(ii) Yet Law abiding scholars write;
Law is neither wrong nor right,
Law is only crimes
Punished by place and by times
Law is the clothes men wear
Any time, any where,
Law is good morning and good night.
Others say, others say
Law is no more
Law has gone away.
OBJECTIVE
(i) Aristotle divides tragedy into six different: (poems, books, chapters, parts)
(ii) The term 'peripeteia' used by Aristotle means: (recognition, error, reversal, plot)
(iii) Cathersis means: (enmity, purgation, medicine, suffering)
(iv) Catherine Belsey's books include: Desire, Love Stories in Western Culture, The Loss of
Eden and: (Practical Age, Practical Criticism, Great Tradition, Critical Practice)
(v) Raymond Williams called his theoretical approach: (cultural materialism, dialectic
materialism, industrial capitalism, existentialism)
(b) Write True or False against each statement. (10)
(i) Comedy tends to represent the agents as better, then tragedy as worse than the men of the
present day.
(ii) Poetry has its origin in four natural instincts.
(iii) Aristotle subordinated character to plot.
(iv) Unity of action is the primary unity.
(v) Plato and Aristotle had same views on the Fine Arts.
(vi) Plot is different from story.
(vii) Raymond Williams believed that Literature should be studied in its historical context.
(viii) Expressive realism is a critical practice.
(ix) Poetry is an imitation of life.
(x) Tragedy appeals more than comedy.
(i) Elegy is a song of __________
(ii) __________ is a tale either in prose or verse which has a double meaning.
(iii) Raymond William was one of the leading literary intellectuals in the later __________
century.
(iv) Raymond Williams is known as __________ critic.
(v) Catherine Belsey was born in __________
SUBJECTIVE
Question No. 2 is COMPULSORY. Attempt any FOUR questions from the remaining.
2. Write short answers of the following. (20)
(i) What is the difference between plot and story?
(ii) What is literary criticism?
(iii) What are the main features of the 20th century?
(iv) What does Belsey mean by 'Expressive Realism'?
(v) Is satire different from irony?
(vi) What is the difference between form and content?
(vii) How do plays differ from novels and poems?
(viii) Who opposes the hero in a play?
(ix) What is the difference between comedy and tragedy?
(x) Among the three unities, which one is called Aristotelian?
3. 'Tragedy, through pity and fear, effect the proper cathersis of these emotions' (Aristotle).
Expound and discuss. (15)
4. 'The tragic hero', according to Aristotle, 'should be a man who is not eminently good and just,
yet whose misfortune is brought not by vice or depravity, but by some error of frailty'. Critically
examine this view. (15)
5. 'Raymond Williams is a great critic of our times'. How? Explain in the light of 'Modern
Tragedy'. (15)
6. Critically assess Raymond Williams Concept of 'Tragedy and Tradition'. (15)
7. Where does the meaning lie, in the text, reader, writer or the structure? Explain in the light of
Catherine Belsey's text. (15)
8. Critically evaluate ONE of the following poems: (15)
(i) Never seek to tell the love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly,
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling cold, in ghastly fears-
Ah, she doth part
Soon as he was gone from me
A traveler came by
Silently, invisible ----
O, was no deny
(ii) I will drain
Long draughts of quiet
As a purgation
Remember
Twice daily
Who I am;
Will lie o' nights
In the bony arms
Of Reality and be comforted.
Objective Part is COMPULSORY. Attempt any FOUR questions from Subjective Part.
OBJECTIVE
1. Write short answers of the following in two lines each on the answer book. (20)
(i) Why does Aristotle consider a saintly figure inappropriate to be a tragic hero?
(ii) What do you understand by consistently inconsistent character?
(iii) What does Aristotle mean by the singleness of in tragedy?
(iv) What are the formative elements of a tragedy, given by Aristotle?
(v) What does the term hamartia mean?
(vi) What are the three kinds of the texts mentioned by Belsey?
(vii) What do you understand by the term 'Expressive Realism' as used by Belsey?
(viii) What, according to Lacan, are the three stages of child development?
(ix) Why tragedy, today, is linked to the life of common modern man?
(x) Write the names of German philosophers, Williams refers in his essays.
SUBJECTIVE
2. How does Belsey prove in 'Critical Practice' that there is no criticism without ideology? (20)
3. Aristotle gives an exalted view of plot in 'Poetics'. Discuss. (20)
4. What does Raymond Williams mean by Rejection of Tragedy? Explain. (20)
5. Write a comparative note on the concept of Classical Tragedy, Medieval Tragedy and Modern
Tragedy as discussed by Raymond Williams. (20)
6. Write a comprehensive note on the function of tragedy as discussed by Aristotle. (20)
7. Critically evaluate any ONE of the two excerpts given below: (20)
(i) The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft though the sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
And he names the sky his own.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.
The cage bird sings
With a fearful thrill
Of things unknown
But longed for still
And his tune is heard
On the distant hill
For the caged bird
Sings of freedom.
(ii) NATURE is what we see,
The Hill, the Afternoon ___
Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee,
Nay ___ Nature is Heaven.
Nature is what we hear,
The Bobolink, the Sea ___
Thunder, the Cricket ___
Nay, ___ Nature is Harmony
Nature is what we know
But have no art to say,
So impotent our wisdom is
To Her simplicity.
OBJECTIVE
(i) In what three ways does Aristotle differentiate various art forms form one another?
(ii) What is the Probable impossibility as discussed by Aristotle?
(iii) Which comment of T.S. Eliot does Brooks quote about 'Beauty is truth'?
(iv) What is a 'Sylvan historian' according to Brooks?
(v) How does Sidney refute the allegation against poetry being the mother of lies?
(vi) How has Sidney established that poetry is antique and universal in nature?
(vii) What was Sidney's approach on Plato's banishment of poets from his ideal republic?
(viii) What is Belsey's opinion about Saussure's theory?
(ix) What analogy does T.S. Eliot use for the poet's mind?
(x) What do you understand by the term 'historical sense' as introduced by T.S. Eliot?
SUBJECTIVE
2. Is Aristotle's conception of plot organic or mechanical? Explain. (20)
3. What were the objections against poetry that Sidney chose to answer? Evaluate Sidney's
answers critically. (20)
4. Eliot's essay 'The Metaphysical Poets' has brought about a revaluation and reassessment of
Donne and other Metaphysical poets, and has caused a revival of interest in these poets who had
been neglected for a considerable time. Comment. (20)
5. Claenth Brooks proposed his methods for the analysis of poetry by making the closest
examination of what the poem says as a poem. How does he employ this method while he
discusses/analyses different poems? (20)
6. What do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? In the readers, or do we,
instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play
in the process of interpretation? Discuss with reference to Belsey's 'Critical Practice'. (20)
7. Critically analyse any ONE of the given texts. (20)
(i) Where had I heard this wind before.
Change like this to a deeper road?
What would it take may standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking open a restive door,
Summer was past and the day was past
Somber clouds in the west were massed.
Out on the porch's sagging floor,
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly struck at my knee and missed
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.
(ii) Somewhere I have never traveled gladly beyond
Any experience, your eyes have their silence:
In your most frail gestures are things which enclose me,
Or which I cannot touch because they are too near
Your slightest look will easily unclose me
Though I have closed myself as fingers,
You open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose.
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OBJECTIVE
(i) In what three ways does Aristotle differentiate various art forms form one another?
(ii) What is the Probable impossibility as discussed by Aristotle?
(iii) Which comment of T.S. Eliot does Brooks quote about 'Beauty is truth'?
(iv) What is a 'Sylvan historian' according to Brooks?
(v) How does Sidney refute the allegation against poetry being the mother of lies?
(vi) How has Sidney established that poetry is antique and universal in nature?
(vii) What was Sidney's approach on Plato's banishment of poets from his ideal republic?
(viii) What is Belsey's opinion about Saussure's theory?
(ix) What analogy does T.S. Eliot use for the poet's mind?
(x) What do you understand by the term 'historical sense' as introduced by T.S. Eliot?
SUBJECTIVE
2. Is Aristotle's conception of plot organic or mechanical? Explain. (20)
3. What were the objections against poetry that Sidney chose to answer? Evaluate Sidney's
answers critically. (20)
4. Eliot's essay 'The Metaphysical Poets' has brought about a revaluation and reassessment of
Donne and other Metaphysical poets, and has caused a revival of interest in these poets who had
been neglected for a considerable time. Comment. (20)
5. Claenth Brooks proposed his methods for the analysis of poetry by making the closest
examination of what the poem says as a poem. How does he employ this method while he
discusses/analyses different poems? (20)
6. What do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? In the readers, or do we,
instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play
in the process of interpretation? Discuss with reference to Belsey's 'Critical Practice'. (20)
7. Critically analyse any ONE of the given texts. (20)
(i) Where had I heard this wind before.
Change like this to a deeper road?
What would it take may standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking open a restive door,
Summer was past and the day was past
Somber clouds in the west were massed.
Out on the porch's sagging floor,
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly struck at my knee and missed
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.
(ii) Somewhere I have never traveled gladly beyond
Any experience, your eyes have their silence:
In your most frail gestures are things which enclose me,
Or which I cannot touch because they are too near
Your slightest look will easily unclose me
Though I have closed myself as fingers,
You open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose.

OBJECTIVE
(i) Why does Aristotle consider a saintly figure inappropriate to be a tragic hero?
(ii) What do you understand by consistently inconsistent character?
(iii) What does Aristotle mean by the singleness of in tragedy?
(iv) What are the formative elements of a tragedy, given by Aristotle?
(v) What does the term hamartia mean?
(vi) What are the three kinds of the texts mentioned by Belsey?
(vii) What do you understand by the term 'Expressive Realism' as used by Belsey?
(viii) What, according to Lacan, are the three stages of child development?
(ix) Why tragedy, today, is linked to the life of common modern man?
(x) Write the names of German philosophers, Williams refers in his essays.
SUBJECTIVE
2. How does Belsey prove in 'Critical Practice' that there is no criticism without ideology? (20)
3. Aristotle gives an exalted view of plot in 'Poetics'. Discuss. (20)
4. What does Raymond Williams mean by Rejection of Tragedy? Explain. (20)
5. Write a comparative note on the concept of Classical Tragedy, Medieval Tragedy and Modern
Tragedy as discussed by Raymond Williams. (20)
6. Write a comprehensive note on the function of tragedy as discussed by Aristotle. (20)
7. Critically evaluate any ONE of the two excerpts given below: (20)
(i) The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft though the sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
And he names the sky his own.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.
The cage bird sings
With a fearful thrill
Of things unknown
But longed for still
And his tune is heard
On the distant hill
For the caged bird
Sings of freedom.
(ii) NATURE is what we see,
The Hill, the Afternoon ___
Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee,
Nay ___ Nature is Heaven.
Nature is what we hear,
The Bobolink, the Sea ___
Thunder, the Cricket ___
Nay, ___ Nature is Harmony
Nature is what we know
But have no art to say,
So impotent our wisdom is
To Her simplicity.
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OBJECTIVE
(i) Aristotle divides tragedy into six different: (poems, books, chapters, parts)
(ii) The term 'peripeteia' used by Aristotle means: (recognition, error, reversal, plot)
(iii) Cathersis means: (enmity, purgation, medicine, suffering)
(iv) Catherine Belsey's books include: Desire, Love Stories in Western Culture, The Loss of
Eden and: (Practical Age, Practical Criticism, Great Tradition, Critical Practice)
(v) Raymond Williams called his theoretical approach: (cultural materialism, dialectic
materialism, industrial capitalism, existentialism)
(b) Write True or False against each statement. (10)
(i) Comedy tends to represent the agents as better, then tragedy as worse than the men of the
present day.
(ii) Poetry has its origin in four natural instincts.
(iii) Aristotle subordinated character to plot.
(iv) Unity of action is the primary unity.
(v) Plato and Aristotle had same views on the Fine Arts.
(vi) Plot is different from story.
(vii) Raymond Williams believed that Literature should be studied in its historical context.
(viii) Expressive realism is a critical practice.
(ix) Poetry is an imitation of life.
(x) Tragedy appeals more than comedy.
(i) Elegy is a song of __________
(ii) __________ is a tale either in prose or verse which has a double meaning.
(iii) Raymond William was one of the leading literary intellectuals in the later __________
century.
(iv) Raymond Williams is known as __________ critic.
(v) Catherine Belsey was born in __________
SUBJECTIVE
Question No. 2 is COMPULSORY. Attempt any FOUR questions from the remaining.
2. Write short answers of the following. (20)
(i) What is the difference between plot and story?
(ii) What is literary criticism?
(iii) What are the main features of the 20th century?
(iv) What does Belsey mean by 'Expressive Realism'?
(v) Is satire different from irony?
(vi) What is the difference between form and content?
(vii) How do plays differ from novels and poems?
(viii) Who opposes the hero in a play?
(ix) What is the difference between comedy and tragedy?
(x) Among the three unities, which one is called Aristotelian?
3. 'Tragedy, through pity and fear, effect the proper cathersis of these emotions' (Aristotle).
Expound and discuss. (15)
4. 'The tragic hero', according to Aristotle, 'should be a man who is not eminently good and just,
yet whose misfortune is brought not by vice or depravity, but by some error of frailty'. Critically
examine this view. (15)
5. 'Raymond Williams is a great critic of our times'. How? Explain in the light of 'Modern
Tragedy'. (15)
6. Critically assess Raymond Williams Concept of 'Tragedy and Tradition'. (15)
7. Where does the meaning lie, in the text, reader, writer or the structure? Explain in the light of
Catherine Belsey's text. (15)
8. Critically evaluate ONE of the following poems: (15)
(i) Never seek to tell the love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly,
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling cold, in ghastly fears-
Ah, she doth part
Soon as he was gone from me
A traveler came by
Silently, invisible ----
O, was no deny
(ii) I will drain
Long draughts of quiet
As a purgation
Remember
Twice daily
Who I am;
Will lie o' nights
In the bony arms
Of Reality and be comforted.

OBJECTIVE
(i) Catherine Belsey analysis is more particular about: (human experience, man's subconscious,
superstitions, human psychology)
(ii) 'The Waste Land' is written by: (Shakespeare, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce)
(iii) A tragic hero is liked for his: (innocence, indolence, bravery, tragic end)
(iv) Mock Epic is a kind of satiric writing which deals with: (lofty aims, lowly subjects, serious
moods, melancholy)
(v) A poet is a product of: (culture, society, impulse, tradition)
(i) In modern tragedy heroes and heroines are great men and women.
(ii) Galsworthy adopted the technique of Shakespeare.
(iii) Completely virtuous man is suitable for Shakespearean tragedy.
(iv) Bertolt Brecht was a communist playwright.
(v) Raymond Williams was a short story writer.
(vi) Evil conquers in drama of life.
(vii) Aristotle was the teacher of Socrates.
(viii) The idea of tragedy must be related with the past.
(ix) In classical tragedy, the stress was put on dignified endurance.
(x) Raymond Williams posits himself as a omniscient critics.
(i) Tragedy represents __________ which is complete in itself.
(ii) Raymond Williams is famous for his book ___________.
(iii) According to Belsey's point of view human mind can be divided into __________ portions.
(iv) Literature helps to develop man's __________ qualities.
(v) Hegal says beauty provides us intellectual and __________ freedom.
(i) Define the term comedy.
(ii) Meaning is a fixed essence. Explain.
(iii) What is the difference between poetry and prose?
(iv) Define the term Renaissance.
(v) What is heroic couplet?
(vi) Define the terms classicism and romanticism.
(vii) What is Elegy?
(viii) What were the themes of Medieval Drama?
(ix) Define the term comic relief.
(x) What is the role of a reader in reading a text?
SUBJECTIVE
Attempt any FOUR questions including questions No. 8 which is COMPULSORY. All
4. Discuss Aristotle's concept of imitation. (15)
Williams? (15)
6. Describe in your own words the modern critical method in the light of Belsey's Critical
Practice? (15)
7. What, according to Belsey, is the difference between common sense and critical theory?
8. Critically evaluate ONE of the following poems:
(i) He thought he'd list perhaps
Off-hand like ___ Just as I ___
Was out of work ___ had sold his traps ___
No other reason why.
Yes: quaint and curious was is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half -a- crown.
(ii) Yet Law abiding scholars write;
Law is neither wrong nor right,
Law is only crimes
Punished by place and by times
Law is the clothes men wear
Any time, any where,
Law is good morning and good night.
Others say, others say
Law is no more
Law has gone away.

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