Department of English and Applied Linguistics

University of Peshawar
Date: 26 / 02 / 2021
BS English 5th Semester Batch-I
Final Term Online Exam Day: Friday
Subject: Criticism

Name: _______________________ Time Allowed: 24 hours

Father’s name: ________________ Marks: 50

Roll No: ______________________

Class Section: ______________________ (Morning/Evening)

Note: Attempt all the questions. Attempt the questions on the same attachment.
The answer- sheet has to be submitted to the concerned teacher through his/her official
email within the prescribed 24 hours.

Q1. What are the features of an ideal plot in tragedy? Discuss with reference to
Aristotle’s The Poetics. (10 marks)

Q2. “The effect of elevated language upon audience is not persuation but transport.”
Discuss with reference to ‘On the Sublime’ by Long Ginus. (10 marks)

Q3. How does a figurative language enhance ‘Sublimity’? (10 marks)

Q4. Write a comprehensive note on Wordsworth’s theory of poetry as explained in the

‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’. (10 marks)

Q5. Elaborate T.S Eliot’s concept of ‘Tradition’ and ‘Individual Talent’. (10 marks)