NOVEMBER 2017                          71203/BRBIA

Time : Three hours            Maximum : 75marks

SECTION A - (20X 1 =20 marks)

Choose the best answer:

1. An explanatory note or citation set at the foot of a page or table is known as _____

(a) foreward                      (b) format                    (c) footnote              (d) grub street

2. _________ is written is any group of lines in a separate unit of a poem

(a) rhetoric                      (b) stanza                      (c) couplet                      (d) triplet

3. The Shakespearean sonnet has two parts. The first has _____ lines and the second part has___
lines.

(a) 10,4                      (b) 8,6                          (c) 12,2                        (d) 6,8

4. There are_______ lines in the sonnet

(a) sixteen                                  (b) fourteen            (c) eighteen                  (d) twelve

5. The most important feature of an Ode is _________

(a) it is longer than a lyric                                (b) its subject- matter is exalted                       

(c) it is in the form of an address                    (d) it is serious and dignified poetic composition   

6. Who has written an ode to Virgil _________

(a) Byron                  (b) words worth                          (c) Milton                  (d) Tennyson   

7. Which is the following is not a quality of a lyric _________

(a) a lyric is a short poem                          (b) a lyrics is must have a musical quality

(c) a lyric is essentially a didactic poem    (d) a lyric is must express any pone single emotion   

8. The stanza of a ballad has ______ lines.

(a) six                      (b) four                         (c) two                      (d) eight   

9. A ballad is sung to the accompaniment of a _______ or a fiddle.

(a) flute                    (b) lyre                          (c) harmonium                        (d) harp   

10. 'Lycidas' is a ________ elegy.

(a) Pastoral                    (b) classical                         (c) emotional                        (d) personal   

11. An epilogue appears ________ of some of the plays.

(a) in the beginning                (b) at the end            (c) in the middle    d) none of the above   

12. The most significant feature of the morality plays is that _________

(a) they enact the roles of saints          (b) they have biblical characters

(c) they provide serious entertainment to the audience   

(d) they represent virtues and vices as personalified figures   

13. The term university wits was coined by _________

(a) John Barbour        (b) George Saint bury      (c) Christopher Marlowe      (d) Godwin Douglas   

14. The play not written in Elizabethan drama    _________

(a) Gorboduc                    (b) The Duchess of Malfi             (c) Dr. Faustus    (d) As You like it   

15. Select one morality play but not comedy play written in this age _________

(a) Mid Summer night's dream      (b) Twelfth night            (c) Mother Bombie      (d) Everyman   

16. In which year John Webster's play "The white devil" published_________

(a) 1610                              (b) 1611                        (c) 1612                        (d) 1614   

17. The sentimental comedy had its roots in early 18th century _________

(a) Comedy                        (b) tragedy                          (c) epic                      (d) elegy

18. Which of the following is not to be a neoclassical poet _________

(a) John Dryden                (b) Robert Southey          (c) Alexander pope            (d) Ben Johnson   

19. This early or pre- romantic writer is as well known for his Scottish songs as for his poems
_________
(a) Sir Walter Scott        (b) Robert burns      (c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge          (d) William Blake   

20.The sequence of events in a story _________

(a)Conflict                      (b) Antagonist              (c)Timeline                    (d) plot   

SECTION-B (5X5=25 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions of the following in about 200 words each.

21. Give a note on the literary term ‘Masque’?

22. Explain the structure of a Sonnet.
23. What are the features of mock epic?
24. Define the periodical essay.
25. What is the role of “Master of Reveals”?
26. What is the Coverdale Bible?
27. What are the salient features of Romanticism?

SECTIONC-(3X10-30 marks)

Answer any Three of the following in about 300 words.

28. What are the differences and similarities between poetry, drama, and short stories?
29. Bring out the narrative qualities of the Ballad in telling story.
30. Difference between the comedy of manners and comedy of humours.
31. What are the differences between Romanticism and classicism?
32. What are the basic similarities and differences between classicism and neoclassicism?