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ME-122
March-2019
B.A., Sem.-I
EC-I-101 : English
(Introduction to Literature)

Time : 2.30 Hours] [Max. Marks : 70

Instructions : (1) Mention clearly the options you attempt.

(2) Figures on the right indicate marks.

1. (A) Describe in detail the qualities of good Literature. 17

OR
(B) Explain various reasons for studying Literature.

2. (A) Write a detailed note on Lyric as a poetic form. 17

OR
(B) Discuss in detail Elegy as a form of poetry.

3. (A) Write an appreciation of Tennyson’s In Memoriam. 17

OR
(B) Write a detailed note on P. B. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind.

4. (A) Write brief notes on the following : (Any Five) 10

Couplet
Style
Genre
Rhyme
Imagery
Meter
Homonyms

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 (B) Choose the correct answer from the options given below each of the following
statements : 9
(1) Literature should be a criticism of _______.
(a) life (b) world (c) education
(2) Phrases like ‘creative literature’ or ‘serious literature’ are used for _______
literature.
(a) bad (b) mediocre (c) good
(3) Serious literature cannot exist at all without _______ consciousness.
(a) moral (b) social (c) legal
(4) The Lesbian Ode is named after the _______ of Lesbos.
(a) river (b) island (c) volcano
(5) The Dorian Ode is more usually known as the _______ Ode.
(a) Horatian (b) Pindaric (c) English
(6) _______ is particularly associated with the great Italian poet, Petrarch.
(a) Elegy (b) Ode (c) Sonnet
(7) P. B. Shelley describes the wind as ‘destroyer and _______’.
(a) creator (b) preserver (c) destroyer
(8) William Shakespeare, in Sonnet 73, says that his _______ is like a ‘time of
year’.
(a) love (b) birth (c) age
(9) In Memoriam is written by _______.
(a) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Robert Browing
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