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1 DEPARTMENT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA Response Sheet of Internal Assessment ANNUAL SYSTEM Class : M.A. (English) Part-II Roll No... Paper : V Session : Is this a continuation case... Student's Name... Father's Name... Student's Address Phone No... Mobile No... Student's Signature... Teacher's Signature... Total Marks = Marks Obtained... Note:- Attempt any one long-answer question. Max. Marks : 15 Long-answer questions 1. Do you agree with the view that modern poetry is complex, difficult and obscure. Give a reasoned answer. 2. Discuss the use of symbols and myths in the poetry of W.B.Yeats giving illustrations from the poems prescribed in your syllabus. 3. The theme of the poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock is a personal dilemma, an incapacity to take a decision or face real life experience". Explain. 4. Discuss the rejection of modernism in Larkin's poetry. 1

2 5. Make a thematic analysis of the novel Heart of Darkness. 6. Write a detailed note on the use of "stream-of-consciousness technique" in the novel Mrs. Dalloway. 7. Discuss The Birthday Party as a play in the Absurd tradition. 8. What is the significance of the Epilogue in Shaw s St. Joan. 9. Write a critical note on Clarissa Septimus relationship. 10. Comment on the structure of Shaw s St. Joan. Note:- Attempt any two short-answer questions. Max. Marks : 5x2=10 Short-answer questions 1. Discuss any two miracles in the play Saint Joan. 2. Comment on the ending of the play Saint Joan. 3. Why was Joan canonized? 4. Discuss the relationship of Meg, Stanley and Petty. 5. Do you find Stanley as an unhappy neurotic? 6. Discuss the ending of the novel Mrs. Dalloway. 7. What is the cause of Septimus's death? 8. What impressions do you form of the personality of Elizabeth Dalloway? 9. Comment on the title of the novel Heart of Darkness. 10. Comment on the ending of the novel Heart of Darkness. 11. How has Conrad portrayed the natives in the novel? 12. How does Larkin look upon "Days"? 13. Discuss the atmosphere of the poem "Winter". 14. Comment on the title of the poem The Waste Land. 15. Comment on the epigraph of The Waste Land. 16. Discuss the opening of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium". 17. Describe the horrors of war as described by Yeats in the poem "Nineteen hundred and nineteen". 18. The poem Leda and the Swan suggests the emergence of a new civilization. Elaborate. 19. What is Poetic Drama? 20. Define Symbolism. 2

3 DEPARTMENT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA Response Sheet of Internal Assessment Class : M.A. (English) Part-II ANNUAL SYSTEM Roll No... Paper : VI Session : Is this a continuation case... Student's Name... Father's Name... Student's Address Phone No... Mobile No... Student's Signature... Teacher's Signature... Total Marks = Marks Obtained... Part-A Note:- Attempt any one long-answer question. Long-answer questions Max. Marks : 15 Q.1 Make a thematic analysis of the novel Midnight's Children. Q.2 Write a comprehensive note on the techniques employed in the novel Midnight's Children. Q.3 What impressions do you form of the narrator after your reading of the novel Surfacing? Discuss critically. Q.4 Discuss Surfacing as a feminist text. Q.5 Write a critical note on the aptness of the title Fences. Q.6 Write a comprehensive essay on the theme of racial discrimination in Fences. 3

4 Q.7 Discuss A Bend in the River as a post-colonial novel. Q.8 What impression do you form of the character of Salim after your reading of the novel A Bend in the River? Discuss critically. Q.9 Analyse the significance of the title of the novel Such A Long Journey. Q.10 Discuss Mistry's treatment of History in the novel Such A Long Journey. Q.11 Discuss Derek Walcott as a Carribean poet with reference to the poems prescribed. Q.12 "Search for Identity is the dominant theme in the poetry of Derek Walcott". Explain. Q.13 Discuss critically the theme of loyalty and betrayal in the novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Q.14 Is it appropriate to call Half of a Yellow Sun a historical novel? Comment critically. Q.15 Write a comprehensive note on the theme of "identity" in Sally Morgan's My Place. Q.16 Highlight the symbolic significance of the title of Sally Morgan's My Place? How does it convey the issues of race and gender as discussed in My Place? Part-B Attempt any two questions. Each answer should be in four-five lines. Max. Marks : 5x2=10 Q.1 How does the 1965 Indo-Pak War prove dangerous for Saleem? Q.2 Comment on the role of Picture Singh in the novel Midnight's Children. Q.3 Comment on the ending of the novel Surfacing. 4

5 Q.4 What does Percival represent in the novel Surfacing? Q.5 Comment on the role of Bono in the play Fences. Q.6 How does Rose react when Troy brings his infant daughter to her? Q.7 What does the voice of Nazruddin represent in the novel A Bend in the River? Q.8 Give an account of the relation between Yvette and Salim in the novel A Bend in the River. Q.9 How did the Prime Minister entrap Major Bilimoria in the novel Such A Long Journey? Q.10 Discuss briefly the friendship between Gustad Noble and Dinshawji. Q.11 What is the theme of Derek Walcott's poem "The Sea is History"? Q.12 Discuss the central motif in the poem "White Magic". Q.13 Highlight the symbolic significance of Richard-Susan relationship in Half of a Yellow Sun. Q.14 Why does Olanna disapprove her parents's way of life in Half of a Yellow Sun? Q.15 How does Sally Morgan project her mother in My Place? Q.16 Discuss the role of Arthur in Sally Morgan's My Place. 5

6 DEPARTMENT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA Response Sheet of Internal Assessment Class : M.A. (English) Part-II ANNUAL SYSTEM Roll No... Paper : VII Session : Is this a continuation case... Student's Name... Father's Name... Student's Address Phone No... Mobile No... Student's Signature... Total Marks = Teacher's Signature... Marks Obtained... Note:- Attempt any one long-answer question. Max. Marks : 15 Long questions 1. What has Aristotle to say about the origin of poetry and development of tragedy? 2. In some respects, Johnson was "an outright dissenter against the neoclassical rules and properties". Discuss with special reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson's Shakespearean criticism. 3. What was Wordsworth's motive or purpose in writing the "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads, and what is its permanent significance in English literary tradition? 4. Discuss T.S.Eliot as a critic. 5. Analyze Eagleton's views on the author and his commitment as explained in Marxism and Literary Criticism. 6. Frye in "The Archetypes of Literature", dwells upon two movements : inductive and deductive. Expatiate upon the significance of these processes in the realm of art. 7. Discuss in your own words the basic principles of Freud's theory and his attitude to Art, as explained by Trilling. 6

7 8. In the theorizing of the postmodern, comment upon the affinity that Jameson's reflections on the issue bear with Mandel's Late Capitalism. 9. Importance of Edward W.Said lies in his adaptation of Contemporary Critical Theory to the study of the connection between Western culture and imperialism. Discuss this statement in the light of Said's Orientalism. 10. Enumerate salient features of "Feminist Poetics", tracing its genesis and early developments in the field, in the light of Elaine Showalter's "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness". Note:- Attempt any two short-answer questions. Max. Marks : 5x2=10 Short Questions 1. Highlight difference between tragedy and epic. 2. Johnson's fundamental appeal was "from criticism to nature". How far is it true of his "Preface" to Shakespeare? 3. Comment on the concept of "Poetic Diction" as it prevailed in the eighteenth century. 4. What should be the focus of attention of a critic, according to T.S. Eliot while interpreting a work of art? 5. What according to Eagleton is "ideology" in Marxism? 6. What has Frye to say about "value judgements"? 7. Define what according to Frye is an "archetype". 8. What relationship, according to Trilling does Freud suggest between Art and Psychology? 9. Write a note on any one of the following: a) Art and Neurosis, b) Art and Dream 10. Write a note on "Commodification" as explained by Jameson in Postmodernism. 11. Explain "cognitive mapping" as adumbrated by Jameson. 12. From your reading of Said's Orientalism write notes on the following (any one): a) Power b) Knowledge c) Culture 13. Write a note on the concept of "hegemony", tracing its history, and then its usage by Said. 14. Write a note on the limitations of the term "postcolonial". 15. From your reading of Showalter's "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness" write a note on "feminist criticism" based on culture. 7

8 DEPARTMENT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA Response Sheet of Internal Assessment Class : M.A. (English) Part-II ANNUAL SYSTEM Roll No... Paper : VIII (ii) Session : Is this a continuation case... American Literature Student's Name... Father's Name... Student's Address Phone No... Mobile No... Student's Signature... Teacher's Signature... Total Marks = Marks Obtained... Note:- Attempt any one Long-Answer Question. Long -Answer- Questions Max. Marks : Write a detailed note on Transcendentalism as a landmark in American History. 2. Give a detailed account of the developments in American Literature of the 1920s and the following years. 3. Discuss imagery, theme and symbolism in Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter. 8

9 4. The Scarlet Letter depicts Hawthorne s attitude towards Puritanism and his skills as a writer. Comment. 5. Discuss the clash of morals and manners in the context of the International theme in the works of Henry James with a special reference to The Portrait of A Lady. 6. Write a detailed note on the structure of William Faulkner s The Sound and the Fury. 7. How does O Neill make use of psychological realism in the play Desire Under the Elms. 8. Miller s play Death of A Salesman presents a modern man confronting the basic realities of life. Comment. 9. Discuss Willy Loman as a tragic hero keeping in view the characteristics of the classical measure under which a tragic hero may be measured. 10. Write a detailed note on the poetic metaphors and symbols in the poems by Robert Frost. Note:- Attempt any two Short-Answer Questions. Max. Marks : 2x5=10 Short Answer Questions 1. Write a brief note on the writers of the "Lost Generation". 2. Discuss American Individualism in the context of the philosophies of Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. 3. Comment on the symbolic characterization of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. 4. Discuss the relationship between Roger Chillingworth and Reverend Dimmesdale. 5. Ralph Touchett plays a significant role in Isabel s life. Comment. 9

10 6. Make a brief comment on Isabel s relationship with Pansy. 7. Comment on the role played by Madam Merle in The Portrait of A Lady. 8. Write a note on Quentin Compson s suicide in The Sound and the Fury. 9. Caddy is the central force in The Sound and the Fury. Comment. 10. Jason in The Sound and the Fury represents the modern materialistic man. Comment. 11. Comment on Dilsey s action in The Sound and the Fury. 12. Highlight the confrontation between Eben and Abbie in O Neill s Desire under the Elms. 13. What does the Farm symbolize in the Desire Under the Elms. 14. Write a note on Willy Loman s relationship with his sons. 15. Miller s Death of A Salesman ends on a note of both an ending and a beginning. Comment. 16. Linda plays a silent role of reconciliation in Death of A Salesman. Give your opinion about her place in the lives of her husband and her sons. 17. Highlight the thematic concerns in any one of Robert Frost s poems prescribed in your syllabus. 18. Discuss the imagery in Sylvia Plath s poems. 19. Comment on the theme of hostility towards men as taken up in Plath s "Lady Lazarus". 20. Give your views on the confessional note in Sylvia Plath s poetry. 10