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1 Subject: STUDY OF FICTION Q. 1 Consider Tom Jones as a comic epic in Prose. Q.2 Comment on the appropriateness of the title of Jane Austen s novel Pride and Prejudice. Q.3 Write a critical note on the use of symbolism in Golding s The ld of Flies. Q.4 Draw a Character- Sketch of Pip as revealed in Dickens Great Expectations. Q.5 Comments of Thomas Hardy s philosophy of life with special reference to his novel The may of caster bridge Q6 Assess Jane Austen fielding as novelist. I Q.1 Write a note on fielding s art of characterization with reference to his novel Tom Jones. Q.2 Consider Jane Austen s novel Pride and Prejudice as a domestic novel. Q.3 Give a Character sketch of Henchard Farfrae. Q.4 Bring out the theme of The ld of flies by Golding. Q.5 Consider Charles Dickens as a novelist. Q.6 Draw a Character Sketch of Elizabeth Bonnet.

2 Subject: Poetry from 1798 to the Present -- - Q.1 In his (Wdswth s) sonnets his lyrical mood burns clear and strong, and as a result they rank among the best in English poerty. Discuss critically. Q.2 Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem Ode to a Nightingale Q.3 Write a critical appreciation of either Ulysses The Lotus Eaters Q.4 The Waste Land expresses disillusionment and degeneration of the contempary society Discuss the statement. Q.5 Larkin represents the dilemmas, problems and self-consciousness of the middle class of the post-war wld. Critically comment. Q.6 Explain with reference to the context: (a) Our birth is but a sleep and fgentting; The soul that rises with us, our life s Star Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar; (b) Here, Where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy Shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs. Where youth grows pale and spectre thin, and dies. I Q.1 Discuss William Wdswth as a poet of Nature giving illustartions from the poems prescribed in your course. Q.2 As an ode writer Keats ranks with the greatest English poets. Critically discuss the statement with reference to his prescribed odes. Q.3 Assess Rabbi Ben Ezra as a philosophical poem. Q.4 Discuss The Waste Land as a social document. Q.5 Discuss Ted Hughes as a modern poet. Q.6 Annotate the following extracts giving critical comments. (A) Dear is the memy of our wedded lives. And dear the last embraces of our wives. And their warn tears: but all hath suffer d Change. (B) Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily fm from any natural thing.

3 Subject: LITREARY THEORY Q.1 Explain Aristotle s concept of Tragic Hero. Q.2 Define sublime Explain the five Principal sources of sublimity Q.3 How does Sydney defend Poetry Against Histy and philosophy? Q4 Elabate wds wth s they of poetry as revealed in his Preface to lyrical ballads Q.5 Give a general estimate of Johnson as a critic with reference to his Preface to Shakespeare Consider Eliot as a critic. Q.6 Critically examine Arnold s dictum poetry is a criticism of life How does and why Coleridge disagree with wds wth on the issue of poetic diction? Write a on Indian critical they of Bhart natiya shastra. I Q.1 Draft a literary note on Aristotle s they of imitation. Q.2 Consider Longinus as a critic. Q.3 On what special merits does Philip sidney consider poetry superi to Histy and philosophy? Q.4 write a sht essay on wd wth as critic. Q.5 Reassess Wds wth s qualities as a Poet as enunciated by Mathew Arnold. Or How does Arnold Prescribe his well known touch stone method in der to guide the critic in his task. Q.6 Bring out the significance of Ras in Bhrat nataya shastra. Assess Dr. Johnson Coleridge as critic.

4 Subject: A Study of Shakespeare - Q.1 Consider Shakespeare As you like it as a romantic comedy. Q.2 Give a character ptrayal of Prospero as depicted in The Tempest Q.3 Give your assessment of Henry IV as a histy play. Q.4 Macbeth is a tragedy of ambition Elabate with illustrations. Q.5 Give a character sketch of Brutus in Julius Caesar Q.6 Annotate the following it is a tale Told by an idiot full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing I Q.1 Write down the theme of As you Like it Q.2 Give a character sketch of Miranda. Q.3 What is the significance of Antony s funeral speech in Julius Caesar? Q.4 Draw a character sketch of Falstaff. Q.5 Is it right to say that Lady Macbeth is the Fourth witch? Give your Views in brief f and against it. Q.6 Annotate the following- Et to, Brute?i

5 Subject: English Language Q.1 Define language Write down its characteristics as a system of communication. Q.2 Enumerate standard Varities of language Explain Dialect and Regis ten. Q.3 Explain synchronic and Diachronic approaches to the study of language. Q.4 Write a note on the growth of English language. Q.5 What do you mean by Semantics? Explain write note on socio- linguistics. Q.6 Explain the process of language change. Sentence is an imptant grammatical structure of modern English What are different kinds of sentence. I Q.1 Define language Write down its function. Q.2 Write a note on Register, style and idiolect. Q.3 What are different approaches to the study of language Explain the synchronic and diachronic approaches. Q.4 Write a note on the development of English language. Q.5 What is Semantics? Explain Lexical and Grammatical meaning. Q.6 Establish imptance of socio- linguistics. What are different kinds and use of Articles- A, An, The.

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