Subject: Study of Fiction Maximum Marks: 30 Q.1 Describe Tom Jones as picaresque novel? Q.2 Write a note on Pride and Prejudice as a romantic novel? Q.3 Write a note on a character sketch of Pip? Q.4 Describe Thomas Hardy as a novelist? Q. 5 Describe Lord of the Flies is a allegorical novel? What are its important symbols?
Subject: Literary Theory Maximum Marks: 30 Q.1 How does Aristotle define poetry? What is false Sublimity? Explain with reference to On the Sublime by Longinus? Q.2 What is the significance of the title An Apology for Poetry? Why Preface to Shakespeare considered as a classic document of English literary criticism? Q.3 Describe William Wordsworth as a critic? Describe Coleridge as a critic with the reference of Biographia Literaria? Q.4 Ilucidate the Arnold as the critics critic? Describe the theme used by T.S. Eliot used in the Sacred Wood? Q.5 In Natyashastra by Bhara Muni, what are the main keynotes describe in the book? According to Natyashastra how many rasa s are described in the book?
Subject: Poetry from 1798 to the present day Maximum Marks: 30 Q.1 What are the main theme of Wordsworth s poem The World is too Much with Us? How does Coleridge blend the natural and supernatural elements in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? Q.2 Describe P.B. Shelley as romantic poet? What do you mean by Negative Capability in the poems of John Keats? Q.3 Compare and contrast between The Lotus Eaters and Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson? Define Robert Browning as a poet of dramatic monologue? Q.4 Define the Waste Land as masterpiece of T.S. Eliot? Write a critical appreciation of the poem Sailing to Byzantium? Q.5 Describe Philip Larkin as modern poet? Write a critical note on Miranda s Song? Q.6 Attempt any one from the each section: (a) The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. He holds him with his skinny hand, There was a ship, quoth he. Hold off! Unhand me, grey-beard loon, Eftsoons his hand dropt he. (b) Like the glow-worn golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue.
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbress pains, My sense, as thou of hemlock I had drunk. (c) I can not rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed, Greatly, have suffer d greatly, both with those. He kissed me awake, and no one was sorry; The sun shone on sails, eye, pebbles, anything, And the high green hill sits always by the sea.
Subject: English Language Maximum Marks: 30 Q.1 Discuss salient features of English language. Q.2 What are the views of the protagonists in the English versus Hindi debate? Which view do you support and why? Q.3 Write a note on the following: (a) Register (b) Dialect (c) Idiolect Q.4 Trace in details the growth of English Language Q.5. Write a note an standard variety of language.
Subject: A Study of Shakespeare Maximum Marks: 30 Q.1 Examine As you like it as a romantic comedy. Q.2 Consider Henry IV part A as a historical play. Q.3 Give your estimate of Henry Fielding Tom Jones as the Picaresque novel. Q.4 Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion. It is not the Expression of personality but an escape from personality. (T.S. Eliot) Comment. Q.5 Discuss Julius Caesar as a tragedy of interval conflicting motives.