(DEG 01) M.A. (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2011. First Year English Paper I HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Questions in Unit I are compulsorily. Answer TWO questions from Unit II and TWO from Unit III. All questions carry equal marks. UNIT I 1. Correct FIVE of the following sentences and identify the unacceptable features : (5 2 = 10) (c) (d) Last month the entire building destroyed by fire. These trousers is made of fine cotton. I am believing his words. Why are you so angry upon me?
(e) (f) (g) (h) How much more plates are needed? They have built a house in Delhi two years ago. A visitor had a fight with waiter. Ramana is rather smart. 2. Distinguish between the following pairs of words : (5 2 = 10) (c) (d) (e) align alien discomfort discomfiture metal mettle altogether all together perceptive perceptible. UNIT II (2 20 = 40) 3. What factors contributed to the growth of English as an international language? 4. What are the different branches of Indo-European family of languages? 5. Trace the impact of the Norman Conquest on the English Language. 6. Explain how Verner's law supplements Grimm's Law. 2 (DEG 01)
7. Write short notes on TWO of the following : (c) (d) Latin Loan words Scandinavian influence Loss of Grammatical Gender Impact of Printing Press. UNIT III (2 20 = 40) 8. Explain briefly any THREE of the following processes of word formation : (c) (d) (e) Addition of prefixes Onomatopoeia Abbreviations Telescoping Slang terms (f) Portmanteau words. 9. Write short notes on any THREE of the following processes of semantic changes : (c) (d) (e) (f) Generalisation Polysemia Association of Ideas Euphemism Loss of distinctive colouring Narrowing. 3 (DEG 01)
10. What are the characteristic features of American English? 11. Write an essay on the contribution of either Shakespeare or Milton to English Language. 12. Write short notes on TWO of the following : (c) (d) Webster's Dictionary John Wycliff Prescriptive Grammars Spelling Reform. 4 (DEG 01)
(DEG 02) M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2011. First Year English Paper II SHAKESPEARE Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Answer Question No. 1 in Unit I is compulsory. Answer any TWO questions from Unit II and TWO questions from Unit III All questions carry equal marks. UNIT I 1. Annotate any FOUR of the following : (4 5 = 20) A Little ere the mightiest Julius fell The graves stood tevantless and the sheeted dead Did Squeak and gibber in the Roman strets; But this our purpose is a twelve month old, And bootless tis to tell you we will go
(c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that How agrees the devil and thee about thy soul that thou soldest him of Good Friday last for a cup of madeira and a cold capon s leg? The dram of evil Doth all the noble substance after doubt To his own scanal O heart, lose not thy nature, het not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom; Let me he cruel, not unnatural. And I can teach thee, cousin, to shame the devil, By telling truth, Tell truth and shame the devil There s is no more faith in thee than a stew d prune, nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox; and for woman hood, Maid Marian may be the deputy s wife of the ward to thee. Go, you nothing, go. 2 (DEG 02)
UNIT II 2. How does Shakespeare make the minor characters like the Hostess, Francis, the carriers and the chamber lain so creditable in different scenes in Henry IV part I? 3. How does Shakespeare create the theotrical illusion of the rich diversity of the life of England, Wales and Scotland in geographical, social and linguistic terms in Henry IV Part I? 4. Comment an the Hamlet - Ophelia and the Hamlet - Gertrude relationship in the light of modern feminist perspective. 5. Consider Hamlet as a Sene can tragedy. 6. Make a note on the changing interpretations of Shakespeare s plays. UNIT III 7. Discuss with illustrations the artistic merits of Shakespeare s Sonnets. 8. Write an essay on the songs in Twelfth Night. 9. Make a note on the role played by Caliban in The Tempest. 3 (DEG 02)
10. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : Significance of the Epilogue of the play The Tempest. Role of Feste in Twelfth Night (c) Critical comment on Sonnet no. 18 (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Polonius advice to his son haertes. Opening scene of Henry IV Part I Duration of action of Twelfth Night. Role of the spirits in The Tempest. Historical play. 4 (DEG 02)
(DEG 03) M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2011. First Year English Paper III MODERN LITERATURE I (1550-1700) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Question 1 is compulsory. Answer any TWO questions from Unit II and TWO from Unit III. All questions carry equal marks. UNIT I 1. Annotate FOUR of the following passages : Now, Faustus, must, Thou needs be damn d. Canst thou not be sav d? Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. (c) Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, which quarrels move, Though she and I do love.
(d) Alas, Alas, who s injured by my love? What merchant s ships have my sighs drowned? (e) Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. (f) Wives are young men s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men s nurses. (g) Him the Almighty power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin. (h) Thou o spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure Instruct me, for thou knowest. UNIT II 2. Examine Dr.Faustus as an allegory. 3. What are the salient features of Bacon s essays? 2 (DEG 03)
4. Critically bring out the metaphysical conceits in the poems of Donne studied by you. 5. Attempt a description of Building of Pandemonium narrated in the Paradise Lost Book I. 6. Give an outline of the rise of the Elizabethan theatre. UNIT III 7. What Senecan elements do you find in Kyd s The Spanish Tragedy. 8. How does Flamineo represent the decadent values of a corrupt age? 9. Consider Every Man in his Humour as a comedy of Humours. 10. Attempt a justification of the title The Way of the World. 11. Discuss the context in which Sidney s Apologie was written. 3 (DEG 03)
12. Write Short notes on any FOUR of the following : (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Epic Similies in Paradise Lost Book IX. Edward II as a tragic hero. Morality Plays Bobadil Restoration comedy Revenge Tragedy Aphoristic style of Bacon Elizabethan prose. 4 (DEG 03)
(DEG 04) M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2011. First Year English Paper IV MODERN LITERATURE II (1700-1850) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Question No. 1 is compulsorily. Answer any TWO questions from Unit I and TWO questions from Unit II. 1. Annotate any FOUR of the following : (4 5 = 20) Dear liberty! Yet what would it avail But for a gift that consecrates the joy? I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, (c) Keen as a truant or a fugitive, But as a pilgrim resolute, I took, Even with the chance equipment of that hour, The road that pointed toward the chosen vale.
(d) (e) (f) (g) (h) She dwells with Beauty Beauty that must die; And joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead, we rate him by his best. He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. Women should never sue for reconciliation; that should always come from us. They should retain their coldness till woo'd to kindness and their pardon, like their love should not unsought be won. UNIT I (2 20 = 40) 2. Make a critical analysis of Keats, Ode to Psyche. 3. What, according to you, is the central theme of Wordsworth's The Prelude Book I? 4. Examine Johnson's defence of the mingling of the comic and the Tragic. 2 (DEG 04)
5. Write an essay on the significance of the prologue to Sheridan's play The Rivals. 6. Write a note on the various influences on the Romantic poets. UNIT II (2 20 = 40) 7. Make a note on Pope's personal element in the poem The Rape of the Lock. 8. Discuss how far has Coleridge succeeded in making the supernatural credible in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 9. Write an essay on Shelley's Adonais as a romantic variation of classifical elegy. 10. Assess the achievement of Lamb as an essayist. 11. Write an essay on Emma's progress through illusion to reality. 12. Do you agree with the view that Goldsmith brought back the spirit of Shakespeare in his She Stoops to Conquer? Explain in detail. 13. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : (c) Sentimental comedy Ode Satire 3 (DEG 04)
(d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Nature poetry in English Essay as a form of literature Ballad Dramatic irony Malapropism. 4 (DEG 04)
(DEG 05) M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2011. First Year English Paper V MODERN LITERATURE III (1850-1950) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Question No. 1 in Unit I is compulsory. Answer any TWO questions each from Unit II and III. All questions carry equal marks. UNIT I 1. Annotate FOUR of the following : Who were not born to waste your days as beasts? But to win worth and wisdom for your own. A common greyness silverse everything all in a twilight, you and I alike the last monk leaves the garden, days decrease, and autumn grows, autumn in everything.
(c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) They scare a flight of birds across the field much that is natural, to the will must yield. The your voices command you not to submit yourself militant? My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad, stay with me speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. Tiresias, although a mere spectator and not indeed a character is yet not important. No. My Lord : It is not his Majesty, monsieur de Rais is approaching. Literary art, that is, like all art which is any way imitative or reproductive of fact. Form or colour or incident is the representation of such fact as connected with soul of specific personality. UNIT II 2. How does Tennyson uphold the invincibility of the human spirit in 'Ulysses'? 3. Consider 'Andrea Del Santo' as a typical dramatic monologue. 4. What are pater's views on the approach that should be adopted by the writer in regard to the treatment of row facts and the choice of language for this subject? 2 (DEG 05)
5. How does The Wast Land reflect the disillusionment of a generation? Discuss. 6. "Saint Joan" is a highly tragedy, not a mere melodrama or a police court sensation. Discuss. 7. Critically examine the central theme of Dyalan Thomas's poem The "Hunchback in the park". UNIT III 8. Is Henchard alone responsible for the tragedy in The Mayor of Caster Bridge? Discuss. 9. Critically comment on Woolf's use of stream of consciousness techniques in To The Light House. 10. Examine the statement " :Yeat's achievment of poetic maturity means on the whole a preference for the language actually spoken and the use of symbols". 11. Discuss Lawrence's Sons and Lovers as a psychological novel. 12. Examine the plot and structure of Waiting for Godot. 13. Evaluate T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party as a poetic drama. 3 (DEG 05)
14. Write short notes on FOUR of the following : Religion versus science Style (c) Symbolism (d) War poetry (e) Trends in Modern English Poetry (f) Dramatic Monologue (g) Absurd theatre (h) Flat and Round Characters. 4 (DEG 05)