Subject: I (Optional) - Study of Fiction Maximum Marks: 30 Q.1. Attempt a character sketch of Tom Jones. Q.2. Discuss the appropriateness of the title 'Pride and Prejudice' Q.3. Attempt a character sketch of Pip. Q.4. Discuss the element of chance in the Mayor of Casterbridge. Q.5. Discuss the aptness of the title 'Lord of the Files'. Discuss the theme of Lord of Files Discuss fielding characterization with special referents tom Jones. Write a note on female characters is pride and prejudice. Discuss the philosophy of Hardy as a novelist. Write a note on Hardy s philosophy of life.
Subject: II (Optional) Poetry from 1798 to the Present Maximum Marks: 30 Critically evaluate Coleridge as a poet. Write a note on Ode to the West Wind as a representative poem of P.B. Shalley. Assess Rabbi Ben Ezra as a philosophical poem. Discuss The Waste Land as a social document. Write a critical appreciation of either W.H. Auden s Watch Any Day or Pike written by Ted Hughes. Critically analyses the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Discuss Ulysses as a dramatic monologue. Critically analyses the poem The Lake Isle innisfree. Discuss Ted Hughes as modern Poet. Explain with reference to contest: (a) Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar;
Subject: II Literary Theory Maximum Marks: 30 Q.1. According to Aristotle poetry makes an immediate appeal to the emotions Discuss. Q.2. Write a note of Grandeur of Though as expressed by Longinus. Q.3. Sydney has great respect for rules. Discuss. Q.4. Evaluate Dr. Johnson's Critical Theory. Account for the Percod authorship and origin of Natyashastra. Q.5. Discuss the views of Dr. Johnson on the Tragi Comedy. Critically examine Wordsworth s theory of poetry. Write a note on Aristotle s definition of tragedy. Write a note on T.S. Eliot's Impersonality of Poetry. Write an essay on Coleridge s theory of Imagination. Discuss T.S. Chot as a Critic. Account of Bharata Muni s view of Rasa & acting
Subject: III A Study of Shakespeare Maximum Marks: 30 Show your appreciation of the types of humour presented in As You like it. Give your estimate of Henry Fielding Tom Jones as the Picaresque novel. Write a Character Sketch of Macbeth. Summarise the plot of The Tempest. Discuss Julius Caesar as a tragedy of interval conflicting motives. 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. Henry IV Part I is poised between Tragedy & Comedy. Comment on the treatment of the supernatural in The Tempest. Discuss Henry IV Part I as a historical play. Write a short essay on Coleridge as a Critic. Analyze the structure and plot construction of the play Julius Caesar. Write a note an the tragic elements in Macbeth Evaluate Sidney as a Critic. Describes as you like it as a romantic comedy.
Subject: IV English Language Maximum Marks: 30 Q.1. Define 'Language as an arbitrary vocal symbols'. What do you mean by language, Writes its characteristics. Q.2. Write a note on various functional of language. Q.3. Write a note an standard variety of language. Q.4. What is a dialect? Give examples. Write about Semantics. Q.5. What is creole? Give example. Write note on Socio linguistics. Write a note an word formation. Give appropriate examples. What is sound change? What are the major types of sound change? Describe the growth of English language. Write short notes on: (a) Referential view meaning (b) Behavioural view of meaning (c) Use theory of meaning Discuss English as a world language.