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Sunday, 25 February 2018

C.U. English Honours Part-I Question Paper 2017 [Second Paper]

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2017

ENGLISH-HONOURS

Second Paper

Full Marks-100

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group-A

1. Answer any one question of the following (in 500 words):                                                               14X1

(a) Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” explores the concept of the “carpe-diem” in a unique manner – Discuss.
(b) How do Blake’s poems “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” present contrary views of existence? 

Group-B
2. Answer any two questions of the following (each within 500 words):                                          14X2
(a) Examine the gradual changes in Wordsworth’s perception of Nature at different stages of his life with reference to “Tintern Abbey”.
(b) Comment on the elements of Romanticism in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”.
 (c)The roles of preserver and destroyer are performed by the west wind with equal ease in Shelly’s poem “Ode to the West Wind”. Elucidate.
(d)  How does the nightingale in Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” transport the poet to the transcendental realm? 

 3. Explain any one of the following with reference to the context (each in 250 words):                   8X1
(a) Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
.
 (b) And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

2017 CU English Honours Question Paper

Group-C
4. Answer any one question of the following (in 500 words):                                                            14X1
(a) Show how Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 is anti-petrachan in all aspects.
(b) Attempt a critical appreciation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 87.
Group-D
5.  Answer any one question of the following (in 500 words):                                                            14X1
(a) Write a note on the Invocation in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book I.
 (b) Comment on Milton’s grand style in Paradise Lost, Book I.
Group- E
6. Answer any one question of the following (in 450 words):                                                                14x1
(a) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a balanced critique of 18th century society. Discuss.
(b) Do you consider the supernatural machinery is Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to be an integral aspect of the poem?
Group-F
7. Write notes (in around 150 words)on any two of the following literary terms:                              4x2
         i.            Mock-epic
       ii.            Blank Verse
      iii.            Rhyme
     iv.            Symbol     


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Saturday, 24 February 2018

C.U. English Honours Part-I Question Paper 2017 [First Paper]

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2017
ENGLISH-HONOURS
First Paper
Full Marks-100
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
Three questions will have to be answered (one question of 16 marks and two questions of 7 marks each) taking only one from each section. Examinees are not allowed to answer twice from the same section.

Group-A
(O.E. Period- 1750)

Section-1
1. Write a short essay on Old English Christian Poetry.                                                                                      16
2. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                                                                          7X2
(a) William Langland
(b) Pearl
 Section-2
3. Critically assess the contribution of the University Wits to English Drama.                           16
4. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                             7X2
(a) Tottel's Miscellany
(b) Ben Jonson
 Section-3
5. Discuss the characteristic features of Restoration Comedy focusing on any two dramatists.    16
6. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                             7X2
(a) Absalom and Achitophel
(b) Alexander Pope

Group-B
(1750-2000)
Three questions will have to be answered (one question of 16 marks and two questions of 7 marks each) taking only one from each section. Examinees are not allowed to answer twice from the same section.

Section-1
7. Discuss the rise of the novel in the 18th century with reference to any two novelists.
8. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                                                       7X2
(a) Prometheus Unbound
(b) William Hazlitt

Section-2
9. Evaluate the importance of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement.                                                                                                                                   16
10. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                                                   7X2
(a) Oliver Twist
(b) Robert Browning

Section-3
11. Write an essay on the Stream of Consciousness novel.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
12. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                             7X2
(a) W.B. Yeats
(b) Look Back In Anger

2017 CU English Honours Question Paper

PHILOLOGY

Group-A
13. Answer any one of the following (in 450 words):
(a) Estimate the nature and extent of the French influence on the English language.                                          
(b) Discuss the Latin influence on the English language in different historical periods.                                                                                                                                               
Group-B
14. Write word notes on any four:                                                                                                                 2X4
Children, admiral, trusteeship, assassination, by-law, gift, alms, mob.

Group- C
15. Answer any one of the following (in 450 words):
(a) Assess the importance of the American influence on the English language.
 (b) Write a note on Hybridism as a means of making new words in English.

Group-D
16.  Answer any one of the following (in 300 words):
(a) Write a note on the Consonant Shift.                                                                                        8
(b) Comment on John Milton as a maker of the English language.                                               8
 (c) Examine the impact of the Bible on the English Language.                                                    8           

Now have a look at 2017 Part-1 Paper 2.
https://risewiththewise.blogspot.in/2018/02/cu-english-honours-part-i-question_25.html

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