2019
ENGLISH-HONOURS
Paper : CC - 1
Full Marks- 65
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
(History of English Literature)
Section- I
1. Answer the following: 1 x5
(a) Name one Old English heroic poem.
(b) Who wrote The Faerie Queene?
(c) Who wrote The Spanish Tragedy?
(d) Name one play by William Congreve?
(e) Mention a novel by Henry Fielding.
2. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words): 10 x 1
(a) Assess the importance of Geoffrey Chaucer?
(b) Comment on the importance of the University Wits in the history of English drama?
(c) Write a short essay on the rise if the novel in the 18th century with special reference to any two novelists.
3. Answer any one question from the following (within 200 words): 5 x 1
(a) Write a short note on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(b) Briefly discuss Ben Jonson's Comedy of Humours.
(c) Show your acquaintance with Congreve.
Section - II
4. Answer the following: 1 x 5
(a) Name one pre-Romantic English poet.
(b) Name one poem by W.B. Yeats.
(c) Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
(d) Who wrote Biographia Literaria?
(e) Name one drama by John Osborne.
5. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words): 10 x 1
(a) give an account of the non-fiction prose of the Romantic period with special reference to any two essayists.
(b) Write a short essay on Pre-Raphaelite poetry with special reference to the works of any two poets.
(c) Assess the contribution of Samuel Beckett to 20th Century English drama.
6. Answer any one question from the following (within 200 words): 5 x 1
(a) Briefly discuss the importance of W. B. Yeats.
(b) Write a short note on David Copperfield.
(c) Show your acquaintance with Virginia Woolf.
Group - B
(Philology)
Section - I
7. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words): 10 x 1
(a) Discuss Scandinavian influence on the English Language.
(b) How does the linguistic evidence show that French was the language of the rulers and the upper class after Norman Conquest.
(c) What is Americanism in English language?
Section - II
8. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words): 10 x 1
(a) Discuss Grimm's Law.
(b) Examine any two word-formation processes, prescribed in your syllabus.
9. Write a short note on any one of the following: 5 x 1
(a) Hybridism
(b) Johnsonese