C.U. English Honours First Semester Question Paper 2018 [CC-2]

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2018

 ENGLISH-HONOURS

Paper : CC - 2

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 - B

(Answer within 600 words)

1. (a) Discuss with examples, the epic conventions employed by Homer in the first two books of The Iliad. 

                                                                    Or,

(b) Analyse the character of Achilles as revealed in Books I and II of The Iliad.                        15

2. (a) Is it Fate or Free Will that is responsible for Oedipus’s tragedy? Analyse.                        15

                                                                    Or,

(b) The role of the Chorus in Sophocles’ Oedipus The King is more than a mere dramatic device. Discuss.                                                                                                                                      15

                                                                            Group - C

(Answer within 600 words)

3. (a) Describe, in detail, Pantheus’ death at the instigation of Bacchus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book III).                                                                                                                              15

Or,

(b) Narrate how Teiresias became blind. How was Teiresias recomposed for his loss?                                                                                                                                           15

 4. (a) Sketch the character of Euclio in Plautus’ The Pot of Gold.                                          15

Or,

(b) The Pot of Gold portrays a picture of the Roman society during Plautus’ time. Elucidate.                                                                                                                                  15

Or,

(c) What are Horace’s views on satire and its moral content as stated in his Satires I. IV? Discuss.                                                                                                                                    15

Or,

(d) What does Horace say in his Satires I. IV about his father’s training in providing a key to his satiric art?                                                                                                                                          15

5. Answer the following questions: (1 x 5)

(a) How was Narcissus born?

(b) Name the two maidens whom the soldiers of Agamemnon had captured.

(c) Name Oedipus’s foster parents.

(d) With what did Oedipus blind himself?

(e) Who finally steals Euclios’ guarded pot of gold?

         Or,

    Name the writers of ancient comedy as mentioned in Horace’s Satires I.IV.

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