2020
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) Who was Aelfric?
(b) Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
(c) Which English dramatist is closely associated with the Comedy of Humours?
(d) Name one dramatist who belonged to the group of 'University Wits'.
(e) Name a novel by Samuel Richardson.
2. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words): 10 x 1
(a) Write a short essay on Old English Heroic poetry.
(b) Give a critical
account of the growth and development of the Elizabethan sonnet.
(c)
Write a short essay on the Restoration Comedy of Manners with special
reference to any two playwrights.
3. Answer any one question from the following (within 200 words): 5 x 1
(a) Write a short note on King Alfred's
contribution to the development of Old English prose.
(b) Show your acquaintance with Christopher Marlowe.
(c)
Assess the importance of Henry Fielding
in the rise of the Eighteenth century English novel.
Section - II
4. Answer the following: 1 x 5
(a) Name one writer of Romantic Non-Fiction
prose.
(b) Name one founder of the 'Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood'.
(c)
Name the author of "Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard".
(d) Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
(e)
Who wrote Waiting for Godot?
5. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words): 10 x 1
(a) Write a short essay on Pre-Romantic poetry with special reference to any two poets.
(b) Give an account of the works of any two major Victorian novelists.
(c) Assess the contribution of T.S. Eliot
to 20th Century English poetry.
6. Answer any one question from the following (within 200 words): 5 x 1
(a) Write
a short note on the Essays of Elia.
(b) Briefly
assess the importance of Charles Dickens.
(c) Show your
acquaintance with Harold Pinter.
Group - B
(Philology)
Section - I
7. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words): 10 x 1
(a) Discuss
the Latin influence on the English language in different historical periods.
(b) Examine
the nature and extent of the French influence on the English language.
(c) Assess the importance
of Americanism in English language.
Section - II
8. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words): 10 x 1
(a) Write
a note on the Consonant Shift.
(b) Discuss any two
word-formation processes in English.
9. Write a short note on any one of the following: 5 x 1
(a) Malapropism
(b) "ing" formation
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