C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2012 [Fourth Paper]

2012

ENGLISH-HONOURS

Fourth 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 of the following questions: (within 600 words)    16x1                                                                                               

a)      Comment on Jane Austen’s treatment of the theme of the marriage in Pride and Prejudice.

b)       Elizabeth Bennet is the moving force in the novel Pride and Prejudice.

c)       Write a critical note on Scott’s treatment of history in Kenilworth.  

d)      Illustrate Scott’s art of characterization, focusing on any two characters in Kenilworth. 

Group-B

2. Answer any one of the following questions: (within 600 words)    16x1       

a)      Critically comment on the existence of the playful and serious elements in The Superannuated Man.

b)      Discuss the episode of shooting an elephant in George Orwell’s essay.

3. Explain with reference to the context. Any one of the following phrases: (within 300 words)  8x1

a)      But time partially reconciles us to anything, I gradually became content—doggedly content as wild animals in cages.

b)      “….for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much large…”

Group-C

4. Write note (in around 200 words each) on any two of the following literary terms.      5 x 2

a.       Gothic Novel

b.      Round Character

c.       Bildungsroman

d.      Irony

Group-D

5. Answer any two of the following questions: (each within 600 words)                                                16 X 2

a)      Examine the appropriateness of the title of the Joyce’s short story Araby.

b)      Comment on the use of the symbols in Bate’s story The Ox.

c)       Bring out the significance of the fly episode in Mansfield’s short story The Fly.

Group-E

5. Answer any one of the following questions: (within 700 words)                                          18 X 1

a)      Discuss the role of the narrator in The Secret Sharer.

d)      Comment on the theme of Conrad’s story The Secret Sharer.

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C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2012 [Third Paper]

2012

ENGLISH-HONOURS

Third 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

(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.1 and 2)

1. (a) Marlowe’s Edward II is a study of the ‘irony of kingship’. Do you agree? Give reasons.        16

Or

(b) Comment on Edward II as a history play.                     

2. (a)Analyse  A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a romantic comedy.                                                    16

Or

(b) Critically examine Shakespeare’s use of the ‘real world’ and ‘the dream world’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream .

3. Explain any one of the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 300 words)         8x1

a)      Things base and vile, holding no quantity

Love can transpose to form and dignity

 Or

b)      The lunatic, the lover and the poet

Are of imagination all compact.

Group-B

4. Write on any two of the following literary terms within 200 words each:          5x2

Catharsis, Soliloquy, Aside, Catastrophe.

Group-C

(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.5 and 6)

5. (a) Do you think that there is an uneasy mixture of satire and sentimentality in The Rivals? Justify your answer.     

Or                                                                                                                                               16

(b)Bring out the dramatic function of the Faulkland-Julia sub-plot in Sheridan’s The Rivals.   16

6. (a) Write a critical note on the Banquet Scene in the play Macbeth.                                        16

Or

(b) Examine the role of the witches in Macbeth. Do you think that they are the driving spirit behind Macbeth’s crime?                                                                                                                                                            16

7. Explain the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 350 words)                      9x2

a)      Had I died an hour before this chance

I had lived a blessed time.

Or

b)      Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

Or

c)       O mercy!-I’m quite analysed for my part!...

Or

d)      Madam! A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree, of diabolical knowledge!...

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C.U. English Honours Question Paper 2012 [Second Paper]

C.U. ENGLISH HONOURS QUESTION PAPERS- PART-I
SECOND PAPER

One of the most important year for English Honours Students. 

The syllabus of English Honours was changed in 2010. And in the subsequent years i.e. 2011 and 2012, the Question Paper format was revised twice to make it tougher for the students. Now this format makes it impossible to leave any sections aside. A student would have to study thoroughly covering the entire syllabus in order to succeed. 

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2012

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) “John Donne’s The Good Morrow is an unconventional love poem”. Discuss?

(b) Comment on the Blake use of symbols in “The Lamb” and “The Tiger”.

Group-B

2. Answer any two questions of the following (each within 500 words):                                          14X2

(a) Wordsworth’s ”Tintern Abbey” is an autobiographical poem. Do you agree? Justify your answer.

(b) Critically analyse Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” as a romantic poem.

(c) In ‘To a Skylark’ Shelly tells its reader that his skylark is much more than an ordinary bird. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

(d)  Write critical appreciation of John Keats’s ‘To Autumn’

3. Explain any one of the following with reference to the context (each in 250 words):                   8X1

(a) But at the back I always hear

Time’s winged chariot hurrying near:

And yonder all before us lie

Deserts of vast eternity

(b) Be through my lips to unawaken’d earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O wind.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind

Group-C

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

(a) Comment on the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet no. 87.

(b) What ideas of love emerge out of the confessions of the poet in ‘My mistress eyes…?

Group-D

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

(a) In “Paradise Lost”, Book I Milton uses a number of epic conventions. Discuss.

(b) What idea do you form of Satan from your reading of his speeches in “Paradise Lost”, Book I? ’

Group- E

6. Answer any one question of the following (in 450 words):                                                                 14x1

(a) Critically examine Pope’s “The Rape of The Lock” as a mock epic.

(b) Comment on the Pope’s treatment of Belinda in The Rape of The Lock.

Group-F

7. Write notes (in around 150 words)on any two of the following literary terms:                              4x2

         i.            Conceit

       ii.            Heroic Couplet

      iii.            Carpe Diem

     iv.            Imagery

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2012 QP Second Paper

More Question Papers:

• 2011 Paper-I
• 2011 Paper-II 
• 2010- Paper-I
• 2010- Paper-II

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C.U. English Honours Question Paper 2012 [First Paper]

C.U. ENGLISH HONOURS QUESTION PAPERS- PART-I
FIRST PAPER

One of the most important year for English Honours Students. 

The syllabus of English Honours was changed in 2010. And in the subsequent years i.e. 2011 and 2012, the Question Paper format was revised twice to make it tougher for the students. Now this format makes it impossible to leave any sections aside. A student would have to study thoroughly covering the complete syllabus. 

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2012

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) Battle of Maldon

(b)The Canterbury Tales

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) Francis Bacon

(b) Faerie Queene

Section-3

5. Assess the importance of Augustan Satire with reference to any two authors.                   16

6. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                                                   7X2

(a) John Milton

(b) Gulliver Travels

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. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry is a ‘return to nature’. Do you agree? Justify your answer.

8. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                             7X2

(a) Jane Austen

(b) William Blake

Section-2

9. Give an account of the Victorian non-fiction prose with special reference to the works of any two authors.                                                                                                                                                   16

10. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                             7X2

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) In Memoriam

Section-3

11. Write an essay on the Theatre of the Absurd.                                                                                    16

12. Write short notes on the following (each in 250 words):                             7X2

(a) Siegfried Sassoon

(b) Salmon Rushdie

PHILOLOGY

Group-A

13. Answer any one of the following (in 450 words):

(a) There has been uninterrupted possibility of Latin influence on the English Language. Answer with illustrations.                                                                                                                                                          12

(b) Bring out with illustrations any two important aspects of the Scandinavian influence on the English language.                                                                                                                                                 12

Group-B

14. Write word notes on any four:                                                                                                                 2X4

Assassination, egg, island, children, by-law, picture, admiral, trusteeship.

Group- C

15. Answer any one of the following (in 450 words):

(a) Discuss any two ‘regular processes’ by which the native resources are utilized to form new words In English.

(b) Assess the American influence on the English language.

Group-D

16.  Answer any one of the following (in 300 words):

(a) Verner’s Law and its significance.                                                                                        8

(b) Examine Shakespeare’s influence on the English Language.                                                   8

(c) Bring out the influence of biblical phrases and words on the English Language.                       8

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2012 QP First Paper

More Question Papers:

• 2012 Paper-II
• 2011 Paper-I
• 2011 Paper-II 
• 2010- Paper-I
• 2010- Paper-II 

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PART-2 QUESTION PAPERS

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