C.U. English Honours Part-I Question Paper 2013 [Second Paper]

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2013

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) Show how Marvell has achieved the characteristic metaphysical blend of wit and passion in To His Coy Mistress.

(b) How does Blake contrast childlike innocence with adult wisdom in The Lamb and The Tyger.

Group-B

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

(a) Should one read Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” as a simple poem on the beauty of nature? Justify your answer.

(b) Closely examine Coleridge’s use of imagery in Kubla Khan.

(c) How does Shelly present the West Wind as both ‘Destroyer and Preserver’? Answer with textual references.

(d)  How does Keats explore the capacity of imagination to transcend Reality in Ode to a Nightingale?

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

(a) Let se-discoverers to new worlds have gone,

Let Maps to others, world on worlds have showne,

Let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one.

(b) Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they?

Think not of them, -- thou hast thy music too.

Group-C

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

(a) Critically examine Shakespeare’s Sonnet no. 87.

(b) What you consider Shakespeare’s Sonnet no. 130 an unconventional love poem? Justify your answer.

Group-D

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

(a) Milton’s Invocation is not simply an epic formality. Examine the first 26 lines of Paradise Lost, Book I, in the light of this remark.

 (b) What role does Beelzebub play in “Paradise Lost”, Book I? ’

Group- E

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

(a) How does supernatural machinery in “The Rape of The Lock” enhance the appeal of the poem?

(b) Examine The Rape of The Lock as a social satire.

Group-F

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

        i.            Refrain

      ii.            Horatian Ode

    iii.            Pastoral Elegy

     iv.            Blank Verse

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C.U. English Honours Part-I Question Paper 2013 [First Paper]

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2013

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 Prose.   16

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

(a) The Legende of Good Women

(b) Everyman

Section-2

3. Give an account of Jacobean drama with special reference to the works of any two playwrights.                     16

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

(a) Tottel’s Miscellany

(b) The Unauthorized Version of the Bible

Section-3

5. Write an essay on Restoration Comedy with special reference to any two dramatists.                   16

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

(a) The Dunciad

(b) Samuel Richardson

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. Assess the contribution of Walter Scott to the English novel.

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

(a) William Cowper

(b) The Essays of Eilla

Section-2

9. Give an account of Pre Raphaelite poetry with special reference to the works of any poets.                                                                                                                                                   16

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

(a) Sartor Resartus

(b) Emily Bronte

Section-3

11. Critically evaluate the contribution of Virginia Woolf or James Joyce to the twentieth century novel.                                                                                    16

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

(a) J.M. Synge

(b) Look Back In Anger

PHILOLOGY

Group-A

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

(a) How did the Latin element enrich the English language during the Renaissance? Has it been entirely an advantage? Give reasons for your answer.                                                                                                                                         12

(b) Examine with illustrative references the extent and character of the French influence on the English Language with reference to any two field of borrowing.                                                                                                                                                 12

Group-B

14. Write word notes on any four:                                                                                                                 2X4

Perfect, sister, wine doubt, gift, cat, devil, enormous.

Group- C

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

(a) Discuss the importance of Composition as a word formation process.

(b) Briefly comment on the difference between American and British English.

Group-D

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

(a) Discuss Consonant Shift.                                                                                                 8

(b) Comment on Shakespeare’s boldness in his use of English.                                          8

(c) Examine Milton’s influence on the English Language.                                                   8

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C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2013 [Fourth Paper]

2013

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)      In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen uses irony as an instrument of social criticism. Discuss.

b)       Examine Jane Austen’s delineation of comic characters in Pride and Prejudice.

c)       Comment on Scott’s narrative art in Kenilworth.  

d)      Critically analyse the major conflicts in Kenilworth. 

Group-B

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

a)      Comment on Bacon’s style in the essay Of Studies.

b)       Bring out the element of humour and pathos in Lamb’s The Superannuated Man.

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

a)      And my whole life, every white man’s life in East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at.

b)      “I was in the condition of prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years’ of confinement”.

Group-C

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

a.       Stream of Consciousness

b.      Folk Tale

c.       Flat character

d.      Epistolary Novel

Group-D

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

a)      Examine Joyce’s use of symbols in his short story Araby.

b)      Analyse the theme of pain and suffering in The Ox.

c)       Bring out the importance of the character of Woodifield in The Fly.

Group-E

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

a)      Discuss the appropriateness of the title of The Secret Sharer.

d)      Comment on the importance of the symbols in Conrad’s The Secret Sharer.

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C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2013 [Third Paper]

2013

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) Critically comment on the Death-Scene in Edward II.                                                                           16

Or

(b) Comment on Marlowe’s portrayal of Isabella and examine the significance of her role in Edward II.                     

2. (a) Examine the role of Puck in  A Midsummer Night’s Dream.                                                 16

Or

(b) Analyse the dramatic significance of the play-within-the-play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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

a)      But are the kings, when regiment is gone,

But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

 Or

b)      Ay me! For aught that I could ever read,

Could ever hear by tale or history

The course of true love never did run smooth;

Group-B

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

Anagnorisis, Chorus, Conflict, Antagonist

Group-C

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

5. (a) Comment on the Sheridan’s presentation of women with reference to any two characters in The Rivals.                                                                                                                                                                                   16

Or                                                                                                            

(b)Is The Rival a comedy or a farce? Justify your answer.

6. (a) How far is Lady Macbeth instrumental in bringing about the tragic end of Macbeth ? Justify your answer.                                                                                                                                                       16

Or

(b) Comment on the significance of The Porter in Act II Scene ii of Macbeth.                             16

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

a)      ‘T is safer to be that which we destroy,

Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

Or

b)      I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only

Vaulting ambition, which o’erleap’s itself.

And falls on the other!-

Or

c)       By heaven! I would fling all goods of fortune from me with a prodigal hand.

Or

d)      You thought, miss! I don’t know any business you have to think at all-thought does not become a young woman. But the point we would request of you, that you will promise- forget this fellow- to illiterate him….

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