C.U. English Honours Second Semester Question Paper 2019 [CC-4]

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   2019

 ENGLISH-HONOURS

Paper : CC - 4

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. Answer the following questions in complete sentences :                1x5

(a) "Vayne man, sayd she', who is the 'vayne man'?

(b) Which are the two rivers mentioned in the poem 'To His Coy Mistress'?

(c) "thou art more lovely and more temperate." What does Shakespeare mean by it?

(d) How many times does Banquo's ghost appear on stage?

Or, Name the two murderers in Edward II.

(e) What is the name of the jester in As You Like It?

Or, "If music be the food of love, play on," -- Who says this and to whom?

2. Answer any two of the following questions (within 600 words):              15x2

(a) The Wife of Bath is one of the first feminist characters in English Literature. would you agree? Discuss.

(b) Comment on Shakespeare's use of imagery with reference to any one of the sonnets in your syllabus.

(c) Consider Donne's 'The Good Morrow' as a metaphysical poem.

3. Answer any one the following questions (within 600 words) :                      15x1

(a) Discuss Edward II as a play on the irony of kingship.

(b) Critically consider Marlowe's portrayal of Isabella in Edward II.

(c) Examine the role of the witches in Macbeth.

(d) Consider Macbeth as a tragic hero.

4. Answer any one the following questions (within 600 words) :                      15x1

(a) Twelfth is a comedy built on the principle of contrast. discuss with suitable examples from the play.

(b) Comment on the appropriateness of the title of Twelfth Night.

(c) Compare and contrast the characters of Rosalind and Celia.

(d) Examine the significance of the woodland setting in As You Like It.

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C.U. English Honours Second Semester Question Paper 2019 [CC-3]

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   2019

 ENGLISH-HONOURS

Paper : CC - 3

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. Answer the following questions in complete sentences :                1x5

(a) "Thy eagle pinion is chained down at last"

       What does "eagle" symbolically refer to in the above line?

(b) What was the last wish of the narrator's ageing mother in "Dawn at Puri"?

(c) To which poet does Toru Dutt allude in 'Our Casuarina Tree'?

(d) What was the name of Mantangini's sister in Rajamohan's Wife?

(e) Who is called "the queen of thumri" in Mahesh Dattani's Bravely Fought the Queen?

2. Answer any two of the following questions (within 600 words):              15x2

(a) 'Our Casaurina Tree' brings out the spirit of romantic nostalgia. Discuss.

(b) 'An Introduction' is a search for an identity. Discuss.

(c) A. K. Ramanujan's 'A River' is about the kinds of relations between the present and the past. -- Elucidate. 

(d) Write a critical appreciation of the poem 'Enterprise'.

3. Answer any one the following questions (within 600 words) :                      15x1

(a) Critically estimate the character of Mantangini in Rajamohan's Wife.

(b) Comment on Bankim's treatment of the theme of marriage in Rajamohan's Wife.

4. Answer any one the following questions (within 600 words) :                      15x1

(a) Comment on the significance of the title of Mahesh Dattani's play Bravely Fought the Queen.

(b) How does Dattani use symbols to enhance the dramatic impact of Bravely Fought the Queen?

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C.U. English Honours First Semester Question Paper 2019 [CC-2]

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   2019

 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) To what effect does Homer employed the Invocation in the first two books of The Iliad ? Discuss.                                 15

Or,

(b) Write a note on the character of Agamemnon as revealed in Books I and II of The Iliad.              15

2. (a) Would you agree with the view that Sophocles' Oedipus the King is a tragedy of destiny? give reasons for your answer.                                                                                                                        15

Or,

(b) Discuss the role of Jocasta in shaping the course of events in Sophocles' play Oedipus.                                                                                                                                                15

Group-C

(Answer within 600 words)

3. (a) Describe the events leading to the rejection of Echo by Narcissus. what was its final outcome.  15

Or,

(b) Narrate the story of Actaeon's transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book-III.     15

4. (a) Critically analyse the women characters in Plautus' the Pot of Gold.                     15

Or,

(b) How does Plautus use the classical conventions of comedy in the Pot of Gold?          15

Or,

(c) What, according to Horace, is the moral purpose of satire? Discuss, with reference to Horace's Satires 1:IV.                                                                                                                       15

Or,                     

(d) What does Horace say about his upbringing in his 'Satires I:IV' ?                              15

5. Answer the following questions :                      1x5

(a) What favour does Thetis ask of Zeus?

(b) Name the three goddesses who lay claim to the golden apple.

(c) Why was Creon sent to Delphi?

(d) How did Semele's baby survive?

(e) By whom was Phaedria ravished?

Or,

What, according to Horace, is the stating point of all knowledge?

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C.U. English Honours First Semester Question Paper 2019 [CC-1]

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 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 

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