C.U. ENGLISH HONOURS QUESTION PAPER 2010 [First Paper]

The 2010 Question Paper is based on the old syllabus of English Honours. Therefore you all will find that the question pattern and answering scheme is different from today’s one. This question paper doesn't have any words limit set for the answering purpose and it contains a large number of questions which might scare you all. 

But there are certain aspects which are quite useful for preparation (In First Paper) such as:

•  Concentrate on the long questions given in First paper’s group A,B,C and D. These are the standard questions which keep repeating itself after a span of five years.
•  Do not give any attention to the short questions or objective type questions. Because in new syllabus short questions had been replaced with short notes.

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C.U. B.A /B.SC and English Honours PART-II EXAMINATION TIMETABLE

C.U. PART-II EXAMINATION SCHEDULE

(Only for B.A and B.SC. students.) 

Past few weeks we are getting a large number of queries regarding the upcoming the examination schedule form our online visitors. We had already provided the dates on our Facebook Profile and Google + Page few days back. You all can check from there by clicking on the FB icon or Google + icon on the right had upper corner of our blog.

The Schedule or Routine for B.A. & B.Sc. Honours Examinations 2014.

The Schedule or Routine for B.A. General Examinations 2014.

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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. 

Best of Luck for you all. 

It is the first time on the internet you are going to find all the years QP’s for English Honours.

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. 

A better way to study is to make a choice regarding the short and long answers. Mark the sections from where you wish to study only long answers and then then prepare the short answers from the other two sections only.

Best of Luck for you all. 

It is the first time on the internet you are going to find all the years QP’s for English Honours.

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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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C.U. ENGLISH HONOURS NOTES: Absurdist Theatre

Absurdist Theatre : Modern Period                                         [Short Note]

            The idea of Absurd goes back many centuries and can be found even in the Greek culture. For our purposes we can focus on sources of the Absurd-
1.     The Shakespeare in King Lear, Lear’s last scene’s question flung to God and Man; “Why should a dog, a rat, a horse have life and thou no breath at all?” i.e. we live in a world where dogs, rats, horses have life but the good die horribly. There is no relation between cause and effect- we live in arbitrary, violent, inhospitable, hostile universe.
2.     The German Philosopher Friedshin Nietzsche’s discovery God is dead.(Thus Spake Zarathustra).
3.     Dostoyevsky in ‘Brothers Karamazov’.
4.     Albert Camus’ essay The Myth of Sisyphus, where Sisyphus rolls a rock up a steep hill; the rock rolls back down from the top; and Sisyphus has to start all over again. This goes on throughout eternity. This is Camus metaphor for meaninglessness of life.

The Absurdist writer include playwrights mainly but also the novelists as Franz Kafka, Camus, Musil et al. Playwrights include Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and later Harold Pinter, Edward Albie et al.

To sum the basic theme and pre-occupation of the Absurdist writer include the violation of traditional beginning, middle and end structures; refusal to tell a straight forward connected story with a proper plot; or disappearance of traditional dramatic forms or techniques. These dramatists were all concerned with the failure of communication in modern society which leaves man alienated. More ever they are all concerned with the lack of individuality and over-emphasis or conformity in our society and they use the dramatic elements of time and plays to imply important ideas. Finally they reject traditional logic for a type of non-logic which ultimately implies something about the nature of the universe. Implicit on many ways of this concern is an attack n a society or a world which possess no set standard of values or behaviour. Essentially, the theatre of Absurd is not a positive drama. It does not try to prove that man can exist in a meaningful world as seen by Camus, Sartre nor does it offer any solution. Instead it demonstrates the absurdity and illogicality of the world we live in.

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C.U. English Honours Question Paper 2011 [Second Paper]

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

FIRST TIME EVER

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2011

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) How does Marvell treat the ‘carpe diem’ theme in “To His Coy Mistress”?

(b) “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” Explain this line with reference to “The Lamb” and “The Tiger”.

Group-B

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

(a) ”Tintern Abbey” records different stages in Wordsworth’s appreciation of Nature. Discuss.

(b) Can “Kubla Khan” be described as an incoherent poem? Give reasons for your answer.

(c) Show with reference to “Ode to the West Wind”, how Shelly uses objects of nature as vehicles of his own personality and thought.

(d)  Do you read “Ode to a Nightingale” as a poem of escape or a reflection of the human condition. Give reasons for your answer.

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

(a) Where can we find two better hemispheres

      Without sharpe North, without declining West?

(b) Where are the Songs of the Spring? Ay, 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) Write a critical appreciation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet no. 87.

(b) Critically examine Shakespeare’s use of imagery and allusion in Sonnet no. 130.

Group-D

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

(a)Comment on the Invocation to “Paradise Lost”, Book I.

(b) Show how Milton in “Paradise Lost”, Book I, never lets us forget that despite his heroic stature and grand rhetoric, Satan s essentially the ‘infernal serpent’

Group- E

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

(a) Show how Pope’s use of the ‘machinery’ of the sylphs in “The Rape of The Lock” heightens both the satire and the poetry.

(b) Belinda’s toilette mirrors the position and folly of eighteenth century high society.

Group-F

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

        i.           1.  Bathos

      ii.            2. Symbol

    iii.            3.  Mock-Epic
           4.   Rhyme

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2011 QP Second Paper

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C.U. English Honours Question Paper 2011 [First Paper]

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

FIRST TIME EVER

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2011

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.

Group-A

(O.E. Period- 1750)

1. Answer any one of the following (in 600 words):

(a) What are the distinctive features of the war poems of the Old English period?                        16

(b) Write a critical essay on the growth and development of the Elizabethan sonnet.                     16

(c) Examine the conditions of Defoe and Richardson in the development of the 18^th Century English novel.                                                                                                                                                     16

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

(a) Piers Plowman

(b)Deor’s Lament

(c) Sir Philip Sidney

(d)Tottle’s Miscellany

(e)The Way of The World

(f)Addison

Group-B

(1750-2000)

3. Answer any one of the following (in 600 words):

(a) Write a note on the English Personal essay of the Romantic period with the emphasis on any two essayists of your choice.                                                                                                                   16

(b) Asses the contribution of the women novelists of the Victorian age.                                              16

(c) The tensions of the modern period clearly demanded a new poetic technique. Discuss with reference to any two poets.                                                                                                                                 16

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

(a) Kenilworth

(b) Gray

(c) Vanity Fair

(d) Walter Pater

(e) W.H. Auden

(f) The Golden Notebook

PHILOLOGY

Group-A

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

(a) “An Englishman cannot thrive, be ill or die without Scandinavian words; they are to the language what bread and eggs are to the daily fare.” Discuss.                                                                                    12

(b) Show how French has influenced the English Language.                                                                12

Group-B

6. Write word notes on any four:                                                                                         2X4

Alms, Church, Earl, Kine, Woman, Handbook, International, Brethen.

Group- C

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

(a) Write a note on Derivation as means of making new words in English.

(b) How did the Great War of 1914-18 leave its mark on the English language.

Group-D

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

(a) Comment on the debt that the English language owes to Milton.                                             8

(b) Examine the influence of the Bible on the English Language.                                                   8

(c) Why is the Consonant Shift important to the modern Philologist?                                            8

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2011 QP First Paper

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English Honours Syllabus Calcutta University Part-II

ENGLISH HONOURS- UNDER UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA PART-II

PART - II

PAPER – III (F.M. 100)

DRAMA

GROUP A: Marlowe – Edward II, Shakespeare –A Midsummer Night's Dream 

One question of 16 marks out of two from each of the two plays

Explanation of one passage of 8 marks out of two (one from each play)

GROUP B: Literary terms on drama

Two questions of 5 marks each out of four

16 X 2=	32
8 X 1=	8
5 X 2=	10
TOTAL	50

GROUP C: Sheridan – The Rivals, Shakespeare - Macbeth

One question of 16 marks out of two from each of the two plays

Explanation of one passage of 9 marks out of two from each of the two plays

16 X 2=	32
9 X 2=	18
TOTAL	50

PAPER – IV (F.M. 100)

 NOVEL, ESSAYS AND SHORT STORIES

GROUP A: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice OR Sir Walter Scott: Kenilworth

One question of 16 marks out of two (two questions will be set from each of the two novels)

GROUP B: Essays: Francis Bacon, Of Studies, Charles Lamb,

The Superannuated Man, and George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

Recommended Reading: Eight Essayists, ed. A.S. Cairncross & Modern Prose ed. Michael Thorpe

One question of 16 marks out of two

Explanation of one passage of 8 marks out of two

GROUP C: Literary Terms on fiction

Two questions of 5 marks each out of four

16 X 2=	32
8 X 1=	8
5 X 2=	10
TOTAL	50

GROUP D: Stories - James Joyce, Araby, HE Bates, The Ox, and Katherine Mansfield, The Fly

Two questions of 16 marks out of three (one from each story)

Recommended Reading: Modern Prose ed. Michael Thorpe

GROUP E: Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer

One question of 18 marks out of two

Recommended Reading: The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Edition)

16 X 2=	32
18 X 1=	18
TOTAL	50

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