C.U. English Honours First Semester Question Paper 2018 [CC-1]

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2018

 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 is considered the father of English Prose?

(b) Name an important work written by Chaucer in his Italian phase.

(c) Name one play written by Ben Jonson.

(d) Name the form in which Richardson's Pamela is written.

(e) Name a play written by Christopher Marlowe.

2. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words):  10 x 1

(a) What epic qualities do you find in Beowulf?

(b) Comment on the art of sonnetering in the Age of Elizabeth with particular reference Spenser.

(c) What are the distinctive features of the Restoration Comedy of Manners? Answer to any one representative dramatist.

3. Answer any one question from the following (within 200 words):    5 x 1

(a) Write a short note on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

(b) Show your acquaintance with Thomas Kyd.

(c) Write a short note on Tom Jones.

Section - II

4. Answer the following:   1 x 5

(a) Mention a poem by Thomas Gray.

(b) Name two leading members of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

(c) Name one play written by Harold Pinter.

(d) Who wrote The Waste Land.

(e) Name a novel by James Joyce.

5. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words):   10 x 1

(a) Discuss the features of pre-romantic poetry with reference to two poets.

(b) Estimate the contribution of any two Victorian women novelists.

(c) Assess the importance of Joseph Conrad.

6. Answer any one question from the following (within 200 words):   5 x 1

(a) Discuss briefly the importance of Charles Lamb.

(b) Discuss briefly two characteristics that make T.S.Eliot a modern poet.

(c) Write a short note on Look Back in Anger.

Group - B

(Philology)

Section - I

7. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words):   10 x 1

(a) Estimate the nature and extent of the French influence on the English Language.

(b) Write an estimate of the Scandinavia influence on the English Language.

(c) Discuss the nature and extent of the Latin influence on the English language.

Section - II

8. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words):  10 x 1

(a) Define and discuss 'Shortening' and 'Back-formation'.

(b) Assess the importance of Consonant Shift in English Language.

9. Write a short note on any one of the following:  5 x 1

(a) Monosyllabism

(b) Malapropism

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C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2017 [Fourth Paper]

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2017

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 marriage in Pride and Prejudice.

Or

In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen was irony as an instrument of social criticism. Discuss.

b)  Discuss Scott's art of characterization focusing on any two characters from Kenilworth.  

Or

Examine the plot construction 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)  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)  I was in the condition of a prisoner ion the Old Bastille, suddenly let loose after forty years' confinement.

b)  Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them;....

Group-C

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

a. Gothic Novel

b. Point of View

c. Bildungsroman

d. Folk Tale

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 Joyce's short story Araby.

b)  How does H.E.Bates portray the character of Mrs. Thurlow in The Ox.

c)  Bring Do you think that Mansfield's The Fly is a 'good short story'? Give reasons for your answer.

Group-E

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

a)  What role does Leggatt play in Conrad's The Secret Sharer? Answer with references to the text.

b)  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 2017 [Third Paper]

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2017

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) Estimate the dramatic importance of Gaveston and Spenser in Marlowe’s Edward II.                                                                                                            16

Or

(b) Comment on the dramatic structure of Edward II.                                                           16  

2. (a)Comment on the dramatic significance of the play-within-the-play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.                       16

Or

(b) A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic comedy built on the theme of love in its various dimensions. Discuss.

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

a.       Lay me in a hearse,        

And to the gates of hell convey me hence;                

Let Pluto’s bells ring out my fatal knell,               

And hags howl for my death at Charon’s shore.

Or

b.      Be it ounce or cat or bear,

Pard or boar with bristled hair,

In thy eye that shall appear,

When thou wakest, it is thy dear.

Group-B

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

Antagonist, Catastrophe, Comic Relief, Hamartia.

Group-C

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

5. (a) Is The Rivals a comedy or a farce? Answer with reference to the text.                                         16

Or                                                                                                            

(b) Critically analyse the roles played by any two of the minor characters in Sheridan’s The Rivals.

6. (a) Attempt a critical analysis of the ‘Banquet Scene (Act III, Sc. Iv) in Macbeth and show how it throws light on the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.                                                16

Or

(b) Examine the use of dramatic irony in Macbeth.               16

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

a)      To find the mind’s construction in the faces

 He was a gentleman on whom I built

An absolute trust.

Or

b)      Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more.

c)       Am not I a lover; aye, and a romantic one too? Yet do I carry everywhere with me such a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain?

 Or

d)      There, sir, an attack upon my language! what do you think of that?–an aspersion upon my parts of speech! was ever such a brute! Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

    

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C.U. English Honours Part-I Question Paper 2017 [Second Paper]

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2017

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) Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” explores the concept of the “carpe-diem” in a unique manner – Discuss.

(b) How do Blake’s poems “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” present contrary views of existence? 

Group-B

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

(a) Examine the gradual changes in Wordsworth’s perception of Nature at different stages of his life with reference to “Tintern Abbey”.

(b) Comment on the elements of Romanticism in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”.

 (c)The roles of preserver and destroyer are performed by the west wind with equal ease in Shelly’s poem “Ode to the West Wind”. Elucidate.

(d)  How does the nightingale in Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” transport the poet to the transcendental realm? 

 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 sharp north, without declining west?

.

 (b) And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cider-press, with patient look,

Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Group-C

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

(a) Show how Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 is anti-petrachan in all aspects.

(b) Attempt a critical appreciation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 87.

Group-D

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

(a) Write a note on the Invocation in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book I.

 (b) Comment on Milton’s grand style in Paradise Lost, Book I.

Group- E

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

(a) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a balanced critique of 18^th century society. Discuss.

(b) Do you consider the supernatural machinery is Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to be an integral aspect of the poem?

Group-F

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

         i.            Mock-epic

       ii.            Blank Verse

      iii.            Rhyme

     iv.            Symbol     

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