Annamalai University 2008-1st Year M.A English " 520 RESTORATION AND 18th CENTURY LITERATURE " ( PART - II ) ( ) 5392 - Question Paper
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II. Attempt the following in about 200 words each :
7. (a) Write a critical appreciation of
Blakes poems The Tiger and The Lamb.
(b) What does Johnson say on the merits of Shakespeare ?
8. (a) Sketch the character of Captain
Absolute in The Rivals.
(b) Summarise Burkes reflections on Warren Hastings.
SECTION - B (3 x 20 = 60)
Answer any THREE of the following All questions carry equal marks.
9. (a) Sketch the character of Satan with special reference to Paradise Lost Book IX.
(OR)
(b) Write on the metaphors used in Mac Flecknoe.
Name of the Candidate :
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2008
(ENGLISH)
(FIRST YEAR)
(PART - II)
520. RESTORATION AND 18th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
December ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
SECTION - A (5 x 8 = 40)
Attempt FIVE of the following.
All questions carry equal marks.
I. Annotate the following :
1. (a) To pales, or Pomona, thus adorned, Likest she seemed-Pomona when she fled Vertumnus- or to Ceres in her prime, Yet origin of Proserpina from Jove.
(b) Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here Nor greater Johnson dares in socks appear; But gentle simkin just reception finds Admist this monument of vanished minds.
2. (a) So saying, her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluckd,
she ate ;
Earth felt the wound.
(b) Ammons great son one shoulder had too high
Such Ovids nose and Sir! You have an eye.
3. (a) The genius of our countrymen in general
is rather to improve an invention than to invent themselves.
(b) He is a kind of rough diamond and must first be polished before he shines
4. (a) This quarrel first began as I have heard
it affirmed by an old dweller in the neighbourhood.
(b) But still the great have kindness in reserve.
He helpd to bury whom he helpd to
starve.
5. (a) Id no more play with a man that slighted
his ill fortune than Id make love to a woman who undervalued the loss of her reputation.
(b) I would retire to Darsarts and solitudes, and feed harmless sheep by groves and pulling streams.
6. (a) Sir Will is an old mixture of bashfulness
and obstinacy but when he is drunk hes as loving as the monster in the Tempest, and much after the same manner.
(b) Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together, but let us be very strange and well-bred; let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while, and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
10. (a) Comment on Ruskins style as reflected
in The Battle of The Books.
(OR)
(b) Write an essay on the contribution of Addison and style to the modern essay.
11. (a) Consider The Rivals a comedy of
manners.
(OR)
(b) Write an essay on The Way of The World as a Restoration comedy.
12. (a) Write on the sub-plot in She Stoops To
Conquer.
(OR)
(b) How does Johnson make a comparative evaluation of Shakespeares comedies and tragedies ?
13. (a) Write a critique on Robinson Crusoe.
(OR)
(b) Consider Tom Jones a comic epic poem in prose.
10. (a) Comment on Ruskins style as reflected
in The Battle of The Books.
(OR)
(b) Write an essay on the contribution of Addison and style to the modern essay.
11. (a) Consider The Rivals a comedy of
manners.
(OR)
(b) Write an essay on The Way of The World as a Restoration comedy.
12. (a) Write on the sub-plot in She Stoops To
Conquer.
(OR)
(b) How does Johnson make a comparative evaluation of Shakespeares comedies and tragedies ?
13. (a) Write a critique on Robinson Crusoe.
(OR)
(b) Consider Tom Jones a comic epic poem in prose.
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