Annamalai University 2011-1st Year B.A English - - - - Prose and fiction - Question Paper

B.A.DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2011
( ENGLISH )
( 2nd YEAR )
( PART - III )
( PAPER - IV )
650. PROSE AND FICTION
( Common to B.A. English & Communication)
( Including Lateral Entry & Double Degree) May ]
[ Time : three Hours Maximum : 100 Marks
I. Annotate 5 of the subsequent passages, choosing at lowest 2 from every group : ( five ×4 =20)
GROUP - A
(a) "His story requires Romans or Kings but he thinks only of men." These are the petty cavils of petty minds.
(b) It was stated of Euripides that every verse was a precept.
(c) Nothing can please many and please long but just representations of general nature.
(d) He sacrifices virtue to convenience and is so much more careful to please than to instruct that he seems to write without a normal purpose.
(e) The fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
GROUP - B
(f) Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the constitution of the human mind that any type of knowledge, if 't be really such is'its own reward.
(g) The philosophy of utility, you will say, gentlemen, has atleast done its work, it aimed low, but has fulfilled its aim.
(h) The sand heaped by 1 flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in its place.
(i) Literature is the personal use of exercise of language.
(j) A great writer ....... expresses what all feel but all cannot say.
part - A
II. ans any 1 of the subsequent :
( 1×20=20)
(a) What, according to Johnson, are the faults of Shakespeare ?
(b) What elements of the new approach do you obtain in Johnson ?
(c) What, according to Johnson, are the limitations in Shakespeare's plays ?
part - B
III. ans any 1 of the subsequent :
( 1×20=20)
(a) What, according to Newman are the values and purpose of University Education ?
(b) Write an essay on Newman's views on the place of religion in University education.
(c) What according to Newman, are the differences ranging from literature and science ?
part - C
IV. Attempt any 2 of the subsequent : (2 ×20=40)
(a) Examine the character of Pip.
(b) Eegdon Heath and the Return of the Native.
(c) Write a critical appreciation of A Passage to India.
(d) current a critical summary of "Shooting an Elephant."
(e) Attempt a character sketch of Clym Yeobright.

Earning:   Approval pending.