Annamalai University 2007 B.A English History of literature - Question Paper
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ans 5 of the subsequent without omitting any Group. All ques. carry equal marks.
GROUP - A
1. Trace the origin of English drama. [MARKS 20]
2. Who are the Elizebethan sonneteers? [MARKS 20]
3. Examine the features of Spencer's poetry? [MARKS 20]
4. How did the Renaissance and the Reformation influence English literature? [MARKS 20]
5. Write short notes : [MARKS 20]
(i) The Authorized Version of the Bible.
(ii) The Elizebethan Stage.
(iii) The Periodical Essay.
GROUP - B
6. Evaluate Lamb as an essayist. [MARKS 20]
7. How did satires and mock satires develop during the Restoration period? [MARKS 20]
8. Who were the minor novelists of the eighteenth century? [MARKS 20]
9. Write on the precursors of the Romantic poetry. [MARKS 20]
10. Write short notes : [MARKS 20]
(i) Johnson and Boswell.
(ii) Anti-sentimental Comedy.
(iii) Comedy of Manners.
GROUP - C
11. How did Scott contribute to the historical novel? [MARKS 20]
12. Write on the salient features of Romantic poetry. [MARKS 20]
13. How can Tennyson be called a representative Victorian poet? [MARKS 20]
14. provide an estimate of Jane Austen as a novelist. [MARKS 20]
15. Write short notes : [MARKS 20]
(i) The Bronte Sisters
(ii) The Victorian Prose
(iii) The Pre Raphaelites.
GROUP - D
16. Examine the characteristics of the poetic drama of the twentieth century. [MARKS 20]
17. Write on the Absurd drama. [MARKS 20]
18. Analyse the aspects of the psycological novel. [MARKS 20]
19. elaborate the new critical approaches developed in the twentieth century? [MARKS 20]
20. Write short notes : [MARKS 20]
(i) Conrad
(ii) Science Fiction.
(iii) W.H. Auden.
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