Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) 2009-1st Year B.A state open university - Question Paper

B.A. DEGREE exam —
JUNE, 2009.
(AY 2003–04 and CY 2004 batches only)
First Year
English
THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
Time : three hours Maximum marks : 75
1. Answer any 5 of the subsequent in about 30 words every : (5 ? three = 15)
(a) For hasty selling is commonly as disadvantageable as interest.
(i) What is disadvantageable?
(ii) Explain the comparison used.
(b) But it is a desperate evil in a servant to a prince or citizen in a republic.
(i) What is defined as A desperate evil?
(ii) Why is it a desperate evil in a servant or a citizen?
(c) Whosoever is delighted in solititude is either a wild beast or a god.
(i) Whose opinion is referred to here?
(ii) Explain the significant meaning of the provided passage.
(d) There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
(i) What is said as the greatest wisdom?
(ii) What is the authors advice to the reader?
(e) Change you no more, but still after 1 rate
Treat ye me well, and keep ye in the identical
state.
(i) Who is addressed here and by whom?
(ii) Explain the concept, described in the passage.
(f) But think that all the map of my state
I diplay
When trembling voice brings forth that I do
Stella love.
(i) Who is Stella?
(ii) How does the poet display his state of mind?
(g) But they eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst.
(i) Whose fairness is referred to?
(ii) What does the poet mean by eternal summer?
(h) ...let me have a wife,
The fairest maid in Germany,
I cannot live without a spouse.
(i) Who is the speaker?
(ii) Explain the situation.
(i) He surfeits upon cursed necromancy.
(i) Who is the person that the writer is talking about?
(ii) What is necromancy?
(j) Ah, Faustus,
Now hast thou but 1 bare hour to live,
And then thou must be dammed perpetually!
(i) Whose words are these?
(ii) Explain the meaning.
2. Write short notes on any 2 of the subsequent in about 100 words every : (2 ? five = 10)
(a) Bacons views on the obnoxious qualities of the cunning man.
(b) Jobs friends.
(c) The bird imagery in Being My Self Captived Here.
(d) Comedy of Humour.
3. Answer the subsequent in about 200 words every :
(3 ? 10 = 30)
(a) (i) Discuss the salient features of Bacons Essays with illustrations.
Or
(ii) Write a critical valuation of The Book of Job.
(b) (i) Analyse Batter my Heart as the poets direct prayer to God.
Or
(ii) How does Marlowe celebrate the pleasures of country life in The Passionate Shepherd to his Love?
(c) (i) Discuss Brainworm as the central character of Every Man in His Humour.
Or
(ii) Mephistophilis in Dr. Faustus.
4. Write any 2 essays in about 200 words every :
(2 ? 10 = 20)
(a) Comment on the aphoristic style of Bacon, illustrating your ans from the essays you have learn.
(b) Discuss the common features of the Elizabethan Sonnets.
(c) Trace the different stages of Faustus damnation.
(d) Critically analyse Ben Jonsons characterisation in Everyman in his Humour.
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