Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) 2006 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) BA English - The Elizabethian Age - UG-631 - BEG-1 - Question Paper
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UG-631 BEG-1
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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION - JUNE 2006.
First Year
(For AY 2003-04 and CY 2004 Students only) English THE ELIZABETHAN AGE Time : 3 hours Maximum marks : 75
1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 30 words each : (5x3 = 15)
(a) Whenever the Romans were in a political problem or danger, they used to consult only these books of Sibylla.
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(i) Bring out the importance of these
books.
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(ii) What does the story of Tarquin
teach us?
(b) They barter away the interests of the state for their own advantage.
(i) Explain the meaning of barter?
(ii) How is a seliish man manipulate the welfare of the state?
(c) A civil war, indeed, is like the heat 'of a fever : but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health :
(i) What is the relevance of civil war in maintaining the individual health?
(ii) Do wars necessary for the glory and honour of a kingdom?
(d) If you make it too familiar, it will work no extraordinary effect when sickness cometh.
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(i) What is referred to by it in this
context?
(ii) How far physic is important in curing
diseases?
But you shall shine more bright in these
contents
Than unswept stone, besmeard with sluttish
time.
(i) Does the poet address a lady or a
friend?
(ii) How can the mortal body cross the barrier of time?
(f) The shepherd-swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning :
(i) Why is the shepherd addressed as
swains?
(ii) Can these pleasures move the beloveds mind towards the lover?
(g) When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my
pain.
(i) What is the cause behind his pain?
(ii) Can he get rid of his grief?
(h) These shepherds and these nymphs doOiow, Thy Sylvia is as chaste as fair.
(i) Explain the reference related to Sylvia.
(ii) What do the shepherds and nymphs
know?
(i) A sound magician is a mighty god :
(i) Can the magician be equated to God?
(ii) Do you accept the statement?
(j) Was this the face that launched a thousand
ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
(i) Who is Helen?
(ii) What did prompt the speaker to say so?
2. Write short notes on any TWO of the following in about 100 words each : (2 x 5 = 10)
(a) What is Bacons advice on danger due to delay?
(b) John Donnes Batter My Heart.
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(jr Similes and metaphors in The Book of Job.
(d) Dr. Faustus as a morality play.
3. Write on any THREE of the following in about 200 words each : (3 x 10 = 30)
(a) Show from some Bacons essays that he is a keen observer of life.
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(b) Discuss any three of Bacons essays to bring out the salient features of Bacon as an essayist.
(c) How does Shakespeare immortalize the beauty of his friend?
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(d) Comment on the major themes of the prescribed poems of Wyatt and Surrey.
(e) Consider Faustus as a tragic hero.
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(f) Explain how Every Man in His Humour illustrates Johnsons theory of comedy.
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4. Write any TWO essays in about 200 wordsch :
(2 x 10 = 20)
(a) Bacons essays are merely intellectual exercises; his heart is not in them. Do you agree with such a criticism?
(b) Bring out the Renaissance element present in the Elizabethan poetry.
(c) Dr. Faustus rises above any other of Marlowes plays in that it is souls tragedy - Discuss.
(d) Comment on the characterization of Every Man in His Humour.
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