B.A-B.A English Special LITERARY HISTORY(Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu-2011)
Wednesday, 26 June 2013 10:03Jebaprincy
Second Semester
English Vocational
LITERARY HISTORY
(Non-CBCS—2004 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Section A (20 × 1 = 20)
Answer any twenty of the following questions in a sentence or two each.
1. Who brought the story of Beowulf with them to England?
2. What is lyrical poetry?
3. What are the general features of the poetry of chaucer?
4. What is Tottel’s Micellany?
5. What is coleridge’s chief contribution to ‘The Lyrical Ballads’?
6. Mention the theme of Hopkins Terrible sonnets.
7. To whom was T.S.Eliot’s ‘The waste Land’ dedicated?
8. What are Mystery plays?
9. Mention the first comedy in English?
10. Who are university wits?
11. What is a blank verse?
12. Who are the rivals in sheridan’s play The Rivals?
13. What is Absurd Drama?
14. What is a problem play?
15. Name some of the allegorical places describe in The Pilgrim’s progress.
16. Who is called the father of English Fiction?
17. Mention any Three novels of scott.
18. In which novel in the French Revolution used as background?
19. What is George Eloit’s real name?
20. What is stream of Conciousness?
21. What is meant by the term scientific fiction?
22. Name three members of the spectator club.
23. Who wrote ‘confessions of a English opium Eater’.
24. Who wrote ‘The Essay on Man’?
25. What is classicism?
Section B (4 × 5 = 20)
Answer any four of the following in about 100 words each.
26. Write a note on Chaucer’s contribution to English versification?
27. Write a note on Marlowe’s work and their influence on Shakespeare.
28. What are the salient features of Metaphysical poetry?
29. Comment on the themes of Shaw’s Plays?
30. Account for the importance of the Victorian Novel.
31. What do you know about conan Doyle?
32. What were major prose writings of Charles Lamb?
33. Write a note on the development of criticism in the 20th Century.
Section C (6 × 5 = 30)
Answer any six questions in about 100 words each.
34. What are the characteristics of Anglo-Saxon prose.
35. Write on Browning as a writer of dramatic monologues.
36. What are the special features of Eliot’s poetry?
37. Comment on the origins of English drama.
38. How was Jonson’s comedy different from that of Shakespeare?
39. The Themes of Bacon’s Essays.
40. The salient features of Jane Austen’s Novels.
41. Dickens’s outlook in his novels.
42. Salient features of twentieth - century prose.
43. Victorian Criticism.
Section D (2 × 15 = 30)
Attempt two of the following in about 600 words each.
44. Write an essay on the contribution of Tennyson and Browning to the development of Victorian poetry.
45. Bring out the special features in the development of English Essay form.
46. ‘The Four forms’ of English Literature to the development of English - Discuss.
47. What are the salient features of Shakespearean tragedy? Discuss with reference to the tragedies you have read.
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