B.A-B.A English Special 6th Sem LITERARY FORMS LITERARY CRITICISM(Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu-2011)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2011
Sixth Semester
English (Vocational)
LITERARY FORMS LITERARY CRITICISM
(Non-CBCS—2004 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer any twenty code of the following (20 x 1 = 20)
1. What is Comedy?
2. What is absurd drama?
3. Mention atleast two tragedies of Shakespeare?
4. What is Miracle Play?
5. Give an example of tragicomedy.
6. What is dramatic monologue ?
7. What is an epic ?
8. Name two popular elegies in English.
9. What is Octalle ?
10. What is Lyric ?
11. Mention atleast two love lyrics in English.
12. What is simile ?
13. What is realism ?
14. Mention two novels of Jane Austen.
15. Who wrote Pamela?3
16. What is one act play ?
17. What is historical novel ?
18. What is Irony ?
19. Who wrote “A study of poetry” ?
20. Mention an anti sentimental comedy.
21. Name atleast two history plays of Shakespeare.
22. Who is a feminist?
23. Mention two metaphysical poets.
24. What is ‘high Seriousness’ in Poetry ?
25. What is New Criticism?
26. Name two post colonial critics.
27. What is the theme of “The Wasteland”?
28. Who is the founder of “Deconstruction”?
29. Name two post colonial novels.
30. What is absurd drama?
Literary forms (A)
II. Attempt any two of the following in 2 pages, choosing One from each section (2 x 10 = 20)
Section A
31. Epic
32. Sonnet
33. Lyric
Section B
34. Tragedy
35. Miracle Plays
36. Anti sentimental comedy
(B) Literary Criticism
III. Write answers to any three of the following in two pages each (3 x 10 = 30)
37. Write a note on Sydney’s “A Apalogy for poetry”.
38. Comment on Shelly’s “Defence of Poetry”.
39. Dicsuss Johnson’s views on Shakespeare.
40. Examine Arnold as a literary critic.
41. Comment on the forerunners of the Romantic movement.
42. Hoe does T.S. Eliot enrich English literary Criticism?
(c) Literary Movements
IV. Answer any two of the following choosing one from each section in two pages each (2 x 10 = 20)
Section A
43. Humanism
44. Neo Classicism
45. Objective Correlative
Section B
46. Marxist Criticism
47. Deconstruction
48. Feminism
V. Study the given items and answer all the questions given below (10 × 1 = 10)
This wind brings all dead things,
Branches that lash the air like whips
And dead leaves rolling in a hurry
Or peering in a rabbit’s bury
Or trying to push down a tree;
Gates that fly open to the wind
And close again behind,
And fields that are a flowing sea
And make the cattle look like ships;
Straws glistening and stift
Lying on air as on a shelf
And pond that leaps to leave itself;
And feathers too that rise and float
Each feather changed in to a bird,
And line-hung sheets that crack and strain;
Even the sun-greened coat,
That through so many winds has served,
The scare crow struggles to put on again.
49. To what objects does the wind give life ?
50. What objects resist the power of the wind ?
51. What is the evidence to show whether it is a windy day in the country side or in a city ?
52. Why are leaves described as dead ?
53. How is the dead given life? What word indicates this in the poem ?
54. Why do the gates close again ?
55. Why are cattle compared to ships ?
56. What is the difference between ‘wind’ and ‘air’ as suggested in the poem ?
57. How is each feather changed into a bird ?
58. What season is it ?

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