M.A-M.A English PROSE (Alagappa University - Directorate of Distance Education-2012)

DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
PROSE
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
PART A — (5 × 8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. Does Bacon encourage on taking revenge?
2. How does Carlyle compare Dante and Shakespeare?
3. How does Charles Lamb portray the conditions of Chimney Sweepers in his essay?
4. What are Orwell’s reflection on Gandhi?
5. Why does Durant feel that civilization promotes social order?
6. What are Emerson’s religious philosophies that are discussed in ‘‘self–reliance’’?
7. Why is most African literature oral? – Give reasons.
8. Comment on the language of A.G. Gardiner’s ‘‘On Umbrella Morals’’.
PART B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. What is Bacon’s opinion on superstition?
10. How do Addison and Steele portray the contemporary England in Coverley Papers?
11. How does Carlyle criticize Shakespeare?
12. How does Thorean express his opinions on democracy in ‘‘Civil Disobedience’’?
13. How, according to Naugi, do the Africans draw their plots, styles and metaphors?
14. Write an appreciation of Stephen Leacock’s ‘‘The Financial Expert’’.
15. Comment on the style of Will Durant by giving reference to his essays prescribed for you.

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