M.A-M.A English 1st Year MODERN LITERATURE(Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)
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First Year
English
Paper IV — MODERN LITERATURE — II (1700 –1850)
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Answer Question No. 1 compulsorily.
Answer any TWO questions from Unit I and TWO questions from Unit II.
1. Annotate any FOUR of the following: (4 × 5 = 20)
(a) Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from the to my sole self!
(b) What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstacy?
(c) A vital breeze which travelled gently on o'ver
Things which it hath made, and is become.
(d) Dear liberty? Yet what wouldn't avail
But for a gift that consecrates the joy?
(e) He has long outlined his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
(f) A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
(g) When I ran away with you mother, I would not have touched anything old or ugly to gain an empire.
(h) At night, we single lads will drink a health to the young couples and a husband to Mrs. Malaprop.
UNIT I (2 × 20 = 40)
2. Examine Keat's romanticism with a special reference to his odes selected for the study.
3. Discuss the theme of the Book I of The Prelude.
4. Evaluate Dr. Johnson as a neo-classical critic with a special reference to The Preface to
Shakespeare.
5. Critically comment on The Rivals as an anti-sentimental comedy.
6. Enumerate the characteristic features of the English Romantic Period.
UNIT II (2 × 20 = 40)
7. Examine The Rape of the Lock as a mock – heroic poem.
8. Write a critical note on the symbolism in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
9. Discuss Adonais as a pastoral elegy.
10. Comment on Charles lamb's autobiographical element in his essays of Elia.
11. Justify the title of the play She Stoops to Conquer.
12. Write an essay on Jane Austen's irovy in Emma.
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