B.A-B.A Optional English 5th Sem Text : Poetry and Minor Forms of English Literature(University of Pune, Pune-2012)

F. Y. B. A. Examination, October – 2012
1334 – OPTIONAL ENGLISH
(General Paper - I)
Text : Poetry and Minor Forms of English Literature
(2008 Pattern)
Time : Three Hours Total Marks : 80
Note : (i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q. 1. (a) Answer the following questions in about 20 words each (Any Five) : [10]
(i) How do you define lyric?
(ii) What are the two types of sonnet?
(iii) Define ode.
(iv) What is an elegy?
(v) Write any two characteristic features of short story.
(vi) What are the themes of a ballad?
(vii) Mention any two types of essay with examples of each.
(b) Identify and explain briefly the literary devices used in the [10]
following lines (Any Five) :
(i) My love is like a red red rose.
(ii) The waves beside them danced.
(iii) Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks.

(iv) Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness close bosom friend
of the maturing sun.
(v) They clicked their tongues.
(vi) THAT’S DARK, ISN’T IT?
(vii) Over the distance brightly, brightly?
(c) Refer briefly to the context and explain fully any two of the [10]
following :
(i) The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
(ii) My mother only said
Thank God the scorpion picked on me
And spared my children.
(iii) Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.
(iv) Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove :
Q. 2. Answer any one of the following questions in about 150 words : [10]
(i) Comment on the theme of the poem ‘The Daffodils’.
(ii) How does John Keats describe the various aspects of nature in
‘To Autumn’?
(iii) Discuss ‘A Red Red Rose’ as a love lyric.Page 3 P.T.O. [4201] – 133
Total No. of Questions - 04] [Total No. of Printed Pages - 03
Q. 3. Answer any two of the following questions in about 150 words each : [20]
(i) Write an elaborate note on the central theme of ‘The Greedy Old
Woman and the Lime Tree’.
(ii) Discuss ‘The Golden Touch’ as a moral story.
(iii) Bring out the class distinction reflected in the story ‘The Doll’s
House’.
(iv) Explain the element of suspense in the story ‘The Eyes Have It’.
Q. 4. (a) Answer any one of the following questions in about 150 words : [10]
(i) What are the things in the bank that make the writer nervous
in ‘My Financial Career’?
(ii) Attempt a character sketch of the bus conductor.
(iii) How are the hobbies and interests classified by C. T. Philip?
(b) Answer any one of the following questions in about 150 words : [10]
(i) Why does the Professor want to give his invention to the
government? Why does the enemy want it?
(ii) Comment on the theme of ‘The Dear Departed’.
(iii) Write a note on the character sketch of Mr. White in ‘The
Monkey’s Paw’.