M.A-M.A English 1st Year Paper IV - MODERN LITERATURE - II (1700 - 1850) (Acharya Nagarjuna University - Center for Distance Education, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2013)
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M.A. (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DEC - 2013
First Year
ENGLISH
Paper IV - MODERN LITERATURE - II (1700 - 1850)
Time : Three hours Maximum : 80 marks
Question No. 1 is compulsory.
Answer any TWO questions from Unit - I and
TWO questions from Uunit - II
1) Annotate any FOUR of the following :
a) Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain -
To thy high requiem became a sod.
b) What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ?
What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstacy ?
c) The mind of Man is framed even like the breath
And harmony of music.
d) And almost make our Infancy itself
A visible scene, on which the sun is shining.
e) He has long ontlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
f) In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labouor is more.
g) Now don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter;
You know I have proof controvertitle of it.
h) Where nature has bestowed a show of nice attention in the features of a man, he should
laugh at it is misplaced.
UNIT - I
2) Bring out a comparative study of Keats' Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Gracian Urn.
3) Examine Wordsworth as a romantic in The Prelude Book I.
4) How does Dr. Johnson support Shakespeare for his mistakes in his Preface to Shakespeare.
5) Critically comment on the plot and theme of The Rivals.
6) Write a critical essay on contribution of 18th Century Dramatists.
UNIT - II
7) Examine the supernatural element in The Rape of the Lock.
8) Discuss the features of a Ballad in Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
9) Bring out the characteristic features of a pastoral elegy in Adonias.
10) Write a critical note on Lamb's prose style in the essays prescribed for your study.
11) Discuss Jane Austen's use of irony in Emma.
12) Examine Goldsmith's art of characterisation in She Stoops to conquer.
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