Thursday, March 28, 2024
08:49 PM (GMT +5)

Go Back   CSS Forums > CSS Past Papers > CSS Papers (1971-2017) > CSS 2000 Papers

Reply Share Thread: Submit Thread to Facebook Facebook     Submit Thread to Twitter Twitter     Submit Thread to Google+ Google+    
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread
  #1  
Old Monday, April 18, 2005
Argus's Avatar
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Islamabad
Posts: 702
Thanks: 351
Thanked 2,445 Times in 282 Posts
Argus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to behold
Default English Literature Paper 2000

ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER-1

TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100
NOTE: Attempt FIVE questions in all, including question No.7 which is Compulsory. Select questions from each Part. All questions carry equal marks.
PART - I

1. Wordsworth’s verdict about Blake (on his death) was that "There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott". Elaborate with reference to Black’s works.

2. Discuss Wordsworth’s work as "an expression in an age of doubt of the transcendent in nature and the good in man" (J.S. Mill)

3. Shelley’s weaknesses as a writer have always been evident; rhetorical abstraction; intellectual arrogance; and movements of intense self-pity. But in great poems like the "West Wind" or great prose works like "Defence", it is precisely these limitations that he transcends, and indeed explodes. Discuss.

OR

In spite of diverse material and frequent digressions DON JUAN (Byron) does have a strong principle of thematic unity exemplified by the recurring motif of appearance versus reality. Comment and illustrate.

PART - II

4. Discuss J. S. Mill as an important figure in British empiricism.

OR

Lamb seldom permitted his profounder views of life to appear above the humorous, pathetic and ironical surface of his writings. Discuss with reference to his "Essays".

5. George Eliot is generally credited with changing the nature of the English Novel. Discuss the change with reference to the novelists’ works

6. Write short notes on TWO of the following:

(a) The Cult of Art for Arts’ sake (b) Negative Capability
(c) Decadence (d) Liberal humanism

COMPULSORY QUESTION

7. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

(1) Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:

(a) Publication of "Intimations of Immortality"

(b) The beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign

(c) The Reform Bill of 1832

(d) Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface

(e) 1800 - 1801

(2) Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?

(a) A "feathered chorister"

(b) A "member of the plumy race"

(c) A "bird"

(d) A "tenant of the sky"

(e) An "airy fairy"

(3) Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:

(a) The creation of abstract concepts

(b) An endorsement of the scientific tradition

(c) The creation of an original philosophy

(d) An examination of extraneous matters

(e) His belief in a world to come.

(4) Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a vividness of phrasing which sometimes reaches the point of abstraction:

(a) True (b) False

(5) "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" is a satirical attack on contemporary writers who had annoyed Byron.

(a) True (b) False

(6) In 1850, Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate.

(a) True (b) False

(7) Mary Anne Evans is the same person as George Eliot.

(a) True (b) False

(8) Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural.

(a) True (b) False

(9) The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was:

(a) Dante (b) Shakespeare (c) Wordsworth (d) Shelley

(10) Shelly was a firm believer in all of the following except:

(a) Personal freedom

(b) The individual’s responsibility to society

(c) The power of love

(d) Human conduct based on conviction

(11) Shelley’s poetry used all of the following components for themes except:

(a) Worship of God (b) Passion
(c) Narcissism (d) Emotional self-indulgence

(12) The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to:

(a) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

(b) Advance a single system to the public

(c) Allow the writer to draw on his

(d) Be brooding and meditative. own personality

(13) Charles Lamb’s "Dream Children" is notable for its:

(a) Crushing tragedy (b) Humor
(c) Whimsical Pathos (d) Cynicism

(14) The Victorian age can be dated by which of the following events and years:

(a) Mills’s "on liberty’ (1859) to end of century (1900)

(b) Reform Bill (1832) to end of Boer War (1902)

(c) Birth of Tennyson (1809) to his death (1892)

(d) Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victor-ia (1901)

(15) Which of the following works ‘had the greatest influence on the Victorian Age?

(a) Mill’s "On Liberty"
(b) Tennyson’s "In memoriam"
(c) Darwin’s "Origin of Species"
(d) Carlyle’s "Sartor Resartus"
(e) Ruskin’s "The stones of Venice"

(16) In which of. the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success:

(a) Drama (b) Epic Poetry (c) Lyric Poetry

(d) The Essay (e) The Novel

(17) Identify the sources of the quotations listed below:

1. "Hail to thee blithe spirit"

2. "Spirit of beauty that dost consecrate"

3. "Paint/Must never hope to reproduce the- faint Halfflush that dies along her throat".

4. " Where are the songs of Spring? Ay,- where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too

5. "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu",

6. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"

7. "A hand may first and then a lip be kist;

For my part, to such doings I’m a stranger"

8. "My hair is grey, but not with years, nor grew it white, In a single night"

A "May Last Duchess"
B "To a sky Lark"
C "Ode to Autumn"
D "Don Juan"
E "The Prisoner of Chillon"
F "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
G "Intimations of Immortality’ (Ode)
H "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old Monday, April 18, 2005
Argus's Avatar
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Islamabad
Posts: 702
Thanks: 351
Thanked 2,445 Times in 282 Posts
Argus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to beholdArgus is a splendid one to behold
Default

ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER-II

TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

NOTE: Attempt ~ questions in all, including question No.8 which is Compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Describe "Hamlet" as one of the revenge plays in English Literature.

2. Examine critically the theme of "Pygmalion" by Shaw.

3. "Pride and Prejudice" and Jane Austen is a novel with limited range. ,Discuss.

4. W.B. Yeats was a Romantic Poet. Discuss with reference to his major Poems.

5. Do you agree that Swift is a misanthrope in his ‘Gulliver’S Travels’? Why?

6. Discuss the artistic and emotional aspects in ‘The Waste Land’ by Eliot.

7. Write a short note/essay on the following:

(a) Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy (b) ‘Fire and Ice’

COMPULSORY QUESTION

8. Write only the correct/best answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

(1) Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’?

(a) A.C. Bradley (b) Palmer D.J. (c) Dr.Johnsofl

(2) Which of the following is not a dramatist?

(a) Ben Johnson (b) Eliot (c) S. Backet

(3) Which. of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?

(a) Tempest (b) Pygmalion ‘ (c) King Lear

(4) Who is the author of ‘After Strange Gods’?

(a) Shaw (b) Robert Frost (c) Eliot

(5) Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet’?

(a) Horatio (b) Iago (c) Claudius

(6) Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?

(a) Cordelia (b) Portia (c) Ophelia

(7) After whom the Elizabethan Age is named:

(a) Elizabeth I (b) Elizabeth II (c) Elizabeth Browning

(8) Who wrote ‘Common Pursuit’?

(a) Leavis, F.R. (b) Cecil, D. (c) E.M.Foster

(9) ‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:

(a). Spenser (b) Chaucer (c) Milton

(10) "After Apple Picking" is written by:

(a) Robert Browning (b) Robert Frost

(11) Ernest Hemingway wrote:

(a) Mr. Chips (b) Pride and Prejudice (c) Old Man and the Sea

(12) "Intellectual Beauty" is written by:

(a) Bertrand Russell (b) Huxley (c) P.B.Shelle

(13) Who wrote "20th Century Views"?

(a) Abrahams, M. H. (b) Palmer, D. J. (c) Bertrand Russell

(14) ‘Desert Places’ is a:

(a) Poem (b) Play (c) Novel

(15) The University Wits were:

(a) Poets (b) Playwrights (c) Novelists

(16) William Shakespeare was Born in:

(a) 1564 (b) 1534 (c) 1616

(17) Francis Bacon died in:

(a) 1616 (b) 1626 (c) 1648

(18) The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:

(a) The Age of Classicism (b) . The Restoration (c) The age of Milton

(19) Who wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress"?

(a) John Bunyan (b) Daniel Defoe (c) Dryden

(20) ‘‘The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:

(a) Jonathan Swift (b) Samuel Johnson (c) Oliver ‘Goldsmith
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
History of English literature Naseer Ahmed Chandio English Literature 18 Saturday, October 20, 2012 03:03 PM
English Literature Sureshlasi English Literature 2 Monday, July 30, 2007 03:33 AM
Languages by Countries Snobbish General Knowledge, Quizzes, IQ Tests 0 Friday, June 15, 2007 11:27 AM
American Literature Ahmad Bilal English Literature 0 Friday, April 14, 2006 05:58 PM


CSS Forum on Facebook Follow CSS Forum on Twitter

Disclaimer: All messages made available as part of this discussion group (including any bulletin boards and chat rooms) and any opinions, advice, statements or other information contained in any messages posted or transmitted by any third party are the responsibility of the author of that message and not of CSSForum.com.pk (unless CSSForum.com.pk is specifically identified as the author of the message). The fact that a particular message is posted on or transmitted using this web site does not mean that CSSForum has endorsed that message in any way or verified the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message. We encourage visitors to the forum to report any objectionable message in site feedback. This forum is not monitored 24/7.

Sponsors: ArgusVision   vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.