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[B][U][CENTER][SIZE="3"]ENGLISH LITERATURE - I[/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B]

ATTEMPT ONLY [B]FIVE[/B] QUESTIONS IN ALL, INCLUDING [B]QUESTION NO.8[/B] WHICH IS [B]COMPLUSORY[/B]. SELECT [B]TWO [/B]QUESTIONS FROM EACH OF [B]PARTS I & II[/B].

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Q.1 William Wordsworth exalts familiar reality through the strenght of a reflective sensibility. Critically analyze the statement.

Q.2 Keat's odes depict a skillful fusion of a seeking of beauty which endures and an impassioned meditation of death. Comment.

Q.3 The predominant almost exclusie theme of W.Blake's short poems is based on the feeling of a child's unpassioned soul, the tone is simple while the emtions possess a pure ardour. Discuss.

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Q.4 In ' 'Tess', Hardy has rebelled against tradional and orthodox views'. Comment.

Q.5 'The one gift necessary to the great Novelist is the capacity to create living characters'. Discuss any two novels by Dickens in the light of this comment.

Q.6 'Gulliver's Travel' "expresses despair or that its import is nihilistic, is radically to misread the book". Justify or reject the statement.

Q.7 Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:
(a) The use of the dramatic monologue by Robert Browning
(b) Conflict between love and duty in G.Eliot
(c) Romantic themes in W.Blake's poetry
(d) Charles Lamb as a prose writer

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Q.8 Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.

1. Restoration period was known as the age of :
(a)satire
(b)paganism
(c)classicism
(d)puretanism

2. Who is famous for respresenting London in hsi novels.
(a)Thakeray
(b)Hardy
(c)Dickens
(d)W.Scott

3. Great Expectations was publsihed in :
(a) 1860-1
(b) 1857-8
(c) 1852-3
(d) none of these

4. Jane Eyre was written by :
(a) C.Dickens
(b) G.Eliot
(c) C.Bronte
(d) J.Austen

5. Who was a known aesthete?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley
(d) J.S.Mill

6. "In Memorium" is :
(a) an ode
(b) an elegy
(c) a sonnet
(d) neither

7. Tennyson was :
(a) a romantic
(b) a Victorian
(c) a Pre-Raphealite
(d) none of these

8. Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley
(d) none of these

9. A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is:
(a) naturalism
(b) romanticism
(c) fatalism
(d) classicism

10. "The Recluse" was written by:
(a) Worsdworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) W.Blake
(d) Southey

11. Dorothy was the gifted sister of:
(a) R.Browning
(b) Shelley
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Coleridge

12. "The Frankenstein" is a novel by :
(a) W.Scott
(b) Lewis
(c) Mrs. Shelley
(d) If none of these then by whom

13. An element of trhe supernatural is present in the poetry of :
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Browning
(d) Byron

14. Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :
(a) Childe Harolde
(b) Queen Mab
(c) Prometheus
(d) The Recluse

15. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by:
(a) W.Scott
(b) Coleridge
(c) Shelley
(d) None of these

16. Adonias, Prometheus and "The triuph of life" are some of the beautiful poems by:
(a) W.Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Shelley
(d) none of these

17. "The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:
(a) Ruskin
(b) J.S.Mill
(c) C.Lamb
(d) Russell

18. Mr. Rochester is the major character of :
(a) Silas Marner
(b) Jane Eyre
(c) Jude the Obscure
(d) Adam Bede

19. In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope", "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as backdrop:
(a) A pair of Blue Eyes
(b) Jude the Obscure
(c) Return of the Native
(d) if none of these then give the correct answer

20. "The Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by:
(a) C.Bronte
(b) Hardy
(c) Emile Bronte
(d) Jane Austen

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