English Literature Paper 2005
 

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[B] ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – I[/B]
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NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. Select Two questions from each part. All questions carry equal marks.

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1. Legouis says “Wordsworth saw Nature and Man with new eyes”. Examine this new vision critically.

2. Shelley was inspired by love, that is not limited to mankind only. Discuss.

3. “Free from all moral degree, Keats’ poetry has the most compiling enchantment for lovers of pure beauty. Discuss.

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4. Ruskin expressed his ideas in a magnified poetic and decorative prose. Discuss with examples.

5. Dickens set so personal a stamp on his books that at every turn he seemed to be an innovator. Discuss.

6. Do you think that George Eliot is the first English novelist who has shown tremendous psychological insight?

7. Write detailed notes on TWO of the following:
(1) Main literary trends in Victorian Age.
(2) Main characteristics of Romanticism with special reference to English romantic poets.
(3) Robert Browning’s interest in psychological analysis of characters from different countries.
(4) The concept of fate in Hardy’s novels.

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

1) Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:
a) 1808
b) 1812
c) 1818
d) None of these

2. Which English romantic poet admired Pope:
a) Coleridge
b) William Wordsworth
c) Byron
d) None of these

3. The poem “the Triumph of life” was written by:
a) Keats
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these

4. ‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake was published in:
a) 1790
b) 1794
c) 1820
d) None of these

5. ‘The Excursion’ was written by:
a) Coleridge
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these

6. The Last Ride Together was written by:
a) Byron
b) Tennyson
c) Browning
d) None of these

7. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:
a) Dickens
b) Hardy
c) George Eliot
d) None of these

8. ‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by
a) Dickens
b) Hardy
c) George Eliot
d) None of these

9. ‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem written by:
a) Browning
b) Mathew Arnold
c) Tennyson
d) None of these

10. ‘The Lotus-Eaters’ was written by
a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Blake
d) None of these

11. ‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was presented by:
a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle
c) Oscar Wilde
d) None of these

12. ‘The Old Familiar Face’ was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Charles Lamb
c) J. S. Mill
d) None of these

13. ‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by:
a) J. S. Mill
b) Carlyle
c) Ruskin
d) None of these

14. Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’.
a) Ode to Autumn
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) Ode to melancholy
d) None of these

15. Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

16. ‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by
a) Shelley
b) Browning
c) Tennyson
d) None of these

17. ‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:
a) Byron
b) Wordsworth
c) Oscar Wilde
d) None of these

18. Which of the following novels of Hardy has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?
a) Tess of the D’Urberville
b) Major of the Casterbridge
c) Jude the Obscure
d) None of these

19. The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of:
a) Ruskin
b) J. S. Mill
c) Carlyle
d) None of these

20. Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon Heath’ as the background of the story?
a) Tess of the D’Urberville
b) Return of the Native
c) Jude the Obscure
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[B] ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – II[/B]
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NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Of all the plays it is the longest and is precisely one on which Shakespeare spent most pains, yet left on it superfluous and inconsistent scenes. Substantiate statement with at least five superfluous and inconsistent scenes.

2. No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in he took no interest – For it is a part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. To what extent the statement has relevance with the present education in our society?

3. To what extent T. S. Eliot claim is justified to have claimed the universality for the wasteland, when there exists a mounting wave of criticism by other critics? Give your objective views.

4. Robert Frost ranged in tone from the lyric to narrative from dramatic to meditative from the terrifying to humourous. All the fun’s in how you say a thing. Elaborate.

5. The Old Man and the Sea. AT 26531 words by Author’s laborious count it is perhaps his most sustained attempt to unite the actual and symbolic under one continuous narrative roof. Comment critically.

6. W. B. Yeats works deal intensely with three basic urges. List each urge elaborately.

7. Write short notes on Jane Austen and Swift separately. As you have seen them in “Pride and Prejudice” and “Gulliver Travels”.

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

1) It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are meant:
a) Frost
b) Pope
c) Byron
d) None of these

2. Earnest Hemingway in addition to ‘Old Man and the Sea’ bad written:
a) A Farewell to Arms
b) For Whom the Bell Tolls
c) Death in the Afternoon
d) All of the above

3. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s
a) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
b) Shakespeare’s Tempest
c) Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
d) None of these

4. “I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:
a) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’
b) Portiain ‘Merchant of Venice’
c) Lady Macbath in ‘Macbeth’
d) None of these

5. “None of thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:
a) Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus
b) Marlow’s Jew of Malta
c) Marlow’s Tamburlaine
d) None of these

6. “Lyrical ballads” were published by:
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
d) None of these

7. The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of:
a) Wordsworth
b) Pope
c) Swift
d) Thomson

8. There is no man like Showman. These views were held by:
a) Thomas Carlyle
b) Spencer
c) Shakespeare
d) None of these

9. Shakespeare has written:
a) Historical plays
b) Comedies
c) Tragedies
d) All of these

10. Famous romantic poets were
a) Five
b) Four
c) Six
d) None of these

11. ‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from
a) Shakespeare
b) Two gentleman of Verona
c) Midsummer’s Night Dream
d) Anthony and Cleopatra

12. A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by:
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Byron
d) None of these

13. Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words?
a) Charlotte
b) Mr. Bennet
c) Mr. Bingley
d) None of these

14. In Chapter XVI the word muffled in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
a) Confused
b) Amazed
c) Not thinking clearly
d) None of these

15. Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland.
a) In 1906
b) In 1969
c) In 1952
d) None of these

16. To err is human, forgive is divine. Who has said these words:
a) Pope
b) Swift
c) Dryden
d) None of these

17. Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions recollected in tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry?
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

18. Jane Austen in addition to, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ had also written:
a) Emma
b) Sense and Sensibility
c) Persuasion
d) All of these

19. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had __________ Daughters.
a) Six
b) Seven
c) Five
d) None of these

20. Father of antiquities were:
a) Socrates
b) Aristotle
c) Plato
d) All of these

ANSWER THESE PLZ..
4. “I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:
a) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’
b) Portiain ‘Merchant of Venice’
c) Lady Macbath in ‘Macbeth’
d) None of these

5. “None of thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:
a) Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus
b) Marlow’s Jew of Malta
c) Marlow’s Tamburlaine
d) None of these

English Literature Paper 05
 

Dear Miranda spoke those words in THE TEMPEST.
NOne but thou shall be my Paramour are attributed to Helen in Dr. Faustus.