CLASS: B.A. ENGLISH LIT.
11A/ 236
St. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) TIRUCHIRAPPALLI – 620 002
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – APRIL 2011
TIME: 3 Hrs.
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
SEM
SET
PAPER CODE
TITLE OF THE PAPER
II
2010
08UEN230402A
ALLIED: ENGLISH LITERARY FORMS AND
TERMS
SECTION – A
Answer all the questions:
20 x 1 = 20
Choose the correct answer:
1.
A lyric poem consists of fourteen iambic pentameter lines is called
a) Idyll
b) Epic
c) Sonnet
d) Ballad
2.
________ is a long lyric poem. That is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and
elaborate in its stanzaic structure
a) Ballad
b) Ode
c) Epic
d) Satire
3.
________ is used to refer to the subject matter of change and loss
a) Elegy
b) Idyll
c) Sonnet
d) Terza rime
4.
________ consists of iambic pentameter lines which rhyme in pairs: aa, bb, cc and so on
a) Rhyme Royal
b) Heroic couplet
c) Ottava Rima
d) None
5.
________ can be described as the literary art of diminishing a subject by making ridiculous
a) Epic
b) Satire
c) Ode
d) Ballad
Fill in the blanks:
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10.
________ is applied to literary representations of serious actions.
________ is type of Eliabethan drama which intermingled both the standard characters and
subject matter and the standard plot forms of tragedy and comedy.
________ does not designate a component in a play, but a type of lyric poem that was
perfected by Browning.
________ designates the view that there should be propriety in the way that a literary genre,
dialogue and narration are matched.
________ came to be the term for figures of speech which establish a string parallel between
two very dissimilar things or situations.
Say whether the following are True or False:
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15.
Blank verse consists of lines of iambic pentameter which are unrhymed.
Comic relief is the introduction of comic characters and speeches in a tragic work, especially
in dramas.
Euphemism is a term applied to language which strikes the ear as smooth, pleasant and
musical.
Allusion is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words.
The social novel emphasizes the influence of the social and economic conditions of an era.
Match the following:
16.
Surrealism
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a) Homonyms
17.
Pathetic Fallacy
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b) Washington Allston
18.
Objective correlative
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c) Dadaism
19.
Stream of consciousness
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d) Ruskin
20.
Pun
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e) William James
SECTION – B
Answer all the questions:
21.
a.
5 x 4 = 20
Write a short note on “Sonnet”.
OR
22.
b.
Write a note on “Epic”.
a.
What is Tragi – comedy. Explain with illustrations.
OR
23.
b.
Comment on “The Dramatic Monologue”.
a.
Write a note on Allegory and Allusion.
OR
b.
Sketch briefly on Blank verse and Diction.
24.
a.
What are the types of novel? Explain with examples.
OR
25.
b.
What is the difference between biography and autobiography?
a.
Write a note on “Plot”.
OR
b.
Comment on “Satire”.
SECTION – C
Answer any FOUR questions:
4 x 15 = 60
26.
Write an essay on stanza forms.
27.
What are the dramatic devices? Give examples.
28.
Explain cliche, climax, comic relief, conceit and epigram.
29.
What are the types prose? Explain theme with illustrations.
30.
Comment on a) Objective correlative
c) Pathetic fallacy
b) Personification
d) Myth
e) Wit.
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