CLASS: B.A. ENGLISH LIT.
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St. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) TIRUCHIRAPPALLI – 620 002
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – APRIL 2010
TIME: 3 Hrs.
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
SEM
SET
PAPER CODE
TITLE OF THE PAPER
IV
2008
08UEN430404A
ALLIED OPT: HISTORY OF ENGLISH
LITERATURES
SECTION – A
Answer all the questions:
20 x 1 = 20
Choose the correct answer:
1.
Who is known as ‘the morning star of Reformation’?
a) Alfred
b) Chaucer
c) Wyclif
d) Loyatt
2.
With whom Sackville collaborated in the tragedy of Gorboduc?
a) Norton
b) Sidney
c) Henry Howard
d) Spenser
3.
Name the periodical run by Addison and Steele
a) The Diary
b)
c) Moll Flanders
d)
The Spectator
Tatler
Name the author of ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’
a) Coleridge
b)
c) Words worth
d)
Shelley
Keats
Who wrote the play, ‘The Apple Cart’?
a) G.B. Shaw
c) Chesterton
Ibsen
Galsworthy
4.
5.
b)
d)
State whether the following are True or False:
6.
‘The Hous of Fame’ is based on Boccaccio’s Filastrato.
7.
Spenser’s ‘Shepherdes Calender’ is a pastoral poem.
8.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ is known as a Mock Epic.
9.
‘My Early Life’ was written by Hugh Walpole.
10.
Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’ is a noble monody on Clough’s death.
Fill in the blanks:
11.
Chaucer dedicated ‘Troylus and Cryseyde’ to _________
12.
Marlowe’s historical play is _________.
13.
‘The Vicar of Wakefield’ deals with the wanderings of ________.
14.
‘The Skylark’ is written by _________.
15.
‘Ulysses’ is a modern masterpiece of _________.
Match the following:
16.
Piers the Plowman
-
a) Metaphysical poet
17.
Donne
-
b) Mac Flecknoe
18.
Dryden
-
c) T.S. Eliot
19.
Essays of Elia
-
d) Allegorical Poem
20.
The Waste Zand
-
e) Charles Lamb
SECTION – B
Answer all the questions:
21.
a.
5 x 4 = 20
Write a short note on the literary features of the Middle English period.
OR
22.
b.
Write a short note on John Gower’s works.
a.
Bring out the development of the English Bible.
OR
23.
b.
Write about Marlowe’s contribution to English drama.
a.
Write a note on John Bunyan’s literary works.
OR
24.
b.
Comment on the achievements of Jonathan Swift.
a.
Write a note on Shelley as a Romantic poet.
OR
25.
b.
Bring out the main features of Pre-Raphaelite poetry.
a.
Comment on the works of James Joyce.
OR
b.
Write the poetic contribution of Philip Larkin.
SECTION – C
Answer any FOUR questions:
4 x 15 = 60
26.
Chaucer’s contribution to and the characteristics of his poetry.
27.
Discuss the greatness of Milton as a poet.
28.
Account for the popularity of satire and prose in the age of Pope and Johnson.
29.
Critically examine Jane Austen’s contribution to the English Novel.
30.
Examine the contribution of Bernard Shaw in Drama.
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