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MA III Sem English Paper IV (American Literature): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Discuss Walt Whitman as poet of democracy 2. Discuss Robert Frost as a pastoral poet. 3. What do you know about expressionism? Show that The Hairy Ape is a great expressionistic play. 4. What do you understand by 'Transcendentalism'? Explain with reference to the essays you have read.

MA III Sem English Paper III (Indian Writings in English): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions - 1. Discuss R.N. Tagore as a poet. 2. Give a summary of Wings of Fire by Kalam. 3. Discuss Badal Sircar as a playwright. 4. Discuss Anita Desai as a novelist. 5. Give a character sketch of Savitri. 6. Sketch the character of Maya of Cry, the Peacock .

MA III Sem English Paper II (English Language): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any three of the following Questions: 1. Write a detailed note on language covering its definition, its function, its characteristics and development of English language. 2. Write a short note on any three: i. Diachronic approach ii. Synchronic approach iii. Phonemes iv. Register v. Difference between phonetics and phonology. 3. Write about cardinal vowels/ English vowels (Pure Vowels & Diphthongs) and Consonants. 4. What do you mean by TGG in context of linguistics? Write in detail. 5. Write with diagrams (where necessary) about the organs involved in articulation of speech sounds.

MA III Sem English Paper I (Critical Theory): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Discuss Aristotle’s theory of imitation. 2. Discuss Longinus’s five sources of sublimity. 3. Discuss Wordsworth’s theory of poetry. 4. Discuss Eliot’s theory of impersonality.

MA I Sem English Paper IV (Prose): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any three of the following Questions: 1. Write a detailed note on Francis Bacon covering his essays prescribed for you. 2. How does Republic start? Name of the characters participating in discussion. Also write about the content of Book II. 3. Write about IV Chapter of The Autobiography or My Story. 4. Write a note on William Hazlitt and his essays.

MA I Sem English Paper III (Fiction): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Discuss Don Quixote as a parody of chivalric romance. 2. Discuss Tom Jones as a picaresque novel. 3. Discuss Charles Dickens as a social reformer with special reference to Great Expectation s. 4. Discuss Kenilworth as a historical romance.

MA I Sem English Paper II (Drama): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Sketch the character of Shakuntala. 2. Discuss Hamlet’s madness. 3. Discuss Twelfth Night as a romantic comedy. 4. Sketch the character of Viola. 5. ‘ Dr. Faustus reflects the spirits of renaissance’. Discuss.

MA I Sem English Paper I (Poetry): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Write a note on Milton’s use of epic similes. Illustrate your answer from Paradise Lost Book I. 2. Write a note on Chaucer’s art of characterization. 3. Discuss characteristics of Metaphysical poetry. 4. Discuss The Rape of the Lock as a mock epic poem.

Note: Attempt any two of the following questions: 7.5x2= 15 Paper III (Indian Writings in English) 1. Discuss R.N. Tagore as a poet. 2. Give a summary of Wings of Fire by Kalam. 3. Discuss Badal Sircar as a playwright. 4. Discuss Anita Desai as a novelist. 5. Give a character sketch of Savitri. 6. Sketch the character of Maya of Cry, the Peacock. *********

  Note: Attempt any two of the following questions: 7.5x2= 15 Paper II (Drama) 1. Sketch the character of Shakuntala. 2. Discuss Hamlet’s madness. 3. Discuss Twelfth Night as a romantic comedy. 4. Sketch the character of Viola. 5. 'Dr. Faustus reflects the spirit of renaissance’. Discuss. ********

  Then let not winter's ragged hand deface (Sonnet VI) is an artistic sonnet by William Shakespeare. It is as follows: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed. That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan; That's for thy self to breed another thee, Or ten times happier, be it ten for one; Ten times thy self were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigured thee: Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart, Leaving thee living in posterity? Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.

 ' Those hours, that with gentle work did frame' is a fantastic sonnet by William Shakespeare. It is sonnet no. 5. It is as follows: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel; For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter, and confounds him there; Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where: Then were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

 'Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend' is a beautiful sonnet by William Shakespeare. It is sonnet no. IV. The complete sonnet is as follows: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free: Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse The bounteous largess given thee to give? Profitless usurer, why dost thou use So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live? For having traffic with thy self alone, Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive: Then how when nature calls thee to be gone, What acceptable audit canst thou leave? Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee, Which, used, lives th' executor to be.

'Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest' is the 3rd sonnet by William Shakespeare. The complete sonnet is as follows: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another; Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity? Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. But if thou live, remembered not to be, Die single and thine image dies with thee.

William Shakespeare is a great writer of sonnets. The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains. Each quatrain consists of four lines. At the end there is a couplet. The rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnet is abab, cdcd, efef and gg. The following sonnet (Sonnet no. 02) is an example of Shakespearean sonnet. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,' Proving his beauty by succession thine! This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.

William Shakespeare was born at Stratford-On-Avon on 25 April 1564. He died on 23 April 1616. He is an eminent poet and playwright of the Renaissance in England. His poems are Venus and Adonis (1593), The Rape of Lucrece (1594), The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601) and the Sonnets (1593-1603). The sonnets of William Shakespeare were published in the Quarto edition of Shakespeare’s Works in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe. They are dedicated to Mr. W.H. It is he who is considered to be the begetter of Shakespearean sonnets. A controversy exists about the identity of Mr. W.H. Perhaps he is William Herbert, the eldest son of the second Earl of Prembroke by his third wife, Mary Sidney. William Herbert was born in 1586. In 1601 he became the third Earl of Prembroke. Shakespeare has composed 154 sonnets. These sonnets form two groups. The first group (1 to 126) is addressed to a smart young man and the second group (127 to 154) to a dark lady. The young man appears as a lovely boy. His social pos...

M.A. Sem. I Examination (Model Question Paper) English - Paper I - Poetry Section - A (Objective Type Questions) Q1. Choose the correct option: 5x2=10 i. Milton' Paradise Lost is: a. an ode b. a lyric c. an elegy d. an epic ii. The Ramayan is a composition by: a. Kalidas b. Valmiki c. Vyas d. Tulsidas iii. Chaucer belongs to: a. 14th Century b. 16th Century c. 18th Century d. 20th Century iv. Coleridge is a: a. Classical poet b. Metaphysical poet c. Neoclassical poet d. Romantic poet v. Zimri is a character of: a. Chaucer b. Shakespeare c. Dryden d. Pope Section - B ( Short Answer Type Questions) Q2. Answer any FIVE of the following questions: 5x7=35 i. Define epic with examples. ii. What do you mean by 'Homeric Simile'. Discuss. iii. Justify the title 'Sundarkanda' iv. Write a note on Chaucer's Monk. v. Discuss the symbolic significance of 'albatross' of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. vi. Write a short note on Shakespearean sonnet. vii. De...

M.A. Sem. I Examination Dec. 2021 English Literature (Paper I - Poetry) Section-A (Objective Type Questions) Note: Attempt all questions. Each question carries 02 marks. Q.1. Choose the correct option: 5x2 =10 (i) 'Rhyme Royal' is associated with: a. Chaucer b. Milton c. John Donne d. William Shakespeare (ii) A comparison by John Donne that discovers  likeness in things unlike is known as: a. Satire b. Irony c. Symbol d. Conceit (iii) The line 'Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable..' is uttered by: a. Adam b. Eve c. Satan d. Beelzebub (iv) Absalom in the poem 'Absalom and Achitophel' stands for: a. Duke of Buckingham b. Duke of Monmouth c. Earl of Shaftesbury d. Charles II (v) Ariel belongs to the category of: a. Sylphs b. Gnomes c. Nymphs d.Salamanders Section-B ( Short Answer Type Questions) Note: Attempt any five questions. Each question carries 07 marks. 5x7= 35 Q2. Explain the following with reference to the context:      'She was so charitabl...

  M.A. Sem. I Examination Dec. 2021 English (Paper- II) -  Drama Time: 3 Hours Total Marks - 85 Pass Marks - 28 Section A (Objective Type Questions) Note; Attempt all questions. Each question carries 02 marks; 5x2= 10 Q1. Choose the correct option: (i) Malavikagnimitra is a composition by: a. Banabhatta b. Kalidasa c. Bharat Muni d. Valmiki (ii) Gertrude is a character of: a. Marlowe b. Shakespeare c. Dryden d. Shaw (iii) To whom is Olivia married: a. Sebastian b. Orsino c. Malvolio d. Cesario (iv)Ariel is a character in: a. Hamlet b. King Lear c. Twelfth Night d. The Tempest (v) Cordelia is the daughter of: a. Prospero b. King Lear c. Claudius d. Polonius Section B (Short Answer Type Questions) Note: Attempt any five questions. Each question carries 7 marks. 5x7= 35 q2. Give a short introduction of Sophocles. Q3. Give a short introduction of Kalidasa. Q4. 'Frailty, thy name is woman'. Discuss this expression. Q5. Write a short note on Ophelia. Q6. Give a character ske...

MA IV Sem. English (Paper IV- American Literature) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Prose) i. Emerson: American Scholar ii. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience UNIT- III (Poetry) i. Emily Dickinson: Because I Could not Wait for Death, I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, A Light Exists in Spring, This is My Letter to the World. ii. Sylvia Plath: Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting UNIT- IV (Drama) i. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie ii. Edward Albee: The Zoo Story UNIT-V (Fiction) i. Earnest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea ii. Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men

MA IV Sem. English (Paper III- Indian Writings in English) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: i. Sarojini Naidu ii. Kamala Das Note: All poems of each poet in V.K. Gokak ed. Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, Sahitya Academy. UNIT- III i. M.R. Anand: Untouchable ii. R. K. Narayan: The English Teacher UNIT- IV i. Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra ( Book I) ii. Munshi Premchand: The Shroud (Kafan) UNIT-V i. Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines ii. Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence

MA IV Sem. English (Paper II- English Language) UNIT-I Morphology: Morpheme, Allomorph, Word Formation UNIT-II: Linguistic Analysis: I.C. Analysis and Ambiguities UNIT- III Phonology: Sound Sequences: Syllable, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms, Stress and Intonation. UNIT- IV Grammar: Sentence types and their transformation relations: (a) Statement (b) Question (c) Negative (d) Passive (e) Imperative UNIT-V Grammar: Word Classes: Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjunct Phrase, Syntax Coordination, Subordination, Relative Clauses, Adverbials, Determiners, Article Features, Concord.

MA IV Sem. English (Paper I- Critical Theory) UNIT-I i. Anand Vardhan: Dhwani Theory ii. Ferdinand: Saussure: The Nature of Linguistic Sign UNIT-II: i. I.A. Richards: Two Uses of Language ii. J.C. Ransom: Concept of Structure and Texture of Poetry UNIT- III i. F.R. Leavis: Literary Criticism and Philosophy ii. J. Derrida: Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences UNIT- IV i. Edward Said: Crisis ( The Scope of Orientalism) ii.Basic Trends in Feminist Criticism UNIT-V Practical Criticism: It will contain two passages; One in verse and the other in prose for practical criticism following the technique as illustrated in I.A. Richards' book 'Practical Criticism' and David Daiches' 'Critical Approaches'.

MA III Sem. English (Paper IV- American Literature) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Prose) Emerson: Self Reliance, The Over Soul UNIT- III (Poetry) Walt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain, Song of Myself : Grass, When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomed, I Celebrate Myself. Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, After Apple Picking, Birches, The Road not Taken. UNIT- IV (Drama) Eugene O' Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra Note: In Govt. P.G. College Satna: Hairy Ape UNIT-V (Fiction) Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn

MA III Sem. English (Paper III- Indian Writings in English) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II i. Sri Aurobindo: Savitri (Book I- Canto I) ii. Tagore: Geetanjali (Poems- 1 to 10), McMillan Edition UNIT- III APJ Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire UNIT- IV i. Asif Currimbhoy: Valley of Assassins ii. Badal Sircar: Evam Indrajit UNIT-V i. Anita Desai: Cry, the Peacock ii. Arun Joshi: The City and the River

MA III Sem. English (Paper II- English Language) UNIT-I Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English Language. UNIT-II: Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the Study of Language: Synchronic and Diachronic UNIT- III Definition of Phonetics and Phonology, Difference between Phonetics and Phonology, Organs of Speech UNIT- IV Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in RP UNIT-V Basics of Transformational Generic Grammar: Nature and Characteristics

MA III Sem. English (Paper I- Critical Theory) UNIT-I Natyashastra- Rasa Theory Aristotle : Poetics (Butcher's Translation) UNIT-II: Longinus: On the Sublime Philip Sidney: Apology for Poetry UNIT- III John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy Dr. Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare UNIT- IV Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Ch. XIII & XIV) UNIT-V Matthew Arnold: Essays in Criticism (Second Series) T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent

MA II Sem. English (Paper IV- Prose) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: Boswell: The Life of Dr. Johnson ( From Everyman's Edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, London: J.M. Dent 1958 Vol. I, Introductory pp 5-11) Addison: Choice of Hercules, Uses of the Spectators Note: In P.G. College Satna - Sir Roger at Church, Sir Roger at Home UNIT- III Goldsmith: The Man in Black Charles Lamb: New Year's Eve, A Bachelor's Complaint against the Behavior of Married People UNIT- IV A. G. Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road, In Defence of Laziness Robert Lynd: Back to the Desk, Forgetting, The Pleasure of Ignorance, I Tremble to think UNIT-V G.K. Chesterton: On Running after One's Hat, Patriotism and Sport Hilaire Belloc: On Books, On Preserving English

MA II Sem. English (Paper III- Fiction) UNIT-I (19th Century Fiction) Flaubert: Madame Bovary George Meredith: The Egoist UNIT-II : (Rural Novel) Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'urbervilles Premchand : Godan UNIT- III (Psychological Novel) Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers UNIT- IV (Naturalist Novel) Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea UNIT-V (Post Naturalist Novel) William Golding: Lord of the Flies Saul Bellow: Herzog

MA II Sem. English (Paper II- Drama) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Restoration Drama) John Dryden: All For Love Congreve: The Way of the World UNIT- III (Victorian Drama) G. B. Shaw: Man and Superman Galsworthy: Justice UNIT- IV (Modern Drama) Ibsen: A Doll's House Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children UNIT-V (Indian Drama) Girish Karnad: The Fire and the Rain Mahesh Dattani: Tara

MA II Sem. English (Paper I- Poetry) UNIT-I (Pre Romantic Poetry) Thomas Gray: The Bard, The Progress of Poesy William Blake: On Another Sorrow, From 'Auguries of Innocence', The Poison Tree UNIT-II : (Romantic Poetry) W. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality. P.B. Shelley: Adonais John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn UNIT- III (Victorian Poetry) Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses, The Lotus Eaters Matthew Arnold: Thyrsis, The Scholar Gipsy UNIT- IV (Symbolist Poetry) T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming, Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium UNIT-V (Modern Poetry) W.H. Auden: Strange Meeting, The Shield of Achilles Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child

MA I Sem. English (Paper IV- Prose) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Biography and Autobiography) i. J.L. Nehru: Autobiography (Fourth Chapter) ii. Kamala Das: My Story ( Fourth Chapter) UNIT- III ( Political and Social Writings) i. Plato: The Republic, Book II (First Four Chapters) ii. Bacon: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Revenge, Of Love UNIT- IV (Philosophical Writing) i. J. Krishnamurti: 1. Individual and Society 2. Action and Idea 3. What is Self 4. What are We Seeking? ii. Lala Hardayal: Intellectual Culture UNIT-V i. Bertrand Russell: True Success ii. William Hazlitt: 1. The Ignorance of the Learned 2. The Indian Jugglers. ***********

MA I Sem. English (Paper III- Fiction) UNIT-I ( Early Prose Narrative) i. Bana Bhatt: Kadambari ii. Cervantes: Don Quixote UNIT-II : (Picaresque Novel) i. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones ii. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe UNIT- III (Historical Novel) i. Walter Scott: Kenilworth ii. Thackeray: Henry Esmond UNIT- IV (Fiction by Women) i. George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss ii. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre UNIT-V (19th Century Realistic Novel) i. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations ii. Zola: Nana ********

MA I Sem. English (Paper II- Drama) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Non-English Drama) i. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex ii. Kalidas: Abhigyan Shakuntalam ( English Translation, Sahitya Academy) UNIT- III (Shakespearean Tragedy) i. Hamlet ii. King Lear UNIT- IV (Other Shakespearean Plays) i. Twelfth Night ii.The Tempest UNIT-V (Renaissance Drama: Non Shakespearean) i. Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus ii. Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour ***********

MA I Sem. English (Paper I- Poetry) UNIT-I  Annotations UNIT-II : (Epic Poetry) i. John Milton: Paradise Lost (Book-I) ii. Valmiki: Ramayan (Sundar Kand) UNIT- III (Narrative Poetry) i. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales ii. S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner UNIT- IV (Renaissance Poetry) i. William Shakespeare: Sonnets No.- 23,24,26,27,31,44. ii. John Donne: The Extasie, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Good Morrow, Love's Alchemy, The Canonization, The Anniversarie. UNIT-V (Satirical Poetry) i. John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel ii. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock ********

Paper Title: English Literature- Paper- II (Fiction) UNIT- I Joseph Conard : Lord Jim UNIT- II D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers UNIT- III E.M. Forster : A Passage to India UNIT- IV Raja Rao : Kanthapura UNIT- V V.S. Naipaul : A House for Mr. Biswas **********

Paper Title: English Literature- Paper- I (Poetry) UNIT- I Alfred Tennyson:   First Five Cantos (In Memoriam) UNIT- II W.B.Yeats: i. A Prayer for My Daughter ii. The Second Coming iii. Sailing to Byzantium iv. Among School Children UNIT- III T.S. Eliot: i. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ii. Journey of the Magi iii. Burnt Norton UNIT- IV W.H. Auden: i. In Memory of W.B. Yeats ii. The Unknown Citizen iii. The Shield of Achilles' iv. Petition v. September 1, 1939 UNIT- V Philip Larkin: i. Next Please ii. Deceptions A.K. Ramanujan: i. A River ii. Obituary *******

  Syllabus of UG I Year (BA/BSc/BCom) - FC II ( English) - Session 2021-22 onwards Program: UG Level Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Title: English Language and Indian Culture Course Code: X1-FCHB1T Course Type: Foundation Course (theory) Credit Value: 2 Total Marks: 50; Minimum Pass Marks: 17 Written Exam: 50 Marks; Time 02 Hours (50 multiple choice/ objective/ true- false type questions to be asked. Each question carries 01 mark.) **** UNIT- I Reading, Writing and Interpretation Skills: 1. Where the Mind is Without Fear - Rabindranath Tagore [Key Word: Patriotism] 2. National Education - M. K. Gandhi [Key Word: Edification] 3. The Axe - R.K. Narayan [Key Word; Environment] 4. The Wonder that was India - A.L. Basham (An excerpt) [Key Word: Indianness] 5. Preface to the Mahabharata - C. Rajagopalachari [ Key Word: Indian Mythology] UNIT II Comprehension Skills: Unseen passage followed by multiple choice questions. UNIT III Basic Language Skills: 1. Vocabulary Buil...