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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...

  Class: UG II Year (BA/BSc/BCom) (Session 2022-23 onwards) Program: UG Level Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Title: English Language and Foundation Course Code: X2-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 Text interpretation Skills: 1. Daffodils - Wordsworth 2. Bangle Sellers - Sarojini Naidu 3. Patriotism Beyond Politics and Religion - APJ Kalam 4. Letter to God - G.L. Swanteh (Translated by Donald Yates) 5. God Sees the Truth but Waits - Leo Tolstoy  UNIT II Comprehension Skills: Multiple choice questions based on unseen passages. UNIT III Language Skills: Use of idioms, phrases and punctuation, Mis-spelt and inappropriate words and cloze test, Conjunctions, Re-organizing jumbled sentences, Spotting the errors. UNIT IV Writing Skills: Advertis...

  Class: BA II Year (Session 2022-23 onwards) Program: Diploma Course Subject: English Literature (Theory) - Major II/ Minor/Optional  Course Title: Study of Fiction (Theory) Course Code: A2-ELIT2T Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 Total Marks: 30+ 70=100; Minimum Pass Marks: 33 Written Exam: 70 Marks (Section A: Objective; Section B: Short Questions; Section C: Long Questions) CCE: 10+10+10= 30 (There shall be 4 class tests of 10 marks each, out of which the three best scores are to be taken into account.) **** UNIT- I 1. Forms of Early Fiction 1.1 Fiction and its types 1.2 Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe 1.3 Samuel Richardson: Pamela 1.4 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice ( Keywords/Tags: Elements of novel, Augustan Age, Age of enlightenment, Literary trends in eighteenth century, Impact of Renaissance, Epistolary novel, Narrative technique, Picaresque novel, Romanticism, French revolution. ) UNIT II 2. Victorian Fiction 2.1 Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities 2.2 ...

  Class: BA II Year (Session 2022-23 onwards) Program: Diploma Course Subject: English Literature (Theory) - Major I Course Title: Study of Prose (Paper 1, Theory) Course Code: A2-ELIT1T Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 Total Marks: 30+ 70=100; Minimum Pass Marks: 33 Written Exam: 70 Marks (Section A: Objective; Section B: Short Questions; Section C: Long Questions) CCE: 10+10+10= 30 (There shall be 4 class tests of 10 marks each, out of which the three best scores are to be taken into account.) **** UNIT- I 1. Early Prose Writers 1.1 Prose and its forms 1.2 Michel de Montaigne: On Sorrow (Translated by Charles Cotton) 1.3 Francis Bacon: Of Studies, Of Truth 1.4 Oliver Goldsmith: The Man in Black (Keywords/Tags: Elizabethan Age, Aphoristic Essay, Satire, Brevity, Idiomatic Language,Ornamental Prose.) UNIT II 2. Eighteenth/ Nineteenth Century Prose 2.1 Joseph Addison: The Spectator's Account of Himself 2.2 William Hazlitt: On the Ignorance of the Learned 2.3 Charles Lam...

B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com. I year Examination April 2022 Subject: FC- II (English Language & Indian Culture) Note: Attempt all questions Q.1. Choose correct option: 01x50 = 50 01. John is ----- European. (a) a (b) an (c) the (d) none 02. Bhopal is a: (a) Proper Noun (b) Common Noun (c) Collective Noun (d) Material Noun 03. ‘Myself’ is a: (a) Personal Pronoun (b) Demonstrative Pronoun (c) Interrogative Pronoun (d) Reflexive Pronoun 04. Ram is better than: (a) I (b) me (c) my (d) mine 05. I ---- to college daily. (a) go (b) goes (c) going (d) gone 06. ‘Tomorrow’ is: (a) A noun (b) A pronoun (c) A verb (d) An adverb 07. ‘Beautiful’ is: (a) a noun (b) a verb (c) an adjective (d) an adverb 08. A person who loves his country is called: (a) optimist (b) pessimist (c) patriot (d) foreigner 09. Antonym of ‘fear’ is: (a) ignorance (b) courage (c) narrow (d) bondage 10. Antonym of ‘knowledge’ is: (a) ignorance (b) courage (c) narrow (d) bondage 11. ‘Indigenous’ means (a) without rest (b) gr...