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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SIXTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 6600 – HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

 

 

Date : 16-04-2012                         Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

PART – A

 

1. Identify the following writers by relating them to:    (10 × 2 = 20)
2. Literary school and movement
3. The chief literary form promoted
4. Contemporary writers
5. Any significant historical/social/political/ideological event. Your answer should not exceed 30 words.

 

 

1. Spenser
2. Earl of Surrey
3. Andrew Marvell
4. Alexander Pope
5. John Bunyan
6. Keats
7. Tennyson
8. Ruskin
9. Hardy

10. Hemingway

 

PART – B

 

1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each: (5 × 7 = 35)

 

11. Identify the main literary events in the Age of Chaucer.
12. Write a note on the University Wits.
13. Discuss the Reformation movement.
14. Bring out the major aspects of Restoration Drama.
15. Consider the Dramatic monologue as a literary form.
16. Evaluate Bernard Shaw as a major dramatist.
17. Show how Science Fiction is becoming a major trend in literature.

 

18. Describe the characteristic traits of American Poetry.

 

 

PART – C

 

• Answer any THREE of the following in about 250 words each:
• × 15 = 45)

19. Trace the impact of Renaissance on English Literature.
20. Attempt an evaluation of Metaphysical poetry.

 

• Examine in detail the Periodical Essay and its growth.
• Make an assessment of the contribution of Charles Dickens to

British fiction.

 

• Consider Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams as major American

dramatists.

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