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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 4203 / 4200 – BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

 

 

 

Date : 19-04-2012              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

  1. Place the stress marks (‘) on the words given below:                                                             5 × 1 = 5

 

  1. cassette
  2. Photographer
  3. Machine
  4. Evolution
  5. Professor

 

  1. Identify the Indianisms and rewrite in correct English:                                  5 × 1 = 5

 

  1. Can you please prepone the meeting to 3.00 p.m?
  2. Please send the letter at the earliest convenience.
  3. I just now only returned back from Bangalore.
  4. Please put your sign on the bottom of each page.
  5. The senior members cope up with the growing demands of the office.

 

III. State with reasons in brief, whether the following statements are correct or incorrect:    5 × 1 = 5

 

  1. Language is primarily written, not spoken.
  2. Neutral accent is popular in England.
  3. Group discussions are conducted only for the purpose of job selection.
  4. Analytical reports are investigations based on scientific method of constructing and providing hypotheses.
  5. Coherence and cohesion are significant aspects in written communication.

 

  1. Answer any five (5) of the following questions (in 100 words):                                5 × 5 = 25

 

  1. Write short note on ‘noise’ in the process of communication.
  2. List all the diphthongs in English with examples.
  3. Elicit the difference between minutes and report writing.
  4. Describe fixation and regression
  5. Discuss the classification of reports
  6. Explain various guidelines to overcome communication barriers
  7. Attempt a short note on ‘condensed writing in business communication.
  8. ‘Speech is less organized and more arbitrary than writing’.  Defend your answer.

 

 

 

                                                    Notice

The General Body meeting of the trade union will be held at 6 p.m in N.S.K. auditorium on 25th April 2012.

All the members are asked to attend the meeting without fail.

Secretary
  1. Read the following and prepare the minutes:                            10                                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agenda

 

  1. Minutes of the previous GB meeting.
  2. President’s address
  3. Discussion of the proposed strike
  4. Any other matter.

Imagine the meeting was conducted as per the notice and agenda. Write down the minutes for the same.

 

  1. Read the following advertisement and prepare your resume (CV) in response to the same 10

 

 

A reputed Concern requires a male/ female personal secretary.

Qualification:  Any Degree. Age: below 30 years with English fluency & willing to travel abroad. Eligible candidates come with CV on 17th Saturday between 10.00 and 6.00 @ 25/3 Vedantadesikar Salai, Mylapore  Chennai 4.

 

VII.     Imagine that a C.E.O of a furniture manufacture Company contacts the advertiser in an

            advertizing   firm to know more details  so that his company may set up a show room in

            Guindy.

 

Write a conversation between the C.E.O and the advertiser                                                              10

 

VIII.    Write a letter of application to “The recruitment  board of Infosys” in response to their

           advertisement for the post of Managing Director                                                                     10

 

  1. Write an easy on any Two of the following in 300 words each:                               2 × 10 =20

 

  1. The difference between written and spoken communication
  2. What is the significance of “listening” in business context? Describe the different types of listening.
  3. Imagine you and your friends have developed a technology that converts domestic waste into domestic fuel energy, which is eco friendly. Write a proposal to the Director of the Research Centre at IIT Chennai, requesting fund for the further research on ‘domestic fuel energy’.
  4. The AIDA formula is the most effective strategy used by the sales executives: Discuss.
  5. Listening, reading, writing and speaking are the integral aspects in business communication – Discuss.

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Loyola College B.A. English April 2012 British Literature (1550 – 1950) Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 2501/EL 2500 – BRITISH LITERATURE (1550 – 1950)

 

 

 

Date : 11-11-20112            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

  1. Explain the following passages with reference to the context:                     (10×2=20)

 

  1. His state
    Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
    And post o’er land and ocean without rest:
    They also serve who only stand and wait.”
  2. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
  3. We think each one will heave to and unload
    All good into our lives, all we are owed
    For waiting so devoutly and so long.
    But we are wrong:
  4. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man’s mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
  5. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams
  6. No, no. Only mother is confoundedly frightened. She thinks herself forty miles off. She’s sick of the journey; and the cattle can scarce crawl. So if your own horses be ready, you may whip off with cousin, and I’ll be bound that no soul here can budge a foot to follow you.
  7. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date
    is expired; the time will come, and he will fetch me.
  8. ………………………………and vile it were
    For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
    And this gray spirit yearning in desire
    To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
    Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
  9. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study;
  10. A heavy weight of hours has chain’d and bow’d

One too like thee – tameless, and swift, and proud.

 
  1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each choosing NOT MORE THAN

      THREE from each part:                                                                                     (5×8=40)

                                                            PART – A

 

  1. “In On His Blindness Milton justifies the ways of God to himself” Comment.
  2. Why does Ulysses want to drink life to the lees?
  3. Discuss She Stoops to Conquer as a comedy of manners.
  4. What does Godot stand for in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?

P.T.O

                                                                  PART B

 

  1. How does Shaw use Bluntschli to discredit war?
  2. The transformation of Silas Marner.
  3. Comment on the relationship between the play Faustus and the renaissance.
  4. The pathos in Dream Children.

 

 

       III.  Answer the following questions in about 300 words:                                                (2×20=40)

 

  1. “Robinson Crusoe deals with the will of human beings to domineer over others and its meaninglessness” Discuss.

(OR)

Write an essay on the speaker’s relationship with the urn in Keats’s Ode on a

Grecian Urn.

 

  1. How does Orwell trace the nexus between politics and the English Language?

(OR)

Discuss Pride and Prejudice as a typical novel of Jane Austen.

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 3500 – AMERICAN LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 24-04-2012              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART-A

 

Answer the following questions in about 50 words each:                          (10×2=20 marks)

 

  1. How many signed “The May Flower Compact” and when was it signed?
  2. What does Bradstreet mean by “with sins, with cares and sorrows vext”?
  3. What is the central theme of “The Joy of Church Fellowship”?
  4. How many pamphlets are there in “The American Crisis”? What is the pseudonym

Paine used to sign them?

  1. To whom is Phillis Wheatley’s poem addressed to and what idea does it convey?
  2. Mention the Books of Oriental Philosophy quoted in “Brahma”?
  3. Comment on the tone of the poem “I Sit and Look Out” by Walt Whitman?
  4. How does Marianne Moore contradict herself in “Poetry”?

9 “If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut”- Explain the lines of

Emerson’s “Fable”.

  1. Write about the imagery of “The Road Not Taken”.

 

PART-B

 

Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each:                            (5×8=40marks)

 

  1. Describe the Puritan mission of the new world with reference to “Wonders of the

Invisible World”?

  1. “The Minister’s Black Veil” is not about the secret sin, instead it is about the sin of

Pride- Discuss.

  1. What is the main idea in Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago”?
  2. Write an appreciation of the poem “The Raven” and its special atmosphere.
  3. “The World is infused with a holy radiance, if only we have eyes to see it”-

Substantiate the statement with reference to Denise Levertov’s “Come into Animal

Presence”.

  1. Is the tone rebellious or apologetic in “To S.M. A Young African Painter” by Phillis

Wheatley? – Discuss.

 

  1. Trace the theme of Illusion and Reality in “The Glass Menagerie.”
  2. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is “a stay against confusion” –Justify.

 

PART-C

 

Answer the following questions in about 300 words each:                              (2×20=40marks)

 

  1. Compare the poems “Weary Pilgrim” and “The Joy of Church Fellowship.”

(OR)

Elucidate Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition.”

 

  1. “A person must not be just liked but well- liked”- Discuss with reference to “The

Death of a Sales Man.”

(OR)

Critically analyse Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” as a tragedy of a class that yearns

for a home of which it is perpetually deprived.

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 5500 – WORLD CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION

 

 

 

Date : 01/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

Answer the following in about 50 words each:                                                                          (10X2=20)

 

  1. Set forth the two precepts advocated by Horace regarding choice of subject in poetry.
  2. State Horace’s advise concerning the coining of new words in poetry.
  3. Which meter according to Horace is most suited for drama and why?
  4. What according to the oracle can remedy Thebes of its pestilence?
  5. Why does Tieresias hesitate to disclose the truth about the murder of Laius?
  6. What are the twin crimes inadvertently committed by Oedipus?
  7. How does Homer describe the Trojans march?
  8. Why of all Greek warriors is Menelaus most eager to fight Paris?
  9. How does the single combat between Menelaus and Paris conclude?
  10. What happens to Bertha after her parents’ death?

 

PART – B

Answer any four of the following in about 200 words each:                                                 (4X10=40)

 

  1. How does Tagore urge the renunciation of worldly luxuries in Gitanjali?
  2. Explain the symbolic significance of the three beasts in Dante’s poem.
  3. Cull out the features of classical drama as exemplified in The Twin Menaechmi.
  4. Who in your opinion is more guilty Orgon or Tartuffe? Argue.
  5. Attempt a titular appraisal of Chekhov’s play.
  6. How does Tolstoy use Vronsky’s racehorse to foreshadow Anna’s tragic fate?
  7. Attempt a character sketch of Oedipus.
  8. Bring out the disparity between the city and country setting in Tolstoy’s novel.

 

PART – C

Answer any two of the following in about 400 words each:                                                 (2X20=40)

 

  1. Analyse the conflict between destiny and freewill as portrayed by Sophocles.
  2. Attempt an essay on Horace’s views concerning the composition of dramatic plot.
  3. Emma unlike Anna fully deserves her tragic fate. Substantiate your stance
  4. Contrast the characters of Menelaus and Paris as depicted by Homer.

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 5403 – TRANSITIONAL  LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 10/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

PART- A

Annotate and interpret EIGHT of the following in 60 words each:                                           (8×3=24)

 

  1. My heart beats

And drums, throbs like water-pump.

  1. For that, what is a jewel to pigs?
  2. But standing behind a tree

with leaves around her waist

she only smiled with a shake of her head.

  1. I replied looking straight ahead

And secretly smiling at his belated concern

That I had not, but was slimming!

  1. The fox is said to be wise

So cunning that he stalks and dines on

New-hatched chickens.

  1. Their customs are solid and not hollow

They are not thin, not easily breakable

  1. She resembles the wild cat

That has dipped its mouth in blood

  1. Is it right that a man should abandon his mother tongue for someone else’s?

It looks like a dreadful betrayal and produces- a guilty feeling.

  1. “ …was made to carry a metal plate around the neck with inscriptions such as “I AM STUPID” or “I AM A DONKEY”

PART-B

  1. Answer any SIX of the following in 200 words each: (6×6=36)
  2. Discuss the ‘highly delicate diplomatic functions’ performed by the nation builders.
  3. Consider The Lion and the Jewel as an attack on out-dated customs.
  4. Evaluate the effect of The Mystic Drum.
  5. Examine the style of Voices of Transition.
  6. Do you agree that “Certain winds from the South” expresses a nihilistic longing for the end of the

world, where there would be neither sweetness nor bitterness?

  1. Discuss the conflict between the tradition and modernity in Bessie Head’s Snapshots of a Wedding.
  2. Enumerate the aspects of language, as identified by Ngugi Wa Thiongo.
  3. Analyze the Eurocentric vision of Lawino’s husband.

 

PART-C

III. Answer any FOUR of the following in 350 words each:                                                     (4×10=40)

  1. Consider the various techniques featured in The Lion and the Jewel.
  2. Evaluate the unique African features revealed by some of the poems prescribed for your study.
  3. Show how Ngugi wa Thiongo succeeds in driving home the message that writing in one’s own

language is important.

  1. How does The Song of Lawino become a manifesto for the voiceless?
  2. Discuss the oral tradition of Africa as mirrored by Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart.
  3. Examine how Ama Ata Aidoo and Bessie Head portray the feminine feelings in their short stories.

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

SO 3101/3100 – SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 07/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

Section A

(10 × 2 = 20 Marks)

Answer ALL questions in 30 words each. All questions carry equal marks:

 

  1. Define sociology.
  2. State the relation between status and role.
  3. What are ‘sociologically aware works’?
  4. List out the three salient features of semiotics.
  5. What, according to Sartre, is the most profound philosophy of our times and what

is the role he envisaged for existentialism in promoting this philosophy?

  1. Was Karl Marx summarily critical of the Bourgeoisie and their contribution to

literature? Why?

  1. Explicate cultural studies.
  2. Mention any four methods used in cultural analysis.
  3. What was the aim of Shah’s study on Gujarati literature?
  4. Briefly explain Devadasi system.

Section B

(5 × 8 = 40 Marks)

Answer any FIVE questions in 300 words each. All questions carry equal marks:

 

  1. What is status and how is it portrayed in English literature?
  2. Briefly explain the methodological aspects of hermeneutics.
  3. Illustrate structuralist analysis of literature.
  4. Enumerate the features of formalism.
  5. Delineate the scope of cultural analysis.
  6. Sketch out the political situation in pre-colonial Gujarat.
  7. Bring out Lukacs critique of literature.

Section C

(2 × 20 = 40 Marks)

Answer any TWO questions in 1200 words each. All questions carry equal marks:

 

  1. “Mrudula Shah’s work is a classic in Sociology of literature” – Comment.
  2. Evaluate Marx’ as a writer and as a literary critic.
  3. Discuss Ruth and Wolff’s notion of sociology of literature. Comment on its scope

and limitation

  1. Examine structuralism and its implication to literary studies.

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 1503 – INTRO.TO LITT.: LITERARY FORMS & APPRECIATION

 

 

 

Date : 10/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

                                                                             PART – A

Choose the correct answer:                                                                                                         (20 marks)

 

  1. A verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter is called
  2. a lyric                   b) a ballad                 c) a sonnet
  3. A lyrical verse written in praise of, or dedicated to someone or something which captures the poet’s interest is called
  4. an ode b) a ballad              c) a satire
  5. Browning’s My Last Duchess is a
  6. dramatic monologue b) a ballad        c) a satire
  7. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a
  8. a problem play b) an absurd play           c) a comedy
  9. Milton’s Lycidas
  10. a pastoral elegy b) an epic                     c) a masque
  11. The term Catharsis is associated with
  12. Socrates b) Plato                        c) Aristotle
  13. Falstaff appears in the play
  14. Hamlet b) Othello                    c) Henry IV Part I
  15. A comedy satirizing the attitudes and behaviour of a particular social group, often of

fashionable society is called

  1. Comedy of manners b) Comedy of Humours    c) an Absurd play
  2. Ode to a Nightingale is a poem by
  3. Wordsworth b) Shelley                c) Keats
  4. Bertolt Brecht is associated with
  5. Theatre of the Absurd b) Epic Theatre      c) Kitchen sink drama
  6. A narrative device used in literature to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind is called
  7. a) Stream of consciousness b) Metafictional   c) sequential narration
  8. The last play of Shakespeare is
  9. a) The Tempest b) As You like It          c) Edward II

 

  1. The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow is an instance of
  2. a) personification b) epic simile                 c) pathetic fallacy
  3. Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is an example of
  4. a) comedy of humours b) theatre of cruelty      c) comedy of manners
  5. ‘Return to nature’ is an expression associated with
  6. a) the Romantic Age b) the Victorian Age     c) the Modern Age
  7. The second section of a Petrachan sonnet is called
  8. a) octave b) rhyme royal            c) sestet
  9. An epistolary novel comprises
  10. a) long descriptions b) a lot of letters      c) tragic flaws
  11. Shakespeare wrote ______________ sonnets.
  12. a) 123 b) 154                     c) 165
  13. The word ‘persona’ means
  14. a) a mask b) a picture         c) a person
  15. Murder in the Cathedral is a play by
  16. a) Shaw b) Ibsen                c) Eliot

PART – B

 

Answer any FOUR of the following in about 200-250 words each,

 choosing at least TWO from each group:                                                                             (4×10=40)

 

GROUP – I

  1. Discuss the term ‘fine arts’.
  2. Compare and contrast ‘short story’ and ‘novel’.
  3. Discuss the various types of essay.

 

GROUP – II

  1. Write an essay on Absurd Drama.
  2. What are the characteristic features of ‘comedy of manners’?
  3. Comment on the poetry of the Romantic period.

 

Answer any TWO of the following in about 500 words each,

 choosing ONE from each group:                                                                                                (2×20=40)

GROUP – I

 

  1. Write an essay on Elizabethan drama.

 

  1. How is epic theatre different from other kinds of theatre?

 

GROUP – II

 

  1. Attempt a short biography of an eminent person.

 

 

  1. Attempt a critical appreciation of the following poem:
THE POETRY of earth is never dead:
  When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
  And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead         
  In summer luxury,—he has never done
  With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
  On a lone winter evening, when the frost         
    Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
  And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
    The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – HISTORY

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 3102 – INDIAN NATIONALIST LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 07/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART A (50 marks)

 

  1. Explain with reference to context any FIVE of the following in 75 words each:             (5×4=20)

 

  1. Here flourish a thousand castes,

But no room for foreigners.

  1. This is the land where our mothers

Lisped their first words and grew in wisdom

  1. Mother, O Mother, wherefore dost thou sleep?

Arise and answer for thy children’s sake.

  1. Kashmir shrinks into my mailbox,

My home a neat four by six inches.

  1. The search for the sources of India’s strength and for her deterioration and decay is long and intricate.
  2. I never could learn the art of copying.

 

  1. Answer any TWO of the following in 100 words each:             ( 2×5=10)

 

  1. How does Bharathiar instill the spirit of patriotism in his poem ‘Vandematharam’?
  2. What kind of agony is expressed in the poem, ‘My Country, My People’?
  3. How does Jawaharlal Nehru defend India in the essay, ‘India’s strength and Weakness’?
  4. Explain any two incidents recalled by Mahathma Gandhi in his autobiography and add your comments.

 

  • Attempt an essay on any TWO in 150 words each:             ( 2×10=20)

 

  1. How does Sarojini Naidu express her love and expectation towards Mother India in her poems?
  2. Attempt an essay on Mahatma Gandhi’s life and character as you understand from his autobiography.
  3. What is the common theme that the poems, ‘Postcard from Kashmir’ and ‘My Country My People’ share? Explain further with reference to any literary text that you have read.

 

PART B (50 marks)

 

     I            Annotate any FIVE of the following passages:                                                      ( 5×2= 10)

 

  1. Barani is a historian- he’s only interested in playing chess with the shadows of the dead. And Najib’s a politician- he wants pawns of flesh and blood.
  2. He went to a heap, stood there for half an hour, still as a rock. Then he dug into the heaps with his fists, raised his fists and let the coins trickle out.
  3. My skin drips with blood and I don’t know how much of it is mine and how much of others.
  4. He was beginning to win for you something more valuable than taxes, when you ordered him to return.
  5. Beating the waves won’t stop the storm. But hold your rudder and you win.
  6. When it comes to washing away filth, no saint is a match for a dhobi.

      II           Answer the following in about 200 words each:                                            ( 2×10=20)

 

  1. Write a note on Tughlaq’s shifting of the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad.

(OR)

Sketch and analyse the character of Muhammed bin Tughlaq.

 

  1. Evaluate the personality of Abhijit in the play ‘Mukthadhara’.

(OR)

Write a note on  building of the dam by Bibhuthi.

 

      III           Answer the following question in about 300 words:                                  ( 1×20=20)

 

  1. Explain the events leading to the destruction of the empire of Muhammed bin Tughlaq.

(OR)

Write an essay on the plot and themes of the play, ‘Mukthadhara’.

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 1501 – LITERARY FORMS AND LITERARY APPRECIATION

 

 

 

Date : 10/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

PART – A

 

  1. Answer ALL the questions in 25 words each, Write brief notes on the following: (10 × 3 = 30)

 

  1. Three Unities.
  2. Tragic Flaw.
  3. Comedy.
  4. Novel.
  5. One-Act Play.
  6. Epic.
  7. Tragic hero.
  8. Essay.
  9. Ballad.
  10. Sonnet.

 

PART – B

 

  1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each: (5 × 8 = 40)

 

  1. What are the salient qualities of an Epic?
  2. Define Tragedy.
  3. Discuss the Ode as an important form.
  4. Briefly describe Puritanism.
  5. Bring out the features of Post-war movements.
  6. Examine the major aspects of the Metaphysical school of poetry.
  7. Write a note on the Art for Art’s sake movement.
  8. Explain Postmodernism.

 

PART – C

 

III. Answer any ONE of the following in not less than 250 words each:                         (1 × 15 = 15)

 

  1. Discuss the impact of Renaissance on English Literature.
  2. Show how English literature was impacted by the Renaissance.

PART – D

 

  1. Attempt an appreciation of the following poem in 200-250 words:      (15 marks)

 

A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost

 

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 1500 – INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

 

 

 

Date : 08/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

SECTION – A

 

  1. Answer the following in 50 words each:                                     (10×2=20)

 

  1. Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green, 
    We weave the marriage-veils of a queen.

Comment on the tone in these lines.

 

  1. My father, sceptic, rationalist,

     trying every curse and blessing,

     powder, mixture, herb and hybrid.

Bring out the irony and sarcasm in these lines.

 

  1. And he left us
    a changed mother
    and more than
    one annual ritual.

Comment on the speaker’s attitude to his father’s death.

 

  1. Dance doesn’t make you a man!

Comment on the gender bias in this line.

 

  1. Why does Tughlaq describe his kingdom as “a honeycomb of diseases”?

 

  1. In prison I was grateful for their company

Bring out Nehru’s attitude in this line.

 

  1. I don’t know on whose advice my father chose to send me here for my

       education, while the fashionable Albert Mission School was quite close by.

How does this observation bring out the clash between the ideologies of the

father and son?

 

  1. You are becoming rather stuck- up nowadays, Raju. You are not the old

       friend you used to be.

What is the conflict in Raju’s mind?

 

  1. Worship and kindliness do not always go together.

Why does Nehru make this observation?

 

  1. The Indian thinkers do not oppose nature to spirit.

How does Radhakrishnan view the material and the spiritual realms?

(P.T.O)

 

SECTION – B

 

  1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each, choosing not more than

THREE from either part.                                                                              (5×8=40)

PART- A

 

  1. Discuss the humour in Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.
  2. Bring out the contemporary relevance of the play Tughlaq.
  3. Discuss the idea of nostalgia in My Grandmother’s House.
  4. Comment on the role played by Jairaj in Dance like a Man.

 

PART- B

 

  1. How does Nehru relate to the animals in the prison?
  2. How, according to Radhakrishnan, is the Asian view of man unique?
  3. Comment on the role played by Rosie in the novel The Guide.
  4. Discuss Tyagu as a piece of social criticism.

 

SECTION – C

 

III. Write an essay on any TWO of the following in about 300 words, choosing one from

each  part.                                                                                                                           (2×20=40)

                                                            

  1. Discuss the poems of Nissim Ezekiel as a criticism of the Indian ways of thinking.

 

(OR)

Make an assessment of Bharathi as a poet with reference to the poems prescribed.

 

  1. Discuss the cultural conflicts in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas.

 

                                                           (OR)

       Is Raju a real spiritual guide in the novel? Give reasons.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 5401 – INDIAN FOLKLORE

 

 

 

Date : 10/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

  1. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in 50 words each: (5X4=20 marks)

 

  1. Folktales
  2. Epic
  3. Fables
  4. Wind instruments
  5. Structural theory
  6. Creation Myths
  7. Bharathnatyam
  8. Folk music

 

  1. Answer any FIVE of the following in 200 words each:                                  ( 5×8=40 marks)

 

  1. Recall any folk tale that you have heard and analyze it with reference to the theory that you have learnt.
  2. Frame a dialogue with a prominent folk artist you know.
  3. What are the different kinds of folklore? Give examples.
  4. Write an account of musical instruments with a special emphasis on folk instruments.
  5. Explain the various theories pertaining to the origin of myths.
  6. India has seven classical dance forms. Of these, write an essay on any two.

 

  • Attempt essays on any TWO in 350 words each:                                           (2×20=40 marks)

 

  1. What is your opinion on the impact of westernisation on Indian folklore?
  2. Explain folk lore with respect to religion and analyse some religious myths and epics in this connection.

Do you think the folklore of India will last forever? What are the ways by which folklore can be preserved?

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 1502 – HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 08/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

PART – A

 

  1. Write short notes on any Five of the following in about 75 words each: (5×4=20)

 

  1. University Wits
  2. Puritanism
  3. Oxford Movement
  4. Reformation
  5. Restoration drama
  6. Comedy of Manners
  7. Pre Raphaelite Movement
  8. Science fiction

PART – B

 

  1. Answer any four of the following in about 100 words each: (4×5=20)

 

  1. Enumerate the contribution of Christopher Marlowe to English literature.
  2. Who are the Metaphysical poets and what are the salient features of their poetry?
  3. Discuss the notable features of George Eliot.
  4. What are the contributions of Wyatt and Surrey to the sonnet form?
  5. Comment on the works of Shelley and Keats.

PART – C

 

III. Answer any Five of the following questions in about 200 words each:                     (5×12=60)

 

  1. Analyze the contribution of Shakespeare to English drama.
  2. How do Chaucer’s works serve as a mirror to the times?
  3. Write a note on the periodical essay.
  4. Comment on the influence of Nature on Wordsworth’s poetry.
  5. Write an essay on Absurd drama with special reference to Samuel Beckett.
  6. What is the contribution of Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning’s poems to English Literature?
  7. Attempt an essay on the contribution of Jane Austen’s novels.
  8. Highlight the contributions of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw to English drama.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A., B.COM DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH, HISTORY & COMMERCE

FOURTH SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

SO 4202/4200 – GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

 

 

 

Date : 16/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

SECTION   –  A

 

Write short notes on the following in 30 words each:                              ( 10 x 2 = 20 marks )

 

01) Sociology.

02) Subject Matter of Sociology.

03) Association.

04) Social Work.

05) Social Action.

06) Symbol.

07) Racism

08) Anti-social group.

09) Difference between Evolution and Revolution.

10) Social Development.

 

SECTION – B

 

Answer   any  FIVE  of the following in 300 words each:                         ( 5 x 8 = 40 marks )

 

11) Write the history of  Sociology.

12) What are the characteristics of sociology?

13) Bring out the nature of Political Science and its relationship with Sociology.

14) What do you mean religion? Discuss its need for individuals and society.

15) Explain the various types of marriages.

16) What are the functions of social groups?

17) Explain the meaning of Theory.

 

 

SECTION   –  C

 

Answer   any  TWO  of the following in 1200 words each:                       ( 2 x 20 = 40 marks )

 

18) Explain the nature, scope and importance of Sociology.

19) Define culture and bring out the various elements of culture.

20) Critically examine the factors of social change.

21) Explain the types of social groups with suitable examples.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 3501 – GENDER STUDIES

 

 

 

Date : 05/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

Answer any six of the following in about 250 words each:                                               (6×10=60)

  1. What is cyber feminism?
  2. Define gender studies.
  3. Write a note on Radical feminism.
  4. Discuss the participation of women in the Indian struggle for independence.
  5. How did Marxist feminism help women?
  6. What did first and second wave feminism achieve?
  7. Trace the effects of liberal feminism.
  8. How is Post feminist theory relevant today?

 

PART – B

 

Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each:                                                 (2×10=20)

 

  1. Why does the speaker have to go egotripping in Nikki Giovanni’s poem?
  2. What are the problems faced by women in Adrienne Rich’s “Snapshots of a Daughter-in law”?
  3. Attempt a feminist reading of Kamala Das’s “An Introduction”

 

PART – C

 

Answer any one of the following in about 400 to 500 words:                                          (1×20=20)

 

  1. List the various issues about gender faced by the contemporary society according the poems

prescribed for study.

  1. What are the achievements of the feminist movement and list the challenges that the movement

faces today?

  1. Examine the gender concerns in the following poem:
      Woman Work
I’ve got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I’ve got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
‘Til I can rest again.

Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.

Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You’re all that I can call my own.

Maya Angelou

 

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 5404 – DYNAMICS OF ORAL COMMUNICATION

 

 

 

Date : 16/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

  1. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 30 words each: (5×4=20 marks)

 

  • Campus interview
  • Resume
  • Dyadic Communication
  • Inter-personal Communication
  • Turn- Taking
  • Eye Contact in speech presentation
  • Consensus in a group-discussion

 

  1. Answer any four of  the following in about 150 words each:                                     (4×10=40 marks)

 

  1. Enumerate the characteristics of Inter-Personal communication.
  2. Explain the functions of Dyadic communication.
  3. Explain briefly the role of a leader/moderator in a group discussion.
  4. Compare and contrast the attitude to be observed towards one’s employer and subordinate in an organization.
  5. What are the steps to be followed in writing an effective resume? Give an example.
  6. Highlight the parameters to be observed while delivering an effective speech presentation.

III   Answer the following in about 400 words each:                                                      (2×20=40 marks)

 

  • Imagine yourself as a member and the leader of the group comprising of A,B,C &D. How

will you channelize a discussion on the topic “The age of retirement should be reduced

to forty in order to eradicate the problem of un-employment in India.”

OR

Draft a speech presentation on the topic “The benefits of environmental                             conservation”.

 

  • Attempt an essay on successful performance in job interviews.

OR

The significance of effective spoken communication in the present corporate                  scenario.

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