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             LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

SUPPLEMENTARY SEMESTER EXAMINATION – JUN 2006

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION

                                    EL 3805/EL 3800 – BRITISH LITERATURE (1670 – 1832)

 

 

 

Date & Time : 27/06/2006/9.00 – 12.00        Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

Part – A

  1. Interpret the following lines in about 50 words each. (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
  1. Though round his breast the rolling clouds are spread Eternal sunshine settles on his head.
  2. The song began from Jove
  3. In tasks so bold, can little men engage
    And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty rage?
  4. The paths of glory lead but to the grave
  5. So twice five miles of fertile ground
    With walls and towers were girdled round:
  6. “I love everything that’s old: old friends, old manners, old looks…  Comment on the attitude of the speaker.
  7. The greatness of hear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellect.  Explain.
  8. I reverence theses young Africans of our own growth.  Explain the metaphor.
  9. Spirits and fairies cannot be represented… only be believed.  Comment.
  10. … and immediately awaking I found myself seated … with the faithful Bridget unchanged by my side.  Explain the autobiographical element.

Part – B

  1. Write paragraph answers to any FIVE of the following in about 150 – 200 words each. (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
  1. Show how in the final analysis, the little black boy is in a better position than his white counterpart.
  2. What are the various blessings of the evening according to Collius?
  3. What is tale and the message connected up with ‘The Castaway’?
  4. How does Jane Austen employ various types of love in pride and prejudice?
  5. Write a short note on Johnson’s views on Milton’s epics.
  6. How does Dryden establish Chancer as the father of English Poetry in Preface to Fables?
  7. Write a short note on two themes swift develops in Gulliver’s Travels.

Part – C

III. Answer the following in about 350 – 400 words each.                        (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

  1. How does Trinothens influence Alexander the great by the powr of his music?

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  1. Bring out the most impressive features which make ‘The School for Scndal’ a very successful play.
  2. Tintern Abbey traces the evolution of Wordsworth as a poet. – Illustrate.

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  1. She stoops to conquer is a play about Appearance and Reality – Elucidate.

 

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Loyola College M.A. English April 2007 British Literature Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

 

LO 41

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2801 – BRITISH LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date & Time: 05.05.07 / 9:00-12:00      Dept. No.                                            Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

Part- I

 

  1. Answer the following questions in not more than 50 words each. 10×2 = 20 marks.

 

  1. All her particular worth grows to this sum –

She stains the time past, lights the time to come.

-Throw light on this observation.

  1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability

-Explain the implied meaning in these lines.

  1. What follows? Never rained such showers

As these without thunderbolts in the tail of them;

Whose throat must I cut?

-Bring out the significance of these lines

  1. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that does the hurt.

-Why does the author feel so?

  1. And I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.

– Comment on the realization of the son.

  1. Me miserable! Which way I fly

Infinite wrath and infinite despair.

-Comment on the use of the word ‘infinite’

7.How due! Yet all His good proved ill in me

And wrought but malice

-Explain the irony implied here.

  1. Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm

Artificer of fraud.

-How justified is the title given to Satan?

  1. But at my back I always hear

Times winged chariot hurrying near.

-Why is there such hurry?

10.Call us what you will we are made such by thy love

Call her one, me another fly.

-Describe the mood of the poet.

 

  1. Translate the following passage into modern English and comment on the

underlined and emboldened words.                            (8 marks)

 

And bisily gan for the soules preye

Of hem that yet him whrerwith to  scoleye

Of studie took he moost care and moost heede

Nought a word spake he moore than was neede

And that was said in forme and reverence

And short and qwyk and ful of hy sentence

Soweryngein moral vertu was his speeche

And gladly world he leane and gladly teche.

 

 

PART – II

 

III. Attempt any FOUR in about 200 words each choosing at least one from each section.

 

(4x 8 = 32 marks)

 

 

Section – A

  1. Discuss how parables are used as literary devise in St.Luke, Ch 15.
  2. Bring out Bacon’s views of truth.
  3. Critically analyse the arguments of Philip Sydney in favour of poetry.

 

 

 

Section – B

15.How did Chaucer portray his society through “The Canterbury Tales”?

16.Analyse Chaucer’s narrative and descriptive techniques from the point of view of

“The Canterbury Tales”

  1. What do we learn from “Prothalamion” and “Epithalamion”?

 

 

 

PART – II

  1. Answer any TWO of the following in not more than 400 words each choosing one

question from each section.                                                          (2×20=40marks)

 

Section – A

18.Critically analyse the The Duchess of Malfi as a revenge tragedy.

 

19.Discuss the mental conflict of Faustus in Doctor Faustus

 

Section – B

20.How did love and mysticism mingle in Donne’s and Marvel’s poetry?

21.Analyse the theme of Paradise Lost in the context of our problems in the 21st century.

 

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