Loyola College Supplementary English April 2006 British Literature (1670 – 1832) Question Paper PDF Download

             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?

(or)

  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.

(or)

  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

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

 

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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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Loyola College B.A. English April 2011 British Literature Question Paper PDF Download

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

EL 2501/EL 2500 – BRITISH LITERATURE (1150-1950)

 

 

 

Date : 08-04-2011              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

 

I. Explain the following passages in about 50 words.                                  (10×2=20 marks)

  1. The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
    To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
    Of all the western stars, until I die.
  2. They also serve who only stand and wait.”
  3. Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
    Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!
  4. Only one ship is seeking us, a black-
    Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back
    A huge and birdless silence. In her wake
    No waters breed or break.
  5. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study;
  6. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name” —— and immediately awaking, I found myself quietly seated in my bachelor arm-chair, where I had fallen asleep, with the faithful Bridget unchanged by my side
  7. Well, we must not snub the poor boy now, for I believe we shan’t have him long among us. Anybody that looks in his face may see he’s consumptive.
  8. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside,

And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul,

And heap God’s heavy wrath upon thy head!

Read, read the Scriptures:–that is blasphemy.

9.    I charge thee to return, and change thy shape;      Thou art too ugly to attend on me:      Go, and return an old Franciscan friar;            That holy shape becomes a devil best.

  1. I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
    I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned
    Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
  2. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each choosing not more than

    Three from each part.                                                                                              (5×8=40 marks)

PART – A

 

  1. Discuss the features of the dramatic monologue as seen in Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses”.
  2. Attempt a critical appreciation of Ted Hughes’ “The Bear”.
  3. Justify the title of the play “She Stoops to Conquer”.
  4. Elucidate with suitable examples the Metaphysical elements present in John Donne’s poem

“The Flea”.

PART – B

 

  1. Discuss the role of Eppie on Silas Marner’s life.
  2. Discuss the Absurd elements in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”.
  3. What are the major themes in Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe”?
  4. How does W.B Yeats explore “his thoughts and musings on how immortality, art, and the

human spirit may converge” in his poem “Sailing to Byzantium”?

 

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

 

  1. Discuss the style of Francis Bacon giving examples from the essays prescribed for study.

(OR)

How did Dr. Faustus’s over reaching ambition bring about his downfall?

  1. How does Jane Austen provide insights into the life of the landed gentry of 19th century

England in her novel “Pride and Prejudice?”

(OR)

How does Shaw expose and debunk the hollowness of romantic ideals in his play “Arms

and the Man”?

 

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

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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