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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 4953 – SOCIOLINGUISTICS & DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Date : 25/04/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
SECTION – A
- Write short notes on ANY FOUR in about 75 words: (4 x 5 = 20 marks)
- The family tree model
- Basic-level concepts
- Code-switching
- The process of creolisation
- Bernstein’s Deficit Hypothesis
- Why does R.H. Hudson call the world of the north-west Amazon “a real but exotic world”?
- Answer ANY TWO: (2 x 20 = 40 marks)
- How would you justify the view that there is no real distinction to be drawn between ‘language’ and ‘dialect’?
- Examine the scope and relevance of sociolinguistics
- Discuss the observation that “the semantic system of a language is linked to the culture of its speakers – but only loosely.”
SECTION – B
Answer any TWO of the following (2x 20 = 40 marks)
3.
- How do the concepts of lexical patterning and lexical choice operate in the usage of language in various contexts?
- What factors determine the speech and gender differences?
- Explain the concept of language and inequality in terms of subjective, strictly
linguistic and communicative aspects.
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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 4800/ LE 1020 – SHAKESPEARE
Date : 03-05-08 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
Part A
Interpret the following passages and fix the context. 10 x 2 = 20
- ‘Tis time I should inform thee farther.
Lend thy hand, and pluck my magic garment from me.
- O most dear mistress,
The sun will set before I shall discharge What I must strive to do.
- I did say so,
When first I raised the tempest.
- He hath an uncle here in messina will be very much glad of it.
- We must follow the leaders.
- Age cannot wither her
Nor custom stale her infinite variety
- Why is my lord enraged against his love?
- ‘Tis well I am found by you
I will but spend a word here in the house.
- By the world,
I think my wife be honest, and think she is not
- Cousin, there’s fall’n between him and my lord.
Part B
Answer any FIVE of the following questions in about 150 words each. ( 5 x 8 = 40)
- Comment on the opening scenes of the plays of Shakespeare.
- Discuss Much ado about nothing as Shakespeare’s early play.
- Describe the circumstances that go against Desdemona.
- Write on the theme of Winter’s Tale.
- Justify the villainy of Iago.
- Do you agree to the view that Shakespeare has mastered in the tragedies?
Give reasons to your answer.
- What kind of relationship does Prospero maintain with Caliban?
Part C
Answer the following in about 500 words each. ( 2 x 20 = 40)
- Bring out the contrasting characteristics of Desdemona and Cleopatra.
(or)
Attempt a comparative study of the characters Antony and Othello.
- Write on the significance of the title Much ado about Nothing.
(or)
Shakespeare presents a higher level of sorrow and pain in the play
Othello than in other tragedies.Illustrate.
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M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
LE 1015 / LE 1020 – SHAKESPEARE
Date : 02-05-08 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
SECTION – A
Answer any FOUR of the following in about 499 words each. (4×20=80 marks)
- Justify the title Much Ado About Nothing.
- Examine aspects of domestic tragedy in
- Do you think the tragedy of Othello would not have happened if he had been a white man?
- Discuss the theme of love in Antony and Cleopatra.
- Do you agree that Cleopatra is one of the strongest women Shakespeare has created?
- Discuss the relation between Miranda and Ferdinand in The Tempest.
- Comment on the character of Prospero in The Tempest
SECTION – B
Answer the following in about 400 words (1×20=20 marks)
- Account for the continuing popularity of Shakespeare.
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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 4811 – SHAKESPEARE – CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATION
Date : 16/04/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
SECTION A
I Annotate the following passages. ( 10 x 2 = 20)
- … Oh brawling love, oh loving hate
Oh any thing of nothing first create!
Oh heavy lightness, serious vanity,
2.It is an honour that I dream not of
3.Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare,
It is enough I may but call her mine
4.Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme
5.Only look up clear;
To alter favour ever is to fear.
Leave all the rest to me.
6.We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we’ll not fail.
7.Never till this day
Saw I him touched with anger so distempered,
8.A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost.
9.That I did love the moor to live with him…
…my heart’s subdu’d
Even to the very quality of my lord.
- A liberal hand: the hearts of old gave hands,
But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.
SECTION B
II Answer any FIVE of the following questions in about 100 words each. (5 x 8 =40)
11.Analyse Henry IV as a historical play.
12.Comment on the element of disguise in the play As you Like It.
13.How appropriate is the theme of Taming of the Shrewd in the present context.
14.Modern society’s craving for fame and poplularity is, in a way, equal to
King Lear’s self-love. Discuss.
15.Bring out the contrasting aspects of today’s corrupt love and Romeo and Juliet’s
-genuine love.
16.Macbeth is not an individual; he is the representation of a progressing society.
-Illustrate.
17.Compare and contrast Ferdinand and Miranda with Romeo and Juliet.
18.Discuss the character Iago as an anti-hero.
SECTION C
Answer the following essay questions in about 400 words each. 2 x 20 = 40
19.The expression “ survival of the fittest” is nothing short of Macbeth’s vaulting ambition
-leading to murders. Elucidate. (or)
Which of the four detailed plays prescribed to you is more contemporary in its theme?
Make a detailed analysis of your choice.
20.Othello is more loyal to love and possessiveness than to Desdemona. Illustrate.
(or)
Ferdinand and Miranda’s love episode is an artistic touch of Shakespeare as an all
-time best playwright to show that love conquers all human ill passions.
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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 4812 – NOVEL AND SHORT STORIES FROM 1900
Date : 21-04-08 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
SECTION A
Answer any five of the following in about 200 words each (5×8= 40 Marks)
- Critically examine aspects of satire in Animal Farm.
- Comment on the role played by Wilson in the Heart of the Matter.
- Discuss the significance of the letter in Demon Love.
- What impact does the death of Sophie have on Larry in The Razor’s Edge?
- Justify the title Go Tell It On The Mountain.
- Discuss children’s reaction to adult attitudes in To Kill a Mockingbird.
- Estimate Jason Compson as a materialistic villain in The Sound and the Fury,
- Critically analyse the social contract between father and son in Updike’s Son.
SECTION B
Answer the following in about 400 words each (3×20=60 marks)
- Show how the contradictions between inner life and external conduct balance themselves out in The Heart Of The Matter.
or
What are the moral opposites in The Razor’s Edge? Examine the role of the narrator in highlighting them.
- Critically analyse Mr Quentin’s concern for moral purity and his horror of stain in
The Sound and the Fury.
Or
In what ways are the character’s hopes for each other disappointed in John Updike’s
Son? How are they fulfilled?
- Show how The Lord Of The Flies uses Freudian images to make a comment on human nature.
Or
Comment on Nurse Ratched’s authoritarian attitude in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The
Cuckoo’s Nest.
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FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
LE 716 – NEO-CLASSICAL AGE
Date : 05/05/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART – I
Answer the following questions in not more than 50 words each. (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
- “A dragon’s fiery form belied the god;
Sublime on radiant spires he rode,
When he to fair Olympia pressed,
And while he sought her snowy breast”
Explain the reference in the lines given above.
- “Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me dye”.
According to the poet what purpose of the life do the above lines reveal?
- “Then say how Hope and Fear, Desire and Hate, O’erspread with Snares the clouded Maze of Fate, Where wav’ring Man, betray’d by vent’rous Pride, To tread the dreary Paths without a Guide; As treach’rous Phantoms in the Mist delude, Shuns fancied Ills, or chases airy Good”. Explain the views of the poet about human life as seen in the above lines.
- “The pensive pleasures sweet
Prepare thy shadowy car”.
Explain the metaphor in the lines.
5. “How happy he who crowns in shades like these/A youth of labour with an age of ease;/Who quits a world where strong temptations try,And, since ’tis hard to combat, learns to fly”.
Explain the above lines with reference to the context.
- She certainly has talents, but her manner is gross.
Who is referred to and what mannerism is mentioned?
- “Dost thou know who made thee? Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee,
Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee.
He is called by thy name,
For He calls Himself a Lamb”.
Explain the allusion in the line.
- “Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
Confusion on thy banners wait,
Though fanned by Conquest’s crimson wing
They mock the air with idle state”.
Explain who is referred to in the lines and the realization he ought to have yet.
9. “Wounded myself, in the early part of my Life by the envenomed Tongue of Slander I confess I have since known no Pleasure equal to the reducing others to the Level of my own injured Reputation”. What does Lady Sneerwell express as her philososphy?
- “When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Explain the views of the poet on creation of life”.
PART – II
Write paragraph answers of 150- 200 words each choosing any FIVE out of the following. (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
- Critically analyze the poem ‘Alexander’s Feast’.
- Discuss the views of the poet about life as portrayed in the poem, ‘Ode to Evening’.
- How effectively does William Blake describe the creation of the tiger in his poem ‘The Tiger’?
- What are the thoughts expressed by the poet in the poem, The Bard.
- Discuss the visit of Gulliver to Lilliput.
- Illustrate the portrayal of women in The School of Scandal by Sheridan.
- Attempt a character sketch of Moll Flanders.
- Analyze the character analysis of Tom Jones.
- Explain the features of Anti-sentimental Comedy with reference to She Stoops to Conquer.
PART- III
Attempt answers of about 400 words each to any TWO of the following:
(2 x 20 = 40 marks)
- Write an essay on William Blake’s poetry analyzing the major themes.
OR
How does Samuel Johnson depict the vanity of human wishes in his poem, The Vanity of Human Wishes.
Or
Compare and contrast the poems, Alexander’s feast and Song for St. Cecilia’s day by John Dryden.
- Analyze Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels as a satire on human nature.
OR
Write an essay on the themes of Neo-classical age with reference to the dramatists of the same.
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 2805 – LITERARY THEORY
Date : 24/04/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART – A
Write short notes on FIVE of the following choosing atleast TWO questions from either section:
(5 x 8 = 40 marks)
SECTION – I
- Automatism of perception and Art
- Metaphysics of presence
- Metaliterature
- Equal Weighting in New Historicism.
SECTION – II
- Bring out the features of psychoanalytic criticism.
- Write a paragraph on the role of meaning in New criticism.
- Write a short note on the role of Archetype and myth in literature.
- Write briefly on the features of Phenomenonology.
PART – B
(2×20=40 marks)
Attempt an answer for any TWO of the following in about 300 words each:
- a) Identify the typical features of a New Historicist text in Greenblatt’s Shakespeare and
the Exorcists.
(or)
- b) How does the ‘death of the author’ result in ‘the birth of the reader’?
- a) Analyse the concept of psychoanalytic criticism in Freud’s creative writers and Day-
Dreaming.
(or)
- b) Northrop Frye’s Archetypes of Literature is an extrinsic Approach to Literature –
Discuss.
PART – C
- Attempt a critical analysis of the following poem employing the critical theories you are familiar with. (20 marks)
The Painter Munch
The painter caught the dumb mouth,
Fixed wide, in a man out walking
Down a road. One moment past,
Pleasantly, he was musing,
With the sun shining south
Behind him. Air and will
Were drawn together
In blue and green paste
When the painted mouth is stilled.
Afflicted by knottier
Pigment, the eye, off-guard,
Suffers and goes mad,
In rigor mortis.
Shirley Lim.
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FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 1803 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – 20TH C
Date : 28/04/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART – A
- Answer the following in 50 words each: (10 x 3 = 30 marks)
- A living tradition influences our inner faculties, humanizes our nature and lifts us to a higher level.
- She won’t let you go.
You know how old women are.
- Now I ask other speakers to speak
and after words Miss Pushpa
will do the summing up.
- it’s true i write in english
dream in the language of shakespeare n keats
but i am not an anglo my friend
- The rickshaw driver wants
to be paid so he can
pay the tonga driver
- Unknown yet well known to the eye of faith.
- and was brought back in plane
and train and military truck
and before the telegrams reached.
- But someone told me he got two lines.
in an inside column of a Madras newspaper.
- But none was exclusive, the three elements were always present.
- We have practically to take three facts into consideration.
PART – B
- Answer any EIGHT of the following in 150 words each: (8 x 5 = 40 marks)
- How does Upamanyu Chatterjee feature the Indian
Administrative Service in English, August.
- How does Sharet Chandra view his motherland from abroad?
- Justify the title, The Guide.
- Write a critique on Train to Pakistan.
- How does Ezekiel showcase India in his poems?
- The past of India is her stupendous vitality with all her plethora of activity – Elaborate.
- Define what is beauty as revealed in The Dance of Shiva by Coomaraswamy
- Babani Battacharya’s views in So Many Hungers
- Idealism Vs Pragmatism in the play “Tughlaq”
- Describe some of the early experiences and escapades of Dom Moraes.
PART – C
III. Answer any TWO of the following in 450 words each: (2 x 15 = 30 marks)
- Bring out the features of Hindu Dharma as propounded by Radhakrishnan.
- a) Explain with examples how Mukta Dhara is still relevant to India.
OR
- b) Comment on the themes and concerns in the Indian writing in English.
- Establish how Spirtuality is the master-key of the Indian mind.
- a) Recollect the reflections of Toru Dutt, A.K. Ramanujan and Dom Moraes and show how they are similar to each other.
OR
- b) Consider the cultural assumptions in the rich oral heritage of India as seen in
‘Kanthapura’
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 1805 – FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE
Date : 03/05/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
SECTION – A
Answer any FIVE of the following in about 200 words each. (5×8=40 marks)
- Why does Eve think that her advice to her daughters will fall on deaf years?
- Highlight aspects of female life in Summer Vacation
- Discuss the implications of power feminism in a post feminist age
- Comment on the speaker’s observation on female life in Man, Feminine Gender
- Show how the portrayal of the grandmother, in the poem Five Poems for Grandmothers, contradicts the usual (male) perceptions of womanhood and femininity.
- How does Toril Moi distinguish Feminist from female and feminine?
- Discuss the significance of the role played by Mrs.Ramsay in To the Lighthouse.
- How do Sandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar substantiate the presence of the tradition of feminist linguistic fantasy in literature? Discuss.
SECTION B
Answer the following in about 500 words each. (3×20=60 marks)
- Discuss the salient features of Marxist feminism.
Or
What, according to Adrienne Rich, are the challenges women must overcome to achieve personhood.
- Discuss the theme of female bonding in Sister of My Heart.
Or
Consider the poem Ego Tripping as a plea for women’s liberation.
- Discuss the factors responsible for the tragedy of the woman in ’Night Mother.
Or
How does Dale Spender substantiate the role of women in literary history? Discuss.
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SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 2804 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Date : 22/04/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
- Answer any EIGHT of the following choosing FOUR from each section: (8×5=40)
SECTION – A
Comment on the significance of the following lines:
- Helmer: My dear Nora, I can forgive the anxiety you are in,
although really it is an insult to me. It is, indeed. Isn’t
it an insult to think that I should be afraid of a starving
quill-driver’s vengeance? But I forgive you nevertheless,
because it is such eloquent witness to your great love for me.
- Mrs. Linde: Nils, how would it be if we two shipwrecked people
could join forces?
Krogstad: What are you saying?
Mrs. Linde. Two on the same piece of wreckage would stand a
better chance than each on their own.
- Nora: Both you and I would have to be so changed that–. Oh, Torvald,
I don’t believe any longer in wonderful things happening.
Helmer: But I will believe in it. Tell me! So changed that–?
Nora: That our life together would be a real wedlock. Goodbye.
(She goes out through the hall.)
- 4. Had the false Trojan never touch’d my shore!”
Then kiss’d the couch; and, “Must I die,” she said,
“And unreveng’d? ‘T is doubly to be dead!
Yet ev’n this death with pleasure I receive:
On any terms, ‘t is better than to live.
These flames, from far, may the false Trojan view;
These boding omens his base flight pursue!” - The pious prince was seiz’d with sudden fear;
Mute was his tongue, and upright stood his hair.
Revolving in his mind the stern command,
He longs to fly, and loathes the charming land.
What should he say? or how should he begin?
SECTION B
- “He’s lying there, absolutely dead as a doornail.” Who does the charwoman refer to? Explain the imagery and its significance to the character intended.
- “For ’tis the hope of parents they may rear A brood of sons submissive, keen to avenge Their father’s wrongs, and count his friends their own”. Explain the implications of the lines and the irony of the speaker.
- “Two corpses, one in death. His marriage rites Are consummated in the halls of Death: A witness that of ills whate’er befall Mortals’ unwisdom is the worst of all”.
Who does Eurydice refer to in the lines and explain the relevance of the universal truth highlighted in the same.
- Explain the importance of the term of ‘Recognition’ in Poetics.
- Explain the following terms according to Aristotle: 1) Medium of Imitation, 2) Object of Imitation and 3) Mode of Imitation.
- Attempt an essay on any FOUR of the following questions choosing TWO from each section: (4×15=60)
SECTION A
- Is the play A Doll’s House to be viewed as a study of female hysteria or as a metaphor for individual freedom?
OR
Analyze the portrayal of Odysseus’ heroic trait Métis (cunning intelligence) and his most evident flaw Hubris (arrogance/pride) in Homer’s Odyssey Book IX.
- Ovid’s metamorphosis provides a mythical key to extreme forms of behaviour’. Elucidate.
- Examine Gorky as a fervent advocate of Russia’ social, political and cultural transformation as reflected in his classic Mother.
- Discuss the key concepts of existentialism as reflected in Sartre’s Nausea.
SECTION B
- Discuss the following aspects: Romance, Chivalry, Delusion, Enchantment, and Imagination with reference to the novel, Don Quixote of La Mancha.
- The Book of Job from the Old Testament of the bible and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka are allegorical delineations of the existence of man in the profane world irrespective of time. Discuss.
- Discuss the conflict and the contrast in the characters, Antigone and Creon with references from Antigone.
- Attempt an analysis on the characters and themes of any one of the works of art prescribed under the sections prose, play and fiction.
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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 4956 – ESSAY
Date : 28-04-08 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
PART – A
Answer any ONE of the following questions in about 2000 words. (1×100 = 100 marks)
- The modern man would be a person of no value in today’s society without Mass Communication. Give reasons to support your stand.
- Every author is the product of his age and Philosophy of his times. Give illustrations from the texts of literature and philosophy.
- Black Writing is the voice of the suppressed. Elaborate this statement with relevant evidence from literary texts.
- Neo-classical Age in English Literature is “an age of prose and Reason”. Illustrate this statement with the texts you are familiar with.
- Discuss Shakespeare as a master craftsman in both Tragedy and comedy through the portrayal of his characters.
- Discuss Twentieth Century American Literature.
- Explain with illustrations Modernism and Postmodernism in Literature.
- Discuss New Literatures in English.
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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 4814 – ELTT
Date : 23/04/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
I Write brief comments on the following: (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
- Difference between usage and use
- Explain any one Development Sequence
- Language trainer and mistakes
- Prohibitive inhibition of mother tongue
- One cause for learner difference
- Skills and sub skills
- Key concepts in speaking
- Task based learning
- Selection and use of aids in teaching and training
- Language laboratory
II Answer any SIX of the following: (6 x 5 = 30 marks)
- Explain the characteristics of motivated learners.
- What are the ways of arousing interest in tasks?
- Write a note on the relationship between teacher and adult learners.
- Concepts of discipline and language learning classrooms.
- Explain any one key issue in second language learning.
- What are the ways of presenting new grammatical items?
- Explain the concept syntax before morphology in a language training situation.
- Explain Interaction pattern with suitable examples.
III Answer any TWO of the following: ( 2 x 15 = 30 marks)
- Which one should be given more priority: Competence or Performance?
- Explain the problems faced by a trainer in teaching pronunciation to a group of heterogeneous learners.
- What are the steps a trainer should undertake to design a need based syllabus?
IV Answer the following: (2 x 10 = 20 marks)
- Design a five minute activity for teaching concepts in grammar.
- Profile of an effective language trainer.
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SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 2952 – ECOPOETICS
Date : 29-04-08 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART A
I Answer any SIX of the following questions in about 150 words each (6×5=30 marks)
- “This we know.
All things are connected
Like the blood
Which unites one family …
Whatever befalls the earth,
Befalls the sons and daughters of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life;
He is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web,
He does to himself.”
-Chief Seattle
Comment on the lines.
- Explain Gaia Theory.
- What is ecosensitivity?
- What is Chaos Theory or The Butterfly Effect? Do establish a connect between this and Tsunami that ravaged the South Asian shores in 2004.
- Differentiate between Shallow Ecology and Deep Ecology.
- Establish the connection between Environment and Ecology.
- Define ecocriticism after Cheryll Glotfelty.
- How is ecocriticism interdisciplinary?
PART B
II Answer the following questions in about 300 words each (2 x 20 = 40 marks)
- Explain the reasons for violence against nature.
(OR)
Why are Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy popular even today among the English readers?
- Explain the ecovision of William Wordsworth citing examples from any one of his poems.
(OR)
How does Emerson deal with nature in a transcendental manner?
PART C
III Applied Criticism
- Scrutinise the following literary text within the given parameters. (15 marks)
- Identify the ‘oikoses’ in the text.
- Establish the relation of one ‘oikos’ with the other ‘oikoses’.
- Compare the ‘oikos’ of one text with the ‘oikoses’ of other comparable texts.
Song of Quarry Workers
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We brought gravel for the highway And ballast for the railway track. Our hands are free this holiday, No load we bear on head or back.
We sing a song of joy with pride, For all our tools are laid aside. We sing a song of joy with pride, For all our tools are laid aside.
The hills we broke, now plains are they; The plains we mined are now a vale. Our hands are free this holiday We hammer neither stone nor nail. |
We sing a song of joy with pride,
For all our tools are laid aside. We sing a song of joy with pride, For all our tools are laid aside.
Talk not to us of work, we pray; Tomorrow we do what you bid. Our hands are free this holiday, Our hearts are not in what we did.
We sing a song of joy with pride, For all our tools are laid aside. We sing a song of joy with pride, For all our tools are laid aside. -Nirmaldasan |
- Apply Green Density Measurement to the following poem. (15 marks)
The Tree
It rained, it poured,
It thundered, but people snored.
The night was violent
The city was silent.
Every one was happy
Enjoying their dreams.
They did not hear
The trees screaming.
The tree lay down,
Fallen on its leaves.
It looked like a broken crown.
It lay down still,
It lay down weak.
No one heard
The tree screaming.
- Deepak Kudapa
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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 3804 – DRAMA (BRITISH & AMERICAN) FROM 1900
Date : 02-05-08 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
PART – A
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
Answer the following briefly:
- “Well, you are the walking playboy of the western world”.
Is this statement a compliment or an insult?
- “It was my own son hit me”.
Why is this confession important to the play?
- “Oh, War! War! the dream of patriots and heroes! A fraud… A hollow sham like love”.
Establish the connection between ‘dream’ and ‘fraud’ with reference to love and war.
- “All those years I lived in Basinstoke. I never stepped outside the door”.
What is so unusual about the speaker?
- “I’m telling you … you’re a washout”.
Is this statement a damaging one?
- “But I did truly have beautiful hair once, didn’t I, James?”
Comment on the character of the speaker.
- “All I’ve felt was distrust and spying and suspicion”.
Comment on the relationship among the members of Tyrone’s family.
- “You’ll be like a mad ghost before the night’s over”.
Explain the meaning of the above line.
- “When you get so old, all that happens is that people talk to you that way”. How are old people treated in America?
- “You made up your mind; you were firm; you were masculine and decisive”. Comment on the tone of the speaker.
PART – B
(4 x 10 = 40 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following in about 200 words each. Choose atleast two from each section.
SECTION 1
- How important is the role of Lulu in The Birthday Party?
- Discuss Nicola and Louka as Shavian sub-altern characters.
- Examine a Death of a Salesman as a critique of American Society.
SECTION 2
- Discuss a Raisin in the Sun as a sympathetic examination of the economic, educational and racial concerns of a ‘black family’.
- Examine A Street Car Named Desire as a portrayal of the lost and self-punishing individuals.
- Sketch the character of Mary in Long Day’s Journey into Night.
PART – C
(2 x 20 = 40 marks)
Answer the following in about 400 words each:
- a) “Stanley is the artist whom society claims back from a comfortable bohemian opt-out existence”.
Discuss The Birthday Party in the light of this comment.
or
- b) “Waiting For Godot is a play about enduring life. Nothing happens in it
twice”.
Critically examine the play from an existential perspective.
- a) The American Dream is an allegory of the “American Scene”. Illustrate with textual evidence.
or
- b) Comment on the title of the play Long Day’s Journey into Night
by O’Neil.
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 3900 – CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATIVE CONCERNS – II
Date : 05-05-08 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
Section 1 [ANALYTICAL REASONING]
Answer ALL Questions. Each question carries ONE mark.
- In a certain code, ‘6, 7, 8’ means “How are you”, ‘3, 4, 7’ means “How is life”, and ‘5, 6, 9’ means “You were wonderful”, which numeral in that language means “you”?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 9 (E) None of these
- Two persons X and Y starts walking from point A along the two adjacent sides AB and AD of rectangular field ABCD 50m x 40m. If AB is 50 m and X walks twice as fast as Y, on which side shall X cross Y?
(A) BC (B) AD (C) CD (D) AB (E) On the corner
- Ramesh’s house is to the east of Iqbal’s, Edward’s is west to Mohan’s. If Sohan’s house is to the west of Iqbal’s and east of Mohan’s house, whose house is the farthest from Iqbal’s?
(A) Edward’s (B) Sohan’s (C) Mohan’s (D) Ramesh’s (E) None of these
- A man born in the first of nineteenth century was X years old in the year X2. Find the year he was
born.
(A) 1836 (B) 1825 (C) 1812 (D) 1806 (E) 1864
- If 62358 means POWER, then 8265 means
(A) HOPE (B) ROPE (C) PORE (D) ROWE (E) None of these
- Complete the series: 7, 49, 2401, ?
(A) 5764801 (B) 5764081 (C) 5768041 (D) 5761048 (E) None of these
- In a group of cows and herdsmen the number of legs is 155 more than the number of heads. If each herdsman has to look after ten cows, how many herdsmen are there?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 10 (D) 15 (E) 20
- If ‘Water’ is called ‘Food’, ‘Food’ is called ‘Tree’, ‘Tree’ is called ‘Sky’, ‘Sky’ is called ‘Well’. On which of the following grows a fruit?
(A) Water (B) Food (C) Tree (D) Sky (E) None of these
In each of the following questions there are two terms to the left of the sign :: and two to its right. One term is missing in each case which is given as one of the alternatives. Find the relationship and choose the correct alternative.
- LOM : NMK :: PKI : ?
(A) RIH (B) SHG (C) RIG (D) RHG (E) None of these
- SENDEW : RFMEDX :: ? : NEMJAY
(A) ODNIBX (B) MDLIZX (C) OFNKBZ (D) MFLKZZ (E) None of these
- JKL : NML :: PQR : ?
(A) SRQ (B) STR (C) SQR (D) TSR (E) None of these
- CDXW : EFVU :: GHTS : ?
(A) KLPO (B) JIQR (C) LKOP (D) IJRQ (E) None of these
- POLK : RQJI :: KJQP : ?
(A) QRJI (B) IHSR (C) MLON (D) NMNM (E) None of these
In each of the following two questions compare the figures in the first two boxes. Then look at the third figure and find its partner in the boxes on the right.
14.
15.
Answer ANY TWO questions. Each question carries FIVE marks.
- Five farmers have 7, 9, 11, 13 & 14 apple trees, respectively in their orchards. Last year, each of
them discovered that every tree in their own orchard bore exactly the same number of apples. Further, if the third farmer gives one apple to the first, and the fifth gives three to each of the second and the fourth, they would all have exactly the same number of apples. What were the yields per tree in the orchards of the third and fourth farmers?
- Five executives A, B, C, D and E of European Corporation hold a Conference in Rome
Mr. A converses in Spanish & Italian
Mr. B, a Spaniard, knows English also
Mr. C knows English and belongs to Italy
Mr. D converses in French and Spanish
Mr. E, a native of Italy knows French
Which of the following can act as interpreter if Mr. C & Mr. D wish to converse
a) only Mr. A b) Only Mr. B c) Mr. A & Mr. B d) Any of the other three - Statements given by different family members.
- B is my father’s brother
- E is my mother-in-law.
- C is my son-in -law’s brother.
- A is my brother’s wife.
A,B,C,D,E are the family members. Who made the above statements? Give relationships between them.
Section 2
Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each (5 x 5 = 25 marks)
- Explain Commodity goals.
- Write on any one obstacle to Face-related goals
- Discuss’ Adaptive Planning’.
- Write on any One aspect of Interpersonal Relationship.
- Is the expression ‘Softskill’ suitable to define the skills involved in it? Substantiate your point of view.
- How can proper attitude be developed in a trainer?
Section 3
- Explain the differences between discovery and invention. (5)
- What is meant by scientific temper? What is the need for it? (5)
- Discuss the various theories regarding the nature of light. (5)
- a) Outline the life and achievements of any great scientist of your choice.
(OR)
- b) Present detailed review of any book on science and technology read by you
recently. (10)
Section 4
- What is bio ethics (10)
- Discuss any three bio ethical issues and their impact on human values. (15)
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SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 2900 – CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATIVE CONCERNS – I
Date : 26-04-08 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART-A
Answer the following question: (25 Marks)
- “A study of Psychology enables a student of literature, to understand and appreciate the portrayal of characters in any literary work”. Discuss with suitable examples.
PART-B
(Basic Economics)
Write short notes on: (5×5=25 Marks)
- i) Demand and supply
- Inflation
- Definition of Economics
- Balance of Payment
- Budget – 2008
PART-C
Answer the following question:
Indian Constitution:
Answer the following in three pages: (1×25=25 Marks)
- What are the outstanding features of the Indian Constitution?
(OR)
- How Fundamental Rights and Directives provide basic rights to our citizens?
PART-D
Current Affairs: (1×25=25 Marks)
- Explain the features of the Civilian Nuclear Deal and why it is being opposed by some political parties?
(OR)
- ‘Shrinking social space: Civil Society’s Response’ explain the statement based on the talk of Mr. P. Sainath.
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 2803 – 20TH CENTURY POETRY (BRITISH AND AMERICAN)
Date : 17/04/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART – A
- Interpret the following in 50 words each: 10 x 2 = 20
- Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
- But truly
I had no certainty, and no hope, only desiring
to hold you, for that joy,……
- Let seed be grass and grass turn into lay:
I’m martyr to a motion not my own;
- Know you seek a new world, a saviour to establish
Long-lost kinship and restore the blood’s fulfillment.
- I cannot say. Idyllic!
a shrine cinctured there by
the trees, a certainty of music!
- Ana I thought of the albatross,
And I wished he would come back, my snake.
- I should be glad of another death.
- You shall love your crooked neighbour
with your crooked heart
- The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
- The Morning beckon
With water praying and call of seagull and rook.
PART – B 5 x 8 = 40
- Write your answer in 200 words each for any FIVE of the following.
- Critically analyse the poetic technique of Archibald
Macleish as seen from his poem, ‘Dr.Sigmund Friend
Discover the Sea Shell’.
- Comment on the conversational tone of Robert Frost as seen in his poems prescribed for your study.
- What makes ‘Strange Meeting’ eerie and strange?
- How does Stephen Spender present the helplessness of ‘The Prisoners’?
- How are Time and Love at cross-purposes in Auden’s poem?
- Explain the meanings associated with the terms ‘journey’, ‘life’ and ‘death’ in ‘Journey of the Magi.
- Illustrate the poetic technique used by Dylan Thomas.
- Explain ‘the Nature of an Action’ according to Thom Gunn.
PART – C 4 x10 = 40
III Answer any FOUR of the following in 300 words.
- How do Yeats and Eliot differ in their message, as you compare ‘The Second Coming’ with The Waste Land?
- How do William Carlos William and Theodore Roethe view life and death in their poems?
- Compare the music in ‘You that Love England’ with the war-sounds in ‘Aristocrats’.
- Compare and Contrast Robert Lowell and Sylvia plath as confessional poets.
- Trace Carl Sandburg’s commenoration of the power of ‘the people’.
- Explain the psychological under tone in “Snake” by D.H. Lawrence.