Do you want Alagappa University Frequently Asked questions? Are you Searchimg the previous year question papers? Here you can get M.A Degree Examination 2015 English questions
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2015
Second semester
English
BRITISH LITERATURE – III
(CBCS – 2012 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 = 20)
Answer all questions in about a sentence or two each.
1. What was the size of the palatial estate that Kubla Khan ordered built?
2. According to the poem, with what season is the west wind associated?
3. What does Bedivere see while throwing the Excalibur?
4. How many stars were there in the hair of the damozel’?
5. What was the judge’s reaction to the case of Ho-ti and Bo-bo?
6. Who, according to Carlyle, has given us the Practice or body?
7. What does Mrs. Bennet consider to be her mission in life?
8. What is Ivanhoe’s first disguise in the novel?
9. Who comes to Oliver’s defense after Fagin recaptures him?
10. What distinguishes Tess from her fellow country maidens?
Part B (5 x 5 = 25)
Answer the following questions in about 200 words each.
11. (a) How does Keats describe autumn?
Or
(b) How does the line “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind” tie the whole poem together in “Ode to the West Wind”?
12. (a) Describe the setting and the situation that prompts the Duke’s speech in “My Last Duchess.”
Or
(b) Analyse the story of the sword Excalibur in “Morte De Arthur.
13. (a) How does Ruskin classify books?
Or
(b) How does Carlyle admire and eulogize Shakespeare?
14. (a) Comment on the elopement of Lydia and Wickham episode to the structure of the novel Pride and Prejudice.
Or
(b) Analyse King Richard’s gallant behavior in Ivanhoe.
15. (a) Discuss the portrait of the criminal justice system presented in Oliver Twist.
Or
(b) Bring out the part played by Alec in Tess of the
Part C (3 x 10 = 30)
Answer any three the following questions in about 500 words each.
16. How does Wordsworth show the growth of his affinity toward nature in ‘Tintern Abbey”?
17. Examine the melancholic anguish in Arnold’s “Dover Beach.’
18. Consider “Dream Children: A Reverie” a prose poem.
19. Examine the pride and prejudices of the four key characters in Pride and Prejudice.
20. How far is Tess’s tragedy a woman’s tragedy in Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
Second semester
English
BRITISH LITERATURE – III
(CBCS – 2012 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 = 20)
Answer all questions in about a sentence or two each.
1. What was the size of the palatial estate that Kubla Khan ordered built?
2. According to the poem, with what season is the west wind associated?
3. What does Bedivere see while throwing the Excalibur?
4. How many stars were there in the hair of the damozel’?
5. What was the judge’s reaction to the case of Ho-ti and Bo-bo?
6. Who, according to Carlyle, has given us the Practice or body?
7. What does Mrs. Bennet consider to be her mission in life?
8. What is Ivanhoe’s first disguise in the novel?
9. Who comes to Oliver’s defense after Fagin recaptures him?
10. What distinguishes Tess from her fellow country maidens?
Part B (5 x 5 = 25)
Answer the following questions in about 200 words each.
11. (a) How does Keats describe autumn?
Or
(b) How does the line “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind” tie the whole poem together in “Ode to the West Wind”?
12. (a) Describe the setting and the situation that prompts the Duke’s speech in “My Last Duchess.”
Or
(b) Analyse the story of the sword Excalibur in “Morte De Arthur.
13. (a) How does Ruskin classify books?
Or
(b) How does Carlyle admire and eulogize Shakespeare?
14. (a) Comment on the elopement of Lydia and Wickham episode to the structure of the novel Pride and Prejudice.
Or
(b) Analyse King Richard’s gallant behavior in Ivanhoe.
15. (a) Discuss the portrait of the criminal justice system presented in Oliver Twist.
Or
(b) Bring out the part played by Alec in Tess of the
Part C (3 x 10 = 30)
Answer any three the following questions in about 500 words each.
16. How does Wordsworth show the growth of his affinity toward nature in ‘Tintern Abbey”?
17. Examine the melancholic anguish in Arnold’s “Dover Beach.’
18. Consider “Dream Children: A Reverie” a prose poem.
19. Examine the pride and prejudices of the four key characters in Pride and Prejudice.
20. How far is Tess’s tragedy a woman’s tragedy in Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
0 comments:
Pen down your valuable important comments below