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[h=2]English Literature Paper 2010[/h]
English Literature 2010Paper 1

Part I
MCQ's statements
1. Ode to West Wind was written by:
2. Keats was born in:
3. Dream Children was written by :
4. 'Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by:
5. Ruskin belonged to (which age):
6. Wordsworth lived from :
7. 'Heroes and hero worship' was written by :
8. ' Fair seed time has my soul' is from:
9. great Expectation was written by:
10. Lotus eaters is written by:
11. Lamb ,Leigh Haut and Hazzlit are:
12. 'My Last Duchess' was written by:
13. Emilty bronte is the writer of:
14. 'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' is a definition of poetry by:
15. 'Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is a line from:
16. 'Waverley' was written by
17. 'we are Seven' is written by:
18. 'Past and Present' is written by
19. 'Modern Painters' is written by:
20. Byron is the writer of:
Part II
Section-I
Q.2 Define Romanticism and narrate itsd influence on Romantic Literature in early 19th century.
Q.3 Write a critical note on Shelley's Utopianism
Q.4 'Byron was the melodramatic exploiter of his own emotions'. Discuss
Q.5critically analyze the proportion of imagination and reality in Keats's Odes
Section-II
Q.6 ' Browning did not invent the 'dramatic monologue ' but made it particylarly his own'. Discuss
Q.7 Discuss the roles of Ruskin and Carlyle in the development of Victorian prose.
Q.8 Do you agree with the view that Dickens is a social Novelist? Discuss with reference to his major novels.

Paper 2

Part I
MCQ's statements
1. who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama? Shaw, beckett, pinter, eliot
2. 'To the light house' is written by:
3. I am too much in the sun in 'Hamlet' is spoken by:
4. 'Ullyses ' is written by:
5. Elizabeth is a character fron Jane Austen's:
6. ;Tear idle tear; is a poem by:
7. 'Thought Fox' is written by:
8. 'Major Barbra' is written by
9. Lilliput is a character from
10. 'Fire and Ice' is written y:
11. Swift belong to:
12. the novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
13. 'Undo this Button; is a line from Shahespeare;s
14. 'Ode to Psyche' is a poem by:
15. ' I am no prince Hamlet' is a line written by
16. 'Things fall apart' os a line from Yeats's:
17. 'Good fences make good neighbours' is from Frosts':
18. ' April is the cruelest month of all' is taken from Eliot's:
19. 'A farewell to arms" is written by:
20. ' A passage to India' is written by:
Part II
Section-I
Q.2 " Frailty thy name is woman" .Explain why hamlet feels so?
Q.3 Beckett's "waiting for Godot " presents nothingness, uncertainty and hopelessness of modern man. Discuss
Q.4 Critically evaluate the theme of Shaw's "Pygmalian"
Q.5 Do you agree with the view that Swift's " the Gulliver's travels" symbolizes the liners turbulences of Human Being.

Section-II
Q.6 Frost's poems reveal that he is a poet of practical problems common man. Disuss.
Q.7 Disuss the significance of the title of Jane Austen's " pride and Prejudice".
Q.8 "the Second coming" Yeats presents the idea of civilization headed by the "Rough Beast". Discuss


[h=2]English Literature Papers II 2008[/h]
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - II
PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY
Q.1 Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet.
(1) ______________ is called the first romantic critic.
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Longinus
(c) Horace
(d) Sidney
(e) None of these
(2) _______________ defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature.
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Dryden
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
(3) ‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by:
(a) John Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Bacon
(d) Lamb
(e) None of these
(4) The period of English literature from 1660 to the end of the century is called:
(a) Renaissance
(b) Jacobean Period
(c) Restoration Period
(d) Romantic Age
(e) None of these
(5) ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is the phrase first used by:
(a) James Joyce
(b) William James
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) William Faulkner
(e) None of these
(6) ______________ consists of nine-eight five foot iambic lines followed by an iambic line of six fed with rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc:
(a) Octometer
(b) Sonnet
(c) Terza Rina
(d) Spenserian Stanza
(e) None of these
(7) A phrase, line or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of a stanza is called:
(a) Period
(b) Refrain
(c) Feminine Ending
(d) Alexandrine
(e) None of these
(8) Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example of:
(a) Comedy of Errors
(b) Comedy of Manners
(c) Comedy of Ideas
(d) Romantic Comedy
(e) None of these
(9) ‘Verslibre’ is called as:
(a) Free Verse
(b) Blank Verse
(c) Free meter
(d) Iambic
(e) None of these
(10) Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called:
(a) Parallelism
(b) Alliteration
(c) Para Rhyme
(d) Rhetoric
(e) None of these
(11) ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by:
(a) Bradley
(b) Dover Wilson
(c) Earnest Jones
(d) Freud
(e) None of these
(12) ‘Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May Sweep to my revenge’ is a speech from.
(a) Lear
(b) Macbeth
(c) Othello
(d) Hamlet
(e) None of these
(13) ‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by:
(a) W. H. Auden
(b) Earnest Jones
(c) Nicoll
(d) Freud
(e) None of these
(14) Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are:
(a) Husband and wife
(b) Brother and Sister
(c) Father and daughter
(d) Friends
(e) None of these
(15) The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by:
(a) Milton
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
(16) ‘The Olive Tree’ is a collection of essays by:
(a) Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Huxley
(d) Oscar Wilde
(e) None of these
(17) The poem “Wind” is written by:
(a) Shelley
(b) John Ashbery
(c) Sylvia Plath
(d) Ted Hughes
(e) None of these
(18) ‘Egotistical Sublime’ is a phrase coined by:
(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge
(d) Byron
(e) None of these
(19) ‘Apologie for Poetrie’ is written by:
(a) Arnold
(b) Philip Sidney
(c) Pope
(d) Dryden
(e) None of these
(20) ‘I count religion but a toy’ is a line from Marlowe’s play:
(a) Dr. Faustus
(b) The Jew of Malta
(c) T

[h=2]English Literature Papers I 2008[/h]
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - I
PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY
Q.1 Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet.
(1) The Nurse’s Song was written by:
(a) Keats
(b) Tennyson
(c) Blake
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these
(2) William Wordsworth was born in:
(a) 1770
(b) 1771
(c) 1772
(d) 1779
(e) None of these
(3) Byron’s first published collection was called:
(a) Years of Idleness
(b) Hours of Idleness
(c) Moments of Idleness
(d) Eons of Idleness
(e) None of these
(4) The Essay of Elia was written by:
(a) Tennyson
(b) Blake
(c) Byron
(d) Keats
(e) None of these
(5) Shelley’s final unfinished poem was:
(a) Hellas
(b) Prometheus Unbound
(c) The Ancient Mariner
(d) The Triumph of life
(e) None of these
(6) Lyrical Ballads as jointly composed by:
(a) Keats and Shelley
(b) Wordsworth and Shelley
(c) Keats and Coleridge
(d) Wordsworth and Coleridge
(e) None of these
(7) On liberty was written by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) Macaulay
(c) Godwin
(d) Mill
(e) None of these
(8) “Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies … yet remain free …” This was said by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) J.S. Mill
(c) Ruskin
(d) Mathew Arnold
(e) None of these
(9) Macaulay lived from
(a) 1800 - 1859
(b) 1802 - 1859
(c) 1859 – 1900
(d) 1889 - 1902
(e) None of these
(10) Macaulay represented:
(a) Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment
(b) Working class Victorian attitudes
(c) Upper class tolerance
(d) Radical Romanticism
(e) None of these
(11) Stones of Venice was written by:
(a) Macaulay
(b) Newman
(c) Ruskin
(d) Carlyle
(e) None of these
(12) Browning is famous for his:
(a) Sensory images
(b) Dramatic Monologues
(c) Narrative ballads
(d) Blank Verse
(e) None of these
(13) In Memoriam was written in:
(a) 1833
(b) 1853
(c) 1860
(d) 1863
(e) None of these
(14) “Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,
Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together”.
This was written by:
(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) William Morris
(e) None of these
(15) Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in:
(a) 1843
(b) 1847
(c) 1850
(d) 1857
(e) None of these
(16) Dickens was from a:
(a) Lower middle class origin
(b) Upper class origin
(c) Middle class origin
(d) Working class origin
(e) None of these
(17) George Eliot’s real name was:
(a) George Evans
(b) Eliot Evans
(c) Marian Evans
(d) Marian Eliot
(e) None of these
(18) George Eliot was an:
(a) Atheist
(b) Agnostic
(c) Occultist
(d) Conventionalist
(e) None of these
(19) Under the Greenwood Tree is a:
(a) Tale of rustic life
(b) Tale of man’s destruction of nature
(c) Historical novel
(d) Tale of city life
(e) None of these
(20) The Professor was the first novel by:
(a) Emily Bronte
(b) Charlotte Bronte
(c) Anne Bronte
(d) Jane Austen
(e) None of these
PART - II
SECTION – I
Q. 2. “In his youth Wordsworth was

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