M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2007 AELD IN 2005 ENGLISH (Paper D "DRAMA" (1556-1939) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt Four questions. (2) Select at least TWO questions from Section "A" and ONE question from Section "B". (3) All questions carry equai marks. SECTION "A" “Q.1 Comment on Faustus address to Helden and his piteous appeal in the concluding seene. Q.2 Discuss the puzzle of life and death as presented by Hamlet in his Soliloquy "To be or not to be, that is the question. com Q.3 Write an essay enn Sos Reality in KINGLEAR,, \i Q.4 ONS: Wide) iola loves the Duke, the Duck is\inl ‘with Olivia. Bring out the Comedy, the heartbreaks and the triumph of true love in these relationships. SECTION "B" Q.5 Ben Jonson's The Achemist is the exposure of those raise money by trading on human credulity, and those who let themselves he cheated by the hope of sudden riches. Discuss. Q.6 Write a note on the main features of Restoration Comedy with special reference to Congreves The Way of the World. : Q.7 Politicians are puppets in the hands of capitalists. How does G.B Shaw establish this theme in Heartbreak House?”M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2007 HELD IN 2008 : ENGLISH (Paper I) » POETRY (1223-1800) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt any Four questions. (2) AIl questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Despite highlighting their Flaws, Chancer has protrayed the clergy with human interest, sympathy and humour. Comment. OR How has Chancer used his Persona to create irony in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales? Q.2 Comment on the elements of historical allegory in Spenser's Faerie Queene Book-I. OR Bring out elements of Spenses purigahism in Faerie Queene Book-I. Q.3 What ete G elfed aganist Milton's style i made is st? What arguements have been s defence? OR ee on the speeches of Satan to his followers in Paradise Lost Book-I. Q.4.Comment on Dryden's Portrayal of the King's opponents in Absalom and Achitophel. OR Comment on the literary merits of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. Q.5 In The Rape of the Lock little has been made great, and the great little. Comment : OR Would you consider Alexander pope a misogynist after reading The Rape of Lock? Q.6 Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience present two contrasting ways of looking at the world and life. Comment. OR Evaluate William Blake as a Romantic poet.M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2007 HELD IN ¢0U8 ENGLISH (Paper Ui) (LITERATURE AND SOCIETY) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt Four questions in all. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 What are the significant features of BACON'S literary style? Discuss with reference to the essays you have studied. Q.2 Comment on the form and style of AEROPAGITCA. Q.3 Comment on SWIFT'S use of scale as a technique of satire with reference to GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. Q.4Discuss the methods :UNYAN employs in PILGRIM,S PROGRESS*to advance his moral thesis. Q.5 Critically analyse the techniques ADDISON used in his essays to bring the readers round to his point 7f view. Q.6 Critically comment on the creel from CHARTISM: "Can the was m aie England of ours, who labor, find work, and subsistence by his Q.7 wa comment on the following lines from CULTURE AND ANARCHY. "Culture disinterestedly seeking in its aims at perfection to seen things as they are, shows us how worthy and divine a things is the religious side in men, though it is not the whole of man" Q.8 Critically comment on the following lines from ON LIBERTY. "If all mankind minus:one were of a opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silecing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified silencing mankind. Q.9 Discuss the significance of WINSTON'’S fascination with the past and what are its implications in a totalitarian regime. Q.10 Critically comment upon LEAV IS'S discussion of the relationship between culture and language.M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2007 HELD IN 2005 ENGLISH (Paper IV) (HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE) Time: 3 Hours - Max. Marks: 100 Instructions:- (1) Attempt any Four questions. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Discuss the importance and use of ALLEGORY in English Literattret Q.2 Write a critical note on any two of the following: (i) Gothic Novel (ii) Paneth oO! tics (iii) Pseudo-classicism (iv, gery Q.3 Discuss the sali ea f saved. Why is it MoS, atre? a nigel e sources and characteristics of the Literature of Restoration period? a5 G.B Shaw's Man and Superman is vepretentarive of “ both the author and the age. Q.6 Shakespeare’ s rivals were found, as signe be expected, in the camp of humanists. Comment. Q.7 Trace the element of symbolism in T.S. Eliot's poetry. Q.8 Reformation may be regarded as the religious counterpart of the Renaissance Movement. Comment.M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2007 HELD IN 2008 ENGLISH (Paper V) THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt all questions. (2) ‘All questions carries 25 marks. SECTION "A" Q.1 Critically analyse the major disadvantages of GRAMMER TRANSLATION METHOD. OR Describe - with your own examples - the main features of audio-lingual method of English Language teaching. Why did this method fail despite its early successes. OR “Communicative approach towards ELT is the most suitable one for Pakistan". Critically comment. SECTION "“B" Q.2 Discuss with aa the di tage GOW ween British and rea TION. OR Critically as van ia for the global spread of Eoghan St eighty years. OR a criticial essay on the striking features of Elizabethan English. Illustrate your essay with specific examples from the noteworthy writers of the age. Q.3 Comment on the efforts of Standardisation of ENGLISH GRAMMER and VOCABULARY in the 18th Century England. OR What were the effects of Norman Consequent on the development of English? OR Critically assess the importance of LONDON DIALECT of English during the fifteenth century. SECTION "C" Q.4 Describe the lingusitic differences between the SPOKEN and WRITTEN English varieties. OR Traditional English Grammer books have wrongly presented voice. In your opinion, is there a one-to-one relationship between ACTIVE andM.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2008 HELD IN 2009 ENGLISH. (Paper I) "DRAMA" (1556-1939) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt Four questions. (2) Select at least TWO questions from Section "A" and ONE question fom Section "B". (3) All questions carry equal marks. SECTION "A" Q.1 Faustus. "Now, Faustus, thou art Conjuror laureat, Thou canst Command great Mephistophilis." Does Faustus Command Or is commanded by Mephistophilis? Comment in detail. Q.2 Queen. "What have I done, That thou dar'st wag thy Tongue In noise so tude ao com against me.’ auny Hamlet: anh SK urs the grace a modesty, calls virtue hypocrite," Discuss the relationship of mother and son in the light of this dialogue between the two. Q.3 "There are," says the Fool, Two kinds of fools "The one in motley here (Pointing to himself) The other found out there! (Pointing to Lear)" Is Lear a fool? Q.4 Write a comprehensice note on Caliban as an ardent champion of freedom from European colonial rule. « SECTION "B" Q.5 Jonson's first aim in The Alchemist is satire. Elaborate. Q.6"In the portrayal of elegance and distinction of manners," says Emile Legouis," Elucidate with reference to The Way of the World. Q.7 "We may call," writes A.C Ward," Shaw's Plays comedies of purpose." What is the Purpose behind "Heartbreak House."__M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2008 HELD IN 2009 ENGLISH (Paper I) POETRY (1223-1800) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: i00 Instructions: (1) Attempt any Four questions. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Comment on Chancer's portrayal of any one of the following in the Prologue to the CANTERBURY TALES: (a) The military class (b) The Clergy (c) Tha Laity Q.2 Comment on any one of the following with reference to Spenser's FAERIE QUEENE: ' (a) Historical Allegory — (b) Elements of Epic and Romance Q.3 Explain the Se reroxng POS of the following with referen 's Paradise Lost oo 1 an yn Kidd wi GN yal of Satan Q.4 Comment on any one of the following: (a) Donne as a Metaphysical poet. (b) Characteristics of Donne's religious poetry. Q.5 Wirte a note on any one of the following with reference to Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel? (a) Qualities of Dryden's Satire: (b) Dryden's use of Biblical allegory. Q.6 Write a note on any one of the following with reference to Pope's RAPE OF THE LOCK: (a) Pope's depiction of women. (b) Rape of the Lock as a mock epic poem. Q.7 Comment on any one of the following with reference to Blake's SONGS OF INNOCENCE an SONGS OF EXPERIENCE: (a) Use of symbolism (b) Difference in imagery and tone in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of experienceM.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2008 HELD IN 2009 ENGLISH (Paper II1) (LITERATURE & SOCIETY) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt Four questions in ail. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Critically comment on the literay influences on Bacon's style. Discuss with reference to the essays you have studied. Q.2 Comment on the argument presented by Milton in Acropagitica. Q.3 Critically analyse the cutting satire in Gulliver's Travels. Q.4 Analyse the characterisation in Pilgrim's Progress to present moral views. : Q.5 Critically analyse the technique Addison uses in his essays to bring the readers round eenitin: of view. N Q.6 Critically comme adachie ew of the role of the arist We Q7 Cripigd comment on the following lines from Culture and Anarchy. "Culture, disinterestedly seeking in its aim at perfection to see things as they are, shows us how worthy and divine a thing is the religious side in men, though it is not the whole of man.” Q.8 Critically comment on the following lines from On Liberty. "It all mankind minus one were of an opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified silencing mankind." Q.9 Discuss the relationship between Winston and Julia in Nineteen Eighty Four. Q.10 Critically comment upon Leavi's discussion of the relationship between culture and language.M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2008 HELD IN 2009 ENGLISH (Paper IV). (HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt any Four questions. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 How did Renaissance affect English Literature critically discuss? Q.2 Milton, endeavoured to blend the spirit of the Renaissance and of the Reformation.’ Comment. Q.3 Write a critical note on any Two of the following: (i) University Wits . (ii) Re eco edy nation (iii) Humanism - ioe Q.4 The eightee rea as viewed as the age of unde al enlightenment. Discuss? Q.5 few, ics have termed novel form as the most distinctive and lasting literary achievement of the Victorian Age. Do you agree? Discuss. Q.6 Denne is famous for his imaginative flights from the terial to the spiritual spheres for which Drvden gave Him the tithe of ‘metaphysical’. Dis Q.7 Romantic poetry can be described as ‘intense emotions coupled with an intense display of imagery, Critically discuss. Q.8 "T.S. Eliot's position as a literary and cultural critic certainly surpasses that of any other in the 20M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2008 HELD IN 2002 ENGLISH (Paper V) THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Atternpt all questions. (2) All questions carries 25 marks. SECTION "A" ‘ Q.1 Critically assess the merits and demerits of Gramunar Translation Method. OR What are the similarities and differences between Direct Method and Communicative Approach to language teching? OR Discuss with exaniples the feasibilityof emploing Audio-Lingaal Mechod in Pakistan school and colleges. SHCTION "3B" Q.2 Describe the differences beoween the wart can and the British vocab: a OR What were the-sa hen ie ary prye ann an English? mts ference to lexical item im GR ipa seaty a global lang justify your answer with examples. Q.3 What were the effects of Norman Conquest on the deve ng of English? OR Discuss the significance of Dr. johnson's efforis in the standardization and ation of the English language. Ulustrate with ¢ i What languages have most i the following fields of human activities: government, Law, music, medicine and religion? Give specific examples. SECTION "C" Q.4 Discuss the differences in meaning between the use of PRESENT PERFECTS and PRESENT PERFECTS CONTINUOUS structures in English. Hlustrate ge? Discuss and your answer with examples. OR Write a detailed description of ENGLISH WORD_FORMATION RULES. OR In the absence of future tense, how does theM.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2009 HELD IN 2010 ENGLISH (Paper 1) (DRAMA 1556-1939) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: : (1) Attempr any Four questions. (2) Select at least TWO questions from Section "A" and ONE question from Section "B". (3) Ail questions carry equal marks. SECTION "A" Q.1"l ever there was a born poet", says Leigh Hun “Marlowe was'One". Comment on the picto quality, ecste poetry in Dr. Faust C.2 Act V (the Grave-Digging Scene) Hamlet: "Why, may end not that be the skull of a lawver? Where be his qualities, his cases. his tenures and his tricks. Why does the sufter this mad knave noy dc him about the sconce with a dirt Bw not tell him of his action of p a 3 fellow might be in's oN Anh a? ct his starutes, his reign ices, his fines, his J youchers, his Is this the fine of his fines and the recovery, veries, to have his fine pate full of dirt?" Reproduce the above lines in Simple English and upon the pathetic irony of death. euss tne probiem of poetic justice in King Lear. Q.4 Duke Orsine is in love with the idea that he ts in love while Viola is ini love with the real man, the Duke. Discuss these two type of love. and SECTION 'B" Q.5 What picture of Contemporary life is brought before our eyes after reading. The Alchemist? Q.6 Write a Review of Congreves. "Way of the World" with special reference to his analysis of the feminine Soul and of Women's conscious and Seductive Coquetry. Q.7 Write an Essay on Shaws’ views on Economics and Politics as revealed in "Heart Break House’ _M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2009 HELD IN 2010 _ ENGLISH (Paper I) (POETRY 1223-1800) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt any Four questions. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Compare and contrast any one of the following pair of characters from Chaucer's Prologue in the Canterbury Tales: (a) The Prioress and The Wife of Bath (b) The Monk and the Priest (c) The Friar and the Pardoner Q.2 What elements of the religious allegory in Faerie Queene Book 1, bring out Spenser's Protestantism? Explain. (OR) Explain the historical and political allegory in Spenser's Faerie Queene Book 1. Q.3 For what reasons is Donne refe asa "metaphysical" poct? Is gut Ted? Expl, (OR) identif ankle salient features of Donne's yoetry. Q.4 Comment on Milton's portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost Bk 1. (OR) With reference in Paradise Lost Book 1, explain the critical issues surrounding Milton's use of the Grand Style in Paradise Lost. Q.5 Comment o Dryden's use of biblical allusions in Absaloin and Achitophel. (OR) Comment on Dryden's Absalom and Achitphel as : political satire. Q.6 Comment on Pope's Rape of the Lock as a socia satire, (OR) Comment on Pope's Rape of the Lock as a moc! eple peom Q.7 Compare und contrast Blake's Songs of Innocenc and Songs of Experience in terms of theme, ton and style. (OR) Comment on Biak'es use of symbolism in Songs c Innocence anc Songs of Experience.ENGLISH (Paper it} {LITERATURE AND SOCIETY) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 10 instructions: (.) Attempt anv Four questions. (2) All questions carry equal marks Q.1 Ceitically discuss the influence of Renaissance o: ‘a con's writing with reference to his essavs. € 4 Tascuss Milton's prose style to "Areopagitica”. @o Discuss Bunyan's style in his novel PI..GRIM" PROCREESS. Q.4 Crir..siUlv comment upon Arnold's idea o "Hellenism" and "Hebraism" as presented in hi work CULTURE AND ANARCHY. @.5 Compare Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" and Orwell "Nineteen eighty four” as satires on society authority, and power with reference to the time they were wricten in. Q.6'A man willing te work, and unable to find work, i perhaps the saciddest sight that Fortune's inequalit exhibits under this. Burns expresses freely whe thoughts it gave him; a poor man secking worl seeking leave to toil that he might be fed an sheltered! That he might be put on aaree th four footed workers of th 1 is hi There is not a ho wi work but can + food and s| ital; a thing this two foo wopdnes ‘co seck for, to solicit occasionally in vain. He is nobody's two-footed worker; he is not even anybody's slave. And yet, he is a two-footed worker; it is currently reported there is an immortal soul in him, sent dwon out of Heaven into the Earth; and oen beholds him seeking for this!-Naywhat will a wise Legislature say. If it turn out that he cannot find it, that the answer to their postulate proposition is not affirmative but negative." Explain with reference to the context. Q.7 "He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, discrimination to decide, and when he has firmness and self-control to bold to his deliberate decision." Critically comment on these lines taken from Mill's "On Liberty". Q.8 Critically discuss the form and styie ADDISONS "Covrley Papers" as a trend setter in periodical writing of the 18th century. Q.9 Discuss how F.R. Leavis regards mass culture as an antithesis of culture in “Mass Civilisation and Minority Cultute"._M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2009 HELD IN 2010 ENGLISH (Paper IV) (BISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt any Four questions. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 What are the salient features of Renaissance? Discuss in brief its influence on Marlowe and Shakespere illustrating from some of their plays. Q.2 Critically analyze the development of a drama. Q.3 "The ae s ay eee ry in the traditions of Ne Discuss. Q4 Ac RA phenomenal rise of the English nd the 18th ee Q.5 Victor Hugo defines Romanticism as “Liberalism in Literature". Justify this statement with reference to 19th Century Poetry. Q.6 Tennyson and Browning are antithetical is each other. Discuss. Q.7 Thematically as well as Stylistically, modernn Poetry marks a departure from the preceeding tradition. Explain. Q.8 Write short notes on any TWO of the following. (a) Stream of Consciousness Novel (b) Pre-Raphaelitism (c) Oxford MovementM.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2009 HELD IN 2010 ENGLISH (Paper V) (THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE) Time: 3 Hours : Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt all questions. (2) Each questions carries equal marks. SECTION "A" Q.1 Critically assess,the merits and demerits of Audio-lingual Method of English Language Teaching.(OR) Discuss the problems that might arise in case Communicative Approach was introduced for teaching of English in Pakistan. (OR) How do Grammar-Translation and Direct Methods differ from each other? Illustrate you answer with your examples. SECTION "B" Q.2 Discuss the role of Boney GON the development of E " (OR) Describe thé etween the American and Oe immiar. (OR) at factors contributed to make English an international language? Discuss with examples. Q.3 Evaluate the influence of French on the development of English. . : (OR) Write a detailed essay on the standardization of the English language during the 19th Century. Illustrate with examples. (OR) What were the salient features of Elizabethan English? Discuss with special reference to verbs. SECTION "C" i Q.4 Dicuss the differences in meaning between the use of PRESENT PROGRESSIVE and PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE structure in Engiis IHustrate your answer with examples. fi GR) Write a detailed description of ENGLISH MODALITY, (GR) How dees the English language express HYPOTHETICAL MEANING.ENGLISH (Paper D _BRAMA" (1556-1939) Max. Marks: 100 a = « (1) Actempi F (2) Select at st TWO guestions from Section "A" and ONE jon tom Section "B", (3) AU questions carry equal marks SECTION "A" ur questions. « Q.1 Dr. Faustus shock his fist ar heaven and feared at the same moment that heaven might falland crush him. Discuss th conilicc between faith in God and atheism in Faustus' sou. Q.2 Write a note on Shakespeare's concept of tragede drawing illustrations from Hamlet and King Lear. Q.3 Explain the following lines: Cordelia: © Good my Load, you have begot me, bred me, lov'd me: I Return those duties back ya com as are right fit, apna) meepegh you, ny mo eee oy ae husbands, if they say They love you all? Happily, when I shall Wed, That Lord whose hand must take my plight Shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty: Sure I shall never marry like my sisters To love my father all. Q.4 What opinion have you formed of Prince Hals. character in Henry IV Part-I. SECTION "B" Q.5 The Alchemist shows that Ben Jonson had a keen eye for the characteristic foibles of men and women. Elucidate. Q.6 William Congrave's The way of the World is more a commentary on life than a representation of life. What is your assessment of the play? Q.7 Heartbreak House is based on Shaws, thinking on Politics, Economics and Sociology. Comment.M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2010 HELD IN 2011 ENGLISH (Paper I) POETRY (1223-1800) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt any Four questions. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales reflects the society of the fourteenth Century England. Discuss OR There is irony and satire in Chaucer's portrayal of = = 7 - + the characteres in the Prologue to Canterbury Tales. Do you agree? Give Reasons, and support your answer with examples from the text. Q.2 Discuss Spenser's Faerie Queene as a political alllegory. OR The characters in Spenser's Faerie Queen symbolize the virtues and vices in religion and society. Discuss and support your answer with examples taken from Book 1 of the Faerie Queene. Q.3 Comment on John Donne as a Metaphysical poet.OR Although Donne's religious poetry i in an absolutely novel style, yet th he has exploited the traditi TO avices shows , his seater ios poet. Comment. Q.4 in the "Grand Style" used by John Milton in Paradise Lost, with special reference to Book 1, OR Comment on the character of Lucifer as portrayed by Milton in his great epic Paradise Lost and explain the cristicisms leveled aginst it. Support * your answer with examples taken from Book 1 of Paradise Lost. ‘ Q.5 Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel is a satire on the English politics of the eighteenth century. Discuss. OR Discuss the political allusion which Dryden has used in Absalom and Achitophel, and its arallel in the England of the poet's time. / Q.6 Pope's Rape of the Lock is a great’ Mock epic of its kind in English literature. Comment. OR Discuss Pope's Rape of the Lock as a social satire. Q.7 Comment on those poems of the Songs of Innocence by William Blake, that show the hopes and fears in the life of a child, as well as their impact on his future. OR Comment on Blake's use of symbolism in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2010 HELD IN 2011 ENGLISH (Paper Ii!) (LITERATURE & SOCIETY) ; Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: . (1) Attempt Four questions in all. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Do you agree with Blake's comment on Bacon's essays that the essays are "Good advice for Satan's kingdom"? Explain with reference to the prescribed essays. Q.2 In Areopagitica, Milton asserts that “all that truth needs to assure its victory over error is a fair field and no favor". Discuss. Q.3 "Gulliver's Travels is a misanthropic asatromy of human nature". Comment with reference to books I to IV of Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Q.4 Bunyani's Pilgrim's Progress “though in the form of an allegory, the narrative interest is so poerful, the drawing of permanent types of hua Fearacter Isso vigorous, and the nye Ne and direct that it take a work of fiction". Explain, AK Q.5" Anes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison". Explain this comment with reference to Addison's "Coverley Papers". Q.6 On what grounds does Carlyle oppose the principle of Laissez Faire in his essay "Chartism"? Explain in detail. Q.7 Arnold's Culture and Anarchy "asserts the primacy of reason over the anarchy of doing as one likes". Explain. Q.8 Celebration of individuality and disdain for conformity runs throughout On Liberty. Explain this comment whith reference to Mill's On Liberty. Q.9 "Newspeak is Ingsoc, and Ingsoc is Newspeak". Comment on this quote from Orwell's 1984 with reference to the novel. Q.10°The governing theme of Leavis's "Mass Civilization and Minortiy Culture" is the destructive effects of industrialsm on society and. culture.” Di_M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2016 HELD IN coll ENGLISH (Paper IV} (HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (From Renaissance to 1939) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt any Four questions. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Account for the rise of English Drama in the Elizabethan Age. Q.2 Shakespeare and Ben Jonson are a Cor to each other. ya Q.3 Explain the factors dell e phenomenla rise of Satire in thy jot century. Q4R ant ism is often described as ‘The Renaissance of Wonder". Justify the relevance of this description. Q.5 Browning is said to be the precurserof the medEDs Age. Discuss. : Q.6 What is Pre-Raphaelitism? Illustrate with reference to Swinberpe and William Morris Q.7 Modern Fiction to introspective. Substantiate. Q.8 Write short notes on any Two of the following: (a) Reformation: its salient features (b) Verse drama (c) Picaresque novelM.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2010 HELD IN 2011 ENGLISH (Paper V) THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt all questions. (2) Each question carries 25 marks. SECTION "A" Write a critical essay on the merits ef Audio-lingual. Q.1 Method of English Language Teaching? OR What are the similarities and differences between Direct Method and Grammar Translation Method? OR Discuss with examples the feasibility of adoptin Communicative Language Teaching approach for Pakistani schools and colleges. SECTION "B" Describe the differences between the American and the British? Q.2 English grammar? OR What are the salient differences between Elizabethan and Contemporary BgiBOr Discuss with examples?OR_ y a oe agin me fat made English aglobal ean aSSESS. Q.3 What were the effects of Norman Conquest on the development of English? _ OR Give a critical assessment of the efforts to standardize, refine and stabilize the Enlglish language during the 18th and the 1§ch centuries ?0R Languages borrow words extensively from other languages in language contact situations. Write a detailed note on loanwords that the English language has borrowed from other languages in the last two centuries? SECTION "C" Q.4 Discuss in detail the functions of modal auxiliary verbs in English. Give your own examples? OR Contemporary linguists claim that there is no FUTURE TENSE in English. Discuss with your examples? OR What do you understand by the term VOICE? How do the speakers of English use voice? Ilustrate your answr with your own examples?M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2011 HELD IN 2012 ENGLISH (Paper I) "DRAMA" (1556-1939) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt Four questions. (2) Select at least TWO questions from Section "A" and ONE question fom Section "B". (3) All questions carry equal marks. SECTION "A" Q.1 What is Marlowe's Philosophy of Sin and Salvation in Dr. Faustus? Q.2 In "King Lear" Evil brings ae se dness and death to the aS calle good. Comments? yigue Q.3 Critically cisauey tH engths and weaknesses of afacter? Q.4 Ciftcally discuss the relationship between any two pairs of lovers in TWELFTH NIGHT? SECTION "B" Q.5 Ben Jonson Says: "I will strip the ragged follies of the time Naked, as at their birth’. How far has he succeeded in his aim in "The Alchemist"? Q.6 Congreve imbues characters with life and is a master of dialogue and style. Discuss with refrence to "The way of the world"? Q.7 "Heartbreak House" presents an intellectual debate on contemporary issues. Elabrate?M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2011 HELD IN 2012 ENGLISH (Paper II) POETRY (1223-1800) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt any Four questions. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Why is Chancer called the father of English Poetry? Discuss? OR Comment on Chancer's art of charaterization in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales? Q.2 Discuss Spenser's Faerie Queene religious and political allegory. OR Spenser is called'a painter without a brush. Do you agree? Support your answer with examples taken from Faerie Queene Bk 1? Q.3 Comment on wee main featurees of aco igious poetry. ya Why is Donne, aia eM. poet? Discuss? Q.4 The ORGS: in Milton's Paradise Lost, is that of eh] gel ruined, because of his pride and lust for power. Commenet? - OR Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost is considered to be the best epic in English Literature. Discuss. Q.5 Discuss the Biblical allusion which Dryden has used in Absalom and Achitophel and its reference to the English politics of his time? OR Comment on Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel as a political satire? 2.6 Pope's Rape of the Lock is a satire on the manners and life style of the nobility is eighteenth century England. Comment? OR The Rape of the Lock is the best example of te mock epic in English literature. Discuss? Q.7 Comment on Blake's use of symbolism in his poems? OR Comment and contrast Blake's Songs of Innocence with his Songs of Experience in terms of theme, mood, imagery and style? zMA (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 20/1 HELD IN 2012 ENGLISH (Paper ITD) (LITERATURE & SOCIETY) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt Four questions in all. (2) All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 "Bacon's sytle, though elegant, is by no means as simple as it seems or as it is often described", Discuss with reference to the prescribeed essays? Q.2 "Milton's mastery of the arts of persuasion makes a rewarding study in itself...' Discuss with reference to Milton's "Areopagitica"? Q.3 What is the significance, if any, of the orer in which Gulliver's journeys take place? How does. each adveneture build on the previous one? Answer with refereence to books I to IV of Swift's Gulliver's Travels? é Q.4In some ways Christian seems to leearn various things in the course of his pilgrimage, but in other ways he hardly appears to change a m the begining to the end of th Christians evolve or develo ye ? Q.5 Sir Ro ‘y exemplified that values of an ol try gentleman and was portrayed as lovable but somewhat ridiculous, Explain this commeent with referens to Addison's "Coverley Papers"? Q.6 Comment on Carlyle's attitude towards the working class in his essay "Chartism"? Explain in detail? Q.7 How does Arnold differentiate Hebraism and Hellenism in Culture and Anarchy? Explian? Q.8 What assumptions about human nature does Mill make in expressing his theory? What would his theory lose if these assumptions were wrong? Answer with reference to JS Mill's "On Liberty"? Q.9 Orwell's 1984 is full of images and ideas that do not directly affect the piot, but nevertheless attain theematic importance. What are some of these symbols and motifs, and how does Orwell use them? Q.10 In "Mass Civilization and Minority Culture" Leavis states that on minority depeend the implicit standards that order the finer living of an age...’ Do you agre or disaggre with Leavis's view? Explain your position in either case?_ M.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 201 1 HELD IN 2ul2 ENGLISH (Paper Iv) (HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE rom Renaissance to 1939) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt any Four questions. Q) Ali questions carry equa! marks. @.1 Account for the rise cf the English novel in the eighteenth century? Q.2 Trace the influeence af Renaissance on the Elizabethan plays, especially "Morlovien and Shakespearean? O.3 Why is the eightenth cente-re of GON as the me ~ ' Neo-classical Ase WOO: fee. che are found i Sure of this period C4 Write ANN eSsay on the crearment of Rechantic poetry? 0.5 Browning and Tennysor are antithetital to each : Discuss? 2.5 The V tian wovels are said to be in the iradit? of the eighteenth ¢ ry fiction. Do you agree! so, substantiate ranswer with perrinent examples? 7 Modern Ficii Q.8 Write short notes on any Tyo of the following: ) The note of melancholy in Romantic Poetry, its se8 1 eristicsM.A (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION 2011 HELD IN 2012 ENGLISH (Paper V) THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instructions: (1) Attempt all questions. (2) All questions carries 25 marks. Q.1 Q2 Q3 Q4 SECTION "A" Critically assess the merits and demerits of DIRECT METHOD of language teaching? OR Discuss the feasibility of employing COMMUNICATIVE Approach for English language teaching in Pakistani educational institutions? OR What is the role of classroom management in effectivee teaching of English? Illustrate your answer with examples? SECTION "B" Describe the major seat = oo American and the Britis is = dis ve deceit es English CRIDER and ery abvious. Speculate on the reasons for hoe page sery with examples? OR What factors made it possible for English to become an international language? Discuss the influence of French on the Enlgish Language? OR Asseess Dr Johnson's contribution towards the STANDARDIZATION of the English Language? OR Critically assess the importance of London DIALECT of English during the fifteenth century? SECTION '"C" Discuss in detail and with your examples various roles that the word HAVE performs in the English Language?OR Differentiate betwen DYNAMIC and STATIVE verbs and describe their grammatical role in everyday communication? OR Write a comprehensive note on MODALITY in English?