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B.A. ( English)/B.A. (English)Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010.

LITERARY FORMS

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (5  8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

1. Illustrate the various types of lyrics.

2. Explain the characteristic features of an Ode.

3. Comment on the plot of a one-act play.

4. What are the chief characteristics of a tragedy?

5. Discuss the characteristics of a social novel.

6. Examine the conventions of a detective fiction.

7. Write a note on the critical essay.

8. Comment on the popularity of short story in the modern scenario.

PART B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR questions.

9. Bring out the salient features of subjective poetry and objective poetry.

10. Discuss the characteristic features of an epic with reference to Paradise Lost.

11. Attempt an essay on the growth and development of drama.

12. Account for the popularity of Shakespearean Comedies.

13. Discuss the different kinds of essay.

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14. Examine the view that the novel is a ‘pocket theatre’.

15. Autobiography is a successful presentation of a personality-substantiate.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) (Addl.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010.

ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A — (5  8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
All questions carry equal marks.

1. Describe the impacts of 'Reformation' on the 16th and 17th century English Society.

2. Narrate briefly the 'Puritan Revolution'.

3. Consider Shakespeare as a sonneteer with reference to "when to the sessions of sweet silent
thought".

4. Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem "The Nightingale" by philip sidney.

5. Analyse the theme of spenser's "Prologue to Faerie Queene".

6. Critically examine the theme of "The funeral" by John Donne.

7. What is the subject matter of the poem "Delight in Disorder" by Robert Herric.

8. Analyse Bacon's views on "Of Nobility".

SECTION B — (4  15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
All questions carry equal marks.

9. Examine Marlow as a tragedian with reference to Edward II.

10. Discuss the Comic elements in "The Share Maker's Holiday".

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11. "Bacon's essays are informative and instructive" – Analyse this view with reference to the
essays prescribed for your study.

12. Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem 'A Litany in time of plague'.

13. Examine critically the epic conventions of spencer with reference to "The Prologue to faerie
Queen".

14. Examine The Alchemist as a comedy of humours.

15. Bring out More's views on the human society as illustrated in Utopia.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) (Addl.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010.

RESTORATION LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A — (5  8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following questions in about
300 words each.

1. Elucidate how Dryden describes the impact of music on human mind in "A song for
St.Cecilia's Day".

2. Examine the satire in the portrait of Atticus in

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.

3. Describe the setting of the "Elegy written in a country churchyard".

4. Analyse the elements of romanticism in "Ode to Evening".

5. Appreciate how "Roger at the Theatre" reflects the contemporary social life.

6. Bring out the picaresque elements in Joseph Andrews.

7. Write a note on the characterisation of Tony Lumpkin in She stoops to conquer.

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8. Discuss the state of literature during the restoration period.

SECTION B — (4  15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following questions in about
500 words each.

9. Account for the popularity of the prose literature during the restoration period.

10. Explore Milton's study of the human mind in "L'Allegro" and "Ilpenseroso".

11. Compare and contrast the themes of "The Lamb" and "The Tiger".

12. Discuss how gray immortalises the rustic people in "Elegy written in a country churchyard".

13. Consider Joseph Andrews an epic novel.

14. Examine Addison as a gentle satirist with reference to the essays prescribed for your study.

15. Analyse The school for Scandal as an antisentimental comedy.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010.

ROMANTIC LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (5 × 8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

1. Write a short note on Wordsworth’s theory of poetic diction.

2. What are the reasons for the decline of drama during the romantic age?

3. How does Gray contrast the graves of the rich and the poor in his ‘‘Elegy”?

4. Why is the dead albatross hung round the Ancient Mariner’s neck?

5. How does Wordsworth glorify childhood in his “Intimations Ode”?

6. How does Shelley link up his personality with that of the west wind?

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7. Why does Keats call the nightingale an immortal bird?

8. What made the Primrose family leave Wakefield?

PART B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

9. Bring out the salient features of the romantic age and its poetry.

10. Write a critical appreciation of Burn’s “Highland Mary”

11. Examine man’s relationship with nature and God as expressed in the “Ode on Intimations.”

12. Discuss Shelley’s attitude towards life as revealed in “Ode to a Skylark.”

13. How does Keats stress the ‘permanency of art” in his, “Ode on a Grecian Urn?

14. How has Scott transformed details of English history in Talisman?

15. Discuss Marriage as a theme in Jane Austens Emma.

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B.A.(English)/B.A.(English) (Addl.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010.

VICTORIAN LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A — (5  8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions given below each not exceeding 150 words.

1. Why does ulysses call himself an idleking?

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2. What is the poet is idea of modern life in "The scholar Gypsy"?

3. Write a note on the impact of science in victorian England.

4. Explain Arnold's Touch stone method.

5. Write briefly on Hardy's philosophy of life as found in Tess of the D'urbervilles

6. Sketch the character of paul in sons and lovers. briefly

7. Discuss The Importance of being Earnest as a satire?

8. What is the role of the chores in murder in the cathedral?

SECTION B — (4  15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR of the following in about 400 words each.

9. Trace the growth and development of Eliga's character. how does she not only change
exernally but internally?

10. Comment on the role of ‘sea’ in the play Riders to the sea.

11. Examine critically the view that The Great Expectations exposes a society riddled with
injustices.

12. How does Arnold view poetry in "The study of poetry"?

13. Discuss how T.S.Eliot's "The waste land" expresses the disillusionment of a generation.

14. Consider "The wreck of the deutschland an elegy.

15. Enumerate the salient literary features of the victorian era.

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B.A.(English)/B.A. (English) (Addl). DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010.

INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A — (5  8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following questions.

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1. What does Toru Dutt convey in ‘Our Casuarinas Tree’?

2. What is the moral conveyed in Sri Aurobindo's Satyavan and Savitri?

3. Compare Bakka and Raka in the Untouchable.

4. How is Tughlaq a historical play?

5. Bring out the characteristics of the mother in ‘Night of the Scorpion’.

6. What does Swami Vivekananda say about world peace?

7. Sketch the character of Reka in Fire on the Mountain.

8. How does Kamala Markandeya portray the down-troden in A Handful of Rice?

SECTION B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following questions.

9. How does Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court is in Session! explode the myth that
motherhood is sacred?

10. Write a note on Kamala Das poem ‘‘Introduction’’.

11. Discuss the social injustice portrayed in

A Handful of Rice.

12. What does Tagore plead in ‘Heaven of Freedom’?

13. Sketch the character of R. K. Narayan's English Teacher.

14. Examine Girish Karnad's ‘Tughlag’ as a historical play.

15. Explain Nehru's views on Tradition as revealed in

Discovery of India.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) (Addl.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010.

SHAKESPEARE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (5 × 8 = 40 marks)

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 Answer any FIVE questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

1. How does Puck play prank on Bottom?

2. What is the significance of the Sylvius and Phebe episode in As You Like It?

3. Write a note on Richard’s relationship with his wife, making reference to their final meeting.

4. Why does Richard interfere with the Trial by Combat just when Mowbray and Bolingbrook
are going to fight the duel?

5. Describe the nature of the Roman mob as depicted in Julius Caesar.

6. Briefly describe the Loss of Reason in Leontes in

The Winters Tale.

7. Write a note on the Elizabethan Stage.

8. Comment on the role of songs and music is Shakespeare’s plays.

PART B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR questions.

9. Discuss the title of the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

10. Consider As You Like It as a romantic comedy.

11. Sketch the character of Bolingbroke in Richard II.

12. “Julius Caesar is a play without a hero” — Discuss,

13. Examine The Winter’s Tale as a perfect tragicomedy.

14. Account for the popularity of Shakespearean fools.

15. Summarize briefly A.C. Bradley’s views on Shakespearean tragedy

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 B.A.(English)/B.A.(English) (Addl) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
DECEMBER 2010.

MODERN AND POST MODERN LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A — (5  8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE of the following questions.

1. What are the positive feminine qualities which the poet finds in the Laurel Tree” A Prayer for
My Daughter”.

2. Explain the new experience gained by the Magi at the sight of Jesus.

3. Describe the death of a Naturalist.

4. Sketch the character of Nora in A Doll’s House.

5. Give the summary of the Play Waiting for Godot.

6. Write a note on the past relationship between Clarissa and Peter.

7. Consider Animal Farm as an allegory.

8. Compare and contrast the nature of Shiva and Saleem.

SECTION B — (4  15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR of the following questions.

9. Write a Critical appreciation of the poem “The second Coming”.

10. Who is the main target of the Poet’s Satire–the unknown citizen or the bureaucratic society?

11. Justify the title of the play “A Doll’s House”.

12. Write an essay on the unhappy life of Rezia and Septimus.

13. Write on the seven Commandments made by animals.

14. Describe the sermon made on the mount by Jesus.

15. What are the qualities of an effective Speaker? And bring out the views of Edward Bruke
about an effective speaker.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) (Addl.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010

AMERICAN AND COMMON WEALTH LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A — (5  8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE of the following.

All questions carry equal marks.

1. Comment on the evolution of thought in Plath's "Mirror".

2. Critically examine Mansfield's "Bliss".

3. Narrate the contribution of Irving Babbitt to the American Prose Literature.

4. Examine the symbolic significance of the Wall in "Mending Wall".

5. What is the message of Achebe's poem "Refugee Mother and Child"?

6. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is a symbolic crossing from the physical into the spiritual.
Discuss.

7. Illustrate the theme of the poem "In the month of July" by Arasanayagam.

8. How does Walcott depict ethnic conflict in his poem "A Far Cry From Africa"?

SECTION B — (4  15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR of the following.

All questions carry equal marks.

9. Discuss "The American Scholar" as a document of transcendentalism.

10. Consider The Lion and The Jewel as an ethnic play in modern form.

11. Discuss Hemingway's vision in The Old Man and the Sea.

12. Examine The Emperor Jones as a clever piece of Psychoanalysis using the technique of
interior monologue.

13. Discuss the victimization experienced by Lizzie Borden in Blood Relations.

14. Sketch the character of VOSS.

15. Discuss the theme of destiny in The Blind Assasin.

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B.A.(English)/B.A.(English) (Addl.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010.

ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (5  8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

1. (a) Answer the following accordingly: (4  1 = 4)

(i) I love sweets
The pattern of the sentence is
SV/SVO/SVC/SVAA
(ii) How beautiful the painting is!
This is a ––––––––––––– (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative)
sentence.
(iii) He does not know Hindi. (Add a question tag)
(iv) She went to Hospital. (Frame a question)

(b) Insert suitable articles. If no article is needed part X:

(8  )

Gandhiji is one of ––––––––––––– greatest of men born on ––––––––––––– earth.

He sacrificed ––––––––––––– life of luxury for ––––––––––––– sake
of our country. Because he was ––––––––––––– patriot. he gave –––––––––––––
world ––––––––––– precious message of non-violence. He is –––––––––– father of
our nation.

2. (a) Make note on the following passage: (4)

Life is built on hopes and aspirations. Thinking of a supreme power beyond
all human inadequacies devates our mind, gives strength and peace. Scriptures
personify the Almighty as an ever watching father, who would come to help his
children in distress at all times. Prayer works wonders. Faith-healing cured many
patients miraculously. With prayer, we get the power within us to make our world,
our environment , just what we want it to be.

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(b) Fill in the blanks with correct tense forms.
(8  =4)

(i) Here ––––––––––––– (come) the bus.

(ii) We ––––––––––––– (go) to mumbai next week.
(iii) When ––––––––––––– (do) the college reopen?
(iv) Honey ––––––––––––– (be) sweet.
(v) Fortune ––––––––––––– (favour) the brave.
(vi) Immdediately the saltan ––––––––––––– (hurry) to his capital.
(vii) She always ––––––––––––– (carry) an umbrella.
(viii) The steamer ––––––––––––– (sail) yesterday.

3. Write a paragraph of 250 words on any ONE of the following topics.

(8)
(a) Television
(b) The uses of library

4. Answer any ONE of the following. (8)

(a) Write a letter to your uncle undergoing treatment in a hospital.
Or
(b) Write a letter to your principal asking him to issue a testimonial.

5. Answer any ONE of the following. (8)

(a) As a newspaper correspondent, send a report to the editor on the sanitary condition of your
town.
(b) As the president of your college union, send a report on the independence day celebration
of your college to be published by the editor of the local newspaper.

6. Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the two given brackets.
(8)
(a) They remained calm in the face of ––––––––––––– (imminent, immanent) danger.
(b) He spoke in an ––––––––––––– (imprudent, impudent) manner.
(c) Ashoka was a ––––––––––––– (humane, human) emperor.
(d) The teacher ––––––––––––– (illustrated, illusioned) the methods.
(e) The statement ––––––––––––– (imply, impose) that the speaker is angry.
(f) We ––––––––––––– (journey, join) together from bangalore to chennai.
(g) The poem is not ––––––––––––– (intelligible, intelligent)
(h) India has made ––––––––––––– (industrious/industrial) progress.
7. Answer the following: (8)

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(a) (i) a person who always expects good things to happen.
(pessimist, optimist, ophthalmologist)
(ii) An official authority who validates a document.
(nosy parker, Normon, notary)
(b) Choose the word which is correctly spelt.
(i) Longivity
(ii) Longeivity
(iii) Longuity
(c) Form opposites of the following words given by adding suitable prefixes.
(i) Proper
(ii) Complete
(iii) appear
(iv) represent
(d) Form negatives of the following words by adding suitable suffixes.
(i) harm
(ii) hope
(e) Rewrite the following in proper word order to form a meaningful sentence.
Know do they dance to how not
(f) Form negative of the following sentence.
I remembered my friend.

8. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions. (8  1 = 8)

(a) The dam was built ––––––––––––– the king ––––––––––––– the year
1920.

(b) There is no sugar ––––––––––––– the pot.

(c) This is a song that iam very fond –––––––––––––.

(d) I gave a doll ––––––––––––– her.

(e) I will buy a pen ––––––––––––– you.

(f) We reached there ––––––––––––– time.

(g) We play games ––––––––––––– four to six.

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 PART B — (4  15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR of the following.

9. (a) Rewrite the following sentences in the passive voice.

(4)

(i) I wrote a letter.

(ii) Iam using my pen.

(iii) I taught him grammar.

(iv) This will upset our plan.

(b) Rewrite the following in active voice. (4)

(i) Ravana was killed by Rama.

(ii) Kumara sambavam was written by kalidasa.

(iii) A palace was built by viswakarma.

(iv) The light was switched off by me.

(c) Change the following accordingly. (4)
(i) No other place in the world is as beautiful as home.(into comparative and
superlative degrees)
(ii) Ramu is one of the smallest boys in the class.(into comparative and positive
degrees).
(d) Rewrite the following as directed. (3)
(i) He performed well, as he practised (into compound sentence) well.
(ii) I love ice-cream. (Rewrite as negative without changing the meaning).
(iii) None but the sports person will know the value of time, (Replace ‘none’ by
‘only’).

10. Make a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title.
(15)
Every one endeavours to make himself as agreeable to society as he can; but it often
happens that those who must aim at shining in conversation overshoot their mark. Though
a man succeeds, he should not, as is frequently the case, engross the whole talk to himself,
for that destroys the vey essence of conversation like a ball rallied to and from one to the
other rather than seize it all to ourselves and drive it before us like a football. We should
likewise be cautious to adapt the matter of our discourse to our company, and not talk
greek before ladies, or of the latest far below to a meeting of country justices.

11. Write an essay in about 400 words or any ONE of the following:
(15)

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(a) Higher education in India.
(b) Knowledge is power.

12. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below.
(15)
There are many religious festivals in our country. Dussehra is one of them. It is celebrated
throughout India by the Hindus. But people of other religions also join them in celebrating
it. Its is a symbol of the victory of virtue over evil. "Jhankers" of Ram leela are taken out,
in the form of procession, in all towns and cities for ten days. On Dussehra day a mock
battle is fought between Shri Rama and Ravana. The people are celebrating this victory by
burning effigies of evil persons in the evening. These effigies are filled with crackers.
People shout "shri Ramchandra ki jai" as the flames of the fire rise. After the procession
people pay respect to shri Rama.
(a) What is the festival referred to here?
(b) How people celebrate it?
(c) Who is the hero of the celebration?
(d) What is the story behind the festival?
(e) What are taken out as procession?
(f) What is the meaning of effigies?
(g) Explain the ritual.
(h) What people do on that day?
(i) Give a suitable title to the passage.

13. (a) Give one word substitute. (10)

(i) War taking place inside the country
(ii) Son of a king
(iii) System of government by, for and of people.
(iv) A person punished for the mistake of others.
(v) Belief that God is in everything
(vi) looking back on past events with love.
(vii) Name if the young moon?
(viii) The place where horses are kept
(ix) The place where dog is kept
(x) The place from where the priest preaches.
(b) Match the words in column A with that of B. (5)
Aspiration – rubbish
Blatant – longing
clemency – mercy
Maroon – annoy

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 junk – red.
14. Read each sentence to find out whether there is error in any underlined part or not. Write the
alphabet to your choice next to the question no. (10  1 =15)

(a) We should pay for good health of all children on this

A B C D
day – No error.
E
(b) India is a country of diverse religions. – No error.
A B C D
(c) In some schools games and sports are conducted for
A B C
little children also – No error.
D
(d) If we realize the importance of our health. We
A B C
must take care to pressure our health. No error.
D E
(e) We should give proper exercise to every part of
A B C
the body. No error.
D E
(f) The radio enables us to hear what is said at a
A B C
a distant place. No error.
D E
(g) T.V programmes provides the education as well as
A B C
the entertainment No error.
D E
(h) The childrens day teaches us all to love children.
A B C D
No error.
E
(i) The president of India arrives at the scene of
A B C

celebration in a decorated coach. No error.

D E

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(j) Military strength of India is shown to the public.
A B C D
No error.
E

15. Use any TEN of the following in sentences of your own.

(10  1 =15)

(a) Win over

(b) Write off
(c) Let alone
(d) look at
(e) set up
(f) pick up
(g) Give up
(h) help out
(i) hold over
(j) bear with
(k) jump at
(l) keep up
(m) take off

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B.A.(English)/ B.A.(English) – ADDITIONAL DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010.

INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATION

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A — (5  8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

1. Analyse the factors governing the press.

2. Discuss the impact of journalism on society.

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3. What are the uses of media in modern society?

4. Why is freedom of the press essential?

5. Bring out the importance of editing a news in journalism.

6. Give a brief account of Indian Institute of Mass Communication.

7. Comment on the regulatory measures undertaken by Government to control media in modern

society.

8. Write a paragraph on the future of

Mass - Communication.

SECTION B — (4  15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

9. Explain the role and functions of press.

10. What is more popular in the present times, print or electronic media? Discuss.

11. What is News? How to produce a newspaper?

12. Analyse the history of journalism in India and its impact on society.

13. Comment on the functions and services of Doordarshan.

14. Discuss the qualities and qualifications required for a successful journalist.

15. Examine the different stages in film making.

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