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19th Century Novel (ENH-401)

Explanation:
1. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
2. Too late, too late! Don't come close to me. Angel! No,
you must not.
3. I don't want dozens. ....looking after her
4. It is in vain to say.... they can't find it
Short Note:
1. Write a short note on Lowood School
2. French Revolution
3. Significance of the Broken wine cask
4. Tellison's Bank
5. The Attack on the Bastille
6. Sorrow's Death & Burial
Short Questions:
1. Draw a contrasting picture of Jane and Elizabeth.
2. What happened in the red- room?
3. What is the significance of Darcy's letter to Elizabeth?
4. How was Jane treated in the Reed family?
5. How does Sydney declare his love for Lucie?
6. Broken wine cask.
Broad Questions:
1. Discuss the socio-economic picture depicted in Pride
and Prejudice.
2. Comment on Jane Austen's use of letters in Pride and
Prejudice.
3. To what extent do Elizabeth and Mr. Darsi Darcy
personify Pride and Prejudice
respectively?
4. Comment on Jane Austen's use of irony and humor in
Pride and Prejudice.
5. Compare and contrast the characters of Charles Darnay
and Sidney Carton.
6. How does Dickens co-relate love and war in A Tale of
Two Cities?
7. How does Dickens glorify selfless love in A Tale of Two
Cities?
8. Would you call A Tale of Two Cities a historical novel?
Give reasons for your
answer.
9. Comment on the factors responsible for the tragedy of
Tess.
10. Discuss Hardy's use of coincidence in Tess of the
D'Urbervilles.
11. Compare and contrast the characters of Angel and
Alec.
12. "Jane Eyre is an anti-romantic novel with a romantic
ending"--Do you agree?
why?
13. Discuss Jane Eyre as a gothic novel.
20th Century Poetry (ENH-402)
Explanation:
1. All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
2. In the room the woman come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
3. This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
4. And I am dumb to tell.... same crooked worn
5. No day is safe from. ...thinking of me
6. Cold worlds shake from... pale hand
Short Note/Short Questions:
1. Discuss the romantic elements in Yeats' The Lake Isle
of Innisfree.
2. Why was Prufrock unwilling to compare himself to
Hamlet?
3. Write a short note on Interior monologue.
4. Dylan Thomas and Surrealism.
5. Sylvia Plath's use of myth.

1. Discuss the sub matter of the poem "Morning Song".

2. Write briefly, what do you know about the rival? (not
the poem name)
3. What prayer does Dylan Thomas offer at the end of the
poem "Poem in October"?
4. How is the nature depicted in the poem " The Poem in
October"?
5. What kind of rivalry do you find in the poem "The
Rival"?
Broad Questions:
1) Write a note on the different symbols in the poems of
W.B. Yeats.
2) Write a critical appreciation of the poem "Sailing to
Byzantium"./Discuss Yeats'
attitude to old age and youth as revealed in his poems.
3) Trace the romantic elements in Yeats's poetry.
4) Comment on Yeats' use of personal elements in his
poems.
5) Write a critical appreciation of the poem: The Second
Coming.
6) How does Yeats celebrate the heroes of Easter 1916?
7. How does Eliot express the conflict of modern man in
the poem "The Love Song of
J. Alfred Prufrock"?
8. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a pioneer
example of modern poetry".
Explain.
9. How does "The Hollow Men" reflect the desiccation of
humanity?
10. Discuss the main message of "The Hollow Men".
11. Discuss the treatment of nature in Dylan Thomas's
poems.
12. Discuss the use of symbols in Dylan Thomas's poems.
12. Comment on Dylan Thomas' treatment of childhood in
"Poem in October".
13. "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the
Flower" explores the
relationship between creation and destruction." Discuss.
14. Write a critical appreciation of Sylvia Plath's poem
"The Rival".
15. How does Sylvia Plath present motherhood in
"Morning Song"?
Modern Drama (ENH-403)
Explanation:
1. I want to see your face rubbed in the mud- that's all I
can hope for
2. I was wrong, I was wrong! I don't want to be neutral! I
don't want to be a saint. I
want to be a lost cause. I want to be corrupt and futile.
3. Well, I am really only eighteen, but I always admit to
twenty when I go to evening
party.
4. We wait. We are bored..... no denying it
5. Never neglect the little things of life
6. Oh Stan, that's a lovely room. ....that room
7. Let's finish & go.....thing done & go
Short Questions:
1. What are the misfortunes in Alison's life?
2. Trace the elements of wit and humor in The
Importance of Being Earnest
3. Comment on the use of time in "Waiting for Godot"
4. Describe the setting of the play "Waiting for Godot"
5. Describe the boarding house in " The Birthday Party"
6. Describe the theme of violence in "The Birthday Party"
Short Note:
1. Helena(Osborne)
2. Lady Bracknell
3. Comedy of Manners
Broad Questions:
1) Trace the elements of wit & humor in The Importance
of Being Earnest.
2) Comment on the treatment of love & marriage in The
Importance of Being
Earnest.
3) Evaluate The Importance of Being Earnest as a social
satire.
4) Sketch the character of Lady Bracknell.
5) Discuss the ambiguous identity of Godot in the play
Waiting for Godot.
6) " Waiting for Godot is a play to show the sense of
nothingness". Illustrate.
7) What role do Lucky and Pozzo play? What is the
significance of their relationship?
8. Justify Waiting for Godot as an absurd drama.
9) What are the main themes of The Birthday Party?
10) "Pinter uses common elements of modern life to draw
an uncommon picture".
Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.
11) Make a list of the absurdist elements in The Birthday
Party.
12) Write on Pinter's use of language & dialogue in The
Birthday Party.
13) How far is Jimmy Porter a spokesman of the post-war
young generation in
England?
14) Discuss the significance of the bear and squirrel game
in Look Back in Anger.
15) Comment on Jimmy's relationship with Alison and
Helena.
2oth Century Novel (ENH-404)
Explanation:
1. "Indians are not allowed into the Chandrapore Club
ever as guests," he said simply.
2. "I can't hear it. I could let another woman- but not her.
She'd leave me no room,
not a bit of room."
3. Going up that river was. ..trees were kings
4. My Intended, my Ivory.....belonged to him
Short Note:
1. Bridge Party
2. The Last Day of Gertrude Morel's Life
3. Congo
4. Ivory
5. The setting of "The Grass is Singing"
Short Questions:
1. Why does McBryde believe that Indians are criminals?
2. Comment on the Mosque episode in A Passage to India.
3. Write a brief note on the female characters in Sons and
Lovers.
4. How was Mary brought up & educated?
5. Write a short note about Kurtz's Intended
3. Describe the murder of Mary in "The Grass is Singing"
4. Who are the faithless pilgrims in "Heart of Darkness"?
Describe their practices.
Broad Questions:
1. Analyse Conrad's use of symbols in Heart of Darkness.
2. Justify the title of the novel Heart of Darkness.
3. How does Conrad depict the theme of colonial
exploitation in Heart of Darkness?
4. Write on the character and role of Marlow in Heart of
Darkness.
5. Evaluate the theme of friendship in A Passage to India.
6. Discuss Forster's portrayal of Indian society in A
Passage to India.
7. How successful is Forster in the portrayal of the
character in A Passage to India?
8. Analyze Forster's use of symbols in A Passage to India.
9. Comment on Lawrence's use of symbols in Sons &
Lovers.
10. Consider Sons and Lovers as a modern psychological
novel.
11. Briefly analyze the father-son relationship in Sons &
Lovers.
12. Comment on the autobiographical elements in the
novel Sons and Lovers.
13. Portray the character of Mary in The Grass is Singing.
14. Comment on the theme of racism in The Grass is
Singing.
15. Comment on the significance of the title The Grass is
Singing.
16. What impression of Mrs. Ramsay do you have from
your reading To the
Lighthouse?
17. Comment on Virginia Woolf's treatment of time in “To
the Lighthouse”.
18. Discuss the major themes of the novel To the
Lighthouse.
American Poetry (ENH-405)
Explanation:
1. Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
2. I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you
3. All goes onward and outward...and nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed and
luckier.
4. I felt a funeral in my brain
And mourners to and fro
. ......was breaking through.
5. I taste a liquor never brewed
. ..........Yield such an alcohol.
6. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
7. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
Short Questions/Short Note:
1. What is the symbolic significance of the poet's choosing
of the less traveled road
out of the two?
2. Write a short note on Whitman's faith in Dignity and
Equality.
3. Describe the Life- Force in Whitman's poetry.
4. How did the poet feel when the coffin was lifted by the
mourners?
5. How does the speaker in "I too Sing" hope to be equal
with the whites?
6. What happens, according to the poet, if a dream is
deferred?
7. Write about the song the singer sings in "Weary Blues".
8. What is the main theme of the poem "The Negro
Speaks of Rivers"?
Broad Questions:
1. Comment on Emily Dickinson's treatment of life and
death in the poems you have
read.
2. Write a critical appreciation of the poem "I Taste a
Liquor Never Brewed".
3. Discuss the notion of mysticism in Emily Dickinson's
poetry.
4. How far is Emily Dickinson a romantic poet? Elucidate
with reference to her
poems.
5. What is an elegy? Do you think "When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom'd" is an
elegy? Substantiate your answer.
6. The speaker in "Songs of Myself" describes himself as
'the poet of the body' as
well as 'the poet of the soul'. What does he mean?
7. How does Whitman show his tribute to Abraham Lincoln
in his poems?
8. Write on Whitman's use of imagery in his poems.
9. Evaluate Walt Whitman as a poet of democracy.
10. "Frost is regional and universal at the same time."
Discuss.
11. Comment on the central conflict of the poem "Death
of the Hired Man".
12. Critically appreciate the poem "The Road Not Taken".
13. Frost's attitude towards nature was different from that
of previous nature
poets---comment.
14. Discuss Frost as a modern poet.
15. Depict the theme of alienation in the poems of Robert
Frost.
16. Write a note on African-American history in the poems
of Hughes with special
reference to the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
17. Discuss, how the theme of racial inequality is brought
out in the poem "I too,
Speaks of America".
18. Write an essay on Langston Hughes' use of symbols.
19. Write a critical appreciation of the poem "The Weary
Blues".
20. Write a note on patriotism you have found in Langston
Hughes' poem "I Too
Speaks of America".
American Literature: Fiction and Drama
(ENH-406)
Explanation:
1. Love, he'll!
Hate, dat's what I've fallen in hate, get me?
2. And I want nobody on my back. Get off! And I give the
same advice, Wilky.
3. And what calm sleep would be his, that.......the arms of
Faith.
4. There is no good on earth, and sin.... this world given.
Short Note:
1. Setting of The Hairy Ape
2. The Fifth Avenue
3. Salem Witchcraft Trials
4. Pedro Romaro
Short Questions:
1. How does Yank meet his tragic fate?
2. Describe the theme of 'belonging' in The Hairy Ape.
3. What are the reasons of Whilhelm's failure in life in
Seize the Day?
4. Who are the women characters in The Sun Also Rises?
5. How does Hemingway use sports in The Sun Also
Rises?
6. What does the forest represent in the story Young
Goodman Brown?
7. How did the traveller tempt Young Goodman Brown?
Broad Questions:
1. Was the story of Young Goodman Brown a dream or a
reality to Brown? Explain
why do you think so.
2. Bring out the chief features of the character of Young
Goodman Brown.
3. Comment on the use of symbols in the story "Young
Goodman
4. Justify the theme of alienation in the Hairy Ape.
5. Comment on the crisis of identity and isolation in the
novel The Hairy Ape.
6. How does Hairy Ape by O'Neil address the human
predicament in 20th-century
industrial civilization?
7. The Hairy Ape is a modern tragedy. Discuss.
8. Discuss the major themes of the "Hairy Ape".
9. Discuss Hemingway's use of sports in The Sun Also
Rises
10. "The Sun Also Rises reflects some of the problems
caused by the First World
War." Discuss.
11. What is the significance of the title of The Sun Also
Rises by Ernest Hemingway?
12. What is the significance of bullfighting and bullfighters
in "The Sun Also Rises"?
13. How can Jake Barnes be treated as a Hemingway
Code Hero?
14. Comment on the significant themes in the novel Seize
the Day.
15. Evaluate Tommy Wilhelm as the hero of the novel
Seize the Day.
16. What is the American Dream? How does Wilhelm
represent this dream?
17. Describe the conflict between the father and son in
Seize the Day.
18. "Tony Morrison has presented in Beloved the white
people's attitude towards
the black people in American society."Discuss.
19. Show the evil of slavery as exposed in Beloved.
20. Discuss the use of supernaturalism in the novel
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
21. Comment on the role of Paul D in Beloved.
Introduction to Literary Criticism
(ENH-407)
Explanation:
1. The best poetry, is what we want the best poetry will
be found to have a power of
forming, sustaining, and delight us as nothing else can.
2. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a
continual extinction of
personality.
3. Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed
not upon the poet but upon
the poetry.
4. The novel is the bright book of life. Books are not
life..........man alive tremble.
5. Let us learn from the novel. In the novel characters can
do nothing but live.
6. The era of academic establishment of English is also the
era of high imperialism in
England.
7. English was not only a subject worth studying, but the
supremely ......social
formation.
Short Questions:
1. What are the merits of the touchstone method?
2. How does Arnold distinguish between 'idea and
illusion'?
3. What is T.S. Eliot's view on historical sense in "Tradition
and Individual Talent"?
4. What does Lawrence say about the Fantasy and the
Novel?
5. What is Lawrence's attitude to religion?
6. What according to Terry Eagleton, was the literary
background of 18th-century
England?
7. How, according to Eagleton, did the Romantics suffer in
the hands of industrial
capitalism in England?
Broad Questions:
1. Give an assessment of Matthew Arnold as a critic.
2. Explain Arnold's idea stated in the following statement:
"Poetry is the criticism of
life ".
3. Discuss touchstone method. What are the merits and
demerits of the touchstone
method?
4. Discuss after Matthew Arnold the characteristics of
good poetry.
5. How does Eliot explain the process of poetic creativity
in his essay "Traditional and
Individual Talent "?
6. What is T.S Eliot's view on Historical sense in
"Traditional and individual talent "?
7. Critically comment on Eliot's concept of 'tradition' and
individual talent'. What is
the relationship between the two?
8. The emotion of art is impersonal. Elucidate this
statement with reference to
"Traditional and individual talent ".
9. How does Eliot criticize Wordsworth's poetic theory that
poetry is "emotion
recollected in tranquillity"?
10. How does Lawrence establish the superiority of the
novel over the other forms of
literature?
11. Write a brief note on 'Why the novel matters ' as a
philosophical essay.
12. Discuss how Eagleton links the rise of English to the
crisis in modern civilization.
13. What are Eagleton's views on romanticism?
14. Discuss the evolution of English from the 18th century
to the present with
reference to "The Rise of English".
15. Discuss Eagleton's evaluation of T.S. Eliot as a great
modern poet.
Continental Literature (ENH-408)
Short Note:
1. Killing of the Arab in The Outsider
2. Meursault
3. Gregor's relationship with his sister in Metamorphosis
4. The Samsa Family
5. Yvette Pottier
6. The Epic Theatre
7. Nils Krogstad
8. Suspense in A Doll's House
Short Questions:
1. How does Gregor feel and react when one morning he
wakes up and becomes
aware of his Metamorphosis?
2. Write in brief about Meursault's trial in The Outsider.
3. Comment on the friendship between Meursault and
Raymond in Camus' The
Outsider.
4. Write a short note on the use of songs in Mother
Courage and Her Children.
5. Describe the situation that leads Kattrin to death.
6. What are macaroons? What do they symbolize in A
Doll's House?
7. How is Nora able to discover the true character of
Helmer?
8. What is the purpose of Tarentilla? What does it
symbolize?
9. Why did Nora kill herself?
Broad Questions:
1. How does Kafka project Gregor Samsa's alienation in
Metamorphosis?
2. "The Metamorphosis" apparently narrates the aftermath
of a biological change
but it is actually about the psychological change of the
protagonist. Show how.
3. Gregor Samsa is presented as a tragic character in
Metamorphosis. Do you agree?
4. How does Camus make his readers retain sympathy of
Meursault despite his crime
and lack of repentance?
5. Consider Meursault as an existential hero.
6. Write an essay and Albert Camus' treatment of
alienation in "The Outsider".
7. Discuss "The Outsider" as Camus' attempt to portray
the absurdity of man's
existence in the universe.
8. Analyse "Mother Courage and her children" as an anti-
war play.
9. What role does religion play in Mother Courage and her
children?
10. What is the main theme of Mother Courage and her
children?
11. What are the features that make "Mother Courage and
her children" a tragedy?
12. Write an essay on the use of songs in Mother Courage
and her children.
13. Evaluate Helmer as a representative of the male-
dominated society.
14. Discuss the conflict between freedom and social
conventions in A Doll's House.
15. Is Nora responsible for her own suffering or is she a
mere victim? Give reasons
for your answer.
16. Evaluate A Doll's House as a play about women's self-
discovery and liberation.
17. Sketch the character of Nora.
18. Write critically on Tolstoy's treatment of marriage in
Anna Karenina.
19. Is it possible to see Anna Karenina as a tragic figure
trapped by fate and unable to
undo the effects of society and nature?
20. Do you think Anna Karenina deserves the violent
death that she meets? Give
arguments for your answer.
Approaches and Methods of Language
Teaching (ENH-409)
Short Note:
1. Approach, Method and Technique
2. The Nativist Theory
3. Appropriate Methodology
4. Tissue Rejection
5. Techniques of GTM
6. Roles of teachers and students in GTM
7. Theoretical foundation of Total Physical Response
8. The Army Method
Short Questions:
1. Stages of completing a task in TBLT
2. Differences between GTM and DM.
3. Techniques of DM
4. Teachers’ and learners’ role in CLT
5. What is the task in TBLT?
6. Teachers’ and learners’ role in CLT
7. Goals and features of the audiolingual method
Broad Questions:
1. Write a note on the Acculturation Model.
2. Write a note on Krashen’s monitor model theory
3. Write a note the features, goals, advantages, and
disadvantages of the Direct
method.
4. Discuss the main characteristics, goals, advantages,
and disadvantages of
CLT.
5. Mention the goals of Total Physical Response. What are
its advantages and
shortcomings? When is TPR more effective?
6. Discuss the chief features, goals, advantages, and
disadvantages of
TBLT. Mention different types of tasks used in TBLT.
7. What is the silent way? What are the goals of Silent
Way? Mention the
advantages and disadvantages of the silent way.
8. What is the Eclectic approach? Discuss the features,
advantages, and
disadvantages of this approach.
9. What are the shortcomings of the Western methods
related to ESL/EFL
contexts? How can we design an appropriate methodology
for our context?
10. What are the ways of improving writing skills?
11. What are the purposes of reading? Mention various
reading types.
12. Mention various types of speaking practice activities.
What are the
problems of teaching speaking

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1. Approaches and Method

• Definition of Approach and Method and technique
• The Nativist Theory
• The Acculturation Model.
• Krashen’s Monitor Model Theory
3. The Grammar Translation Method (GTM)
• What is GTM
• Techniques of GTM
• Roles of teachers and students in GTM
4. The Direct Method (DM)
• What is DM
• Features of DM
• Goals of DM
• Techniques of DM
• Strengths and drawbacks of DM
• Comparison and contrast of GTM and DM
5. The Audiolingual Method
• What is Audiolingual Method
• Link between The Audiolingual Method and The Army
Method
• Features, and goals of The Audiolingual Method
• Roles of teacher and students in The Audiolingual
Method
• Comparison and contrast between DM and The
Audiolingual Method
6. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
• What is CLT
• Features of CLT
• Goals of CLT
• Advantages and disadvantages of CLT
• Teachers’ and students’ role in CLT
7. Total Physical Response (TPR)
• What is TPR
• Goals, features and techniques of TPR
• Strengths and limitations of TPR
• When is TPR more effective?
8. The Silent Way
• What is The Silent Way
• goal, features, techniques
• Strengths and limitations
9. Task Based Teaching and Learning
• What is Task Based Language Teaching(TBLT)
• What is a task?
• Different stages in the design of a task
• different types of tasks used in TBLT
• Features and goals of TBLT
• Strengths and limitations of TBLT
10. Electric Approach
• What is Eclectic approach?
• features, advantages and disadvantages of this
approach.
11. Appropriate Methodology
• What is Appropriate Methodology
• Failure of western methods in EFL/ESL context
• Thick Description
• Tissue Rejection
• Failure of western methods in EFL/ESL context
• How can we design Appropriate Methodology for our
context
1. What are the ways of improving writing skills?
2. What are the purposes of reading? Mention various
reading types.
3. Mention various types of speaking practice activities.
What are the problems
of teaching speaking?
4. Write a note on the importance of pronunciation