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M.A..(Previous) English 

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MAEG-01 to MAEG-04 

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MAEG-01 English Language Usage and Communication Skill 

MAEG-02 Renaissance to Jacobean Age 

MAEG-03 Caroline to Reformation Age 

MAEG-04 The Romantic Age 

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Post Graduate Degree Programme 


M.A..(Final) English 

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MAEG-05 to MAEG-11 

Department of English 

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MAEG-05 Principles of Criticism 

MAEG-06 Victorian Age Literature 

MAEG-07 Twentieth Century Literature 

MAEG-08 Indian Writing in English and in Translation 

MAEG-09 Post Colonial Literature 

MAEG-10 American Literature 

MAEG-11 Canadian Literature 

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MA. (Previous)English 

English Language Usage and Communication Skill 

Course code: MAEG-1 

Internal Assignment- 1 

Max. Marks: 20 

Answer the following questions. Questions 1&2 have internal choice. 

(7Marks each) 

Q1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow 

in your own words: 

Since the world has become industrialised, there has been an increase in the 

number of animal species that have either become extinct or have neared 

extinction. Bengal tiger, for instance, which once romed the jungle in vast 

numbers, now number only 2300 and by the year 2025 their population is 

esteemed to be down to zero. What is alarming about the case of Bengal tiger 

is that this extinction will have been caused almost entirely by poachers who 

accordingly to some sourses, are not interested in material gain but in per- 

sonal gratification. This is an example of the collousness that is part of what is 

causing the problem of extinction. Animal like the Bengal tiger, as well as 

those endangered species, are a valuable part of this world’s ecosystem. Inter- 

national law protecting these animals must be enacted to ensure their survival, 

and the survival of the planet. Countaries around the world have begun to deal 

with the problem in various ways. Some countries ,in order to circumvent the 

problem, have alocated large amount of land to animal reserves. They then 

charge admission to help defray the costs of maintiong th parks, and they 

often must also depend on world organizations for support. With the money 

get, they can invest in equipment and patrols to protect the animals .Another 

solution that is an attempt to stem the tide, of animal extinction is an interna- 

tional boycutt of products made from endangered species. This seems fairly 

effective, but it will not, by itself, prevent animals from being hunted and 

killed.

Q.1 What is auther’s main concern in this passage? 

Q.2 Which of the following worlds is closest in meaning to the underlined word 

‘Alarming’? 

Q.3. What is the meaning of the phrase ‘Stem the tide’? 

Q4. Why certain species are becoming extinct ? 

Q.5. What solution does the auther suggest for the protection of tigers? 

OR 

Make notes on the passage given above on the paper. 

Q.2. As a staff reporter of Hindustan times, who witnessed a multiple collision of a 

Maruti car, a scooter and a tourist bus in a road accident, write a report in not more 

than 100 words. 

OR 

Write notes in 250 words each with suitable examples on the following: 

1. Compounding 2. Morphology 

Q3. Attempt any two questions . All questions carry equal marks:(3 Marks each) 

1. Make one sentence each on the the following sentence patterns and label 

them SVOCA: 

1. SVO 2. AVOCA 3. SVAA 4. SVOA 5. SVOO 

6. SVC 

Q.2. Correct the following sentences: 

1. The horse and the carriage are at the gate. 

2. Not only you but also I are to blame. 

3. Ram’s spectacles is very costly. 

4. It is you who is to blame for this. 

5. Many people lives in slums. 

Q.3. Write a note on Electronic Communication.

MA. (Previous)English 

English Language Usage and Communication Skill 


Internal Assignment- 2 



(7Marks each) 

Q1. Convey the following notions /concepts through a sentence each of your own. 

1. Habit 2. Determination 3. Probability 

4. Consequence 5. Agreement 

Or 

Elaborate one of the following themes in the form of a composition. 

a) Indian Education system 

b) Emergence of technology in life: curse or boon 

Q.2. Write notes on the following: 

1. Voice Mail 2. Teleconferencing 3. E-Mail 

4. Instant Messaging 5. Website 

OR 

Point out the subordinate and main verb phrases in the sentences below: 

a) The boy in that room ia a fresher. 

b) Such a sight is very rare. 

c) I have got fed up of my hectic social life in Jaipur. 

d) Most of the employees in this mall are graduates. 

Q.3. Attempt any two questions . All questions carry equal marks:(3 Marks each) 

1What is the meaning of summerization? What are the important points for 

preparing an effective summary? 

2. Define Encoding and Decoding. 

3. Describe the main features of effective communication.

MA. (Previous) English 

Renaissance to Jacobean Age 


Internal Assignment-1 



Answer the following questions in 500 words each: (7Marks each) 

Q1.What are the main features that are represented by Chaucer in his works? 

OR 

Write a detailed note on the salient features of ‘The Spanish Tragedy’. Differentiate 

between Roman revenge tragedy and English revenge tragedy. 

Q2. Describe The Duchess of Malfi as a play in the revenge tradition. 

OR 

Write a note on the themes of lust and greed as developed in The Alchemist. 

Q3. Attempt any two questions in not more than 150 words each. All questions 

carry equal marks:(3 Marks each) 

1. Write a note on the moral and spiritual allegory on the basis of Faerie 

Queene? 

2. Write a note on Webster’s tragic vision. 

3. Explain the following lines 

Love is a fervent fire 

Kindled by hot desire; 

for a short pleasure 

Repentance is the hire; 

4. Do you think that Chaucer was a social reformer? How?


Renaissance to Jacobean Age 






Q1. Do you agree that Dr. faustus is a morility play? How? 

OR 

Discuss Bacon as a true Renaissance Figure on the basis of his essays. 

Q2. Write an essay on the salient features of the Shakesperean tragedy. 

OR 

Discuss John Donne as a love poet. 



1. Write a note on soliloquy as a structural device in the play. 

2. Critically appreciate the poem The Extasie. 

3. Write a note on the element of Melodrama in Shakespeare’s As You Like it. 

4. Discuss the main characteristics of poetry in the Elizabethan Age.


Caroline to Reformation Age 






Q1.The Battle of the Books contains a satirical background of controversy between 

Ancient and Modern authors in England. Discuss 

OR 

Critically appreciate Andrew Marvell’s poem To His Coy Mistress. 

Q2. Discuss Lycidas as a Pastoral Elegy. 

OR 

Write a detailed note on Milton’s grand style and versification. 



1. What is the theme of Milton’s Paradise Lost. 

2. What message does the poet want to give in the poem To Deffodils? 

3. What aspects of 18th Century are satirized by Pope in The Rape of the 

Lock. 

4. Comment on the realism in Tom Jones.


Caroline to Reformation Age 






Q1.Discuss Absolom and Achitophel as a political satire. 

OR 

Bring out the neo-classical and romantic qualities of Gray’s poetry. 

Q2. Discuss The School for Scandal as an artificial comedy. 

OR 

Write critical appreciations of the poem The Little Blake Boy. 



1. Write a note on comedy of manners. 

2. Give the significance of the title ‘Moll Flanders’. 

3. Write a note on the major poets of Transitional Age. 

4. Write a critical appreciation of Collin’s Ode to Simplicity.


The Romantic Age 






Q1. ‘Nature was his guide and nurse’ Verify the statement throughWordsworth poses 

in his poetry? 

OR 

Write an essay on the pictorial quality of John Keats’s poetry. 

Q2. Supernatural agencies play a major role in Coleridge’s poetry.Discuss 

OR 

Discuss Shelley’s Imagery with reference to Adonais. 



1. Write a critical appreciation of the poem To the Grecian Urn. 

2. What are the main features of Wordsworth’s poetry. 

3. Write a summary of the poem Kubla Khan. 

4. Write a note on ballad poetry.


The Romantic Age 






Q1.Write a note on Shelley’s treatment of nature in the Ode to the West Wind. 

OR 

Discuss Lamb as a Romantic essayist. 

Q2. Discuss Pride and Prejudice as a comedy of Manners. 

OR 

Discuss the salient features of Hazlitt as an essayist. 



1. Write a note on the use of myth and irony in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. 

2. What do you mean by Romantic Revival? 

3. What is importance of ‘allegory’. 

4. Write a critical appreciation of ‘Ode to Skylark’.

MA. (Final) English 

Principles of Criticism 






Q1.Write a note on the brode division of the subject matter of Natyashastra. 

OR 

What is Dr. Johnson’s opinion about the unities of time ,action and place? 

Q2. Bring out the central idea of the poem ‘An Essay on Man’. 

OR 

Consider the view that Culture and Anarchy is an indictment of the Victorian 

Age. 



1. What is the concept of ‘Catharsis’ or ‘Purgation in’ the Poetics? 

2. Elucidate the concept of Vakrokti. 

3. Write a short note on the nature of rasa. 

4. Write short notes on the following: 

a) Hamartia b) Peripeteia


Principles of Criticism 






Q1. Discuss, T.S.Eliot as a critic. Support your answer with illustrationsfrom ‘Tradition 

and Individual Talent’. 

OR 

Describe Showalter’s history of Women’s literature. 

Q2. Frye gives priority to mythology over ideology. Discuss. 

OR 

Bring out the central idea of the poem ‘An Essay on Man’? 



1. Write a note on Leavis’s views on an ideal critic. 

2. Discuss ‘Imagery Homelands’ as a critical work. 

3. Discuss Rushdie as a politically commited artist. 

4. Anand’s fiction may be called ‘ a literature of protest’. Discuss


Victorian Age Literature 






Q1. Critically analysis the poem ‘Lotus Eaters’. 

OR 

Discuss the theme of the poem ‘The Deserted Garden’. 

Q2. Browning’s characterization establishes him ‘as a poet of man’. Comment 

OR 

Discuss. through suitable text that Arnold is a Romanticist or Pessimistic poet. 



1. Write a note on the nature of similies in Sohrab and Rustam. 

2. T.S.Eliot considers ‘The Windhover’, a nature poem. 

3. What are the types and aspects of Novel. 

4. Autobiographical note and symbolism in Charls Dickens ‘Great Expectations’.


Victorian Age Literature 






Q1. How far do you agree that Silar Marner was written to make a philosophical 

point? 

OR 

Discuss the theme of passion Versus love in ‘Wuthering Heights’. 

Q2. Describe in detail Hardy’s art of characterization. 

OR 

Discuss Mill as a humanist rather than a feminist. 



1. Comment Treasure Island as a fascinating novel? 

2. Discuss Carlyle as a literary critic. 

3. Write an essay on the state of literary criticism in the age of Walter Pater. 

4.Comment on the title of Thackeray’s novel ‘Vanity Fair’.


Twentieth Century Literature 






Q1. Discuss the elements of Modernity in the poetry of T.S.Eliot. 

OR 

What is symbolism? How does W.B.Yeats employ symbolic devices in ‘Sailing 

to Byzantium’ ?Discuss. 

Q2. Jimmy the protogonist is a true example of post-war youth, in Osborne’s ‘Look 

Back in Anger’. 

OR 

Comment on the significance of the title of Synge’s : ‘The Play Boy of the Western 

world’. 



1. Write the theme of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’. 

2. Critically analyse Samuel Beckett’s play ‘Waiting For Godot’. 

3. Dylan Thomas employes ortrayal of childhood and imagery in the poem 

Fern Hill. 

4. Write a note on the element of romance and humour in Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan’.


Twentieth Century Literature 






Q1. In ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ Virginia wollf’s treatment of love is original and psychological. 

Discuss. 

OR 

Elobarate fight and fall as the central theme of the novel ‘A Portrait of the 

Artist as a Young Man’. 

Q2. ‘Sons and Lovers’ is the first Freudian novel in English. Discuss. 

OR 

Write a short note on Feminism in Virginia Wollf’s novels. 



1. What are the salient features of 20th century literature. 

2. Coment on Orwell’s views towards Imperialism. 

3. Discuss the features of Huxley’s’ Brave New World’. 

4. Critically examine Stephen’s views about the relationship between truth and 

beauty in ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’.


Indian Writing in English and in Translation 






Q1. Write an essay on Rabindranath Tagore’s spiritual beliefs as presented in 

Gitanjali. 

OR 

Critically analyse Indianness in Toru Dutt’s poetry. 

Q2. The novel ‘Untouchable’ is almost a one man show. Discuss. 

OR 

Write a critical appreciation of the novel Voices in the City. 



1. Critically examine Naidu’s poem ‘Palanquin Bearers’. 

2. Write a short note on Mysticism. 

3. Comment on the element of irony and satire in ‘The Guide’ 

4.Write a note on feminine sensibility in Kamla Das’ poetry.


Indian Writing in English and in Translation 






Q1. Critically analyse the man- woman relationship in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark 

Holds No Terror. 

OR 

Inside the Haveli presents an authentic credible and realistic women in world. 

Discuss. 

Q2. Discus in detail the theme of Dattani’s Final Solutions. 

OR 

Discuss Mrichchhakatikam as a poetic drama. 



1.Justify the title of the play ‘The Abhijnanshakuntalam’. 

2. Write a brief note on caste as character in the novel ‘Samskaras’. 

3. Write a note on autobiographical genere in Indo-Anglican writers. 

4. Critically analyse Tagore’s Gitanjali.


Post -Colonial Literature 






Q1. Things fall apart depicts conflicts arising out of a clash between tractition and 

modernity. Discuss. 

OR 

Ice- Candy- Man attempts to recreat the bitter truths of partition. Discuss. 

Q2. How would you read ‘A Letter from India’ as a postcolonial text? Give reason for 

your answer. 

OR 

Analyse the concept of ‘ hybridity’ in post colonial poetry with reference to 

Indian, African or Australian poets. 



1. Write a short note on post colonial literature. 

2. What is the distinction between standard English and englishes? 

3. Kamla Das’ poetry expresses a sense of betrayal and disillusionment .Comment. 

4.Write a note on the imagery of ‘A Far Cry from Africa’.


Post -Colonial Literature 






Q1. Consider Judith Wright as a post-colonial poet . 

OR 

Critically evaluate Atwood’s ‘Journey to the Interior’. 

Q2. What according to Chatterjee is the difference between community and notion? 

Why does Chatterjee title his essay ‘Whose Imagined Community’? 

OR 

Discuss the contemporaniety of the play ‘Tale -Danda’. 



1. Write a brief note on the significance of the title of the poem, ‘I Thank You 

God’. 

2.What do you understand by the term ‘Identification with the aggressor’? 

3. Write short notes on Multiple Identities and Hyperenated. 

4.Explain ,how Shiv Kumar universalizes the condition of rural women in his 

‘Perceptions of Women’.


American Literature 






Q1. Write a note on the themes of love and death in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. 

OR 

Describe in detail the element of Mysticism in Whitman’s Poetry. 

Q2. ‘Robert Frost is a philosophical poet’. Justify. 

OR 

A Farewell to Arms is one of the most famous war novels ever written, Is it fair 

to call ‘A Farewell to Arms’ an antiwar Novel? 



1 Trace out the picaresque element in Huckleberry Finn. 

2. Discuss the problem of incest in African American Fiction. 

3. Isolation or alienattion is an important theme of The Scarlet Letter. Discuss 

4.Discuss, the fusion of the theme of love and war in ‘A Farewell to Arms’.


American Literature 






Q1. What is Miller’s philosophy as a creative artist? Discuss. 

OR 

What is the portrait of a true thinker and scholar that Emerson draws? 

Q2. Is Death of a Salesman a tragedy with an Unheroic hero? Make your observations. 

OR 

How far do you agree that Thennessee Williams was a romantic Visionary poet 

who plundered into American Drama ? Discuss. 



1. Discuss, the salient features of Eugene O’Neill’s and Tennessee Williams’ 

dramas. 

2. Which is the greatest threat to the children in The Bluest Eye: racism or 

saxism? 

3. Comment on the significance of the title ‘A Small Good Thing’. 

4. Discuss the relationship of the various characters in the story ‘Vitamins’.


Canadian Literature 






Q1. The intence humanity of the young Canadian poets permeates the poetry created 

by them.’Justify. 

OR 

Discuss Scott as a Social Philosopher. 

Q2. The Robert Bridge has some elements of feminism in her poetry. Discuss 

OR 

Describe in detail the four basic periods in Canadian poetry. 



1. What are the themes of Prat’s poetry? 

2. Give a brief note on Purdy’s preoccupation with ‘time and space’ 

3. Write a short note on detachement in Canadian writing. 

4. What do you mean by pastoral myth?


Canadian Literature 






Q1. Discuss Margaret Atwood as a feminist writer. 

OR 

Compare and contrast women’s place in Canadian society as depicted in the 

novel with that of in Indian society. 

Q2. Write a note on the contribution of Alice Munro to Canadian literature. 

OR 

Discuss the mental and emotional conflict of Stacy Mac Aindra in detail. 



1. Critically analyse Atwood’s novel Surfacing. 

2. Attempt an essay on Symbolism in ‘Sans must Die’. 

3. ‘Doc’ takes the form of a memory play. Discuss. 

4.Discuss the narrative device of Rohintan Mistry.

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