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M.A. (ENGLISH) (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION :: MAY 2006Paper - I :HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE1(DEG 01)Time: Three hoursMaximum : 100 MarksQuestions in Unit I are compulsory.Answer TWO questions from Unit II and TWO questions from Unit III.All questions carry equal marks.UNIT - I (20 marks)1. Correct FIVE of the following sentences and identify the unacceptable features: (5 x 2=10)(a) He is ill since Friday (b) Neither John nor Mary are happy.(c) Your trouser is very loose (d) They compared last year’s accounts with this year.(e) Let he do it.(f) The table’s legs are made of teak.(g) I must do it yesterday (h) I think he is happy, isn’t it?2. Distinguish between the following pairs of words: (5 x 2 = 10)(a) Ascent: assent(b) Complement : compliment(c) Honorary : honourable (d) Industrial : industrious(e) Sensible : sensitiveUNIT - II(2 X 20 = 40 marks)3. Write an explanatory note on the Great Vowel Shift.4. Write an essay on French influence on the English language.5. Give an account of the characteristic features of Old English.6. Write an explanatory note on the differences between British English and American English.7. Write short notes on TWO of the following:(a) Ablaut(b) Middle English literature(c) Shakespeare’s influence on the English language.(d) Celtic influence on the English language.UNIT - III(2 X 20 = 40 marks)8. Write an essay on the major processes of word-formation.9. Give an account of the Nineteenth-century influences on the English Language.10. Write an essay on the rise of standard English.11. Write an essay on English as an international language.12. Write short notes on TWO of the following:(a) Generalization of meaning(b) Degeneration of meaning(c) Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary(d) Number and usage.* * * * * * * *

M.A. (ENGLISH) (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION :: MAY 20062Paper - II :SHAKESPEARE(DEG 02)Time: Three hoursMaximum : 100 MarksQ. No.1, in Unit I is compulsory.Answer any TWO questions from Unit II and TWO questions from Unit III.All questions carry equal marks.UNIT - I1. Annotate any FOUR of the following: (4 x 5 = 20)(a) Forth with a power of English shall be levyWhose arms were moulded in their mother’s wombsTo chose there pagans in those holy fieldsOver whom acres walked those blessed feetWhich fourteen hundred years ago were nail’dFor our advantage on the bitter cross(b) Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down? S blood, I’ll not bear mineown flesh so far afoot again for all the coin in thy father’s exchequer.(c) He came to be Duke of Lancaster,To sue his livery and beg his peace.With tears of innocency and terms of zeal.(d) Come bring your luggage nobly on your backFor my part, if a lie may do the graceI’ll gild it with the happiest terms I have.(e) Neither a borrower nor a lender beFor loan oft loses both itself and friendAnd borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.(f) What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! in formand moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension,how like god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet to me,what is the quintessence of dust?(g) How dangerous in it that this man goes loose!Yet must-not we put the strong law on him:He’s loved of the distracted multitude,Who like not in their judgement but their eyes;(h) That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once. How the knave joules it to theground, as if it were coin’s jaw-bone, that did the first murder! This may be the fate ofa politician, which this an now overreaches;UNIT - II2. Discuss the theme of honour in Henry IV Part - I.3. Bring out the use of history in Henry IV Part - I.

34. Examine the theme of delay in Hamlet.5. Attempt an essay on the soliloqueries in Hamlet.6. Write a critical note on Shakespeare a tragedy.UNIT - III7. Discuss the thematic contents of the sonnets prescribed.8. Describe Twelfth Night as a romantic comedy.9. Bring out the elements of mosque in The Tempest.10. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:(a) Prince Hal(b) Kingship in Henry IV Part I(c) Prospero(d) Caliban(e) Polonions(f) Sonnet(g) Boy Actresses(h) Super natural element.* * * * * * * *

Time: Three hoursM.A. (ENGLISH) (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION :: MAY 2006Paper - III :MODERN LITERATURE - I (1550 - 1700)4Q. No.1, in Unit I is compulsory.All questions carry equal marks.(DEG 03)Maximum : 100 MarksUNIT - I1. Annotate any four of the following:(a) For love, all love of other sights controules,And makes one little roome, an everywhere.(b) Wee can dye by it, if not live by love,And if unfit for tombes or hearseOur legend bee, it will be fit for verse;(c) Certainly stoics bestowed too much cost upon death, and by their great preparations,made it appear more fearful.(d) Unmarried men are best friends; best masters; best servants; but not always best subjects;for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.(e) Why should I die then, or basely despair? I am resolved; Faustus shall ne’er repent.(f) Divinity is the basest of the three, unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile:(g) ‘Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable,Doing of suffering but of this be sure,To do aught good never will be our task.(h) What reinforcement we may gain from hope?If not, what resolution from despair.UNIT IIAnswer any TWO of the following:2. Examine the characteristic features of metaphysical poetry with reference to Donne’s poems.3. Consider Dr. Faustus as a Renaissance play.4. Comment on the portrait of satan with particular reference to Paradise Lost Book I.5. Comment on the chief attributes of the Restoration Drama.6. Write an essay on Bacon’s prose style.UNIT IIIAnswer any TWO of the following:7. Comment on the two kinds of vengeance - human and divine - in Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy.8. Consider The White Devil as Revenge play.9. Write an essay on the chief merits of Paradise Lost as an epic with reference to Book IX.10. Comment on the portrait Gallery in Absalom and Achitophel.

11. Consider The Way of the World as Restoration comedy of Manners play.12. What are the characteristics of a Jonsonian comedy? Answer with reference to the play EveryMan in His Humour.13. Does Edward II qualify to be a historical play? Discuss.14. Write short notes on FOUR of the following:(a) Metaphysical conceit(b) Epic simile(c) Element of Honor(d) Aphoristic style.(e) Blank verse(f) Milton’s grand style.(g) Restoration comedy.(h) Comedy of Humours.5* * * * * * * *

M.A. (ENGLISH) (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION : MAY 2006Paper - IV :MODERN LITERATURE - II (1700-1850)6(DEG 04)Time: Three hoursMaximum : 100 MarksQuestion No.1 is compulsory. Answer TWO questions fromUnit II and TWO questions from Unit IIIAll questions carry equal marks.UNIT - I1. Annotate any FOUR of the following: (4 x 5 = 20)(a) Was it a vision, or a waking dream?Fled is that music : - do I wake or sleep?(b) Those recollected hours that have the charmof visionary things, and lovely formsAnd sweet sensation that throw back our lifeA visible scene, on which the sun is shining.(c) We fix our eyes upon his graces, and turn them from his deformities, and endure inhim what we should in another loathe or despise.(d) .... how can I sue for what I so little deserve?I dare not presume - yet Hope is the child of penitence.(e) For shade to shade will come for drowsilyAnd drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.(f) As at the touch of lighting, seeking him with gentlest visitations,More palpable, and so she dealt with me.(g) It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter is evidently neglected.(h) .....since you desire it, we will not anticipate the past! - so mind, yound people - ourretrospection will be all to the future.UNIT II(2 X 20 = 40 marks)2. Attempt a critique of either ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ or ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.3. Comment on the key role played by Nature in Wordsworth’s poetic vision with special referenceto The Prelude Bk-I.4. How does Dr. Johnson regard Shakespeare’s violation of the unities?5. “The Rivals is a farce, not a comedy”. Discuss.6. Write a note on the salient traits of Romantic Movement.UNIT III (2 X 20 = 40 marks)7. Analyse The Rape of the Lock as an ironic commentary on the civilized, contemporary would.8. Discuss the supernatural element in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.9. Show how Shelley follows the pattern of the classical pastoral elegy in ‘Adonais’.

10. Comment on the prose style of Charles Lamb with reference to Essays of Elia.11. Bring out the contrast between appearance and reality in She Stoops to Conquer.12. Examine Emma as a complex study of human deception and self-deception.13. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:(a) Negative capability(b) Pastoral elegy(c) Mock-epic(d) Lydia(e) Symbolism in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.(f) Lord Petre in The Rape of the Lock.(g) Sentimental comedy(h) Neo-classicism.7* * * * * * * *

8M.A. (ENGLISH) (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION :: MAY 2006(DEG 05)Time: Three hoursPaper - V :MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE - III (1850-1950)Maximum : 100 MarksQuestion No.1 is compulsory.Answer TWO questions from Unit II and TWO questions from Unit IIIAll questions carry equal marks.UNIT - I1. Annotate any FOUR of the following: (4 x 5 = 20 marks)(a) Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.(b) Yet do much less, so much less, someone says,(I know his name, no matter) - so much less!Well, less is more Lucrezea : I am judged.(c) Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,Sweet Thames, run softly for I speak not loud or long.(d) I remember,Those are the pearls that were his eyes.(e) O God thou madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive / Thy Saints?How long, O Lord, how long?(f) “How can what an English man believed be heresy?It is a contradiction in terms”.(g) Music and prose literature, in one sense, the opposite terms of art.(h) A writer, full of a matter he is before all things anxious to express, may think of those laws,the limitations of vocabulary, structure and the like, as a restriction, but if a real artist willfind in them an opportunity.UNIT - II2. Show how modernism in poetry is concerned with the discontinuities of human experience andpoetic structure.3. Comment on Dylan Thomas’ treatment of the theme of death in the poems prescribed for study.4. Examine the theme of Ted Hughes’ poetry.5. Write an essay on the poetic technique of Robert Graves.6. Do you consider The Waste Land a poem expressing the disillusionment of the post-war world?Explain.7. Tennyson’s Ulysses expresses the leader’s decision to ‘sail beyond the sunset and the baths of allthe western stars until I die” - Elaborate.8. “Saint Joan comes nearest among George Bernard Shaw’s works to the general idea of what agood play should be” Discuss.

UNIT - III9. Comment on the symbolism in Yeats’ poems with special reference to the poems prescribedfor study.10. Comment on the character sketch of Michael Henchard.11. Write a critical essay on the depiction of women characters in Sons and Lovers.12. The Cocktail Party explores the feelings of bitterness and failure which Eliot sees as partof human relationships in the modern society. Elaborate.13. “To the high house presents two kinds of truth - Mr. Ramsay’s, which is the truth of factsthat can be proved, and Mrs. Ramsay’s, which is an attempt to find the truth that liesbelow the facts” Discuss.14. Describe Browning’s art in portraying the Duke and his attitude to the Duchess in “MyLast Duchess”.15. Write short notes on FOUR of the following:(a) Obscurity in Browning’s poetry.(b) Irony of fate in Hardy’s novels(c) Dramatic monologue(d) Movement poets(e) Yeat’s imagination of poetry(f) Tiresias(g) The Fisher king Myth in The Waste Land.9* * * * * * * *

10M.A. (ENGLISH) (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION :: MAY 2006(DEG 21)Time: Three hoursPaper - I : LITERARY CRITICISMMaximum : 100 MarksAnswer ONE question from Unit I and TWO questionseach from Unit II and Unit III.All questions carry equal marks.UNIT - I1. Attempt a critical appreciation of the following passage:Coldly, sadly descendsThe autumn evening. The fieldStrewn with its dank yellow driftsOf withered leaves, and the elms,Fade into dimness apace,Silent, - hardly a shoutFrom a few boys late at their play!The lights come out in the street,In the school-room windows; - but cold,Solemn, unlighted, austere,Through the gathering darkness, ariseThe chapel - walls, in whose boundThou, my father! art laid.There thou dost lie, in the gloomOf the autumn evening, But ah,That word, gloom, to my mindBrings thee back, in the lightOf thy radiant vigour, again;In the gloom of November we passedDays not dark at thy side;Seasons impaired not the rayOf thy buoyant cheerfulness clear.Such thou wast! and I standIn the autumn evening, and thinkOf bygone autumns with thee.2. Write an essay on Aristotle’s views on tragedy.3. What is Dr. Johnson’s estimation of Milton’s personality as a factor in the making of the poet?4. Examine the modernity of Coleridge’s poetic theory.5. Write a note on the three estimates of poetry according to Arnold.

11UNIT II6. What, according to T.S. Eliot, is the role of tradition in the poet’s creative process?7. Discuss T.S. Eliot’s evaluation of the metaphysical poets.8. Write an essay on Richard’s views on language.9. Comment on Brook’s method of critical analysis of poetry.10. Write an explanatory note on “the intentional fallacy”.11. How does Empson approach the ambiguity of “the seventh type”?12. Discuss the chief tenets of structuralism.UNIT III13. Comment on the validity and value of stylistics as an approach to the study of literature.14. Write an essay on the structuralist approach to literary expression as enunciated by GerardGenette.15. Attempt an analysis of Stanely Fish’s “Is There Text in the Class?”16. Bring out the post structural elements in Derrida’s “structure, sign and play in the Discourse ofthe Human Sciences”.17. Comment on Elaine Showalter’s views on feminist poetics.18. Write short notes on FOUR of the following:(a) Mimesis (b) Peripeteia and anagnorisis(c) The unities (d) Secondary imagination(e) The grand style (f) Dissociation of sensibility(g) Differance (h) Feminism.* * * * * * * *

Time: Three hoursM.A. (ENGLISH) (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION :: MAY 200612Paper - II : AMERICAN LITERATURE(DEG 22)Maximum : 100 MarksAnswer ONE question from Unit I and TWO questionseach from Unit II and Unit III.All questions carry equal marks.UNIT - I1. Annotate any FOUR of the following:(a) He call’d on his mate,He pour’d forth the meanings which I of all men know.(b) Where do you mean to go? First tell me thatI’ll follow and bring you back by force.I will __.(c) Him nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitoryPictures; him the past instructs; him the future invites.(d) Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the manwho creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be likedand you will never want.(e) In the swamp in secluded recesses,A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.(f) Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish, kicking his way down through the air tothe ground.(g) If old man Wagner was alive I’d have been in-charge ofNew York now. That man was prince, he was a masterful man.(h) In action is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.UNIT - II2. Why is Emerson’s “The American Scholar’ considerd to be prophetic?3. ‘Out of the cradle endlessly Rocking’ is Whitman’s most perfect poem. Discuss.4. Consider Robert Frost as a New England poet.5. Critically examine the dramatic technique employed in Death of Salesman.6. Attempt a study of the transcendentalist movement in American literature with special referenceto Emerson and Thoreau.UNIT - III7. Mention some of the ways in which Thoreau relates himself to the world around him inWalden.8. Bring out the metaphysical element in Emily Dickinson’ poems prescribed for study.9. Discuss the tragic vision of Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea.10. “Moby - Dick is a representation as much of the voyage within as the voyage without”. Elucidate.

1311. Write short notes on FOUR of the following:(a) White whale Moby-Dick(b) Expressionism(c) Negative capability if Frost’ poetry(d) Dark Romanticism in Emily Dickinson’ poetry(e) Yank in the Hairy Ape(f) Regionalism in American Literature(g) Tragic tension(h) The American Renaissance.* * * * * * * *

Time: Three hoursM.A. (ENGLISH) (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION :: MAY 200614Paper - III : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATUREQuestion 1 in Unit I is compulsory.Answer TWO questions each from Unit II & III.All questions carry equal marks.(DEG 23)Maximum : 100 MarksUNIT - I1. Annotate FOUR of the following: (4 x 5 = 20 )(a) But not because of its magnificenceDear is the Casurina to my soul;(b) Thought the great - Winged Wanderer paraclete. Disappeared slow singing a flamewordrune self was left, love, limitless, rude, immune.(c) The trip had darkened every face,Our deeds were neither great nor rareHome is where we have to gather grace.(d) No, not only prophets walk on waterThis bug sits/on a land slide of lightsAnd drowns eye-deep/into its thin strip/of sky.(e) Dreaming still, unexhausted by the deep roar of funeral pyres. In the darkened room awoman cannot find her reflection in the mirror.(f) But, really, I cannot stand the absurd things people say about our king simply becuasehe is not seen in public.(g) Our Destiny, or beings heart and home.Is with infinitude and only there.(h) He has to realise through the perfection of being, by refining from evil conduct and byachieving a stead fast mind through the control of passions.UNIT II - (2 X 20 = 40 marks)2. The success of the poem “Our Casurina Tree” lies in “the concretization of something asamor- phous as nostalgia”. Discuss.3. Attempt a critical appreciation of “Thought the Paraclate”.4. Discuss Ezekiel’s search for Philosophy in his poem Enterprise.5. Discuss A.K. Ramanujan as a poet of memory-familial and racial - with examples from thepoems prescribed.6. Bring out the distinctive features of Kamal Das Poetry.7. Identify the major themes in Indian English Poetry.

15UNIT III - (2 X 20 = 40 marks)8. Write a note on the epic style in Savitri Book I and Canto I.9. Write an essay on Tagore’s humanism in Gitanjali.10. Write a critical note on girish Kanand’s dramatic technique in Hayavadana.11. Write an essay on the narrative technique of Raja Rao in On the ganga ghat.12. Consider A Tiger for Malgudi as a trumph of R.K. Narayan’s narrative skill.13. Discuss the element of social realism in Mulk Raj Anand’s untouchable.14. Write an essay on the central theme of Arun Joshi’ The Last Labyrinth.15. Discuss the major themes in Paramahamsa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yoga.16. Discuss the use of Dreams as a literary device in The long silence.17. Fire on the Mountain revolves round the twin themes of loneliness and alienation:”. Comment.18. Write an essay on Ambedkar’s social concerns in his speech on “The adoption of theconstitution of India”.19. Write short notes on FOUR of the following:(a) The classical Indian theatre.(b) Stream of consciousness technique in untouchable.(c) Devotional love poetry.(d) Yakshagana.(e) Rural ethos(f) Biography as a genre in literature.(g) Indian spirituality(h) Irony in A Tiger for Malgudi.

Time: Three hoursM.A. (ENGLISH) (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION :: MAY 2006Paper - IV : TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY AND DRAMA16Answer Question 1 from Unit I, TWO questionseach from Unit II and Unit III.All questions carry equal marks.(DEG 24)Maximum : 100 MarksUNIT - I1. Annotate FOUR of the following:(a) In the Nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe barkAnd the living nations wait,Each sequestered in its hate.(b) There could I marvelMy birthdayAway but the weather turned around.(c) Even there was a use again for godA word of rage in lack of meat, wine, fireIn each of wounds beyond all surgeoring.(d) Patient to out-wait these worstdays that beatTheir crowns bare and dripped from their feet.(e) At first, I didn’t notice what a noiseThe weddings madeEach station that we stopped at sun destroys.(f) Another church mating, seats and stone,And little books, sprawlings of flowers.(g) Oh, father Reilly and the saints of god,Where will I hide myself today?(h) Bravery’s a treasure in a lovesome place,and a lad would kill his father,I am thinking.UNIT - II2. Describe Auden’s poetic achievement, illustrating from the poems prescribed.3. “In his birthday poems Thomas is often seeking to marrel time away, to claim his freedomof dissociation”. Discuss with referecne to “Poem in October”.4. What is the theme of Robert graves Recalling War?5. Comment on animal imagery in the poems of Ted Hughes.6. In what sense in Philip Larkin the most important of “the movement” poets?7. Can the playboy of the western world be considered a tragedy?8. Critically examine the need for poetic drama in the 20th century.

UNIT III9. Write a critical appreciation of Thomas Gunn’s ‘My Sad Captains’.10. Discuss the appropriateness of the title A Phoenix Too Frequent.11. Critically examine happy days as “Beckett’s most despairing play”.12. The action in The Birthday Party is minimal, yet the play is effective. Discuss.13. Write short notes on FOUR of the following:(a) Polttical interest of modern poets(b) Absurd Drama(c) Types of modern drama(d) Surrealism(e) Theme of Isolation in modern poetry(f) The Irish Theatre(g) New trends in poetic Drama(h) Comedy of Menace.17

Time: Three hoursM.A. (ENGLISH) (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION :: MAY 200618Paper - V : PROSE AND FICTION(TWENTIETH CENTURY)(DEG 25)Maximum : 100 MarksAnswer question 1 from Unit I and TWO questionseach from Unit II and Unit III.All questions carry equal marks.UNIT - I1. Annotate FOUR of the following:(a) And the free intelligence is that which is wholly devoted to inquiry.(b) The drama is perhaps the most permanent, is capable of greater variation and ofexpressing more varied types of society, than any other.(c) It is the “Mona Lisa” of literature.(d) The artistic “inevitability” lies in this complete adequacy of the external to the emotion;and this is precisely what is deficient in Hamlet.(e) ..... in whatever sphere of interest, he looked solely and steadfastly at the object.(f) It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple, one must be woman - manly or man -womanly.(g) Lock up your libraries if uyou like, but htere is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can setupon the freedom of my mond.(h) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women,then have not had a dog’s change of writing poetry.UNIT II2. Write an essay on Eliot’s views on Poetic Drama.3. Summarize Eliot’s analysis of “impressionist criticism”.4. Comment critically on “Hamlet and his problems”.5. What kind of a focus does Virginia woolf give to the chief problems encountered by earlywomen writers?6. Do you consider Virginia woolf a precursor of the feminist movement from your reading of ARoom of One’s Own.7. Discuss the chief trends and techniques in modern English Fiction.UNIT III8. Through his Eminent Historians, Strachey “Wanted to correct the public picture of famous people,who were always described as noble, honest, clever and brave”. Elaborate.9. Consider Joyce’s Portrait as a novel dealing with the growth and making up of the artist in thereligious context.10. Examine Jim as an archetype of self-destructive antI-hero.

11. Write an essay on the narrative technique employed by Maugham in The Moon and Six Pence.12. Critically examine the view that “The Masters is Snow’s fullest treatment of the power strugglewithin man”.13. Consider The Sand Castle as an existential novel.14. Golding’s Lord of the Flies depicts that institutions and order imposed from without are temporary,but that man’s irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring. Explain.15. Comment on the theme of isolation in The Power and Glory.16. Write short notes on FOUR of the following:(a) Point of view in Lord Jim.(b) Myth in A Portrait.(c) Christian existentialism in The Power and The Glory.(d) Theme of Evil in Lord of the Flies.(e) Objective correlative.(f) “Perfect critic”.(g) Significance of the title, “A Room of One’s Own”.(h) Woolf’s emphasis on the importance of “male” and “female” qualities in all writers.19* * * * * * * *