Subject: English Literature
Session: 2022
Course: Major/Minor Course
Code: ELR122M
Time Allowed: 2 Hours Maximum
Marks: 100
Minimum
Marks: 40
Note: Attempt all questions from section A & B and only two questions
from section- C
Section-A: (Short Answer Type
Question to be answered in about 20 words) (2x8=16)
Q1.
What is Historical Allusion?
Q2.
Briefly describe ‘Dramatic Irony’?
Q3.
What is Polyptoton? Give an
example from Shakespearean Sonnet 116.
Q4. Why the narrator yearns death in Shakespearean
Sonnet 66?
Q5. What do you mean by Stock Character?
Q6.
Define the term Heroic Drama?
Q7.
What was Brabantio’s message
of warning to Othello?
Q8.
Why does Iago hate Cassio in the play “Othello”?
Section
–B: (Medium Answer Type Questions to be answered in about150 words) (10x4=40)
Q9. How is the
Shakespearean sonnet different from the Petrarchan sonnet?
Or
Define Epic? Describe its types and
characteristics.
Q10.
Annotate the following lines:
“So
long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this
gives life to thee.”
Or
Tir'd
with all these, from these would I be gone,
Save
that, to die, I leave my love alone.
Q11.
Elucidate
how the Elizabethan Drama is different from the Classical Drama?
Or
How trilogy of vernacular
drama-Mystery, Miracle and Morality helped in thedevelopment of English Drama?
Q12.
What
role did the handkerchief play in bringing about Desdemona’s ruins in the play
“Othello”?
Or
In the play “Othello” how did
Iago plant the seed of suspicion in Othello’s mind?
Section
–C: (Long Answer Type Questions to be answered in about 400 words) (22x2=44)
Q13.
Explain Ode as a kind of poetry and elucidate
its types?
Q14.
What is Elegy? Evaluate John Milton’s
poem “Lycidas” as a pastoral elegy.
Q15.
Critically examine the role of the Renaissance
in the growth of the Elizabethan Drama?
Q16.
Othello is often called a tragic hero.
Discuss his heroic qualities as well as his flaws which lead to his demise in William
Shakespeare’s play “Othello”.
