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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER NOVEMBER 2017
EL 1503 INTRO.TO LITT.: LITERARY FORMS APPRECIATION
Date: 08-11-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 01:00-04:00
PART A
Choose the correct answer (20 marks)
1. The old English Beowulf is a classic example of an
a. Epic b. Sonnet c. Lyric
2. A sonnet has
a. 16 lines b. 14 lines c. 12 lines
3. Traditional ballads were sung by
a. clergy b. court poets c. wandering minstrels
4. A Pastoral elegy depicts the lives of
a. royalty b. poets c. shepherds
5. The hero of a picaresque novel is usually a
a. rogue b. romantic hero c. royalty
6. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones is an example of
a. romantic novel b. picaresque novel c. autobiography
7. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto is a novel
a. Stream of Consciousness b. science c. Gothic
8. Historical novels were written by
a. Shakespeare b. Oscar Wilde c. Walter Scott
9. Epistolary novels make use of
a. letters b. poems c. puns
10. Plays that take the form of man's reaction to a world apparently without meaning are
a. Absurd drama b. Sentimental drama c. Modern drama
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11. Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream is a
a. Problem play b. Romantic comedy c. Farce
12. Shylock the Jew appears in Shakespeare's
a. Twelfth Night b. Macbeth c. Merchant of Venice
13. Ben Jonson's Everyman in His Humour is an example of
a. Comedy of Manners b. Comedy of Humours c. Sentimental comedy
14. Purgation of negative emotions like pity and fear is called as
a. catharsis b. nemesis c. hubris
15. Epic theater was popularized by
a. Tom Stoppard b. Aristotle c. Bertolt Brecht
16. Ode to a Grecian Urn is a poem by
a. William Wordsworth b. John Keats c. P. B. Shelley
17. Kitchen Sink drama has heroes who are
a. romantic b. rogues c. angry young men
18. Fiction about fiction is called as
a. bildungsroman b. fantasy fiction c. Metafiction
19. Gandhi's My Experiments with Truth is an example of
a. biography b. autobiography c. Novella
20. Literature in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with
the intent of shaming individuals is called as
a. Satire b. Irony c. Image
PART B
Answer any FOUR of the following in about 200 250 words each, choosing at least TWO from each
group. (4x10=40)
GROUP 1
1. List the features of an epic.
2. Write a note on the theatre of the Absurd.
3. What is a dramatic monologue?
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GROUP 11
4. Discuss the various features of drama.
5. Comment on the different types of essay.
6. Describe the features of biography.
Answer any TWO of the following in about 500 words each, choosing ONE from each group.
(2x20=40)
GROUP 1
7. Write an essay on Shakespearean drama.
8. What are the various types of novels?
GROUP 11
9. Attempt a travelogue of an interesting place you visited.
10. Attempt a critical appreciation of the following poem.
Acquainted with the Night
By Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.