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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER APRIL 2017
EL 1503 INTRO.TO LITT.: LITERARY FORMS APPRECIATION
Date: 18-04-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 09:00-12:00
PART A
Choose the correct answer. (20x1= 20 Marks)
1. The ballad are the narrative species of
expressions archetype folk songs
2. Elegy comes from the word, Elegeid which in Greek means a
lament appreciation radical reform
3. "The most celebrated writer of dramatic monologue in English is
a)Tennyson b)Keats Robert Browning
4. Lycidas is a elegy.
a)critical pastoral pastoral
5. Richardson's Clarissa is an novel.
a)epistolary picaresque historical
6. An important sub type of the Bildungsroman is
a)Erziehungsroman Kunstleroman realistic fiction
7 .Mary Shelly's remarkable is often considered a precursor of science fiction.
The war of the worlds Neuromancer Frankenstein
8. Stream of consciousness has been adopted to describe a narrative method in fiction.
Science modern Fantasy.
9. Dramatic Monologue, a type of perfected by Robert Browning.
Dramatic lyric lyric poem narrative poem
10. Comedy of Manners was developed by the Roman
Ben Jonson Byron Plautus and Terence
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11. German playwright applied the term in 1920s.
Ezra Pound Richard Wilbur Bertolt Brecht
12. The French playwright of the absurd combined absurdism and diabolism.
Harold Pinter Edward Albee Jean Genet Pope
13. Closet drama is written in form.
Sonnet dramatic soliloquy
14. Who wrote "Lives of the English Poets"?
Izaak Walton b)Dryden Samuel Johnson
15. Autobiography is to be distinguished from the
self thought memoir
16. A narrative is a whether told in prose or verse.
story Drama epic
17. The formal essay or article, is
personal impersonal dialogue
18. defined biography neatly as "the history of particular men's lives".
Dryden Boswell c)Fanny Burney
19. A ballad is a ballad that was printed on one side of a single sheet.
Literary ballad stanza broadside
20. In satire the satiric person speaks out in the first person.
Formal Horatian Indirect
PART B
Answer any four of the following in about 200-250 words each, choosing atleast one from each group
(4x10=40)
Group-1
1. Discuss the characteristic features of Epic poetry.
2. Consider the reasons for the popularity of Short Story.
3. What is an Epic theatre?
Group-2
4. Critically examine the significance of Dramatic Monologue.
5. Write a note on Biography.
6. Write a note on Autobiography.
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PART C
Answer any TWO of the following in about 500 words from each choosing atleast one from each group:
(2X20=40)
Group-1
7. Describe the importance of Elegy as a form.
8. Write briefly on Elizabethan Drama.
Group-2
9. Write an essay on Epistolary novel.
10. Attempt a critical appreciation of the following poem
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"The breath goes now," and some say, "No,"
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of the earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.