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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER NOVEMBER 2017
17/16UEL1MC02 LITERARY FORMS AND APPRECIATION
Date: 08-11-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 01:00-04:00
PART-A
Answer the following choosing the right answer (20x1=20)
1. is a song of mourning.
An elegy A sonnet An ode An epic poem
2. The first major sonnet cycle written by Sir Philip Sidney.
Delia Amoretti Astrophel and Stella d)Idea's Mirror
3. Keats' La Belle Dame Sans Merci is an example
Lyric b)Satire Pattern Poetry d)Ballad
4. Blank verse was introduced the 16th century.
Earl of Surrey Wyatt Chaucer Shakespeare
5. Pindar is associated
Ode Sonnet Elegy Free verse
6. An epistolary novel is in the form
Prose Poetry c)Letters Square
7. The term 'Gothic' refers
The Goths, a Germanic tribe The Medieval type of architecture c)Both a and b Blood
8. Who among the following novelists is not the chief exponent of Stream of Consciousness novel?
James Joyce Virginia Woolfe Jane Austen William Faulkner
9. The meaning 'Speaking otherwise' applies
Pattern Poetry Allegory Short Story Picaresque Novel
10. Who among the following is the chief practitioner of SF?
Walter Scott H.G.Wells c)Charles Dickens d)Thomas Hardy
11. Milton's Samson Agonistes is an example
Fantasy Fiction Epic theatre Closet Drama Comedy of Humours
12. The phrase 'theatre of the Absurd' was coined
Martin Esslin Beckett Ionesco Pinter
13. Every Man in his humour is an example for Comedy
Manners Humours Absurd Ideas
14. less to the spectator's feelings than to his reason.
Epic theatre Theatre of the Absurd Modern Drama Expressionist Drama
15. Which of the following is not an expressionist play?
Emperor Jones Death of a Salesman The Adding Machine Murder in the Cathedral
16. An account of a person's life is
Biography Autobiography Travelogue Essay
17. An essay may merely mean
Attempt Avatar Interest Enticement
18. Round the rock runs the river-The figure of speech employed in this line
Metaphor Simile Alliteration Allegory
19. Areopagitica is an example of
Travelogue Polemic Narrative Autobiography
20. a direct comparison.
Simile Metaphor Pun Litotes
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PART-B
Answer any FOUR of the following in about 200-250 words each: (4x10=40)
1. Describe any four categories of Subjective Poetry.
2. Write an elaborate note on Historical Novel.
3. Comment on the essential features of a short story.
4. In what way, is the Elizabethan Drama different from Modern Drama?
5. Attempt a polemical on the right use of technology in modern times.
6. Expatiate on the appealing features of a biography that you have read recently.
PART-C
Answer any One of the following in 500 words each: (1x20=20)
7. Describe the tenets of Shakespearen Drama.
8. Give an account of various types of Essay.
9. Comment on the origin and development of Science Fiction.
PART-D
10. Attempt a critical appreciation of the following poem:
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
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Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.