B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
First Semester
English Literature
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY OF BRITISH
LITERATURE
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Section A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all the questions.
1. Why is Wycliffe called "The morning star of the
reformation"?
2. Name the Tudor Kings who encouraged the English
Renaissance.
3. What did William Wilberforce do?
4. The role of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War.
5. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
6. Explain Dr. Johnson's objection to the metaphysical
conceit.
7. What are the three unities? Which ancient critic insists
on them?
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8. What were the causes for the launch of the Romantic
movement?
9. What are the characteristics of Tennyson's poetry?
10. How is the Victorian age called? Why?
Section B x 5 25)
Answer all questions.
11. Describe the social life of English people in
Chaucer's age.
Or
How did the renaissance influence the Elizebathan
poets?
12. Write a paragraph on the impact of the Second
World War.
Or
Write a note on the transport system in the modern
age.
13. Write a paragraph on the contributions made by
King Alfred to Old English Prose.
Or
How would you justify the statement that Spenser
is Poets' poet?
14. Explain Coleridge's contributions to English Poetry.
Or
Give an account of the life and works of George
Gordon, Lord Byron.
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15. Discuss Tennyson, as a poet.
Or
Consider Robert Browning as a writer of Dramatic
Monologue.
Section C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Examine the causes of French revolution.
17. Elucidate the Humanitarian movements that arose in the
eighteenth Century England.
18. Write an essay on the metaphysical poets.
19. Evaluate Wordsworth as a nature poet.
20. Explain the development made in Victorian age.