B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Sixth Semester
English Literature
AMERICAN LITERATURE
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. What are the three things that Whitman sing about?
2. Who are the people that meet during the spring season?
3. How does Emily Dickinson refer
4. What is an anecdote?
5. What is the condition of a scholar in the degenerated
modern age?
6. Why did Thoreau go to the woods?
7. How is the glass menageria associated with Laura?
8. Why does Tom go so often to movies?
9. Why did Santiago admire Di Maggio?
10. What is the major theme of "The Old Man and the Sea"?
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Part B x 5 25)
Answer all questions.
11. How are the Lilac and Hermit bird used as symbols?
Or
Write a note on idealism Vs traditionalism as
presented in the poem.
12. Bring out the seven broad divisions of Emerson's
Oratory.
Or
Consider the significance of Walden pond as a
symbol.
13. 'Tom is a portrayal of young Tennessee Williams'.
Discuss.
Or
Write a paragraph on "The significance of the title
of the play, The Glass Menageria".
14. Discuss Gatsby's character as Nick.
Or
How does Gatsby represent the American dream?
15. Show that Santiago is Hemingway's Code hero.
Or
Write about Santiago's notable quality of universal
love.
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Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three of the following questions.
16. Discuss Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloom'd" as an Elegy.
17. How, according to Emerson, does nature influence the
Scholar? Explain.
18. "A recurring theme in William's play is the loneliness of
the people" Discuss.
19. Consider the role of Gossip in the novel "The Great
Gatsby".
20. Write an essay on an outline of the story of "The Old Man
and the Sea".
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