DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2016.
PROSE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. Write a paragraph on the essay Revenge'.
2. How does Lamb embark upon New year's Eve?
3. Give an assessment of Sir Roger de Coverly.
4. Write a note on Orwell's 'Reflection on Gandhi'.
5. 'What is beauty'? According to Will Durank?
6. Write a note on Emerson's Transcendentalism.
7. Bring out the contents of the essay Colonising the
mind.
8. What are the umbrella morals dealt by A.G. Gardiner?
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. Write an essay on Bacon's Prose style.
10. Give a critical account of the members of the Spectator's
club.
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11. Bring out the Pathos in Lamb's 'Dream Children
A Reverie'.
12. "George Orwell is an essayist of Eminence'' Discuss.
13. Sum up Thoreau's arguments on democracy.
14. Write an essay on Leacock's art of humour.
15. Treat Robert Lynd as a humorous writer with reference
to 'Forgetting'.