DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2017.
PROSE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. How are the truth Sayer and the liar compared?
2. What are the qualities of Johnson, revealed in the "Life of
Milton"?
3. What are Sir Roger's Comments on the dressess of his
ancestors?
4. How does Carlyle Compare Dante and Shakespeare?
5. Write the main idea of Orwell's essay "Why I write".
6. What is Emerson's Criticism of American Society?
7. How does Thoreau feel about Slavery?
8. Write the theme of Thiongo's Colonising the Mind".
PART B — 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. "Bacon's essays are concerned with worldly wisdom or the
art of success" Discuss and illustrate.
10. What are the merits of "Paradise Lost", according to
Johnson?
11. Comment upon the prose style of Lamb.
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12. Discuss the autobiographical elements in Orwell's essay.
13. How does Thoreau justify the moral need for civil
disobedience? What principles does he rely on in his
justification?
14. Elucidate the prose style of Russell, with reference to
"Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khruschev".
15. Consider Leacock as a humorous writer with reference to
"My Financial Career".