Exam Details
| Subject | american literature | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | m.a. english | |
| Department | ||
| Organization | alagappa university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | April, 2016 | |
| City, State | tamil nadu, karaikudi |
Question Paper
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2016
Fourth Semester
English
AMERICAN LITERATURE
(2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 2 20)
Answer the following questions in 1 or 2 sentences each.
1. What was Thoreau's primary act of civil disobedience in
his own life?
2. What, according to Poe, is the most legitimate of all the
poetic tones?
3. What does Death's carriage hold in "Because I Could Not
Stop for Death"?
4. What would the speaker ask to know before building a
wall in "Mending Wall"?
5. How does Huck know that Pap has returned to
St. Petersburg?
6. What does Santiago call the sea?
7. Why do the boys stop teasing Pecola in The Bluest Eye?
8. What legendary figure in Frank Alpine obsessed with, in
The Assistant?
Sub. Code
701404
RW-10814
2
sp3
9. Why does Happy believe that Biff is a failure in business
in Death of a Salesman?
10. Why does the Secretary throw Yank out, in The Hairy
Ape?
Part B 5 25)
Answer the following questions choosing either or
11. How does Emerson emphasize the foremost duties
of the scholar?
Or
How does Thoreau justify the moral need for civil
disobedience?
12. Comment on the conflict of the speaker in
"The Road Not Taken".
Or
How does Nature participate in Dickinson's
bacchanal in "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed"?
13. Discuss Huck's struggle with his conscience in
Huckleberry Finn.
Or
Why does Manolin have such great faith in
Santiago?
14. Why does Pecola desire for blue eyes?
Or
Analyze the role of Helen in The Assistant.
RW-10814
3
sp3
15. How does O'Neill describe the stokehole in The
Hairy Ape?
Or
How do Ben and Charley function as opposites in
Death of a Salesman?
Part C 10 30)
Answer any three of the following questions in about
800 words each.
16. Examine Poe's analysis of the procedure of his
composition of the poem "The Raven".
17. Consider "When Lilac Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" an
elegy.
18. How far is The Old Man and the Sea a parable of human
life?
19. How are the characters in The Bluest Eye motivated by
shame?
20. Show how Death of a Salesman may be seen as a social
commentary on American society.
Fourth Semester
English
AMERICAN LITERATURE
(2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 2 20)
Answer the following questions in 1 or 2 sentences each.
1. What was Thoreau's primary act of civil disobedience in
his own life?
2. What, according to Poe, is the most legitimate of all the
poetic tones?
3. What does Death's carriage hold in "Because I Could Not
Stop for Death"?
4. What would the speaker ask to know before building a
wall in "Mending Wall"?
5. How does Huck know that Pap has returned to
St. Petersburg?
6. What does Santiago call the sea?
7. Why do the boys stop teasing Pecola in The Bluest Eye?
8. What legendary figure in Frank Alpine obsessed with, in
The Assistant?
Sub. Code
701404
RW-10814
2
sp3
9. Why does Happy believe that Biff is a failure in business
in Death of a Salesman?
10. Why does the Secretary throw Yank out, in The Hairy
Ape?
Part B 5 25)
Answer the following questions choosing either or
11. How does Emerson emphasize the foremost duties
of the scholar?
Or
How does Thoreau justify the moral need for civil
disobedience?
12. Comment on the conflict of the speaker in
"The Road Not Taken".
Or
How does Nature participate in Dickinson's
bacchanal in "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed"?
13. Discuss Huck's struggle with his conscience in
Huckleberry Finn.
Or
Why does Manolin have such great faith in
Santiago?
14. Why does Pecola desire for blue eyes?
Or
Analyze the role of Helen in The Assistant.
RW-10814
3
sp3
15. How does O'Neill describe the stokehole in The
Hairy Ape?
Or
How do Ben and Charley function as opposites in
Death of a Salesman?
Part C 10 30)
Answer any three of the following questions in about
800 words each.
16. Examine Poe's analysis of the procedure of his
composition of the poem "The Raven".
17. Consider "When Lilac Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" an
elegy.
18. How far is The Old Man and the Sea a parable of human
life?
19. How are the characters in The Bluest Eye motivated by
shame?
20. Show how Death of a Salesman may be seen as a social
commentary on American society.
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Subjects
- american literature
- aspects of english language and linguistics
- british drama
- british fiction
- british literature
- british literature – ii
- british literature — i
- british literature — iv
- british literature(chaucertomilton)
- british poetry
- british prose
- critical theory
- elective : study of an author :rabindranath tagore
- elective – diasporic literature
- elective – english for mass communication
- elective – literature for social
- elective – literature for social transformation
- elective – post colonial and subaltern literary studies
- elective – writing for the media
- elective –– mass communication and journalism
- elective — advanced english grammar and usage
- elective — comparative literature
- elective — creative writing
- elective — english for competitive
- elective — translation –theory and practice
- elective — women’s studies
- english language teaching
- english language teaching –– theory and practice
- english language teaching — theory and practice
- examination
- history of english language
- indian english literature
- indian writing in english
- journalism and mass communication
- literary criticism
- literary criticism – i
- literary criticism – ii
- literature and gender studies
- new literature
- office automation
- research methodology
- research methodology and modern rhetoric
- shakespeare
- study of an author – shakespeare
- transformation
- translation studies
- world classics inenglish translation
- world classicsin english translation