M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2016
Second Semester
English
BRITISH LITERATURE III
(2012 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 2 20)
Answer the following questions in 1 or 2 sentences each:
1. To what does Wordsworth refer as "anchor of my purest
thoughts"?
2. What, according to Shelley, does the west wind do to dead
leaves?
3. What was the duke's "gift" to his wife in "My Last
Duchess"?
4. When did Sir Bedivere throw Arthur's sword?
5. How long did Lamb court Alice W —
6. Whom does Carlyle call as the greatest of Intellects?
7. What is the aim of Mrs. Bennet's life in Pride and
Prejudice?
8. Who is John Plantagenet in Ivanhoe?
9. What is the name of the valley where Tess and her family
live in Tess of the Urbervilles?
10. What does Oliver do to violate the rules of the workhouse
in Oliver Twist?
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701201
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Part B 5 25)
Answer all questions choosing either or
11. How far is Keats's "Ode to Autumn" a descriptive
poem?
Or
How is the pleasure dome of Kubla Khan a "miracle
of rare device"?
12. Comment on the religious frame work of the poem
"The Blessed Damozel."
Or
Analyze King Arthur's farewell speech.
13. Discuss Ruskin' s views concerning the reading of
books.
Or
Comment on the pathos in "Dream Children:
A Reverie."
14. Analyze the significance of the ball at Netherfield
Park in Pride and Prejudice.
Or
Why do Rebecca and Isaac decide to leave England
at the end of the novel Ivanhoe?
15. Discuss the main conflict in Oliver Twist.
Or
Comment on the role of Fate in Tess of the
Urbervilles.
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Part C 10 30)
Answer any three of the following questions in about
800 words each.
16. How does Shelley describe the power of west wind on the
earth, in the sky, and on the sea?
17. Examine the tone of despair in Arnold's "Dover Beach."
18. How does Carlyle view Dante and Shakespeare?
19. Critically evaluate the influences on Elizabeth in Pride
and Prejudice.
20. How far is Tess's tragedy a woman's tragedy?