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BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER–ENGLISH LITERATURE

S. NO. 5745

16 ACCEN 11

(For candidates admitted from 2016-2017 onwards)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION. NOVEMBER 2021.

Part III-English-Major

AMERICAN LITERATURE

Time: 3 hours

Maximum: 75 marks

SECTION A (10×2=20)

Answer ALL the questions.

 

1. What has been graphically sketched in the poem I Hear America Singing?

2. How is the flight of the bird described in the poem A Bird came down to walk?

3. Why does the speaker (Frost) Mend the wall though he did not want to do it?

4. When will the sour breath vanish?

5. How long does King want the Negroes to continue their struggle?

6. Why does Emerson say we have become walking monsters?

7. How is Linda a sharp contrast to Willy?

8. Why does Biff call his father a 'Phony little fake"?

9. What does Hester ask Dimmesdale?

10. How did Hester identify her husband?

SECTION B-(5x5=25)

Answer ALL the questions. Choosing either (a) or (b)


11. (a) How do the americans take pleasure in their work?

Or

(b) Bring out the gap between the human world and the world of nature in 'A Bird Came Down the Walk’.

12. (a) What are the arguments of the young farmer"

Or

(b) Write a note on sylvia plath on the art of dying.

13. (a) Sum up Martin Luther King's views on civil rights and equality.

Or

(b) How does Emerson warn a writer against being overfluenced by an author.

14. (a) Write a note on 'Bernard' and 'Ben' in the play "Death of a salesman.

Or

(b) Sketch the character and part played by "'Happy”

15. (a) How does Hester show her Sympathy for Dimmesdale?

Or

(b) What happens after Dimmesdale's death?

 

SECTION C (3 x 10 = 30)

Answer any THREE questions.

 

16. Write a critical appreciation of 'A Bird Came Down the Walk?

17. Discuss the aptness of the title Lady Lazarus.

18. What according to Emerson, are the Scholar's duties?

19. Write Arthur Miller's dramatic techniques in 'Death of a Salesman.

20. Discuss Hester's life after her release from prison.


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