BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER -- ENGLISH LITERATURE/MODERN LITERATURE I (1400-1660)/ PGTRB, UGTRB, TNSET, UGCNET, POLYTECHNIC TRB, COLLEGE TRB

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BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER -- ENGLISH LITERATURE

S.No. 8099

P 16 EN 12

(For candidates admitted from 2016-2017 onwards)

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2019.

English Major

MODERN LITERATURE I (1400-1660)

Time: Three hours

Maximum: 75 marks

PART A-(10 × 2 = 20)

Answer the following in a sentence or two each:

1.What does Chaucer soup about the altire of the Clerk of Oxford?

2. What does "Epithalamion" literally mean?

3. Why does Donne ask his ladylove to spare the flea?

4. What was the only gift God withheld from humans?

5. How does the fear of death affect men, according to Bacon?

6. Why does Jesus say that the poor in spirit are blessed?

7 What excuse does the governor nee to conGunsto all of Barabas estate?

8. In The White Devil has does Isabella die?

9. How does The Spanish Tragedy begin?

10. Why has Edward Knowell come to London?

PART B (5×5=125)

Answer ALL questions choosing either (a) or (b) in each

11. (a) How does Chaucer's Clerk of Oxford represent the age?

Or

(b) Discuss Spenser's concept of beauty as revealed in "Epithalamion".

12. (a) Explain the religious sentiment in Herbert's "Pulley".

Or

(b) How does Andrew Marvell contrast love and death in To His Coy Mistress"?

13. (a) Discuss Bacon's views on adversity.

Or

(b) How does Jesus use the examples of salt and light?

14 (a) Examine the role of Abigail in The Jew of Malta

Or

(b) Write Devil note on Lodowico in The White

15. (a) How does the personified Revenge serve as motif in The Spanish Tragedy? Discuss.

Or

(b) Explain the role of Knowell in Everyman in His Humour.

PART C(3×10=30)

Answer any THREE questions each in about 1000 words

16. Explain the descriptive power of Spenser with reference to "Epithalamion".

17. Analyse the metaphysical features in "The Flea".

18. Explain the Sermon on the Mount and how it represents the core of Jesus teachings.

19. "Was there ever seen such villainy. So neatly plotted, and so well performed?" Explain with reference to Barabas.

20. Consider Everyman in His Humour as a comedy of manners.

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