ENGLISH TUITION IN KOLKATA

PROF. D. MITRA,(UGC NET) LECTURER IN ENGLISH , TEACHES B.A. (English Honours), M.A. (English- BOTH REGULAR AND DISTANT MODE) AT OWN PLACE IN KOLKATA. 

LOCATION- NEAR DUMDUM METRO RAILWAY STATION

Mode of Teaching- Group Tuition. Exclusive Study Materials are provided in a jargon-free manner so that students can score maximum marks. Mock tests are taken regularly to check the progress of students. 

Fees- 1200 (B.A.), 1500 (M.A.)

Contact no =8013350019 (Between 6 P.M. to 10 P.M.)

Email- dmitra.lecturer@gmail.com

2017 question paper English / third paper

2017

ENGLISH-HONOURS

Third Paper

Full Marks-100

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group-A

(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.1 and 2)

1. (a) Estimate the dramatic importance of Gaveston and Spenser in Marlowe’s Edward II.                                                                                                            16

Or

(b) Comment on the dramatic structure of Edward II.                                                           16  

2. (a)Comment on the dramatic significance of the play-within-the-play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.                       16

Or

(b) A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic comedy built on the theme of love in its various dimensions. Discuss.

3. Explain any one of the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 300 words)         8x1

a.       Lay me in a hearse,        

And to the gates of hell convey me hence;                

Let Pluto’s bells ring out my fatal knell,               

And hags howl for my death at Charon’s shore.

Or

b.      Be it ounce or cat or bear,

Pard or boar with bristled hair,

In thy eye that shall appear,

When thou wakest, it is thy dear.

Group-B

4. Write on any two of the following literary terms within 200 words each:          5x2

Antagonist, Catastrophe, Comic Relief, Hamartia.

Group-C

(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.5 and 6)

5. (a) Is The Rivals a comedy or a farce? Answer with reference to the text.                                         16

Or                                                                                                            

(b) Critically analyse the roles played by any two of the minor characters in Sheridan’s The Rivals.

6. (a) Attempt a critical analysis of the ‘Banquet Scene (Act III, Sc. Iv) in Macbeth and show how it throws light on the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.                                                16

Or

(b) Examine the use of dramatic irony in Macbeth.               16

7. Explain the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 350 words)                      9x2

a)      To find the mind’s construction in the faces

 He was a gentleman on whom I built

An absolute trust.

Or

b)      Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more.

c)       Am not I a lover; aye, and a romantic one too? Yet do I carry everywhere with me such a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain?

 Or

d)      There, sir, an attack upon my language! what do you think of that?–an aspersion upon my parts of speech! was ever such a brute! Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

SCOPE FOR ENGLISH HONOURS STUDENTS

CU ENGLISH HONOURS QUESTION PAPER

2017

ENGLISH-HONOURS

Second Paper

Full Marks-100

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group-A

1. Answer any one question of the following (in 500 words):                                                               14X1

(a) Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” explores the concept of the “carpe-diem” in a unique manner – Discuss.

(b) How do Blake’s poems “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” present contrary views of existence? 

Group-B

2. Answer any two questions of the following (each within 500 words):                                          14X2

(a) Examine the gradual changes in Wordsworth’s perception of Nature at different stages of his life with reference to “Tintern Abbey”.

(b) Comment on the elements of Romanticism in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”.

 (c)The roles of preserver and destroyer are performed by the west wind with equal ease in Shelly’s poem “Ode to the West Wind”. Elucidate.

(d)  How does the nightingale in Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” transport the poet to the transcendental realm? 

 3. Explain any one of the following with reference to the context (each in 250 words):                   8X1

(a) Where can we find two better hemispheres,

Without sharp north, without declining west?

.

 (b) And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cider-press, with patient look,

Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

roup-C

4. Answer any one question of the following (in 500 words):                                                            14X1

(a) Show how Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 is anti-petrachan in all aspects.

(b) Attempt a critical appreciation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 87.

Group-D

5.  Answer any one question of the following (in 500 words):                                                            14X1

(a) Write a note on the Invocation in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book I.

 (b) Comment on Milton’s grand style in Paradise Lost, Book I.

Group- E

6. Answer any one question of the following (in 450 words):                                                                14x1

(a) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a balanced critique of 18th century society. Discuss.

(b) Do you consider the supernatural machinery is Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to be an integral aspect of the poem?

Group-F

7. Write notes (in around 150 words)on any two of the following literary terms:                              4x2

         i.            Mock-epic

       ii.            Blank Verse

      iii.            Rhyme

     iv.            Symbol