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RRF History of English Literature & Social Model Paper

Time : Three hours
Maximum : 100 marks

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MAY 2012

GROUP A – (40 marks)
1. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each. (5 ´ 5 = 25)
(a) Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’.
(b) Hopkin’s use of the spring rhythm.
(c) George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
(d) P.G. Wodehouse.
(e) Plays of T.S. Eliot.
(f) Yeats’s philosophy.
g) Macaulay.

2. Write an essay on any ONE of the following in about 400 words.
(a) Arnold as a writer of elegies.
(b) Ruskin’s style.
c) Golding’s vision

GROUP B : (40 marks)
3. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each.
(a) The Royal College of Science.
(b) The Third Reform Act of 1894.
(c) Early Industrial Inventions.
(d) Newspapers in England.
(e) Agricultural improvers.
(f) Sir Winston Churchill.
(g) The Crimean War.
(h) The Glorious Revolution.

4. Write an essay on ONE of the following in about 400 words.
(a) The Reform Bills.
(b) The conflict between science and religion in the Victorian period.
(c) Growth of Trade Unionism in England after the Second World War.

GROUP C — (20 marks)
5. Write short notes on any TWO of the following in about 100 words each. (2 ´ 5 = 10)
(a) The Comedy.
(b) The Absurd drama.
(c) The detective novel.
(d) The stream of consciousness.

6. Write an essay on ONE of the following in about 200 words. (1 ´ 10 = 10)
(a) The Tragedies.
(b) The Masque.

OCTOBER 2012

Time : Three hours
Maximum : 100 marks
GROUP A : (40 marks)
1. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each : (5 ´ 5 = 25)
(a) Preoccupations of W.H. Auden.
(b) T.S. Eliot’s technique of the cinematograph.
(c) Carlyle.
(d) R.L. Stevenson as a story-teller.
(e) Arnold’s conception of poetry.
(f) Tennyson’s attitude to the status of women.
(g) Hopkin’s use of the sprung rhythm.
(h) Ted Hughes.

2. Write an essay on any ONE of the following in about 400 words : (1 ´ 15 = 15)
(a) Salient features of W.B. Yeat’s poetry.
(b) George Orwell as a satirist.
(c) The poetic techniques of ‘The Waste Land’.

GROUP B : (40 marks)
3. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each : (5 ´ 5 = 25)
(a) London University.
(b) The British Museum.
(c) The British Common Wealth of Nations.
(d) The British Broadcasting corporation BBC.
(e) The Bodleian library.
(f) The patron saints of U.K.
(g) West minster Abbey.
(h) The Reform Bill of 1832.

4. Write an essay on ONE of the following in about 400 words : (1 ´ 15 = 15)
(a) The effects of Second World War.
(b) Effects of the Cold War.
(c) Life in the ‘Eighties’.

GROUP C : (20 marks)
5. Write short notes on any TWO of the following in about 100 words each : (2 ´ 5 = 10)
(a) The Miracle and Mystery Plays.
(b) The Historical novel.
(c) The Melodrama.
(d) The Absurd Drama.

6. Write an essay on ONE of the following in about 200 words : (1 ´ 10 = 10)
(a) The dramatic – Monologue.
(b) The stream of consciousness.

OCTOBER 2014

Time : Three hours
Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A : (40 marks)
The History Of English Literature :
1. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each : (5 ´ 5 = 25)
(a) What were the origins of English prose?
(b) What was the contribution of Addison and Steele to English prose?
(c) Comment on the form of ‘The Canterbury Tales’.
(d) Write a note on Shelley’s Lyricism.
(e) Who were University wits?
(f) Write a note on the Comedy of Humours.
(g) Comment on the first great novelists in English.
(h) How did Scott influence the fictional presentation of history?

2. Write an essay on any ONE of the following in about 400 words : (1 ´ 15 = 15)
(a) The contribution of Francis Bacon to the development of English prose.
(b) The achievement of Milton to the English poetry.
(c) The nature of Shakespearean drama.

Section B : (40 Marks)
The Social History Of England
3. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each : (5 ´ 5 = 25)
(a) The influence of the Reformation on poetry.
(b) The East India Company.
(c) The government formed by the colonies.
(d) The Clarendon Code.
(e) The Royal society.
(f) The Woman’s Place in society at the time of Queen Anne’s rule.
(g) The Pioneers of the steam engine.
(h) Agricultural improvers.
(i) Robert Owen and the Co-operative movement.
(j) What was the English reaction to the French Revolution?

4. Write an essay on any ONE of the following in about 400 words : (1 ´ 15 = 15)
(a) Give an account of the Renaissance in England.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) Account for the rise of Humanitarianism in England during the 19th century.

Section C : (20 marks)
5. Write short notes on any TWO of the following in about 100 words each : (2 ´ 5 = 10)
(a) Biography in English.
(b) Textual criticism.
(c) What is a Horatian ode?
(d) The Spenserian Sonnet.

6. Write an essay on any ONE of the following in about 200 words : (1 ´ 10 = 10)
(a) The essay
(b) The epic.