Elective Literature - English

Course: B.A.B.Ed. Code: RC-28 Branch: Unknown Year: 2023

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RC-28

B.A.B.Ed. IIIrd Semester

Examination, 2022-23

Elective Literature - English

Time : 3 Hours]
[Maximum Marks : 60

Note :- Attempt all the questions.

1.

Choose the best alternative : 1×7=7

(i) Which of the following is not a sonnet:

  1. Shall I compare thee to a Summer Day
  2. On this Blindness
  3. The Tyger

(ii) Which is 'Thee' in Shakespeare's sonnet 'Shall I compare Thee":

  1. The Dark lady
  2. The young man
  3. Shakespeare's wife
  4. Queen Elizabeth

(iii) Shakespearean sonnet has :

  1. Octave and sestet
  2. Three Quatrains and a couplet
  3. Sestet and octave
  4. Octave + Volta + Sestet

(iv) An elegy is a :

  1. Poem that laments death of someone
  2. Long poem that tells a story
  3. Fourteen line poem
  4. A poem of address

(v) Who is not a Romantic writer :

  1. Lord Alfred Tennyson
  2. P.B. Shelley
  3. S.T. Coleridge
  4. John Keats

(vi) My Last Duchess is written by :

  1. Mathew Arnold
  2. Robert Browning
  3. T. S. Eliot
  4. S. T. Coleridge

(vii) 'Similie' compares :

  1. Two similar things
  2. Two same things
  3. Two dissimilar things
  4. Two identical things
2.

Explain any Three of the following with reference to their contexts : 3×5=15

(i) Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray,

(ii) "Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud !
I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed."

(iii) "Beauty is truth, truth beauty is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

(iv) "Oh, Sir, she smiled, no doubt.
Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile ? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together."

3.

Answer any Four of the following questions : 7×4=28

(i) Explain the central theme of Gray's Elegy.

(ii) What message P.B. Shelley wants the west wind to spread and how ?

(iii) Discuss Prufrook as a modern man living a life of dilemma and uncertainty.

(iv) How does "The Daffodils" explain Wordsworth's concept of poetry.

(v) Explain the missing element of modern life. How can that be brought into life. Discuss with reference to Dover Beach.

4.

Write short notes on any two of the following :- 5×2=10

(i) Pre-Raphaelite poetry

(ii) Graveyard Poetry

(iii) Sonnet

(iv) Elegy