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Total No. of Questions : 5
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EF-568

M.A. IIIrd Semester (Reg./Pvt./ATKT)

Examination, 2021-22

English

Paper - IV (B)

American Literature

Time: 3 Hours
|Maximum Marks: Reg.= 85
Pvt.= 100

Note :- All questions are compulsory.

SECTION - 'A'
Short Answer Type Questions
1.

Explain the following with reference to the context: 21

(a)

Whenever a mind is simple, and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away- means teachers, texts

OR

temples fall, it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour.

(b)

Prayer looks abroad and asks for foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue, and loses it self in endless majes of natural and supernatural and mediatorial and miraculous Prayer that craves a particular commodity anything less than all good-is all vicious.

OR

There was never any more inception than there is now Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now

(c)

I loved him once before I married him incredible as that seems now ! He was handsome in his lieutenant's uniform! He was silent, mysterious and romantic ! But marriage soon turned his romance into disgust

OR

All victory ends in defeat of death. That's sure. But does defeat end in victory of death ? This is what I wonder !

SECTION - 'B'
Long Answer Type Questions
2.

Write a note on Emerson's transcendental philosophy.

OR

Critically analyse Emerson's essay 'Self Reliance'.

3.

Give a critical appreciation of 'Song of Myself'.

OR

Critically evaluate Robert Frost as a poet in the context of the poems prescribed for your study.

4.

Justify the title of the play 'Mourning Becomes Electra'.

OR

Give a character sketch of Lavinia.

5.

Critically evaluate Mark Twain as an essayist.

OR

Write a note on Mark Twain's art of characterization in Huckleberry Finn.