M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Second Semester
English
BRITISH PROSE
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 X 2 20)
Answer the following questions in a sentence or two.
1. How does Bacon classify books?
2. Why does Bacon compare friendship with a pomegranate?
3. What pattern of society does the Utopians have?
4. Comment on the "dressing" of the Utopians.
5. What practice did James White have for the Chimney
sweepers?
6. How did the Pig get roasted in China?
7. In what way does G.K. Chesterton want people to run
behind their hats?
8. What does Eliot mean by dissociation of sensibility?
9. What is the elephant a symbol of in Orwell's shooting an
Elephant?
10. How does Dr. Johnson define Metaphysical poetry.
Sub. Code
4MEN2C1
AFF-4738
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Wk 3
Part B X 5 25)
Answer all questions choosing either or
11. Why does Bacon say that the world is a wilderness
without friends?
Or
Discuss Bacon's views on Books.
12. Analyse the social values of the Utopians.
Or
Why is the gospel of Mark important in early
Christianity?
13. Why does Lamb show compassion towards the
Chimney sweepers?
Or
Describe how the flesh of the pigs became
to the Chinese.
14. How does the mob provoke the officer into shooting
the elephant?
Or
What according to Russell is the outcome of being
modern minded?
15. What are the "special virtues" of the Metaphysical
poets?
Or
What is Lamb's advice to those who get annoyed
over the inconveniences of life?
AFF-4738
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Wk 3
Part C X 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Discuss Bacon as an essayist.
17. Analyse the message in William Hanglitt's Going on a
Journey.
18. How does Orwell portray the effects of Imperialism in his
essay Shooting an Elephant?
19. Write an essay on the form of Communism as envisaged
by Thomas More.
20. Bring out the characteristics of Metaphysical poetry.
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