M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Second Semester
English
AMERICAN LITERATURE
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 X 2 20)
Answer the following questions each in a sentence or two.
1. What does the cradle represent in the poem Out of the
Cradle Endlessly Rocking?
2. What is personified in the poem, Because I could not stop
for Death? How does it come?
3. According to Poe what should be the poetical tone?
4. What is the use of 'refrain' for Poe?
5. Why is Yank imprisoned?
6. What are the devices generally used in an expressionistic
play?
7. What does Manolin and the lion symbolize for Santiago?
8. What does the killing of the marlin symbolize?
9. How does Alice Walker represent god in her novel The
color purple?
10. How does Shug help Celie in the novel The Color Purple?
Sub. Code
4MEN2C3
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Wk 11
Part B X 5 25)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. What impact does the Raven make on the poet?
Or
Comment on Whitma's views on Death as portrayed
in his poem out of the cradle endlessly rocking.
12. What are the views of Poe on the composition of a
poem?
Or
How does friendship begin according to Emerson?
13. Sketch the character of Willy Loman.
Or
Whom does O'Neill call as the beasts in the cage?
Why?
14. Write a paragraph on the moral significance of the
novel The Old Man and the Sea.
Or
Discuss the solidarity of Santiago with the Natural
World.
15. Analyse the strength of Sofia in contrast to the
submissive Celie.
Or
How does Walker use the epistolary form in her
novel, The Color Purple?
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Wk 11
Part C X 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem Because I
could not stop for Death.
17. Why is friendship a great achievement in life for
Emerson?
18. Write an essay on the loss of Identity with special
reference to the play Hairy Ape.
19. Trace the autobiographical touch in Faulkner's The
Sound and the Fury.
20. Describe the power of strong female relationships in the
novel, The Color Purple.
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