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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
U.G.DEGREE EXAMINATION- GENERAL ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER NOVEMBER 2017
EL 1053 LITERARY APPRECIATION I
Date: 01-11-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 01:00-04:00
I. Answer any TEN of the following questions in about 250 words each. 10x10=100)
1. Show how silence enhances the feeling of fear in The Silence of the Snow.
2. Identify the many ways through which Mulk Raj Anand brings out the absurdity of fashion fads.
3. Elaborate on the connection Colin Mooers draws between capitalism and imperialism.
4. What implications does marriage have for a man as elaborated by Judy Syphers?
5. Comment on the advice the father gives the son when the latter sets out on his journey to the
university in Hamlet.
6. Show how In My Name combines aspects of anger and blessing to convey the trauma of double
exploitation suffered by the black woman.
7. Discuss the techniques that William Faulkner uses to keep the reader interested in the life and times
of Emily Grierson even after revealing the end?
8. Comment on the impact the blizzard has on the passengers in the bus to Kars.
9. Using the standard British English, write a song or a poem in 15-20 lines that begins or ends with the
following lines:
I have a dream
You have a dream.
10. Write a short dialogue between you and your friend on the need for digital literacy today.