DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English) B.A. (English) (Addl.) DEGREE
EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2017.
ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
1. Write briefly on maritime activities in Elizabethan
England.
2. Write a note on the establishment of the Common wealth
in England.
3. Write briefly on Spenser's appeal to Clio.
4. How does the speaker in Philip Sidney's poem compare
himself with the nightingale?
5. How does Donne compare the lock of hair to the nerves in
his body?
6. What bewitches Herrick more than art that is too
precise?
7. How does Hythloday describe Utopian society?
8. Write a note on the personality of Queen Isabella.
Sub. Code
14/102
DE-2376
2
SP 5
SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Give an account of Queen Elizabeth rule in England.
10. How does Sir Philip Sidney insist that his pain is greater
than Philomela's?
11. What helps Shakespeare to forget the sortow of his past
memories?
12. Comment on the significance of the title, "Pulley" for
Herbert's poem.
13. What does Bacon say about 'Ambition?'
14. Write an essay on plot construction in The Alchemist.
15. Evaluate Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday as a city
comedy.