Exam Details

Subject twentieth century
Paper
Exam / Course english
Department
Organization Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University
Position
Exam Date December, 2017
City, State rajasthan, kota


Question Paper

MAEG-07
December Examination 2017
MA (Final) English Examination
Twentieth Century Literature
Paper MAEG-07
Time 3 Hours Max. Marks 80
Note: The question paper is divided into three sections B and C. Write answers as per given instructions.
Section A 8 × 2 16
(Very Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question delimit your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum upto 30 words. Each question carries 2 marks.
What is the full name of W.B. Yeats?
The action of which play takes place on a wild sea coast of Mayo?
Who lived in Willey farm?
What is the name of Jimmy's wife?
Name the novel in which Stephen is the main character?
348
MAEG-07 1200 3 (P.T.O.)
MAEG-07 1200 3 (Contd.)
348
Who was Christy?
Who wrote letters to the king in the name of God?
(viii) Who is generally referred to be the poet in 'Waiting for
Godot'?
Section B 4 × 8 32
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any four questions. Each answer should not
exceed 200 words. Each question carries 8 marks.
Comment on the setting of the play 'Saint Joan'.
Write the critical appreciation of the poem 'Fern Hill'.
Draw the character sketch of Jimmy Porter.
Critically anayse the essay 'Shooting an elephant'.
Throw light on Auden's style of writing "In the poem in memory
of W. B. yeats'.
Write note on the concept of Theatre of Absurd'.
Comment on the title 'Sailing to Byzantium'.
Critically analyse. 'Sons and Lovers' as an autobiographical
novel.
348
MAEG-07 1200 3
Section C 2 × 16 32
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each
answer maximum upto 500 words. Each question carries
16 marks.
10) What is symbolism? How does Eliot employ symbolic devices
in 'The Wasteland'?
11) Elucidate social parallelism with the bear and squirrels game
in the novel 'Look Back in Anger'.
12) Mrs Dalloway is a satirical commentary on contemporary
civilization. Discuss.
13) Discuss the use of images of death in the poems of Yeats and
Auden.


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