MAEG-10
June Examination 2016
MA (Final) English Examination
American Literature
Paper MAEG-10
Time 3 Hours Max. Marks 80
Note: The question paper is divided into three sections B and C. Write answer as per the given instructions.
Section A 8 × 2 16
(Very Short Answer Questions)
Note: This section contains 8 (eight) very short answer type questions (one word, one sentence and definitional type item) having weightage of 16 (sixteen) marks. Attempt all the questions. Each question carries 2 marks and the maximum word limit is 30 (thirty) words.
Where does the story Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver begin and end?
What does Emerson mean by 'Shakespearized' English poets?
What myth has Brutus Jones created to save himself in case there is a revolt against him?
Who are the three members in the Wingfield family in 'The Glass Menagerie'. Give their names.
449
MAEG-10 1300 3 (P.T.O.)
MAEG-10 1300 3 (Contd.)
449
Who are the two romantic images of success in Willy
Loman's dreams?
What is Pecola's own logic for her desire to have blue
eyes?
Why does Mark Twain establish the contrast between
Pap and the mixed race man in 'Huckleberry
(viii) What is rain in Farewell to Arms' symbol of?
Section B 4 × 8 32
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: This section contains 8 (eight) short answer type questions.
Answer any 4 (four) questions. Each question carries 8
(eight) marks. The weightage of this section is 32 (thirty
two) marks. Delimit each answer in maximum 200 (two
hundred) words.
Discuss 'The Scarlet Letter' as a psychological novel.
Discuss Frost's 'Fire and Ice' as a masterpiece of
condensation and understatement.
Emily Dickinson shows an unusual skill in recording vivid
sense impressions. Discuss with example from the poems
you have read.
Discuss Whitman's 'Song of Myself' as the first truly modern
poem.
Draw a character sketch of the narrator of the short story
'Vitamins'.
What does Emerson say about a Sholar's duties towards
society?
MAEG-10 1300 3
449
Write a note on the supernatural element in the hallucinations
of Brutus Jones.
How does Jim drive out Laura's shyness and stand offish
attitude? How far does he succeed?
Section C 2 × 16 32
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: This section contains 4 (four) long answer type questions.
Each question carries 16 (sixteen) marks. Answer any
2 questions. The weightage of this question is 32
(thirty two) marks. Delimit each answer in maximum 500
(five hundred) words.
10) Discuss Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' as a tragedy.
11) Discuss 'Whiteness as the Standard of Beauty' with reference
to 'The Bluest Eye'.
12) Draw a character sketch of Huck in 'The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn'.
13) Discuss Farewell to Arms' as an antiwar novel.