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P.T.O.
MAR IVANIOS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Reg. No. :.………………… Name :.………………….
First Semester B.A. Degree Examination, November 2016
First Degree Programme under CBCSS
Core Course: English I
AUEN141: Reading Poetry
Common for Regular 2016 Admn. and Improvement 2015 Admn.
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80
SECTION A
Answer ALL questions each in a word or in a sentence.
1. Synecdoche.
2. Which leg or foot of the compass is the male speaker
3. Name the poet who perceived poetry as the anti thesis of science.
4. Which school of poetry does Kamala Das belong to
5. Why is Macavity known as the' Hidden Paw'
6. What was the sacrifice made by Countess Cathleen
7. Whom does Eliot describe as "The Napolean of Crime"
8. What happened to the animal world in the darkness
9. What is the Owl`s complaint to the moon
10. Figure of speech in "Her eyes like angels watch them still;"
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SECTION B
Answer any EIGHT questions, each in a short paragraph not exceeding 50 words.
11. Epistolary Novel.
12. Cyberpunk
13. Head rhyme.
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14. Tercet
15. Hyperbole
16. What did Kubla Khan hear in the sound of the river joining the sea
17. Comment on the form of A Consumer`s Report.
18. Explain "tear floods" and "sigh tempests".
19. What were the different types of work undertaken by the villagers
20. What happened to the animal world in the darkness
21. What are the narrator`s views about the tank and the bomber
22. What is the dragon`s attitude towards the artist
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SECTION C
Answer any SIX questions, each in a paragraph not exceeding 100 words.
23. Lyric
24. Blank Verse.
25. Elements of Fiction.
26. What is the epitaph that Gray would like to inscribe on his tombstone
27. What is the myth used in the poem Not My Best Side
28. The central idea of Sonnet 18.
29. Explain "Players and painted stage took all my love."
30. Why did the traveller decide to take the road less travelled
31. How does Macavity break every law of gravity
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SECTION D
Answer any TWO questions, each in about 300 words.
32. Attempt a critical analysis of the following poem giving importance to the theme and overall structure, with emphasis on figures of speech and other poetic devices. WHEN I stepped homeward to my hill Dusk went before with quiet tread; The bare laced branches of the trees Were as a mist about its head.
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Upon its leaf brown breast, the rocks Like great grey sheep lay silent wise; Between the birch trees' gleaming arms, The faint stars trembled in the skies. The white brook met me half way up And laughed as one that knew me well, To whose more clear than crystal voice The frost had joined a crystal spell. The skies lay like pale watered deep. Dusk ran before me to its strand And cloudily leaned forth to touch The moon's slow wonder with her hand.
33. Elaborate on different types of Comedy.
34. Analyze Porphyria`s Lover as a Dramatic Monologue.
35. Consider An Introduction as an assertion of feminine sensibility.
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