1. What are the five elements of Sublimity according to Longinus?

2. What does Dr. johnson mean by 'nature' when he declares Shakespeare poet of nature'

3. what does T.S.Eliot mean by "escape from personality"

4. Explain the dictum that with Shakespeare 'character is destiny'.

5. What is the tragic flaw in Dr.Faustus

6. On what grounds does Plato condemn poety

7. why the Romantic Movement is considered 'the Romantic Revival' in English literature

8. What do we mean when we say that John Keats is a poet of 'sensuousness'

9. What is Mathew Arnold's 'Touchstone Method'?

10. What idea forms the core of Feminism?

11. what are the main functions of literary criticism

12. Explain Pastoral as a literary genre.

13. Why does Plato want to ban poets from an ideal Republic

14. What is tragedy as defined by Aristotle

15. Why Jimmy Porter is considered the "non-hero" of the play "Look Back in Anger"

16. What are Dr. Johnson's views on Shakespeare

17. How does E.M. Forster explain plot in Aspects of the novel

18. What according to Wordsworth is the definition of poetry

19. In 'Tradition and Individual Talent' what does Eliot mean by 'Tradition'?

20. Define 'Conceit' in the Metaphysical poetry.



21. Discuss Marlowe's Doctor Faustus as a Renaissance play.

22. Discuss post modernism as a literary theory.

23. Attempt a note on magic realism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.

24. Discuss how modernism differs from post modernism.

25. Write a short note on Milton's grand style.

26. Comment on the role of imagination in romantic poetry.

27. Distinguish between 'True and False' sublime.

28. Define the term "Art for Art's sake".

29. Explain the term 'Feminism'.

30. What is the significance of the opening scene in Shakespeare's Macbeth

31. What are some important traits of the Jacobean tragedy Expain with an example.

32. Comment on Salman Rushdie's use of English in The Midnight's Children.


33. Comment on the significance of the title Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin.

34. Evaluate Mulk Rak Anand's Untouchable as a novel of social realism.

35. Discuss the use of mythology in the plays of Girish Karnad.

36. Determine the contribution of James joyce to the Stream of consciousness technique with special reference to Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman.

37. Elucidate Tagore's mysticism citing examples from Geetanjali.

38. Trace the role of Fate and chance in the novels of Hardy with special reference to Jude the Obscure.

39. Write a note on Tom Jones as a Picaresque Novel.