Important Questions

Q.1.Define short story and discuss its key elements with reference to the short stories included in your
syllabus.
Q.2. Critically examine the problem of Hamlet’s madness and point out whether it is feigned or genuine.
Q.3.IsA Doll’s House a play about the rights of women? Give reasons for your answer.
Q.4.What are the characteristics of Victorian novel? Discuss with reference to the novels included in your
syllabus.
Q.5.Which language teaching method do you consider the most effective in your teaching context and
why? Discuss.
Q.6.Examine critically Aristotle’s definition of tragedy. What, according to him, are the formative
elements of tragedy?
Q.7. Comment on the aphoristic style of Bacon, illustrating your answers from the essays you have read.
Q.8.What is language? What are its chief characteristics?
Q.9.The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales gives a true picture of the 14th century society.Elaborate.
Q.10. Using all the characters in Ice Candy man, critically analyze the interplay of ‘female sexuality’
with ‘communal violence’ in the wake of 1947’s partition.Locate your discussion within Feminist
framework and debate whether Sidhwa proves herself as a feminist writer.
Q.11. Enumerate salient features of Postmodernism with reference to any text you have read.
Q.12. Write a detailed note on Browning’s art of dramatic monologue.
Q.13. Discuss John Keats as an escapist.
Q.14. Discuss linguistics as the scientific study of language.