Final term Examination Spring-2023

Subject: World Literature Date: 28/01/2024

Instructor: Arif khan Masood Day: Sunday
Program: BBA Time Slot: 12.00 to 2.30
No. of Students: 80 Duration: 2.5 Hours
Section Code: 12330519 Max. Marks: 40

Instructions:

1.Attempt all questions in the answer sheet provided to you and return the question paper after the exam.
2.Please do not use pencils except for underlining or drawing diagrams.
3.Any attempt to use unfair means will disqualify you from the examination.
4.Students are not supposed to ask questions after the first fifteen minutes of the commencement of the exam.
5.The invigilator will not return the answer script back to the candidate in any case once it is submitted.
6.All students must bring their own stationery and calculators. Borrowing in the examination hall is strictly
prohibited.
7.All students shall comply with any other instruction, written or oral, given by the examiner/invigilator in the
examination hall.
8. Marks of each question are mentioned at the end of each question.
9.Please follow any other instructions provided by the invigilator/examiner in the question paper.

Instructor’s Signature
Q1. Write a comprehensive note on any two of the following literary eras? Your note
should include literary characteristics, names of the prominent authors and works from
that era.
(CLO 1.2 : PLO 1)
(7.5+ 7.5 =15 Marks)
1. Renaissance
2. Modernism
3. Post- Colonialism

Q2. Read the given poem and answer the following questions: (15 Marks)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ( CLO 3.1: PLO3)

BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
i). Identify and briefly discuss the literary devices (Personification, Alliteration,
Hyperbole, Imagery and Rhyme scheme) used in the poem “Daffodils” with examples.
(5 Marks)

ii). “Daffodils” written by William Wordsworth is an apt example of the Romantic

Age. Analyse the given poem keeping in view the characteristics of this age. (10 Marks)

Q3. Analyze the given excerpt taken from the famous Drama of William Shakespeare
‘Hamlet’ and explain
how the following lines from one of the major character represents the main reason of
tragedy in Hamlet .
(CLO3.2 : PLO 3)

(Word Limit: 150 words) (10 Marks)

To be, or not to be — that is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep,
No more. And by a sleep, to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to — ‘tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub.
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sickled o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And, enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.