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First Year M.A. Degree Examination, April/May - 2022

(SIM - OLD)
ENGLISH
Course - III : Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature
Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 90
Instruction : All Sections are Compulsory.

SECTION - A

Answer any three questions. [3 × 15 = 45]

Q1) Consider Sheridan’s The School for Scandal as a Sentimental Comedy.

Q2) “The Way of the World is a Social Satire”. Substantiate.

Q3) “Moll’s ambition to become a gentle woman is not a mere Whimsical desire”.
Elucidate.

Q4) Examine Tom Jones as a Picaresque novel.

Q5) Compare and Contrast the Yahoos with Houyhnhnms in Gulliver’s Travels-Book IV.

SECTION - B

Answer any three questions. [3 × 10 = 30]

Q6) “The Vicar of Wakefield is a sentimental novel”. Elucidate.

Q7) Critically analyse The Rape of the Lock as heroic poem.

Q8) Discuss Absalam and Achitophel as a Political satire.

Q9) What are the limitations of Shakespeare according to Dr. Johnson?

Q10) Write an appreciation of the Poem, “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”.

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SECTION - C

Answer any three questions. [3 × 5 = 15]

Q11) The Periodical Essays.

Q12) Steele’s Personal experiences in “Recollections”.

Q13) Restoration plays.

Q14) Fashionable society in The Way of the World.

Q15) Define ‘Mock-epic’.

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