Prof. Munawar Ahmad Saeed
M.A Eng, M.A. Phil. M.A, TEFL
contactmunawar@yahoo.com
Ph: 0333-4285350
MA English Punjab University
Important Questions / Guess / Selective Questions / Pass Papers / Up to Date Papers
Important Questions / Guess / Selective Questions / Pass Papers / Up to Date Papers
American Literature
“Poetry”
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The most forceful theme can be
conveyed through the images in a poem. Flaborate with close reference to at
least two poems from close course.
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“Syliva Plath”
1. Critically evaluate the poem your by
Sylvia Plath.
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2010-A
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2. Discuss the Confessional element in the
two Bee Poems by Sylvia Plath.
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2009-A
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3. Discuss the use of imagery in Plath’s
Poety with reference to the poems you have red.
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2007-A
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4. Critically evaluate any ONE of the
following poems:
“Marginalia” by
Richard Wilbur “Mourning
Song” by Sylia Plath
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2007-A
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5. Sylivia Plath exposes her subjectivity in
terms of objectivity Illustrate the statement with reference.
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2006-A
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6. Critically evaluate any ONE of the
following Poems:
Poppies in October by Sylvia
Plath
The Painter by John Ashbury
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2006-A
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7. Write a Comprehensive note on the theme
of Feminism as treated by Sylvia Plath and Andrienne Rich in their Poems.
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2005-A
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8. Discusse the major themes in the poetry
of Sylvia Plath.
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2005-A
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9. Write a critical appreciation of one of
the following poems:
Aunt Tennifer’s Tiger by Adrienne Rich
Poppies in October by
Sylvia Plath
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2004-A
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10. Write a detailed account of some of themes
that are dominant in Sylvia Plath’s Poems.
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2004-A
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11. Write a critical appreciation of Sylvia
Plaths’s poem “the Bee Meeting”.
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2003-A
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“John Ashbery”
1. Critically evaluate one of the following
poems:
Melodic Train by John Ashbery
After the Last Bulletin by Richard
Wilbus
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2009-A
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2. How does John Ashbery explores the relationship
between art and reality. Explain with referenced to the poem “The Painter”.
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2005-A
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3. Discuss the main themes in the work of John
Ashbery.
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2007-A
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4. Critically evaluate any ONE of the
following Poems:
The Painter by John Ashbery
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2006-A
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5. Discuss the major thems in the poetry of
John Ashbery.
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2006-A
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6. Critically evaluate any ONE of the
following Poems:
Melodic train by John Ashbery.
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2005-A
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7. What are some of the dominant features of
20th century American Poetry that are rellected in the work of
John Ashbery and Richard Wilbur?
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2004-A
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8. Critically analyze ONE of the
following:
John Ashebry’s Melodic Trains
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2003-A
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“Richard Wilbur”
1. Critically evaluate ONE of the following
Poems:
After the Last Bulletin by Richard
Wilbur
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2009-A
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2. Critically evaluate ONE of the following
Poems:
“Still Citizen Sparrow” by Richard
Wilbur
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2008-A
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3. Critically evaluate any ONE of the
following Poems:
“Marginalia” by Richard Wilbur
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2007-A
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4. Critically evaluate any ONE of the following
Poems:
After the Last Bulletin by Richard
Wilbur
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2005-A
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5. What are some of the dominant features of
20th Century American. Poetry that are reflected in the work of
John Ashbery and Richard Wilbur?
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2004-A
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6. Cirtically analyze ONE of the following:
Richard Wilburs’ “Still, citizen
Sparrow”
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2003-A
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DRAMA
“Mourning Becomes
Electra”
1. O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes
Electra is a tragic melodrama of heroic proportions Elaborate.
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2010-A
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2. Discuss O’Neill as a Pioneer in the use of
myths on the modern stage with close reference to the play “Mourning becomes
Electra”.
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2009-A
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3. Discuss in detail the symbolic
significance of the Monnon Hourse in “Mourning Becomes Electra”.
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2008-A
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4. Discuss “Mourning Becomes Electra” as a
tragedy in Modern sense.
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2007-A
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5. Discuss the mother and dauter’s relationship
in “Mourning becomes Electra by O’Neil.
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2006-A
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6. the “Mourning Becomes Electra” Pat is
synonymous with fate elaborate the statement.
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2005-A
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7. “Mourning Becomes Electra” is concerned
with the fated family life of the manors. Discuss.
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2004-A
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8. What devices does O’Neill employ in the
Mourning Becomes Electra (Homecoming) to express his sense of the unreal
behind what we call reality?
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2003-A
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“The Crucible”
1. Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”
exemplifies his contention that tragedy is possible in the modern theatre and
that its proper hero s the common man. Discuss in detail.
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2010-A
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2. Explore the roles of Tituba, the Putnams,
Reverend Paris and Abigail in terms of how they tiger and fuel conflict in
“The Crucible”
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2008-A
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3. Varied intense drama “Justify this
estimate of Miller’s play “The crucible”.
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2009-A
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4. John Poocter stands unique amongst
Miller’s creations not because of any inherent superiority but because of the
intercity of his moral response.
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2007-A
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5. John Procter stands unique amongst
Miller’s creations not because of any inheren4et superiority but because of
the intensity of his moral response. Justify it.
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2006-A
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6. Do you regard Abigail Williams as a
victim or vamp Base you arguments on tennual evidence.
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2005-A
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7. Discuss the significance of the title of
the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller.
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2004-A
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8. What has the “The Crucible” to tell us
about the relationship between the individual and Society?
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2003-A
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NOVEL
“For Whom the Bell
1. Discuss
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2010-A
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2. Can Hemingway be discussed as being
sentimentally obsessed with violence. Discuss with close reference to the
novel “For Whom the
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2009-A
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3. Write a detailed critical to note on
Robert Jordans character in Hemingway’s “For Whom the
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2008-A
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4. Discuss Robert Jordan as Hemingway’s
tragic hero.
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2007-A
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5. Discuss
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2006-A
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6. Discuss the novel “For Whom the
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2005-A
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7. Discuss Robert Jordan as typical
Hemingway hero in for “Whom the Bell Tolls”
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2004-A
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8. Discuss Hemingway’s fictional technique
with particular reference to “For whom the Bell Tolls”
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2003-A
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Donne
1. Discuss in detail Donne’s
metaphysical images in his love poems and their significance
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2010-A
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2. In his love poetry, donne exhibits a more
vasied range of feelings than the Elizabethan. Elabarate with reference to
his poems
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2009-S
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3. Discuss the variety of Moods in which
Donne treats love in his love poetry.
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2009-A
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4. “Donne’s Love lyrics spring not only from
a strong and ingenious head but also from a passionate beat” Discuss.
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2008-A
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5. Discuss Donne as poet of love Or Write a comprehensive note on Donne’s use
of conceit.
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2007-A
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6. Discuss Donne as a Metaphysical poet.
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2006-A
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7. Donne’s Monarchy of wit was not a tuck of
fashion but one of the greatest achievements of the poetic intelligence”.
Discuss the appropriateness of this remarks by Leishman.
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2005-A
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8. Discuss the variety of Moods in which
Donne treats Love in his love poetry.
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2004-A
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9. In his love poetry, Donne exhibits a more
valued range of feelings than the Elizabethans. Moreover, his imagery,
diction and versification are startlingly different. Discuss
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2003-A
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10. “To Donne Love is its infinite variety and
in consistency represents the principle of perpetual flux in Nature.”
Illustrate with reference to Donne’s Love Poems.
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2002-A
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11. One who reads Donne will probably bewail
his back of any consist style and literary standard justify or refute.
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2001-A
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12. “The Blend of Passion and thought is the
distinguishing quality of Donne’s Poetry” Elaborate.
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2000-A
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13. Is Donne an intellectual realist? Discuss
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Chaucer
1. Critically analyze
Chaucer’s Characterization of the female characters in The Prologue.
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2010-A
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2. Critically analyze Chaucer’s
characterization of the ecclesiastical characters in The Prologue (2010)
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2010-A
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3. In the Prologue, Chaucer looks at human
beings with tolerant human. Discuss.
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2009-S
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4. Chaucer’s technique of eharacterization
in the Prologue differs from characters to character. Discuss.
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2009-A
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5. “The Prologue” presents a cross-section of
Chauces’s contemporary society. Illustrate.
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2008-A
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6. Discuss Chancer’s art of narration in the
prologue.
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2007-A
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7. Explain and illustrate the remark the
chaucer’s whole point of view is that of humansist.
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2007-A
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8. Discuss and illustrate the artistic
method adopted by Chaucer in the postrayal of his pilgsims in the Prologue.
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2006-A
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9. What are the salinet feature of Chaucer’s
syle? Illustrate from the prologue to the Canterbury Tales?
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2005-A
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10. Write a note on Chaucer’s female pilgrims
as Presented in the Prologue.
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2004-A
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11. Compare and contrast the knight with Passon
in the Prologue.
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2003-A
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12. These been the Cokkes Cokkes wrodes, and
not myne; I Kan noon harm of no woman diryne” (NUN’s Priest’s Tale) Do you
think chaucer is being defensive herei? If so, why?
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2002-A
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13. “Chaucer’s world is different from, yet similar
to our own” Discuss with reference to the prologue to Cantesbury Tales.
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2002
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14. What does Chaucer imply when, describing
the Friar, he sap “There was no man nowhere so virtuous”?
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2001
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15. How far is Chaucer successful in blending
the serous and the comic in the Nun’s priests tale.
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2001
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16. “With Partrait following portrait the
prologue should prove monotonous reading, but it doesn’t Discuss.
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2000
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17. “In the Nun’s priests, Tale, Chouses has
given an excellent demonstration of how the true artist may use scientific
and philosophical material in the development of his eharacler.” Discuss
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2000
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18.
Do you gather from the prologue that Chaucer was a social reformer.
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1999
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19. “The discussion about dreams occupies
maximum space in The Num’s Priest’s Tale by Chaucer.” Comment and Illustrate.
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1999
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Pope
1. How for do you think
Pope’s kape of the Lock breaks free of the biographical and becomes a satire
on the universal?
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2010-A
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2. Discuss Pope as a satirit with reference
to the Rape of the Lock.
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2009-S
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3. Discuss Pope’s the Rape of the Lock as a
satire on the manners and marks of contemporary English upper class.
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2009-A
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4. Pope described ‘The Rape of the Lock’ as
an heroic comical poem.
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2008-A
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5. Discuss Pope as a satirist?
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2007-A
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6. Do you agree that in ‘The Rape of the
Lock’ the mock-heroic element is not the dominant interest but the brilliant
picture of fashionable life. Discuss.
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2006-A
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7. Draw a character sketch of Blinda as
portrayed in the Rape of the Lock.
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2004-A
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8. Why has the Rape of the Lock retained
its popularity to this day.
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2003-A
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9. Pope “Correlate Inventiveness and novel
point” (Cunningham) How does be do this?
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2002-A
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10. “The little is made great, and the great
little” (Hazbitt). How does this happen in the Rape of the Lock? Why is it
done?
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2001-A
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11. “The Rape of the Lock is pope’s attempt to
deal directly with some of the basic concess of his society”. Do you agree?
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2000-A
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12. “For even satire is a form of sympathy,”
says D.H. Lawrence. How are Pope’s sympathies made apparent in The Rape of
the Lock?
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1999-A
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1. Compare and contrast
Miltan’s presentation of Adam and Satam in Paradise Last.
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2010-A
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2. Write a detailed critical note on
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2009-S
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3. Discuss
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2009-A
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4. What epic conventions does
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2008-A
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5. On the basis of your reading of Bk1 of
Paradise Lost, bring out Satan’s qualities of leadership OR Discuss Eve’s character
as it develops in Paradiese Lost Bk IX
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2007-A
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6.
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2006-A
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7. In writing the Paradise Lost, has
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2005-A
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8. While satam of the first two books of
the Pradise Lost Please the modern sensibility,
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2005-A
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9. Who do you think is responsible for the
fall of Man-Adam or Eve? Illustrate from Book IX of the
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2004-A
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10. Dr. Johnson remarked about
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2004-A
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11. Examine
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2003-A
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12. Nothing can exceed the energy and
magnificence of the character of satan as expressed in the Paradise Lost.
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2002-A
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13. “Satan in Book IX of the paradise lost is
not the same as in Book I” Amplify.
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2001-A
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14. Discuss
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2000-A
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15. In Paradise Lost Milton plans to “justify
the ways of God to men.” How for is he successful in doing so.”
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1999-A
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Wyatt & Surrey
1. Discuss in detail some of
the predominant images in
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2010-A
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2. Discuss in detail Surey’s contribution to
the sonnet from with reference to the poems in your course.
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2009-S
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3. Discuss in detail surey’s contribution to
the development of sonnet form with reference to the poems you have read.
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2009-A
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4. Critically evaluate the style and major
thematic concerns in Wyatt’s poetry.
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2008-A
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5. Discuss Wyatt as father of modern English
poetry.
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2007-A
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6. What is major contribution of Thomas Wyatt
to English poetry of the Renaissance? Discuss with reference to the poems you
have studies.
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2006-A
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7. Give a detailed critical analysis and
appraisal of any one of the poem by surrey: On Wyatt’s Death, the mean to
Attain a Happy Life Or Wyatt’s most perfect poems as not them, his most
original in form”. Discuss.
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2004-A
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8. The Sonnet as a verse from usually
expresses personal feelings. Discuss this statement with reference to the
sonnets of Thomas Wyatt.
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2003-A
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9. Discuss the Earl of Surrey’s contribution
to English poetry.
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2003-A
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10. Write a critical appreciation of any two.
i) Prisoned
in
ii) On
Wyatt’s Death (2005) (2008)
iii) The flee from me (2005) (2008) (2009-S)
(2009)
iv) Whoso list to hunt (2009-S)
v) Madam Withouten Many Wards (2009)
(2009-S)
vi) Is it possible? (2010)
vii) Forget Not yet. (2010)
viii) Wyatt Resleth here. (2006) (2010)
ix) The long love that in my thought I
hasbour. (2009)
x) Love that doth reign…. (2006)
xi) My friend, they thing …. (2006)
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Explain with Reference to context
Donne
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All is possible!
Whoso list
believe,
Trust therefore
first
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2.
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If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two. To move, but doth, if the other doe.
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3.
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And if some Lover, such as wee,
Have heard this dialogue of
one,
Let him still Markus, he shall
see.
Small change when we are to
bodies gone
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2005-A
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4.
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My face in thine eye, thine in
mine appears
And true plain heart doe in the
face rest,
Where can we find two better
hemispheres
Without sharp north, without
sharp west?
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2004-A
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5.
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Regions of
sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can
never dwell, hope never comes
That comes to
all.
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2002-A
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6.
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Our two souls
therefore, which are one,
Thought I must
go, endure not yet
A breach, but an
expansion,
Like gold to
every thinners beat.
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2001-A
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7.
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Sweetest Love, I
do not goe;
For weariners of
thee,
Nor in hope the
world can show
A fitter Love for
mee
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1999-A
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1.
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Of twenty year of
age he was, I guesse
Of his stature he
was evene length
An wontedly delivers
and great of stuntho
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2010-A
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Wyatt
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Answer him fair,
with yea or nay,
If it be yea, ___
I shall be fair,
If it be nay
friends as before
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2009-A
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2.
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If it be yea, I shall be fain
If it be nay, friends, as before;
You shall another men obtain,
And I mine own, and yours no
more
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2006-A
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3.
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And I have leave to go, of her goodness;
And she also to use new-femaleness;
But since that I unkindly so am
served,
“How like you this?” What bath
she now deserved.
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2003-A
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Pope
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Know farther yet:
whoever fair and chaste
Rejects mankind,
is by some mymph embraced.
Forspirits, freed
from mortal laws with ease Assume
What sexes and
what shapre they please.
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2.
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For over curs’d be this
detested day,
Which snatched my best, my
favourite curl away!
Happy! Ah ten times happy had I
been
If
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2008-A
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3.
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O thoughtless mortals
Ever blind to fate, too
Soon defected and two
Soon elate,
Sudden, these honours
Shall be snatched away
And cursed for even this
Victorious day.
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2006-A
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4.
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When those fair suns shall set
as set they must,
And all those tresses shall be
laid in dust,
This lock, the Muse shall
consecrate to fame,
And midst the stars inscribe
Blinda’s name
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5.
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Some mymphs there
are, too consicious of
Their face,
For life predestined
to the gnome’s embrace
These swell their
prospects and exalt pride
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6.
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O thoughtless mortals,
even blind to fate,
Too much defected
and to soon elate,
Sudden these
honours shell be snatched away
And cursed for
ever this victorious day.
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2001-A
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Chaucer
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She leet no morsel
from her lippies falle
Ne Wettee hir fingers
in her sauce depe.
Well code she curie
a morsel and well kepe
That no drupe no
file upon hire brestwe.
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2.
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Ful many a deyntee horse had he
is slable
And when he rood men myghte his
broydel heer
Gynglen in a whistlunge wynd
austere,
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3.
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Ful wel beloved and familiar
was he
With Frankeleyns over all his country,
And eck with worthy women of
the Town;
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2007-A
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4.
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Whatever spirit, careless of
his charge
His past neglects, or leave the
fair at large,
Shall feel sharp vengeance soon
O’estatke his sins
Be stopped in vials, or
transfixed with pins.
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5.
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Well liked by all
and intimate was he
With franklins
everywhere in his country
And with the
worthy women of the town
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6.
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But soore wept
she if oon of hem were deed.
Or it men smoot
it with a yerde smerte,
And all was
conscience and tender herte.
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2001-A
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7.
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He knew the cause
of enrich maladye, were
It of hoote, or
cold, or moyst, or drye, And where
They engendered
and what humours;
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2000-A
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8.
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A Christopher on
his
An horn he bare,
the boundary was of green,
A forester was
he, smoothly as I geese.
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1999-A
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Mitton
1.
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By fountain or by
shady rivulet
He sought them
both, but wished his hop
Might Find Eve
separate
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2007-A
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2.
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Of the fruit
Of each treein the garden we
may eat
But of the fruit of this fair
tree a midst
The garden, god hath said, ;ye
shall not eat
Thereof, not shall ye touch it,
Last ye die
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2005-A
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3.
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O Eve, in evil haur thou didst
give ear
To that false worm, of
whomsoever laught to counterfeit man’s voice, ture in our fall
Fall in our promised rising
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4.
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“….. confirmed that I resove,
Adam shall
Share with me in bless or woe,
so dear I
Love him, that with him all
death
I could endure, without him
live no life”.
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5.
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“Of the fruit of
each tree in the garden
We may eat; But
of the fruit of this fair
Tree amidst. The
garden, god hath said,
“Ye shall Not eat
Thereat , not shall ye
Touch it, Least
ye die.
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1999-A
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Novel
Pride & Prejudice
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Pride &
prejudice is simultaneously high comedy devastating satire and compassionate panorama
critically comments.
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2010-A
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2.
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The rendering
of male characters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
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2010-A
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3.
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Discuss Jane
Austen as a moralist with reference to Pride and Prejudice.
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2009-A
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4.
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i) JANE
AUSTEN develops and then releases the ANTAGONISM BETWEEN Elizabeth and Darcy
in such a way that they themselves are made to realize the folly of their
PRIDE and their PREJUDICE Discuss.
ii) JANE
AUSTENS humour and style.
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2008-A
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5.
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i) Iron is the most effective
weapon Jane Austen has in her arsenal. Discuss
ii) JANE AUSTENS as a moralist.
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2007-A
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6.
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JANE AUSTENS
was fully alive to her limitations, as such she never touched a character or
scene she did not thoroughly knew. Discuss
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2006-A
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7.
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JANE AUSTENS art of characterization.
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2006-A
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8.
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Faithful,
observation, personal detachment and a fine sense of ironic comedy are mong
Jane Austen’s chief characteristics as a writer.
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2005-A
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JANE AUSTENS
limited ranage.
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Prof. Munawar Ahmad Saeed
M.A Eng, M.A. Phil. M.A, TEFL
contactmunawar@yahoo.com
Ph: 0333-4285350
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