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01378

B. A. (Hons) Semester III Special/Supplementary Open Book

Examination, 2 0 1 9 – 2 0

ENGLISH
Paper No. BAE-211 : English
Time : 4 hours Full Marks : 70

Instructions :
(i) The Question Paper contains 08 questions out of which you are required to
answer any 04 questions. The question paper is of 70 Marks with each
question carrying 17·5 Marks.
(ii) The total duration of the examination will be 4 Hours (Four Hours), which
includes the time for downloading the question paper from the portal,
writing the answers by hand and uploading the hand-written answer sheets
on the portal.
(iii) For the students with benchmark disability as per Persons with Disability
Act, the total duration of examination shall be 6 Hours (Six Hours) to
complete the examination process, which includes the time for downloading
the question paper from the portal, writing the answers by hand and
uploading the hand-written answer sheets on the portal.
(iv) Answers should be hand-written on plain white A4 size paper using black or
blue pen. Each question can be answered in up to 350 words on 3 (Three)
plain A4 size paper (only one side to be used).
(v) Answers to each question should start from a fresh page. All pages are
required to be numbered. You should write your Course Name, Semester,
Examination Roll Number, Paper Code, Paper Title, Date and Time of
Examination on the first sheet used for answers.
(vi) Candidates are required to write their answers in their own words as far as
practicable.

Q.1. What are the salient features of William Shakespeare’s sonnets? Illustrate
with examples the sonnets prescribed in your course.

Q.2. Discuss, with special reference to the first four stanzas prescribed in your
course, the theme of John Milton’s On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity.

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Q.3. Discuss John Donne’s A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning as a love poem.

Q.4. What characteristics of the Neoclassical Age do you find reflected in the
theme and structure of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man ?

Q.5. What are the three stages in the development of Wordsworth’s attitude to
nature as outlined in his poem Tintern Abbey ?

Q.6. Write a note on John Keats as a writer of Odes.

Q.7. Discuss Percy Bysshe Shelley as a revolutionary poet with reference to Ode
to the West Wind.

Q.8. Write a note on the salient features of the ballad as a poetic form.

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