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Literary Forms II

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NOVEMBER 2017                               1203/BRBIA

Time : Three hours            Maximum : 75 marks

      SECTION A - (20X 1 =20 marks)

Choose the best answer:

1. Introductory remarks to a book especially written by a person other than the author of the         
book in which it appears is _______

(a) Foreword            (b) humorous              (c) imagery                (d) none of the above

2. The one single word, which shows its grammatical relation to two or three worlds_________

(a) Zeugma                              (b) invocation                              (c)apostrophe                            (d)


chiasmus

3. The second part of a Shakespearean sonnet is called_________

(a) Hexagon                              (b) triplet                                (c) sestet                          (d) couplet

4. English sonnet is also called ________

(a) Milton sonnet          (b) Classical sonnet          (c) Shakespeare sonnet          (d) Spencer sonnet

5. A Pindaric ode has three parts. They are_________

(a) poster, aposter, pastel                                        (b) cannon, affective, allonym                             

(c) Strophe, antistrophe, epode                            (d) acronym, anagram, ampersand

6. Who is the most important writer of the Pindaric ode in English________

(a) Keats                      (b) Shelly                  (c) Gray                (d) Dryden

7. The idly are known to have been originated by the Greek poet________

(a) Petrarch                      (b) Sophocles                  (c) Theocritus                      (d) Crito

8. A stanza of a ballad is called as________

(a) Quadrilateral                      (b) couplet                  (c) quatrain                    (d) feet

9. The ballad singers were called as________

(a) Minstrels                      (b) poets                  (c) harpers                      (d) musicians

10. A catastrophe is the ending of a________


(a) Chronicle play                      (b) morality play                  (c) comedy                      (d) tragedy

11. The mystery plays deal with________

(a) moral values        (b) biblical themes        (c) virtues and vices        (d) the life and the deeds of
saints

12. A literary type, such as epic, lyric, tragedy and comedy is to________

(a) Ellipsis                    (b) genre                  (c) grub street                      (d) none of these

13. The silent women is a comedy written by________

(a) John Lyly                      (b) John Day                  (c) John Barbour                (d) Ben Johnson

14. Where Christopher Marlow born ________

(a) West minister                  (b) Canterbury                  (c) Stratford- upon avon              (d) Italy

15. The foremost poet of Jacobean era was________

(a) John Milton                  (b) Charles Bacon                  (c) John Donne                (d) Herbert Spenser

16. The character gives Dramatic monologue directly to ________

(a) Audience                      (b) another character                (c) himself                (d) either a or b

17. The excess of the humour of blood makes a man excessively________

(a) Optimistic                      (b) angry                  (c) melancholic                      (d) talkative

18. Pope made money by selling subscription to his translation of this classical epic________

(a) The Bhagavad Gita                    (b) The Odyssey                  (c) The Iliad                    (d) The Aenied

19. This author of "to a skylark" died by drowning________

(a) John Keats                    (b) Mary lamb                  (c) Lord Byron                      (d) P.B. Shelly

20. Introduces the story’s characters, setting, and conflict________

(a)Resolution                      (b) Exposition                  (c) Introduction                      (d) Climax

SECTION-B (5X5=25 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions of the following in about 200 words each.
21. What are the different kinds of Ballad?

22. What is meant by Masque?

23. Explain about Objective and Subjective Autobiographies..

24. What is a smile and metaphor?

25. Define essay and write about the types and importance of essays.

26. Why do you consider Faustus as a tragic hero?

27. What is neoclassicism?

SECTION C- (3X10=30 marks)

Answer any Three of the following in about 300 words.

28. What is the difference between epic and mock epic?

29. Write a detailed essay on Stanza forms.

30. Why were plays an important part of the royal court during the Elizabethan Era?

31. What is satire? What are the essential features of a satire? Give examples.

32. What are the salient features of the Restoration comedy of manners?

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