BDP
Assignment
December-2018 & June-2019
Elective Course
ENGLISH
(New Syllabus)
4th Paper
Indian Writing in English : EEG-8
UNIT - I
1. Answer any two of the following questions: 20 × 2 = 40
a) Give a brief estimate of the contributions of four thinkers from different fields who shaped the Enlightenment.
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b) Analyse the role of Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe.
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c) Bring out the co-existence of Neo-Classical and Romantic features in Thomson’s ‘Spring’.
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d) Justify the title of Oliver Goldsmith’s play She Stoops to Conquer.
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UNIT - II
2. Answer any three of the following questions: 10 × 3 = 30
a) Give an account of the principles of Neo- Classical literary criticism as found in Dr. Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare.
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b) Discuss Pope’s The Rape of the Lock as a mock-heroic poem.
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c) What function does the Julia-Faulkland sub-plot perform in The Rivals ?
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d) Assess Steele as an essayist from your reading of “Recollections of Childhood”.
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e) How does Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” anticipate Romanticism ? Answer with close textual references.
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f) What did the term ‘Wit’ mean to the 18th century writers ? Discuss the importance of ‘Wit’ in the writings of this period.
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UNIT - III
3. Answer any four of the following: 6 × 4 = 24
a) Comment on the role played by the English
mercantile class in 18th Century
Enlightenment.
b) Give a description of Belinda’s dream from
Canto 1 of The Rape of the Lock.
c) Comment briefly on Defoe’s woman-centric
novels, highlighting the social issues he
raises in them.
d) In what context does Gray mention Milton
and Cromwell in his poem ?
e) How does Thomson pay tribute to his
patroness in the opening of his poem ?
f) Bring out the satire in the description of the
Lilliputian King’s entertainment.
g) Comment on the role of Sir Lucius
O’Trigger in Sheridan’s The Rivals.
h) “At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun,
And the bright Bull receives him.”
Locate and annotate the lines quoted
above.
mercantile class in 18th Century
Enlightenment.
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b) Give a description of Belinda’s dream from
Canto 1 of The Rape of the Lock.
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c) Comment briefly on Defoe’s woman-centric
novels, highlighting the social issues he
raises in them.
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and Cromwell in his poem ?
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patroness in the opening of his poem ?
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f) Bring out the satire in the description of the
Lilliputian King’s entertainment.
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g) Comment on the role of Sir Lucius
O’Trigger in Sheridan’s The Rivals.
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And the bright Bull receives him.”
Locate and annotate the lines quoted
above.
