BDP
Assignment
December-2017 & June-2018
Elective Course
ENGLISH
(New Syllabus )
2nd Paper
The Renaissance and the Reformation: EEG-2
1.
Answer any
two of the following questions: 20 × 2 = 40
a) Trace the growth of drama in England till the Renaissance.
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b) How did the Renaissance and the Reformation influence the culture of England ?
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c) Critically discuss the characteristics of the Metaphysical school of poetry with particular reference to the poems in your syllabus.
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d) How does Marlowe represent the ironies of kingship in Edward II?
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2. Answer any three of the following questions: 10 × 3 = 30
a) Write a brief essay on the structure and style of ‘The Sermon on the Mount’.
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b) Discuss the classical influences which Sidney used and adapted to develop his thesis in ‘Apology for Poetry’.
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c) Analyse the treatment of love in Wyatt’s sonnet ‘Farewell Love’.
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d) To what dramatic effect does Shakespeare use disguise in As You Like It?
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e) Discuss the importance of John Milton as a poet and prose writer.
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f) Comment on the importance of Ben Jonson’s drama.
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3.
Answer any four of the following: 6 × 4 = 24
a)
Explain with reference to the context:
“For
each age is a dream that is dying,
Or
one that is coming to birth.”
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b)
Bring out the significance of the lines:
“Nor
shall death brag thou wand’rest in his
shade,
When
in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.”
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c)
Explain how Herbert uses the word “sweet” in different senses in course of his
poem ‘Virtue’.
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d)
Why do Malcolm and Donalbain flee the country?
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e)
Describe the first meeting between Jacques and Touchstone.
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f)
Write a brief note on Tottel’s Miscellany.
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g)
Discuss the impact of the introduction of printing technologies and movable type
in the fifteenth century.
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h)
What is the significance of the First Folio of Shakespeare?
