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Ph.D model question Paper

Section – A :
Write short essays in about 300 words each on ALL the following questions. 10X5=50M
1. How does the Prologue to Canterbury Tales open?
2. What are the causes of the decline of Jacobean Drama?
3. Write a short essay on Metaphysical Poetry.

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4. Explain Shelly’s definition of poetry.
5. What are the hall marks of Pre-Raphaelite Poetry?
6. How do you differentiate the epic from the novel?
7. Discuss Robert Frost as a New England poet?
8. How would you categorize and define Indian literature?
9. What is the impact of digital technology on language teaching?
10.Write briefly on’ Note Taking’.

Section - B :
Write an essay in about 600 words on ONE from the each following questions 5X10=50M
1. a .Consider The Tempest as representative of the drama of Elizabethan age?
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b. What does the ‘Restoration’ signify in the literary history
2. a. Give an estimate of Pope as a classicist
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b. What is the function of poetry according to Wordsworth?
3. a. What are the achievements and limitations of Victorian Age?
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b. Write the Salient features of Modern period.4. a. Critically evaluate the themes which Hemingway introduces in The Old Man and the Sea.
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b . Evaluate Tagore’s Gitanjali as a oriental text?
5 a .What are the four Language Skills? Describe.
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b .Arrange the following Bibliography in correct format:
The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley,1976: New York, Doubleday.