Entry test MA Level

Subject: English
Marks: 60

i. Attempt any five questions in all from each section. All question carry equal
marks
ii. Q 1 and Q2 are compulsory.
Critically apperitiate the following stanza playing particular attention poems,
theme, imagery, setting structure and language avoid sub heading. Your
appraisal must be a continuous essay. (10)

Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more
temperate , rough winds do shake the darling buds of May and summers
lease hath all too short a date sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.
And often his gold complexion dimmed and every fair from fair sometime
declines By chance or natures changing course untrimmed. But thy external
summer shall not fade nor lose possession of that fair thou ows; Nor shall
death brag thou wanders in his shade when in external lines to time thou
grorost. so long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and
this gives life to thee,

Q2. Write short notes on any four of the following (20)

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.

Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Comedy
Sarcasm
Irony
Section A

Q3. What is subjective or poetry? Elucidate with reference to lyric, Elegy and
Ode?
Q4. What is point of view? Discuss its Different types.

Section B
Q5. Discuss in detail the factors responsible for language change ?
Q6 Write briefly an the following Types of novel
.a. Picaresque Novel
b. Gothic novel
c. Historical Novel