Kerala University Final Year B.A. Degree Examination, March 2009 Part – III Literary Criticism
Kerala University Final Year B.A. Degree Examination, March 2009
Part – III – – Group VIII (a) – ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Main Paper – IV : Literary Criticism Question Paper
Final Year B.A. Degree Examination, March 2009
Part – III – Group VIII (a) – ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Main Paper – IV : Literary Criticism
Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100
I. Write an essay of about 300 words on any one of the following :
1) What are the great impulses and subject matters of literature ?
2) What are the chief functions of criticism ? (1×20=20 Marks)
II. Write an essay of about 300 words on any one of the following :
1) How does Aristotle highlight the lofty nature of tragedy in Poetics ?
2) Trace the different phases in Matthew Arnold's critical career. (1×20=20 Marks)
III. Write notes of about 80 words on any eight of the following :
1) Lyric
2) Pastoral elegy
3) Terza rima
4) Mock epic
5) Tragi-comedy
6) Dramatic irony
7) Synecdoche
8) Blank verse
9) Petrarchan sonnet
10) Ode
11) One-act play
12) Iambic pentameter. (8×5=40 Marks)
IV. a) Attempt a criticism of the following poem, giving importance to the theme, structure, diction, and rhythm.
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death;
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the Kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
b) Attempt a criticism of the following passage, giving importance to the theme,
style and syntactic features.
The happy man will have in childhood parents who are fond of him. He will be
more likely to get affection from his parents than he is at present, because their affections will be freer and their anxieties will be less, and because they will regard parenthood as a partnership in the bringing up of children, not as a sexual prison. In childhood, his environment will be such that it is much less often necessary to say 'don't' than it is at present. He should spend most of the daytime hours in large playrooms with other children, or out of doors if the weather is suitable. During these hours he should not be surrounded by valuable but fragile objects which he must not touch. The walls should not be so exquisitely coloured that on no account must dirty finger marks appear upon them. The playroom should be sufficiently remote from other people for it to be necessary to tell children not to make a noise. Everything must be on one level so that there are no steps upon which they can hurt themselves. (2×10=20 Marks)
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