Kerala PSC Assistant Professor (English) Previous Question Paper – 042/2020

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1. Write a brief note on Blending. (3)

2. What are the major themes explored by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'To His Coy Mistress' ? (3)

3. What are Nasals ? (3)

4. How does Coleridge differentiate between fancy and imagination ? (3)

5. Explain briefly Laura Mulvey's concept of the woman as image and man as bearer of the look. (3)

6. Why does the speaker in Maya Angelo's poem call herself a 'Phenomenal Woman' ? (3)

7. Comment on the significance of the title 'The Bluest Eye'. (3)

8. Explain the theory of Rasa. (5)

9. Examine 'Waiting for Godot' as a representative play of the theatre of the Absurd. (5)

10. Write a short note on Archetypal criticism. (5)

11. How does Ezekiel explore the theme of identity in 'Background, Casually' ? (5)

12. Differentiate between Form Class and Function Class Words. (5)

13. Write a short note on cognitivism. (5)

14. Examine George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' as a dystopian novel. (5)

15. Analyse Walter Scott's 'Ivanhoe' as a historical novel. (5)

16. Transcribe the following words marking the primary and secondary stress.
a) Breathe
b) Rewind
c) Organisation
d) Possibility
e) Mathematics (5)

17. Make an analysis of the treatment of feminist themes in Anita Desai's 'Clear Light of the Day'. (8)

18. Consider John Dryden's 'Mac Flecknoe' as a mock epic. (8)

19. Write an essay on J. S. Eliot's concept of tradition and individual talent. (8)

20. Examine the treatment of nature in Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale' and Shelley's 'Ode to the
West Wind'. (8)