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1. Did Sir Thomas More support slavery ? (4)
2. Who is referred to as 'Pilot of the Galilean Lake” in the Lycidas and how can one identify the person ? (4)
3. Examine the key features of Charles Lamb's prose with reference to “Oxford in Vacation” and “Dream Children (4)
4. Explore the significance of the title of Caryl Chuchill's play Top Girls. (4)
5. Write about the colour symbolism in Eugene O'Neil's Emperor Jones. (4)
6. Examine the childhood of the poet as explicated in Nissim Ezekiel in “Background, Casually”. (4)
7. Prepare a note on the fallacies of traditional approach to grammar. (4)
8. Evaluate, how the author defends and defines the romantic concepts on poetry in Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIV. (4)
9. Elaborate on 'female-sexed texts' as imagined by Helene Cixous in “The Laugh of the Medusa”. (4)
10. Differentiate between dominant and negotiated positions of decoding as put forward by Stuart Hall. (5)
11. Write any five advantages of the Direct Method of teaching the English Language. (5)
12. What are the elements of Comedy of Manners in The School for Scandal? (6)
13. Analyse the various figures of speech in the poem “To His Coy Mistress” and relevant examples. (6)
14. Analyse Mathew Arnold's poems “The Scholar Gypsy” and Dover Beach” as commentaries on the spiritual confusion of the Victorian age. (6)
15. Discuss how Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party can be considered as a “comedy of menace”. (6)
16. Compare and contrast Emerson's and Thoreau's attitudes toward society as expressed in their lives and writings. (6)
17. Comment on the metaphors employed in “Coromandel Fishers”. (6)
18. What is the Great Vowel Shift ? How has it influence Modern English ? Give examples. (6)
19. Elucidate the concepts of 'depersonalization' and 'tradition' as discussed in the writing, “Tradition and Individual Talent” by T.S. Eliot. (6)
20. Examine, how Edward W. Said proposes the philosophical terrains of Orientalism in the “Introduction” to Orientalism
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