English Honours | Semester I NEP | 4 year and 3 year Major | CC-I

Department of English (Model Questions)

Internal Assessment 2024

Semester I NEP

4 year and 3 year Major

CC-I

Full Marks- 10

Time-30 minutes

Answer any two of the following.                                                                                        5x2=10

1. Critically comment on the theme of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 29.

2. Critically discuss Milton's use of the allusion to the Parable of Talents in the poem "On His Blindness".

3. Analyze the poem "How do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

4. What is the tone indicated in "She Walks in Beauty"?

5. What are the healing effects of studies according Francis Bacon?

6. Briefly discuss the role of the narrator in Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band".

7. "O listen! For the Vale profound

Is overflowing with the sound." - Comment with reference.

8. "And so live ever- or else swoon to death."- Critically comment with source and context.

9. "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

- Only the monstrous anger of the guns." Discuss in brief Owen's portrayal of the brutality of World War I.

10. Scan the following passage and name the metre:

"Behold her single in the field

Yon solitary Highland lass

Reaping and singing by herself

Stop here, or gently pass."