M.A. Credit System Part-I students are requested to take note of the paper pattern for the oncoming University Exams.
M. A. English Part I (June
2013-2014)
Paper 1.1: English Literature from
1550 to1798
Question Paper Format (Semester-I)
Time: 2 Hours
Marks: 50
Q. 1) Long answer questions on the
background and features of literary schools/movements and/or comparison of the schools/movements/
prescribed writers/poets (Any one out of three in 150 words) - Marks 10
Q.2) Long answer questions on The
Spanish Tragedy
(Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.3) Long answer questions on King
Lear (Any one out of three in 150 words)- Marks 10
Q.4) Short notes on the prescribed
poems of Sidney and Spenser (Any two out of four in 100 words each) - Marks 10
Q.5) Short notes on the prescribed
poems of Herrick, Donne & Marvell (The nature of questions may be comparative-
for example comparing the metaphysical elements in the prescribed poems of
Donne, Marvell and Herrick)
(Any two out of four in 100 words
each): Marks 10
Question Paper Format (Semester II)
Time: 2 Hours
Marks: 50
Q. 1) Long answer questions on the
background and features of literary schools/movements and/or comparison of the schools/movements/
prescribed writers/poets
(Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.2) Long answer questions on The
Duchess of Malfi (Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.3) Long answer questions on Joseph
Andrews (Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.4) Short notes on the prescribed
poem of Milton (Any two out of four in 100 words each)-
Marks 10
Q.5) Short notes on the prescribed
poems of Dryden
& Goldsmith (Any two out of four
in 100 words each) - Marks 10
Paper 1.2: English Literature
from1798 to 2000
Question Paper Format (Semester I)
Time: 2 Hours
Marks: 50
Q. 1) Long answer questions on the
background and features of literary schools/movements and/or comparison of the schools/movements/
prescribed writers/poets
(Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.2) Long answer questions on Emma (Any
one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.3) Long answer questions on A Tale
of Two Cities (Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.4) Short notes on the prescribed
poems of Wordsworth & Coleridge (Any two out of four in 100 words) - Marks
10
Q.5) Short notes on the prescribed
poems of Shelley & Keats (Any two out of four in 100 words each) - Marks 10
Question Paper Format (Semester II)
Time: 2 Hours, Marks: 50
Q. 1) Long answer questions on the
background and features of literary schools/movements and/or comparison of the schools/movements/
prescribed writers/poets
(Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.2) Long answer questions on Waiting
for Godot (Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.3) Long answer questions on Lord
of the Flies (Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.4) Short notes on the prescribed
poems of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold &
Yeats (Any two out of four in 100
words each)- Marks 10
(The nature of short notes may be
comparative- for example, comparing the prescribed poems of Tennyson and
Browning or the elements of Victorianism in Tennyson and Arnold’s prescribed
poems, etc.)
Q.5) Short notes on the prescribed
poems of Eliot, Thomas & Heaney
(Any two out of four in 100 words
each)- Marks 10
(The period of this paper contains
enormous number of isms/movements/ schools so it is advisable that teachers
focus on the major and decisive isms/movements like romanticism, realism,
symbolism, expressionism imagism, modernism, absurdism etc.)
Paper - I.3: Contemporary Studies in
English Language
Question Paper Format (Semester I)
Time: 2 Hours Marks: 50
Q. 1 Short Answer questions on
Contemporary Theories/Views of Language (2 out of 4)
Marks – 10
Q. 2 Short Answer questions on
Phonology (2 out of 4) Marks – 10
Q. 3 Short Answer questions on
Morphology (2 out of 4) Marks – 10
Q. 4 Short Answer questions on
Syntax: A Descriptive View (2 out of 4) Marks – 10
Q. 5 Practical questions on all the
four components above (10 out of 15) Marks –10
Paper - I.3: Contemporary Studies in
English Language
Question Paper Format (Semester- II)
Time: 2 Hours Marks: 50
Q. 1 Short Answer questions on Socio-linguistics
(2 out of 4) Marks – 10
Q. 2 Short Answer questions on
Syntax: Theoretical Perspectives (2 out of 4) Marks – 10
Q. 3 Short Answer questions on
Semantics (2 out of 4) Marks – 10
Q. 4 Short Answer questions on
Speech Act Theory and Discourse Analysis (2 out of 4)
Marks – 10
Paper 1.4: Literary Criticism and
Theory
Question Paper Format (Semester I)
Time: 2 Hours
Marks: 50
Q. 1) Long answer questions on the
background and tenets of critical approaches and/or on comparative study of
relevant approaches, isms and critics (Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.2) Long answer questions on the
prescribed texts of Aristotle & Longinus (The nature of questions may be
comparative) (Any one out of three in 150 words) - Marks 10
Q.3) Long answer questions on the
prescribed texts of Corneille & Johnson (The nature of questions may be
comparative- for example comparing the neoclassical approaches of Corneille and
Johnson) (Any one out of three in 150 words) - Marks 10
Q.4) A) Short note on the prescribed
text of Wordsworth (Any one out of two in 100 words)-
Marks 05
B) Short note on the prescribed text
of Arnold
(Any one out of two in 100 words)-
Marks 05
Q.5) A) Short note on the prescribed
text of Eliot (Any one out of two in 100 words):
Marks 05
B) Short note on the prescribed text
of Ransom
(Any one out of two in 100 words):
Marks 05
Question Paper Format (Semester II)
Time: 2 Hours Marks: 50
Q. 1) Long answer questions on the
background and tenets of critical approaches and/or on comparative study of
relevant approaches, isms and critics
(Any one out of three in 150 words)-
Marks 10
Q.2) Long answer questions on the
prescribed texts of Todorov & Miller (The nature of questions may be
comparative- for example comparing the structuralist/narratological approach of
Todorov with the poststructuralist/deconstructive approach of Miller)
(Any one out of three in 150 words
each)- Marks 10
Q.3) Questions on the prescribed
texts of Frederic k & Iser (Any one out of three in 150 words each) - Marks
10
Q.4) A) Short notes on the
prescribed text of Eagleton (Any one out of two in 100 words) - Marks 05
B) Short notes on the prescribed
text of Hall (Any one out of two in 100 words each)-
Marks 05
Q.5) A) Short notes on the
prescribed text of Beauvoir (Any one out of two in 100 words) - Marks 05
B) Short notes on the prescribed
text of Viswanathan & Moulthrop (Any one out of two in 100 words)- Marks 05
Department of English
P.D.E.A.'s Ramkrishna More College,
Akurdi, Pune-44.
