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This document provides a list of potential exam questions for an M.A. English exam focusing on poetry, drama, novels, and literary criticism. It includes over 100 questions organized into 4 papers that cover works like poems by Coleridge, Keats, and Blake, plays by Ibsen, Beckett, and Chekov, novels by Conrad, Achebe, and Joyce, and literary theories by Aristotle, Sidney, Eliot, and Williams. The questions examine themes, symbols, characters, styles, and ask for critical appreciation of selections from these works.

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MA English Part 2 Imp Questions PDF

This document provides a list of potential exam questions for an M.A. English exam focusing on poetry, drama, novels, and literary criticism. It includes over 100 questions organized into 4 papers that cover works like poems by Coleridge, Keats, and Blake, plays by Ibsen, Beckett, and Chekov, novels by Conrad, Achebe, and Joyce, and literary theories by Aristotle, Sidney, Eliot, and Williams. The questions examine themes, symbols, characters, styles, and ask for critical appreciation of selections from these works.

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M.A SAQIB JANJUA (M.A ENGLISH & B.

ED )0333-5697103
M.A. English ( Part - 2 )
Questions for MA English (Part 2)

Paper 1 - Poetry
Section A

1. S.T. Coleridge

i. Coleridge as a poet of supernatural


ii. Coleridge as a romantic poet
iii. Moral of The Ancient Mariner
iv. Critical appreciation of three poems in the course
v. Coleridge as a poet of nature & beauty

2. John Keats

a. Questions on Keats Odes

i.Keats odes (A general question on odes, i.e., development of thought,


unity in Keats odes)
ii.Critical appreciation of odes
iii.Keats as an escapist
iv.Keats as a Romantic Poet (poet of beauty, of nature)
v.Sensuousness in Keats poetry
vi.Keats negative capability
vii.Keats Hellenism
viii.Keats as pure poet

b. Questions on Hyperion

i. Autobiographical element in Hyperion


ii. Theme of evolution
iii. Symbolism in Hyperion
iv. Hyperion as an Epic poem

2. William Blake

i. Critical Appreciation of poems


ii. Blake as a romantic poet (Blakes mysticism)
iii. Comparison & Contrast of the poems of The Song of Innocence &
The Song of Experience

Section B

1. Philip Larkin

i. Important features of Larkins poetry

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ii. Larkin as a movement poet


iii. Larkin as a poet of realism
iv. Larkins attitude towards moderns
v. Critical appreciation of poems
vi. Themes of Larkins poetry

2. Seamus Heaney

i. Critical appreciation of poems


ii. Themes
iii. Symbolism in Heaneys poetry
iv. Heaney as a poet of exile

3. Ted Hughes

i. Animal imagery in his poems


ii. Themes
iii. Critical appreciation of poems

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Paper 2 Drama

1. Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler

i. Hedda Gabler as a tragic play


ii. Psychological problems of Hedda Gabler / Character sketch of Hedda
Gabler
iii. Hedda Gabler as a tragic play

2. Beckett Waiting for Godot

i. Waiting for Godot a play about absurd


ii. Human relationships in the play
iii. Waiting for Godot as an existentialist play
iv. Different themes in the play
v. Use of Language / Role of Language
vi. Waiting for Godot as a tragi-comedy
vii. Who is Godot?
viii. Structure of the play

3. Anton Chekov The Cherry Orchard

i. Symbolism in The Cherry Orchard


ii. Theme of change
iii. The Cherry Orchard a comedy or a tragedy?
iv. Compare characters of Lopakhin and Trophimov
v. The Cherry Orchard as a social or political play

4. Edward Bond The Sea

i. Symbolism in The Sea


ii. Theme of individual and society
iii. Character sketches of main characters (Mrs. Rafi, Mr. Hatch)
iv. The Sea as a tragic-comedy

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Paper 3 Novel

1. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

i. Symbolism in Heart of Darkness


ii. Character sketch of Mr. Kurtz
iii. Character sketch of Marlow
iv. Marlow as detective of Human soul
v. Conrads treatment of women
vi. Conrads style and technique
vii. Themes (imperialism, evil)

2. Achebe Things Fall Apart

i. Significance of the Title / Theme / Impact of British arrival on Igbo


Culture
ii. Okonkwo as tragic hero
iii. Things Fall Apart as a tragedy
iv. Achebes style
v. Achebes treatment of women
vi. Comparison between Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart

3. Ahmad Ali Twilight in Delhi

i. Significance of the title Twilight in Delhi


ii. Impact of British imperialism on Muslim Culture of Delhi
iii. Characterstudy of Mir Nehal, Asghar
iv. Plight of Women
v. Themes (marriage, imperialism etc.)
vi. Ahmad Ali as a novelist
vii. Symbolism in novel

4. James Joyce Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

i. James Joyces style & technique (stream of consciousness, myth, irony,


pun, poetic diction etc.)
ii. Character sketch of Stephen Dedalus
iii. James Joyces aesthetic theory of art

5. Virginia Woolf To the Light House

i. How has Virginia Woolf used stream of consciousness technique?


ii. Symbolism in To the Light House
iii. Compare & contrast the characters of Mr. & Mrs. Ramsay
iv. Virginia Woolf as a feminist writer
v. Character study of Lime Brisko & symbolic importance of her paintings
vi. Themes of To the Light House

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Paper 4 Literary Criticism

1. Aristotle Poetics

i. Aristotles theory of imitation


ii. Catharsis
iii. Tragedy
iv. Plot-Character relationship
v. Difference between epic & tragedy
vi. Ideal Tragic hero
vii. The tragic Plot

2. Philip Sidney An Apology for Poetry

i. Sidneys arguments in favour of poetry


ii. Answers to the objections against poetry
iii. Sidneys theory of poetry
iv. Contribution of Sidney as a critic
v. Sidney as a renaissance epitome

3. T.S. Eliot The Critic (Tradition & Individual Talent)

i. Eliots concept of tradition


ii. Theory of impersonality in poetry
iii. T.S. Eliot as a critic

4. Raymond Williams Modern Tragedy

i. Summaries of 3 essays:
a. Tradition & Tragedy
b. Tragedy & contemporary ideas
c. Rejection of tragedy

ii. Raymond William as a critic


iii. Raymond Williams concept of tragedy

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