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BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY, COIMBATORE – 641046

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES
M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOR THE STUDENTS ADMITTED FROM 2011-2012 ONWARDS
SCHEME OF EXAMINATIONS
Semester Paper Subject Hrs Per University Examination

Cre
dit
Week

Duration in
Hrs

Marks*
Max.
Semester I
11ENGC01 Paper-I Chaucer & 6 3 100 4
Elizabethan Age
11ENGC02 Paper-II The Neo-Classical 6 3 100 4
Age
11ENGC03 Paper-III The Romantic Age 6 3 100 4
and The Victorian
Age
11ENGC04 Paper-IV Lingo-Literary 6 3 100 4
Studies through
Contemporary
Films
11ENGE01 Elective -I Thinking and 6 3 100 4
Cognition
11ENGS01 Supportive Essentials Of 2 2 50 2
Odd Language and
semester Communication -
Basic
Semester II
11ENGC05 Paper-V 20th Century British 6 3 100 4
Literature
11ENGC06 Paper-VI American 6 3 100 4
Literature
11ENGC07 Paper-VII Indian Writing in 6 3 100 4
English and
Commonwealth
Literature
11ENGC08 Paper-VIII Language and 6 3 100 4
Linguistics
11ENGC09 Paper-IX Reading Skills 6 3 100 4

11ENGE02 Elective –II Literature : 6 3 100 4

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Analysis,
Approaches and
Applications

11ENGS02 Supportive Listening and 2 2 50 2

Even Speaking Skills
semester
Semester III
11ENGC10 Paper-X Copy Editing 6 3 100 4

11ENGC11 Paper-XI Shakespeare 6 3 100 4

11ENGC12 Paper-XII ELT and CALL 6 3 100 4

11ENGC13 Paper-XIII Literary Theory and 6 3 100 4

Criticism
11ENGC14 Paper-XIV Academic Speaking 6 3 100 4

11ENGE03 Elective – Public Speaking, 6 3 100 4

III Journalistic and
Creative Writing

Semester IV
11ENGC15 Paper-XV Soft Skills through 6 3 100 4
Literature
11ENGC16 Paper-XVI Reference/Research 6 3 100 4
Skills
Paper-XIX Project Work - - 200 8

2,250 90 credits

* An internal assessment of 25% is included

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BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES

M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

ELIGIBITY:
A candidate who (1) has passed B.A. Degree Examination of this University with Branch
XII – English as the Main subject of study or (2) is a Graduate in B.A. and B.Sc. with part II
English, Or (3) an examination of other universities accepted by the Syndicate as equivalent
thereto shall be permitted to appear and qualify for M.A. Degree Examination of this University
in this Branch in the Department of this University.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES:

 To build further linguistic and thinking capacities of students

 To enable students to design models of interpretation and explanations through strategic

thinking

 To equip students with historical, literary and cultural dimensions of English studies

 To train students in extracting processes and principles from the prescribed texts

 To enable students to identify passages in texts for case study in

soft/communicative/cognitive skills

 To enable students write essays demonstrative of critical thinking

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SYLLABUS - SEMESTER I
M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE
SEMESTER I -PAPER I - CHAUCER AND THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
(11ENGC01)

Objectives:

 To expose students to early English Literature and transition from middle English to the
Elizabethan ethos
 To introduce students to representative texts

Unit I

Chaucer - Prologue to Canterbury Tales (The Knight, The Prioress, The Wife of
Bath, The Doctor of Physic, The Pardoner)

Unit II

John Donne - The Sun Rising, Canonisation

Unit III

Dominant Poetic Forms of the Period: Sonnet, Ballad and Lyric

Spenser - Prothalamion
Surrey - „Of Soote Season‟
Wyatt - „I find no peace and all my war is done‟
Sidney - „The Nightingale as soon as April Bringeth‟
Marlowe - „The Passionate Shepherd to his love‟
Ballads - „Sir Patrick Spenser‟; „The Wife of the Usher‟s Well‟

Unit IV

Ben Jonson - The Alchemist

John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi

Unit V

Francis Bacon - „Of Ambition‟, „Of Love‟

The Gospel According to St.Mark
(King James‟ Authorized Version)
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SEMESTER I -PAPER II - THE NEO-CLASSICAL AGE (11ENGC02)

Objectives:

 To expose students to the shift in Classical tradition in literary and political terms
 To enable students to perceive and appreciate experimentation in literary forms
 To train the students to analyze the trends in literary expression of the period

Unit I

Milton - Paradise Lost Book IX

Unit II

Marvell - „To his Coy Mistress‟

Dryden - „Absolam and Achitopel‟

Pope - „The Rape of the Lock‟

Unit III

Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer

Sheridan - The School for Scandal

Unit IV

Addison - From the Coverley Papers:

1. Sir Roger at Church

2. Sir Roger at Assizes

Jonathan Swift - The Battle of the Books

Unit V

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Gulliver‟s Travel Lilliput Section
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SEMESTER I - PAPER III -THE ROMANTIC AGE AND THE VICTORIAN AGE
(11ENGC03)

Objectives:

 To expose students to the impact of ever changing trends brought about by social and
scientific developments
 To enable them to identify and analyze diverse literary devices
 To enable them comprehend and explain the dialectic between Neo Classicism and
Romanticism

Unit I

Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Shelley - Ode to the West Wind
Wordsworth - Tintern Abbey
Keats - Ode to a Nightingale

Unit II

Tennyson - In Memoriam
Browning - My Last Duchess
Arnold - The Dover Beach

Unit III

Charles Lamb - Dissertation upon a Roast Pig

Arnold - Sweetness and Light
William Hazlitt - My First Acquaintance with Poets
Carlyle - On Shakespeare (The Hero as Poet)

Unit IV

Wilde - Lady Windermere‟s Fan

UNIT V

Jane Austen - Emma

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
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SEMESTER I –PAPER IV- LINGO –LITERARY STUDIES THROUGH
CONTEMPORARY FILMS (11ENGC04)
SYLLABUS

Aims and objectives

1. Enhancing the English pronunciation

2. Learning contemporary jargons, slangs and dialects
3. Enriching the mainstream cultural awareness
4. Introducing modern technologies and its diversified usages
5. Exploring to new environment and location
6. Creating language learning process in fun and novel way

Scope of the film based curriculum

It employs two channels–sound and image–and it is culturally ambiguous, blurring

distinctions between art, entertainment and mass communication. This course is prepared
to view films and art and read works of literature intellectually, artistically, critically, and
analytically and be able to express these ideas both orally and in written form, and
demonstrate a knowledge of the history, conventions and practices of these industries and
their interrelation to each other.

Movies chosen for the course

1. The brave heart

2. Sound of music
3. Waterloo bridge
4. A beautiful mind
5. American splendor

Teaching and testing

1. Analyze various film techniques and genres to attain a greater understanding and
appreciation of the artistic quality of film.
2. Analyze various literary techniques and genres to attain a greater understanding
and appreciation of the artistic quality of literature.
3. Analyze various art techniques and genres to attain a greater understanding and
appreciation of the artistic quality of visual works.
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4. Demonstrate an understanding of the impact that history, politics and technology

have had and continue to have upon the film, art and literature produced.
5. Express the way that society impacts films, art and literature and the way films,
art and literature impact society.
6. Explain the ways that film, art and literature influence and are influenced by each
other.
7. Come to conclusions about the roles of film, art and literature in society and
determine their responsibilities to society and to each other.

Film and understanding students’ perspectives

1. The student will read/view tests with understanding and appreciation, reacting to
and analyzing what he or she has read/seen, by the date(s) they are to be discussed.
2. The student will participate actively to lectures and discussions, asking/submitting
questions for clarification on ideas or issues, if needed.
3. The student will participate in discussion, offering his or her insights about the
literature or asking the class or instructor for clarification on material he or she
does not completely understand.
4. The student will integrate and cite accurately information of other writers, critics,
or scholars, using those other opinions, beliefs and /or observations to support his
or her own opinions, beliefs and/or observations.
5. The student will synthesize lecture, discussion and text materials to come to a
more solid world view on the impact these arts have and have had upon history,
society, and the art world and vice versa.
6. Students will respect each other‟s personal beliefs and be committed to helping
each other learn more about the course information and themselves. Students will
help each other become more confident in his or her own unique personal voice
and see the authority in his or her own personal experience.
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ELECTIVE I : SEMESTER I - THINKING AND COGNITION (11ENGE01)
Objectives:
 To orient students to form perspectives on thinking and cognition
 To enable students to reflect on their own thinking and cognitive processes
and develop skills.

Unit I:

“The Nature of Thinking and Thinking Skills” - pp. 8-23

Frameworks for thinking :

A Handbook for Teaching
David Mosley et. al.
Cambridge University Press
 Metacognition and Theory of Mind by Eleonora Papaleon Liou Lauca – Cambridge
Scholar publisher
Unit II:
The Six-Thinking Hats Method (Edward De Bono)

 Applied Metacognition – Timothy J.Perfect, Bennett L.Schwartz – Cambridge University

Press
Unit III:

“Cognitive Psychological Foundations of Narrative Experiences” – pp. 33-52

Richard J.Gerrig and Giovanna Egidi in Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences

Ed.David Herman, CSLI Publications

 Psychology of Intelligence Analysis – Richards J.Heuer, Jr.center of the study of

Intelligence/ Center Intelligence Agency 1999
Unit IV:

“Multiple Intelligences” – pp. 113-124

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

Richards and Rodgers, Cambridge University Press

Unit V:

 “Neuro Linguistic Programming” – pp. 125-131

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
 Richards and Rodgers, Cambridge University Press
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SEMESTER II - PAPER V - 20th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (11ENGC05)

Objectives:

 To sensitize students to the momentous changes in the 20th century, especially, literature
 To enable them to understand experimental and innovative techniques used in literature
 To make clear the idea that changes in human experience demand changes in mode of
expression

Unit I

T.S.Eliot - The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

W.B.Yeats - The Second Coming

Unit II

Hopkins - The Wreck of the Deutschland

Seamus Heaney - The Tollund Man

Unit III

Beckett - Waiting for Godot

Osborne - Look Back in Anger

Unit IV

Orwell - Politics and the English Language

D.H.Lawrence - Why the Novel Matters?

Unit V

Woolf - Mrs.Dalloway

D.H.Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

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SEMESTER II - PAPER VI - AMERICAN LITERATURE (11ENGC06)

Objectives :

 To help students build knowledge levels needed to form a perspective in American

Literature
 To enable them to develop an idea of how literature in US evolved

Unit I

Walt Whitman - Passage to India

Emily Dickinson - Success is counted sweetest

A bird came down the walk

Unit II

Frost - The Road not taken

Sylvia Plath - Daddy

Unit III

O‟Neill - Long Day‟s Journey into the Night

Marsha Norman - „Night Mother

Unit IV

Emerson - Self-Reliance

Thoreau - Walden (Chapters 1,2,17)

Unit V

Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King

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SEMESTER II -PAPER VII - INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH AND
COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE (11ENGC07)

Objectives :

 To enable students to form an overview of literatures in Commonwealth Nations

 To help students capture the tenor and manner of expression in writings by non-native
user of English

Unit I

Aurobindo - Thought the Paraclete

Nissim Ezekiel - Farewell Party to Miss.Pushpa T.
A.D.Hope - Australia
F.R.Scott - Canadian Authors Meet

Unit II

Tagore - Gitanjali (Songs 1-50)

Unit III

Girish Karnad - Nagamandala

Wole Soyinka - The Lion and the Jewel

Unit IV

Nehru - From Nehru‟s The Discovery of India

Chapter IV – „The Discovery of India‟

Chinua Achebe - The Novelist as a Teacher

Unit V

Salman Rushdie - Midnight‟s Children

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

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SEMESTER II - PAPER VIII – LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (11ENGC08)
SYLLABUS
Objectives :
To enable students to know and form ideas on
 Growth and development of English
 Its structural, grammatical and functional aspects
 Language‟s links with society, culture and literature
Unit I
The History of English Language

The Descent of the English Language. The Old English Period : The Middle English
Period; The Renaissance & After; The Growth of Vocabulary, Change of Meaning, The
Evolution of Standard English.
F.T.Wood : An Outline History of English language

Unit II
Phonology
Transcription , The Syllable, Received Pronunciation and the need for a model, Accent, Rhythm
and Intonation, Assimilation, Elision, Liaison and Juncture.

T.Balasubramanian : A Text book of English Phonetics for Indian students

Unit III
Levels of Linguistic Analysis

Morphology, Semantics and Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis.

George Yule : The Study of Language, Second Edition, Cambridge

University Press, 1996.
Unit IV
Sociolinguistics
Language varieties, language, society and culture

George Yule : The Study of Language, Second Edition, OUP, 1996.

Verma and Krishnaswamy : Modern Linguistics

Unit V
‘Language and Literature’
(From Modern Applied Linguistics)
N.Krishnaswamy et al-Macmillan (PP. 133-186)
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SEMESTER II - PAPER IX – READING SKILLS (11ENGC09)
SYLLABUS

Objectives:

 To enable the student to see the outline of ideas and organization of ideas in
what is being read
 To improve each individual student‟s reading skill level
 To reflect upon techniques and the need for flexibility in reading and
identifying occasions for their use
 To identify and use test preparation and test taking strategies

Unit – I

Reading a conceptual definition- reading in the complexity of language skills –

importance of reading – reading in English and its special relevance to India – traditional
approaches to reading – reading and study skills in science – the process, purposes and
pedagogy of reading – reading speed and comprehension – types of reading – different
perceptions of reading – factors effecting reading – reading research.

Unit – II

Vocabulary Development Strategies – Context clues – Methods of remembering words,

such as word webs, concept cards, and associations in phrases, sounds, images – Explicit and
implicit main ideas – Active Reading Strategy – Inferential Comprehension – Differentiation
among report, inference and judgment – Argumentation – skilled reading and language
development.

Unit – III

Surveying a textbook – scanning – using an index – reading with a purpose – making predictions
about reading – Surveying a chapter – unfamiliar words -connections between facts and ideas –
locating main points – understanding text structure – making inferences – reading graphics –
identifying viewpoints – reading critically – analyzing argument
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Unit – IV
Assessment :
Effective study reading skills: SQ3R technique - Diagnostic Reading Test – reader – Learning
rate skills: skimming, scanning, rapid reading – online testing – reading comprehension
measures.

Unit – V
Practical’s

Practice accurate and fluent reading in decoding stories – develop and comprehend new
vocabulary – comprehension strategies – Thinking and reading – reading fluency – online
reading – newspaper reading – Reading graphics – Learning how to think and read critically
– Learning how to become flexible reader

Reference:

 Developing Reading Skills –Franwise Grellet Cambridge Language Teaching Library

 Ways of Reading 2nd Edition, Martin Montgomery and Sara Mills
 Scientific Studies of Reading- Richard Lenezky and John.P.Sabatini Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates
 Reading Across the life Span – Steven R.Yussn M.Cecil Smith, Springer – veglag
 Handbook of reading research, vol II
 Rebecca Barr and P.David Pearson Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
 Thinking and Learning Skills Vol-I – relating instruction to research – Judith.W.Segal
and Robert Glaser Lawrence, Erlbaum Associates
 Research Based methods of Reading instruction – Sharon Vaughn Sylvia Linan –
Thompson ASCD publications
 Teaching reading comprehension to students with learning Difficulties – Janette
K.Khingner and Alison Boardman the Gvilfood press
 Study Reading – Second edition – Eric H.G.lendinning and Beverly Holmstrom-
Cambridge University Press
 Effective Reading – Reading skills for advanced students – Simon Greenall and Michael
swan – Cambridge University Press
 Focus on Reading – Lois Lowry – Saddleback Educational Publishing
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SEMESTER II – ELECTIVE - II (11ENGE02)
LITERATURE: ANALYSIS, APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS
Objectives:
 To orient students in the basics of literary interpretation
 To train the students in writing book reviews, design and preparation of user manuals and
ads
Unit I

Practical Criticism - Rhythm, Rhyme, Drama, Fiction, Prose

Drama
Congreve, The Way of the World (Act IV, Sc i)
Shakespeare, King Lear (Act III, Sc iv)
Webster, Duchess of Malfi, (Act V, Sc iii)
Fiction
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Descriptions of the Journey down the river
Dickens, Bleak House
The passage on fog
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Passage where Mrs. Ramsay tries to comfort her son James
Prose
Extract form Arnold‟s „Culture and Anarchy‟
Extract from Russell‟s „Unpopular Essays‟
Extract from Swift‟s „The Battle of the Books‟

Unit II
Book Review - Novel, Drama, Collection (Articles/Essays)
(A book review to be written by every student on a book of his /her
choice from the categories mentioned))
Unit III
User Manual - Mobile Phone, Mixie, Automobile, Car/Two wheeler
(Each student to design steps for any one operation in the
categories mentioned)
Unit IV
Advertising - Academic Programme, Dress, Computer
(Each student to design an ad in the categories mentioned on a
product/ program of his / her choice)
Unit V
Technical Writing - (Basics of Technical Writing; Effective Technical Writing)
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SEMESTER III – PAPER X - COPY EDITING (11ENGC10)

Objectives:

 To train students in the basics of copy editing

 To give them practical orientation in copy editing

Unit I - Introduction

1. What is copy editing?

2. Typescripts : hard-copy, electronic and camera-ready
3. Capturing the text electronically
4. Typescripts corrected by the author
5. Author-generated camera-ready copy and print-ready files
6. Copy editing on-screen

Unit II - Preliminary copy-editing, design and specimen pages

Briefing the designer

Unit III

Preparing the text for the typesetter

1. Various legal aspects

2. Writing to the author
3. Numbering systems

Unit IV

1. Marking up the typescript

2. Copyright permissions and acknowledgements
3. Jacket and cover copy

Unit V

Proof correction symbols (PP 479 - 484)

From Butcher’s Copy-editing, CAMBRIDGE PP. 1-116

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SEMESTER III - PAPER XI - SHAKESPEARE (11ENGC11)

Objectives:
 To enable students to establish Shakespeare‟s importance to English Literature and
Language
 To enable them to identify communicative strategies in the prescribed plays
 To orient them to a concrete understanding of his „Universality‟ which means his ability
to communicate to all sections of society and all times
 To train them to recognize and appreciate his skills as a Wordsmith

Unit I :
Macbeth

Unit II :
As you like it

Unit III :
Richard II

Unit IV :
Sonnet 30,60 and 130

Unit V :
1. Elizabethan Theatre and Audience
2. Contemporary Approaches: Feminist and Post-Colonial
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SEMESTER III - PAPER XII - ELT and CALL (11ENGC12)

Objectives:

 To sustain and enhance bilingualism

 To equip students with the ability to read, write with understanding and to make them
autonomous learners
 To enhance the competence of understanding by making connections and drawing on
experiences
 To enable students to employ communicative skills in a variety of situations
 To encourage holistic perspective on language proficiency
 To make the students comprehend the importance of communications technology in
providing universal access to learning
 To expose the students to the methods of language teaching

Unit I:

Major language trends in Twentieth Century Language Teaching

1. A brief history of Language Teaching

2. The nature of approaches and methods in Language Teaching
3. The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching

Unit II:
1. Competency- based Language Teaching
2. Communicative Language Teaching
3. Content- based instructions
4. Task-based Language Teaching
5. Blended Teaching method

Unit III:
1. Teaching, Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
2. English for specific purposes
3. Teaching English in multilingual societies
4. Research in Second language acquisition
5. Teaching large classes and mixed ability classes
6. Strategies and techniques for effective self study
7. A perspective on recent trends
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Unit IV:
1. CALL and Communication
2. Enhancing Language Learning
3. Using Technology – Internet, Mobile, Smart Classroom, web resources, ipod
4. Online Teaching, Learning and Assessment
5. Integrated technology and Learning
6. e-content development
7. Developing Blog

Unit V:
Practical

1. Using oral approach or situational Language Teaching

2. Content-based instruction
3. Teaching any one of LSRW skills
4. Voice and accent training using software
5. Teaching practice – Extension activity

References:

1. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

Jack.C.Richards and Theodore Rodgers
2. Speaking and Learning Skills II
3. Communicative Skills
4. Teacher Knowledge Test
Cambridge University Press
5. A history of English Language, Teaching, Second Edition A.P.R Howett with
H.G.Widdowson
6. Developments in English for Specific Norms: A multi-disciplinary approach. Cambridge,
England. Dudley – Evans.T. and St. John.M.J.(1998) Cambrdge University Press.
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SEMESTER III -PAPER XIII - LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
(11ENGC13)

Objectives :

 To introduce students to one of the most enabling forms of literary study

 To train students to analyze literary writings, based on ever evolving traditions of
criticism
 To sensitize students to transition from Humanistic to Modern to Postmodern critical
traditions
 To enable students comprehend dominance of theory in the Postmodern phase

Unit I

Introduction to classical criticism. Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus and Sanskrit

aesthetics :
Rasa, Dhvani, Literary genres, names and features of poetics, theme and technique of plot
construction, other aspects of criticism

Unit II

Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare

William Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Unit III

Arnold - Study of Poetry

T.S.Eliot - Tradition and the Individual Talent

Unit IV
Cleanth Brooks - The Language of Paradox
Northrop Frye - Archetypes of Literature

Unit V

Georg Lucas - Ideology of Modernism

Roland Barthes - Death of the Author
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SEMESTER III - PAPER XIV - ACADEMIC SPEAKING (11ENGC14)
SYLLABUS

Objectives:
 To train students in preparing and delivering lectures
 To coach students in Note Taking
 To enable students to move from text-bound answers to those born of reflection,
introspection on their experience of performing
 To train students in spoken academic tasks
 To enable students to write answers on doing aspects

Unit I

 Lecture Styles and Lecture Structure

 Listening cues

Unit II
 Informal Language and Lecture Length
 Structuring a lecture (Students are to design a lecture structure)

Unit III

Asking questions in lecture

Unit IV

 Seminars
 Oral Presentation

Unit V

 Verbalising data
 Individual Speech difficulties

Reference :

R.R.Jordan, English for Academic Purposes, Cambridge University Press.

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SEMESTER III - ELECTIVE III - PUBLIC SPEAKING, JOURNALISTIC AND
CREATIVE WRITING (11ENGE03)

Unit I :
Introduction to Public Speaking
Audience, Context, Speaker, Speech Planning Process, Speech making process, Speech
effectiveness

Unit II :
Developing Confidence through the Speech Planning Process
Understanding Public Speaking Apprehension
Signs of Speech Apprehension, Causes of Speech Apprehension, Idea level of
Apprehension
Overcoming Public Speaking Apprehension
General methods, Specific techniques
Confidence through Effective Public Speaking

Step 1 : Select appropriate speech goal

Step 2 : Understand audience
Step 3 : Gather and Evaluate information
Step 4 : Organize and develop ideas into speech outline
Step 5 : Choose appropriate visual aids
Step 6 : Practise the wording and delivery of speech

Unit III :
Informative Speaking

Characteristics : Intellectual stimulation, Creativity, Emphasis to aid Memory

Methods of Informing : Description, Definition, Comparison and Contrast, Narration,
Demonstration

(Rudolff F.Verderber and Kathleen S. Verderber, The Challenge of Effective

Speaking, Thomson Wadsworth 13th ed., 2006, Unit I : pp 1-12, Unit II : pp 23-31, Unit
III : pp 215-239).

Unit IV :
Journalistic Writing
Sports column
Film Review
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Unit V :
Creative Writing
Short Story

Major Aspects :
 Emotional
 Rational
 Psychological
 Aesthetic
 Compositional
 Sociological

M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER IV-PAPER XV - SOFT SKILLS THROUGH LITERATURE
- Personal qualities
(11ENGC15)
Objectives :

 To train students in study of character/ human behaviour

 To use characters from classics/their behaviour as parallels to reflect and introspect on
their own behaviour
 To enable them in the use of right effects and develop skills in bringing personal
emotions under the scanner of cognition
 To train them in the use of characters / interactions from literature and other areas listed
as case studies

Unit I

Responsibility / Altruism - Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities

Unit II

Self - esteem - Shakespeare, Corialanus, Corialanus

Unit III

Sociability - Shakespeare, As You Like It, Rosalind

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Unit IV

Self-Management - Shakespeare, Hamlet, Hamlet

Unit V

Integrity / Honesty - Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Enobarbus

Case Writing – Areas:

1. Literature
2. Movies
3. Commercials
4. Popular Literature
5. Comics

Reading material for forming conceptual overview

“The Personal Intelligences”

Frames of Mind : The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner (pp 237-276)

PROJECT WORK

Objectives:

 To introduce students to the art of research

Based on the project work the students are to be tested for their ability to

 Identify and state the research problem

 Conduct survey
 Select relevant data from primary sources
 Make intelligent inferences
 Use logic and analysis
 Design model of interpretation and apply it

Research Methodology
Joseph Gibaldi, MLA, Handbook, 6th Ed.
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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER IV -PAPER XVI - REFERENCE / RESEARCH SKILLS (11ENGC16)
SYLLABUS
Objectives

 To provide practice in reference / research skills

Unit I

Dictionaries

Unit II

Dictionary Practice

Unit III

Books

Unit IV

Using the Library

Unit V

References

R.R.Jordan, English for Academic Purposes, Cambridge University Press.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES

SUPPORTIVE PAPER (ODD SEMESTER)
ESSENTIALS OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION BASIC
(11ENGS01)
SYLLABUS

Objectives :

 To provide recap of grammar learnt at school

 To sensitize students to processes and behavior in communication
 To train students to perform well in Group Discussions and Interviews

Unit I

Recap of Grammar I

- Parts of Speech
- Active and Passive Voice

Unit II

Recap of Grammar II

- Tense Forms
- Simple, Compound and Complex Sentence
-

Unit III

Introduction to Communication – LSRW

Unit IV

Group Discussion

Unit V

Interview Skills
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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES

SUPPORTIVE PAPER (EVEN SEMESTER)
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS (11ENGS02)
SYLLABUS

Objectives:

 To refresh basic grammar skills

 To hone listening skills
 To provide practice in pronunciation and spoken tasks

Unit I
 Subject-Verb Agreement
 Active and Passive Voice
 Prepositions

Unit II

 Why and How We Listen

 What People Say
 What People Mean
 How People Speak
 How People Organize Speech

Unit III

 The Syllable
 Word Stress
 Problem Sounds
 Reducing Mother Tongue Interference

Unit IV

 The Art of Small Talk

 A Casual Conversation

Unit V

 Types of Calls
 Telephone Etiquette
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Attention – Question Paper Setters

Each section of the question paper must carry

questions from all the units.
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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER I– PAPER – I – CHAUCER AND ELIZABETHAN AGE
(11ENGC01)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three Hours Maximum : 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. Chaucer‟s use of dress to indicate character

2. The phoenix symbol in „Canonisation‟
3. The significance of the refrain in Spenser‟s „Prothalamion‟
4. The theory of humour in „The Alchemist‟
5. The parable of the sower in „The Gospel According‟ to St.Mark‟

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Explain how Chaucer deals with the character of the Prioress.

Or
Critically examine Chaucer‟s depiction of The Wife of Bath.

2. Account for Donne‟s playful audacity in „The Sun Rising.‟

Or
Do you think „Canonisation‟ is an apt title for the poem? Discuss.

3. What are the typical characteristics of the ballad? Discuss with reference to the
prescribed poems.
Or
Comment on the word pictures Spenser creates in „Prothalamion.‟

4. Write a critical note on Epicure Mammon in „The Alchemist.‟

Or
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What dramatic role do violence and horror play in „The Duchess of Malfi.‟

5. How uncharacteristic is Bacon‟s treatment of love?

Or
Explain in detail the parable of the vineyard in „The Gospel According to
Sr.Mark.‟

Section C

Answer three of the following (3x15=45 marks)

Write essays in about 500 words

1. Bring out Chaucer‟s strengths in characterization.

2. It is the quality of „uniqueness‟ that makes Donne‟s poetry great. Discuss with reference
to the prescribed poems.

3. Attempt a brief survey of Elizabethan lyric poetry.

4. Explain the use of comic intrigue in „The Alchemist‟ with specific instances from
the play.
5. List the features of Bacon‟s style and analyse selectively their employment in the
prescribed essays.

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER I – PAPER II – THE NEO-CLASSICAL AGE
(11ENGC02)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three Hours Maximum : 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. Satan‟s reaction on seeing Eve in the garden

2. The figure of the king as expressed in the opening lines of „Absolam and
Achitophel‟
3. Tony Lumpkin in „She Stoops to Conquer‟
4. What do the two mountain peaks refer to in „The Battle of the Books‟
5. Friday in „Robinson Crusoe‟

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Comment on Eve‟s decision to work all by herself and the ensuing debate with Adam.
Or
Describe the eloquent argument of the serpent to convince Eve.

2. Identify and list the features of Restoration literature in „Absolam and Achitophel.‟
Or
Bring out the characteristics of metaphysical poetry found in Marvell‟s „To His
Coy Mistress.‟

3. Comment on the Hardcastles in „She Stoops to Conquer.‟

Or
Describe Peter Teazle-Lady Teazle quarrel emphasizing the humour involved.

4. Give an account of Sir Roger‟s experience at the Church.

Or
Comment on the debate between the spider and the bee in „The Battle of the
Books.‟
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5. Describe Crusoe‟s attempts at and experience of farming on the island.

Or
Consider „Gulliver‟s Travels‟ as belonging to Travel Literature.

Section C

Answer Three of the following (3x15=45 marks)

Write essays in about 500 words

1. Explain the circumstances leading to Satan‟s success in making Eve eat the
fruit of the Forbidden tree.

2. Assess Dryden as a satirist with reference to „Absolam and Achitophel.‟

3. Write an essay highlighting the comic intrigue in „The School for Scandal.‟

4. Comment on the prose style of Addison with reference to the essays prescribed.

5. How successful do you think, is „Robinson Crusoe‟ as a tale of adventure?

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER I - PAPER – III – THE ROMANTIC AGE AND THE VICTORIAN
AGE
(11ENGC03)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three Hours Maximum : 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. The Albatross in „The Ancient Mariner‟

2. The implied listener in „My Last Duchess‟
3. Lamb‟s panegyric on the roast pig
4. Oscar Wilde‟s epigrammatic style
5. Sense of family in Emma

Section B

Answer all the questions

Write in about 200 words on the following (5x4=20 marks)

1. How does Shelley suggest the power of the West Wind?

Or
Comment on the sense of sadness conveyed by „Ode to a Nightingale.‟

2. Comment on the elegiac elements in Tennyson‟s „In Memoriam.‟

Or
Describe the ambience evoked in „The Dover Beach.‟

3. How does Lamb combine pathos and humour in „Dream Children :

A Reverie.‟
Or
List and explain the key ideas expressed by Arnold in „Sweetness and Light‟.
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4. Give a character sketch of Lady Windermere.

Or

Comment on the use of irony in „Lady Windermere‟s Fan.‟

5. Show how „Emma‟ effects an interaction of social and moral worlds.

Or
The sense of place dominates „Wuthering Heights.‟ Elucidate.

Section C

Answer Three of the following (3x15=45marks)

Write essays in about 500 words.

1. „The Ancient Mariner‟ is an exemplary ballad conveying a tale of supernatural events and
horror. Discuss.

2. Critically analyse „My Last Duchess‟ as a dramatic monologue.

3. Assess Lamb as an essayist with reference to the prescribed essays.

4. Single out three humour-generating instances from „Lady Windermere‟s Fan‟

and show how they are structured to achieve the purpose.

5. Do you think Emma can be considered an exercise in the depiction of

education of Emma, the character? Build up an argument.

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER I – PAPER IV
LINGO-LITERARY STUDIES THROUGH CONTEMPORARY FILMS (11ENGC04)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three Hours Maximum : 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. Vowels in English
2. Jargons
3. Dialect
4. Usage
5. Appreciation skill
Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Write the story of „The brave heart‟.

Or
Write about the hero of the Brave heart.

2. What does the film „Sound of Music‟ tell you?

Or
Describe the climax of the film sound of music.

3. Who are the major characters of the film waterloo bridge.

Or
Explain a cultural entity depicted in the film waterloo bridge.

4. Write a short note on the story of American splendor.

Or
Write about the film of “A beautiful mind‟.
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5. Write five new expressions which you learnt from the films you have seen.
Or
List out some slangs which you have learnt from the movie which you have seen.

Section C

Answer three of the following (3x15=45 marks)

Write essays in about 500 words

1. Enlist the artistic qualities of the film Brave heart.

2. Write about the historical facts found in the film „The Brave Heart‟.

3. Compare the cultural traits expressed in the sound of music and „A Beautiful Mind‟.

4. What was the social context for the film of Beautiful Mind?

5. How do you rate the film waterloo bridge among the five films you saw?

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

ELECTIVE I : THINKING AND COGNITION (11ENGE01)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three Hours Maximum : 75 marks

Section A

Write Short Notes on the following (50 words)

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

1. Metacognition
2. Black Hat thinking
3. Constructionist theory
4. Naturalist intelligence
5. The meaning of the word Linguistic‟ in the term Neurolinguistic programming

Section B

Answer all the questions in about 100 words (5x4=20 marks)

1. Dewey‟s classification of thinking.

Or
Sociological perspectives on thinking.

2. Explain „White Hat Thinking‟ with illustrations.

Or
Explain „Red Hat Thinking‟ and write two questions appropriate to this type of
thinking.

3. Theories of Narrative Experience.

Or
Reader Assessment of the future and the past.

4. How does Gardner defend his Eight dimensional model of intelligence.

Or
Lazear‟s development of Sequence.
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5. What was the purpose Grindler and Bandler developed Neurolinguistic

programming (NLP) for?
Or
Comment on Revell and Norman‟s explanation of NLP.

Section C

Answer any three of the following in about 300 words (3x15=45 marks)

1. Can Thinking be taught – Discuss.

2. Why does Edward de Bono think that Blue Hat is the most important Hat – Explain with
example.

3. What are the goals of Cognitive psychological research.

4. List the eight intelligences suggesting two language learning activities for each.

5. Comment briefly on the origin, development and practice of NLP.

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER II – PAPER V - 20th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
(11ENGC05)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Time :Three Hours Maximum : 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words.

1. Spiritus Mundi
2. Inscape and Instress
3. Literary allusions in Look Back in Anger
4. Dying metaphors
5. Oedipus complex

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following

1. The fog imagery in „Prufrock‟

Or
The falcon and falconer in “The Second Coming”

2. How relevant is section one of the poem “The Wreck of Deutschland?”

Or
Seamus Heaney‟s reverential attitude to the past.

3. The boy in Waiting for Godot

Or
The use of role play in Look Back in Anger

4. What maladies, according to Orwell, ail the English Language?

Or
D.H. Lawrence‟s attitude towards the human body.
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5. Stream of consciousness.
Or
Miriam in Sons and Lovers.

Section C

Answer any three of the following

Write essays in about 500 words (3x15=45 marks)

1. Critically analyse the character of Prufrock.

2. Historical analogy, myth and emotion characterize Heaney‟s poetry. Elucidate.

3. Do you think the subtitle „A Tragi comedy in Two Acts‟ is apt for Waiting for
Godot?

4. Give an account of Orwell‟s diagnosis of the illness of English Language.

5. Discuss the characters and characterization in Mrs. Dalloway.

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER II – PAPER VI - AMERICAN LITERATURE (11ENGC06)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Time :Three Hours Maximum :75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words.

1. Whitman‟s free verse
2. Road as metaphor in „The Road not Taken‟
3. The mother figure in „Night Mother‟
4. Nature in „Walden‟
5. The King and the Dauphin in Hucklberry Finn

Section B
Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following.

1. Comment on the democratic spirit expressed in “Passage to India”.
Or
Emily Dickinsons‟s poetic style.

2. Bring out the underlying philosophical idea in Frost‟s “The Road not Taken.”
Or
Describe the „tone of vehemence‟ in Plath‟s „Daddy.‟

3. Comment on the title, “Long Day‟s Journey into the Night.”

Or
The attitude to suicide in „Night Mother‟.

4. Bring out the transcendental elements in „Self-reliance‟.

Or
Highlight the descriptive power of Thoreau with reference to Walden.
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5. Tom‟s plan for Jim‟s rescue.

Or
Henderson‟s encounter with the Arnewi tribe.

Section C

Answer any three of the following (3x15=45 marks)

Write essays in about 500 words

1. Give an account of Whitman‟s celebration in “Passage to India” of the two

technological feats.

2. Attempt a detailed critical estimate of “The Road Not Taken.”

3. Bring out the main thematic concerns of the play Long Day‟s Journey into the
Night.

4. Emerson‟s ideas in „Self-Reliance‟ are democratic and ennobling. Elucidate.

5. Trace the development of Huckleberry Finn‟s character.

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER II – PAPER VII
INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH AND COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(11ENGC07)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Time :Three Hours Maximum:75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. To which country is Miss. Pushpa .T departing?
2. Justify the title – „Gitanjali‟.
3. Who represents African culture in the play „The Lion and the Jewel‟?
4. Briefly discuss the language of „Discovery‟.
5. Does Okonkwo love his daughter? Quote two incidents.

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Write a short note on Social Balance in A.D. Hope‟s „Australia‟.

Or
Write a brief note on trends in Commonwealth and Indian English Literature with
reference to the prescribed poems.

2. What do you think is Tagore‟s attitude towards ritual in religion?

Or
Give a note on imagery of God in „Gitanjali‟.

3. Kurudava in „Nagamandala‟ blind but intelligent – Establish.

Or
What do you think of Lakunle‟s character. Is he merely a comic figure?

4. What are the autobiographical elements in „Discovery of India‟?

Or
Read „Discovery‟ as a postcolonial text.
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5. Who is the protagonist of Midnight‟s Children? Why is he known so?

Or
Things Fall Apart is an extensive record of the life and culture of the Ibo People – Give a
brief note.

Section C

Answer three of the following: (3x15=45)

Write in about 500 words

1. Discuss the Soul‟s Journey to a superior realm with reference to Aurobindo‟s „Thought
the Paraclete‟.

2. Consider „Gitanjali‟ as a Bakti poem.

3. Write a critical appreciation of the play „Nagamandala‟.

4. Give a critical analysis of the form of „Discovery‟.

5. Discuss Midnight‟s Children as an allegory.

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER II – PAPER VIII -LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (11ENGC08)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER
Time :Three Hours Maximum :75 marks

SECTION-A

ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words.

1. Write a brief note on the origin of language

2. RP
3. Write a brief note on discourse writing
4. Idiolect
5. Diachronic and synchronic study of language

SECTION-B

Answer all the questions write in about 100 words on the following. (5x4=20 marks)

1. List out the foreign influences on English vocabulary.

Or
Choose any four methods in the growth of vocabulary and explain them with examples.

2. TRANSCRIBE THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE

How Old is the Earth?

This is a question to which we may never have the exact answer. Man has wondered
about the age of the earth since ancient times. There were all kinds of stories that seemed to
have the answer. But man could not begin to think about the question scientifically until about
400 years ago.
Or
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Explain assimilation and elision.

3. Free morphemes and bound morphemes.

Or
What is pragmatics?

4. Illustrate the varieties of language with suitable examples.

Or
Write a brief note on language and society.

5. Consider stylistics as a tool of literary interpretation.

Or
What is deconstruction?

SECTION-C

Answer three of the following in about 300 words (3x15=45 marks)

1. What were the features of Germanic languages and how did they lead to the development of
the English language?

2. Establish the importance of accent, intonation and rhythm.

3. Explain the different aspects of discourse analysis with examples.

4. Describe the relationship between language and culture.

5. Write an essay on the origin and development of stylistics.

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER II – PAPER IX - READING SKILLS (11ENGC09)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three Hours Maximum: 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words.

1. Types of reading
2. Active reading strategy
3. Reading graphics
4. Reading Comprehension
5. Newspaper reading
Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following.

1. What are the factors effecting reading?

Or
Discuss about importance of reading.

2. Write about skilled reading.

Or
Vocabulary Development Strategies.

3. What is the connection between facts and ideas?

Or
How to make prediction about reading?

4. How to read more rapidly?

Or

What are the reading comprehension measures?

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5. Give an account on online reading.

Or
How thinking and reading is related?

Section C

Answer any three of the following. (3x15=45)

Write essays in about 500 words

1. Discuss about the process, purpose and pedagogy of reading.

2. Explain Inferential Comprehension in detail.

3. What are the ways to understand text structure?

4. Explain in detail SQ3R technique.

5. How to become a flexible reader?

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER II – ELECTIVE II (11ENGE02)
LITERATURE: ANALYSIS, APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS
MODEL QUESTION PAPER
Time :Three Hours Maximum:75 marks

Section A
Answer all the questions (3x5=15 marks)
Write in about 50 words on the following
1. Explain the following

Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Or
Examine how Conrad uses words to evoke atmosphere.

2. List and describe the various stanza forms.

Or
How is technical writing different from creative writing?

3. What are the requirements for technical writing?

Or
Explain the rules of sentence structure.
Section B

Answer all the questions (3x20=60 marks)

4. Write a book review in about 500 words on a

Novel
Or
Drama

5. Design steps for any one operation in

Mobile Phone
Or
Car
6. Design an advertisement for
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Academic Programme
Or
Dress
M. A. ENGLISH LITERATURE
SEMESTER III – PAPER X
COPY EDITING (11ENGC10)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three hours 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x3=15 marks)

Write on the following in about 100 words

1. Copy editor‟s role

2. Headings
3. Libel
4. Double-page spreads
5. Covering Note

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x12=60 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Explain various kinds of editing.

Or
Describe the stages in copy editing on screen.

2. Give an account of preliminary copy editing.

Or
State how to brief the designer.

3. Explain various legal aspects.

Or
What are the things one should remember in writing to the author?

4. Explain how to mark the types.

Or
Why are copy right permissions important?
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5. Proof read the following passage.

(No choice)

Passage :

For every correction two marks are to be awarded subject to the maximum of eight.

The arti ficial ways of inducing sleep are leion, and are only A like in their ineffectuality.
In Lavengro (or is it Romany Rye?) there is an impossible character a victim of insomnia, who
finds that a volume of Wordsworth‟s poems is the only sure soporific but that was borrow‟s
malice. The famous old plan of counting sheep jumping over a stile has never served my turn. I
have hedred imaginary sheep until they insisted on turning themselves into white bears or blue
pigs, and I defy any reasonable man to fall asleep while mustering a herd of cerulean swine.
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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER III – PAPER XI - SHAKESPEARE (11ENGC11)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three hours 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. Banquo‟s ghost
2. Old Adam in As You Like It
3. Richard‟s moment of self- realization in the abdication scene
4. The Dark lady of the sonnets
5. Pit

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Show how Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth in the murder of King Duncan.
Or
Describe the first meeting between the three witches and Macbeth.

2. What dramatic function is served by Celia in As You Like It.

Or
Analyse the melancholic strain in Jacques.

3. Give an account of the murder of Richard the Second.

Or
Comment on the plot against Bolingbroke‟s life.

4. Examine how Time is a major preoccupation in Shakespeare‟s sonnets.

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Or
Comment on Shakespeare‟s admiration for his friend of the Sonnets.

5. List and describe some of the theatrical devices employed on the Elizabethan Stage.
Or

How relevant do you think is the feminist approach to interpreting Shakespeare plays.

Section C

Answer any three of the following in about 500 words (3x15=45 marks)

1. In spite of his ghastly deeds we seem to sympathize with Macbeth at the time of his
fall. In what way, in your opinion, is the final soliloquy a cause for that?

2. What features of the Romantic Comedy does Shakespeare use in As You Like It?

3. Compare and contrast the character of Richard the Second before and after his fall.

4. Examine the treatment of the theme of love in Shakespeare‟s sonnets.

5. Write an essay on the Elizabethan audience emphasizing their taste and preferences.
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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER III – PAPER X - ELT and CALL (10ENGC12)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three hours 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. Grammar Translation method

2. Individualized student-centered instruction
3. The role of instructional material
4. Effective Listening
5. On-line learning

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 100 words on the following

1. Give an account of the Nature of Approaches and methods of language teaching.

Or
Elaborate the main concept of the oral approach and situational language teaching.

2. Comment on Hyme‟s theory of Communicative competency-based language Teaching.

Or
Distinguish between „strong‟ and „weak‟ versions of Communicative language learning.

3. Illustrate content based instructions and identify suitable classroom situations for their
applications.
Or
Give a critical account of how task-based language teaching influences effective classroom
teaching.
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4. Explain with suitable examples how reading enriches communication.

Or
Critically examine the essentials of formal writing in the present context.

5. How do computers help in enhancing language learning? Discuss .

Or
Analyse in detail the impact of Technology in acquisition of language learning.

Section C

Answer three of the following in about 300 words (3x15=45 marks)

1. Explain the Naturalistic principles of language learning.

2. Give an account of the application of the principles of competency based education in

language teaching.

3. Discuss the role of instructional materials to support communicative approach to language

teaching.

4. Discuss „Enhancing learning through Technology‟. Give illustrations.

5. Analyze the role of English software in enhancing language learning.

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER III – PAPER XIII
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM (11ENGC13)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three hours 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 50 words.

1. Four levels of language awareness

2. Wordsworth‟s comments on the literary tastes of the reader
3. The Touchstone method
4. The importance of paradox in poetry
5. Condition Humaine

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Explain the theory of Dhvani as propounded by Sanskrit Theorists.

Or
Elaborate the main accusations of Plato on poetry.

2. Comment on Dr.Johnson‟s description of Shakespeare‟s age.

Or
How is the principle of pleasure connected to metre according to Wordsworth?

3. What according to Arnold, are the dangers of historic and personal estimates?
Or
Explain Eliot‟s theory of poetry.
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4. Give an account of Brook‟s interpretation of the use of the Phoenix metaphor by Donne.
Or
Describe centrifugal and centripetal criticism.

5. Differentiate between abstract and concrete potentialities.

Or
How does Barthes establish that language acquires primary importance in a creative work?

Section C

Answer three of the following (3x15=45 marks)

Write essays in about 500 words.

1. Explain the different types of Rasas.

2. Give a critical estimate of Dr. Johnson‟s assessment of Shakespeare.

3. What are the standards that Arnold applies to the estimate of great poetry and how does
he apply them to specific English poets?

4. Explain how Brooks uses Donne‟s „Canonisation‟ to illustrate new critical concepts.

5. Analyse Lukacs‟ arguments against the ideology of Modernism.

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER III – PAPER XIV
ACADEMIC SPEAKING (11ENGC14)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three hours 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x5=25 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about 100 words

1. Conversational style in lecturers

2. Asides in lectures
3. Turn taking
4. Language functions needed in seminars
5. Personality factors in speech difficulties

Section B

Answer all the questions in about 200 words on the following (5x10=50 marks)

1. What are the micro-skills needed for academic listening?

Or
Give an account of different lecturing styles.

2. How is informal language used in lectures?

Or
Design a lecture structure for a topic of your choice.

3. List and explain constraints in turn taking.

Or
State and analyse McKenna‟s categorization of questions.

4. Comment on the variety of form of seminars.

Or
Discuss five possible stages in the presentation of the topic.

5. Explain what is verbalizing data?

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Or
Identify and list some of the speech difficulties.
M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE
SEMESTER III
ELECTIVE III - PUBLIC SPEAKING, JOURNALISTIC AND CREATIVE
WRITING (11ENGE03)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER
Three hours 75 marks

Section A

Answer all the Questions (400 words) (3x13=39 marks)

1. Establish the connections between audience, context and speaker in Public Speaking.
Or
Describe the processes of speech planning and making and show how these result in
speech effectiveness.

2. How can public speaking apprehension be overcome?

Or
Explain the six steps in gaining confidence through effective speech planning.

3. Comment on the characteristics of effective informative speaking.

Or
Explain with illustrations the methods of informing.

Section B

Answer all the questions (600 words) (2x18=36 marks)

4. Draw a model structure for a film review and attempt one on your own.
Or
Mention the qualities of a good sports column and write a column on a game of your
choice.

5. Write a detailed essay on the major aspects involved in creative writing?

Or
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Select a well-known short story of your choice and discuss it in relation to plot, theme,
setting, style and narrative mode.

M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

MODEL QUESTION PAPER
SEMESTER – IV- PAPER XV- SOFT SKILLS THROUGH LITERATURE
- Personal qualities
(11ENGC15)

Duration: 3 Hours 75 marks

Section A

Identify and list attributes/characteristics/behavioral components in the characters given

below.

Answer all the questions (100 words) (5x3=15 marks)

1. Sydney Carton
2. Coriolanus
3. Rosalind
4. Hamlet
5. Enobarbus

Section B

Write a case each on the personal qualities given below in one of the two areas suggested.

Answer all the questions (200 words) (5x12=60 marks)

1. Responsibility / Altruism : Literature or Movies

2. Self-esteem : Commercials or Comics

3. Sociability : Movies or Popular Literature

4. Self-esteem : Literature or Movies

5. Integrity / Honesty : Movies or Commercials

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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER IV – PAPER XVI - REFERENCE / RESEARCH SKILLS (11ENGC16)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Duration: 3 hours 75 marks

Section A
Answer all the questions (100 words) (5x3=15 marks)

1. Monolingual Dictionary
2. Alphabetical order of entries
3. Date of publication
4. Closed access library
5. Foot notes
Section B

Answer all the questions (200 words) (5x12=60 marks)

1. Describe the different kinds of Monolingual dictionaries.

Or
What are the questions a student must remember while choosing a dictionary?

2. As a dictionary user, explain how to use the dictionary with reference to finding words and
meanings, spellings, abbreviations, pronunciation.
Or
Explain how to use the dictionary for grammatical information learning and extending
vocabulary.

3. Prepare a model content page for a book.

Or
List and explain the uses of an index in a book.

4. Comment on the advantages of internet in learning.

Or
Give the main outline of either the DEWEY DECIMEL SYSTEM or THE LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.

5. Explain with illustrations the six main purposes of „quotations‟.

Or
List and discuss the important bibliographic features.