Honours 1st Year Exam 2022 Held 2023 Department: English (Introduction to Prose (Fiction and Non-Fiction) 211107 Premium Suggestion

Honours 1st Year Exam 2022 Held 2023
Department: English
(Introduction to Prose (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
211107

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Part-B Short Questions

1. What is aphorism? Give examples.

2. Write a short note on Bacon’s aphoristic style.

3. What is the background of Lincoln’s ‘Gettysburg Address”?

4. What does Lincoln mean by ‘a new birth of freedom”?

Or, Explain Abraham Lincoln’s concept of democracy..
05. What is the main theme/focus of ‘Gettysburg Address”?
Or, Reproduce in your own words the speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at Gettysburg.
06. How does Tagore depict the colonial rule in his letter to Chelmsford?
07. Why do you understand by imperialism?

1. Why does Orwell hesitate to shoot the elephant? Or, What made Orwell shoot the elephant?
   Or, Why did Orwell shoot the elephant?
2. ‘A sahib has got to act like a sahib-Explain this line with reference to the context.
3. What was the dream of Martin Luther King Jr.?
4. What were the discriminations between the blacks and the whites that Luther mentioned in his speech, ‘I Have a Dream’.
   Or, What discriminations between the white and the black does Luther King find? onbd.com
5. What does Mandela mean by ‘The oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed’?
6. Give a short description of the inauguration ceremony of President Mandela.
7. Describe the character of the lady guest.
8. Give a short description of the flat of Jim and Della.
   Or, Describe the flat in which Jim and Della lived.
9. Whose sacrifice is greater Jim’s or Della’s? Why?
10. Why are Jim and Della called the Magi of the Modern world?
    Or, Why does O’ Henry call Jim and Della the ‘Magi’ of the modern times?
11. How is the narrator disillusioned at the end of the story, ‘Araby”?
    . Or, How was the narrator disillusioned at the end of the story ‘Araby”?
    Or, How did the narrator’s quest for the beauty and romance ‘Araby’?
12. How does the narrator in ‘Araby’ feel about his home?
13. Who is the protagonist of the story, ‘Araby”?
    What does he aspire to are achieve and why?
14. What is the reaction of Laura hearing the news of Scott’s death?
    Or, How did Laura react to the death of her poor neighbour?
15. What is a garden party?
16. How is American couple portrayed in ‘Cat in the Rain’?
    Or, Discuss the husband, wife relationship in the story ‘Cat in the Rain’.
    Or, How is the relationship of the American couple?
17. Why was Ravi unwilling to join the Funeral Game?
    Or, Briefly comment on the desperation of Ravi to win the game.
18. Discuss some elements of irony in ‘Games at Twilight’.
19. What are Godfrey’s arguments for adopting Eppie?

Part-C- Broad Questions
01. Justify Bacon as an essayist.
Or, What qualities of Bacon as an essayist do you find in ‘Of Studies’?
What salient features do you find in Bacon’s essay, ‘Of Studies”?
Or, What qualities of Bacon as an essayist do you find in ‘Of Studies’?
02. Justify Bacon as a man of practical wisdom with reference to ‘Of Studies’.
Or, How does Bacon use practical wisdom in ‘Of Studies”?
Or, Write a note on Bacon’s Utilitarian/Machiavellian philosophy with reference to ‘Of Studies’,

1. Justify Bacon as the father of English Prose.

Or, Write a note on Bacon’s prose style laphoristic style.
04. Write a note on the background of Lincoln’s ‘Gettysburg Address’.
Or, Write the historical background that led Abraham Lincoln to deliver his famous speech at Gettysburg.
05. How did Lincoln prove that ‘Democracy’ is the best form of government?
06. Tagore’s ‘Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Kinghthood’ is a protest against the British rule in India, justify the statement.
Or, “Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood is a vehement protest against the inhuman oppression of the British Raj in India.” Discuss.
07. Critically examine Tagore’s ‘Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood’.
Or, What marks of Tagore’s patriotism do you find in his ‘Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood”?
08. Write a note on Orwell’s attitude towards imperialism.
Or, How does Orwell present the dark side of British imperialistic rule in his essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’?
Or, How does George Orwell depict the hatred of the colonizers and the
natives in his essay ‘Shooting an Elephant”?
09. For what reason did Orwell shoot the elephant?
Or, What made Orwell bound to kill the elephant at last?

Or, What wavering state did Orwell experience before shooting the elephant?
Or, How would you justify Orwell’s killing of the elephant?
Or, Discuss the evil of imperialism after George Orwell?
Or, Why did Orwell decide to shoot the elephant at last?
10. Who is Mandela? What is his contribution in establishing democracy in South Africa?
Or, What does Mandela mean by ‘The loppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed’?
Or, How did Nelson Mandela articulate the tragic history of the oppressed black people of South Africa?
Or, Write a note on Mandela’s contribution in establishing democracy in South Africa.

Or, Write a note on Mandela’s life long struggle for the welfare of the common people of South Africa.
11. Comment on the irony of situation depicted in the story ‘The Luncheon