English
Subject Code: 231105
(Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Non Fictional Prose)
Time-4 Hours
Part A
(Answer any ten questions)
Marks-1x10=10
1. (a) What is 'Pragmatism'?
(b) Who is Tacitus?
(c) What is East India Charter?
(d) Why do people want to avoid truth?
(e) Who was the editor of 'The Spectator'?
(f) What is Maxim?
(g) What is the Inner Temple?
(h) Who said "A penny saved, a penny got"?
(i) Who is Siren?
(j) When was East India Charter Introduced?
(k) Write down the names of at least three members of the Spectators Club.
Part B
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-4x5=20
2. Write a note on Addison's prose style.
3. How does Dr. Johnson assess Cowley as a pact?
4. What does Bacon opine about revenge?
5. What is epigram? How is Bacon's essay Of Great Place epigrammatic?
6. Write short note on Magna Charta.
7. How did the relationship between the squire and the clergyman of a village-church affect the life of villagers?
8. Comment on the role of the Spectator.
9. Describe the characteristics of Sir Roger.
Part C
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-10x5=50
10. Discuss Bacon as a practical moralist and full of worldly wisdom.
11. Write a note on Addison as a social satirist.
12. Consider Dr. Johnson as a critic and biographer with special reference to The Life of Cowley
13. Was Edmund Burke opposed to colonial rule? Comment on his view about.
14. Depict the contemporary social picture portrayed in the Coverly Papers.
15. Make an assessment on Francis Bacon as an essayist.
16. Write on Burke's prose style.
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