SUCCESS M.A. ENGLISH ENTRANCE PAPERS 2017-2021 FOR ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY

GOWHER HASSAN BHAT P.hD(Pursuing) Aligarh Muslim University UGC NET, GATE. SAHIDUL ISLAM CHOUDHURY M.A(English) UGC NET, B.Ed, PGT

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Title Success M.A English Entrance papers 2017-2021 Aligarh Muslim University

Author & Co- Authors Gowher Hassan Bhat Sahidul Islam Choudhury

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Syllabus FACULTY OF ARTS M.A. (English) SYLLABUS FOR MA (ENGLISH) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE Definition, function and scope of language and literature. The social roots of literature. Definition and function of figurative language: simile, metaphor, allusion, personification, pun,alliteration, anti thesis, climax, assonance. (iii) Definition of symbol, image, myth, allegory, parable, fable. Major Forms of Poetry: Definition of lyric, sonnet, ode, elegy, epic, satire, ballad, dramatic monologue. Major Forms of Prose: Definition of essay, biography, autobiography, short story and novel. Major Forms of Drama: Definition and major components of tragedy, comedy, one- act play, farce, melodrama. Appreciation of poetry, prose and drama passages.

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ESSAY AND SHORT STORY Bacon : ‘Of Friendship’ Lamb : ‘The Praise of Chimney Sweepers’ Benson : ‘The Art of the Essayist’ Bernard Malamud : ‘The First Seven Years’ Ruskin Bond : ‘The Night Train at Deoli’ ELIZABETHAN POETRY Shakespeare : ‘Shall I compare thee….’ ‘When in the chronicles of Wasted time’ Milton : ‘On the late Massacre in Piedmount’ ‘Lycidas’ Gray : ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ Blake : ‘The Tyger’ Burns : ‘O my Luve’s like a red, red rose’ ROMANTIC POETRY Wordsworth : ‘The World is too much with us’ ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ Coleridge : ‘Kubla Khan’ Unit III: Byron :‘All for love’ ‘On the Castle of Chillon’ 4

Shelley : ‘Ode to the West Wind’ Keats : ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’:‘Ode to Autumn’ LITERARY MOVEMENTS Renaissance, Augustan Romantic, Victorian Modern, Post Modern NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL A brief history and representative features of 19th Century British Novel Sense and Sensibility Unit III The Return of the Native VICTORIAN AND MODERN POETRY Unit I: Tennyson : ‘Ulysses’ Browning : ‘My Last Duchess’ Arnold : ‘Thyrsis’ ‘Dover Beach’ Unit III: Yeats :‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ ‘Among School Children’ Auden : ‘Seascape’

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‘The Shield of Achilles’ Eliot: ‘Landscapes - New Hampshire’ ‘Journey of the Magi’ SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA Macbeth As You Like It POST- SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA She Stoops to Conquer Look Back in Anger Arms and the Man All My Sons APPROACHES TO LITERATURE Unit I Biographical, Historical and Formalist Approaches to Literature (a) Concepts (b) Practice texts (i) Excerpts from Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley (ii) Excerpts from Delhi by Khushwant Singh (iii) Understanding Elizabeth Bishop through ‘One Art ’ Unit II Mythological and Archetypal Approaches to Literature

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(a) Concepts. (i) Excerpts from The Golden Bough by Frazer (ii) Excerpts from Haroun and Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie Unit III Psychological, Sociological and Gender Criticism Approaches to Literature (a) Concepts (i) Excerpts from Death of Salesman by Arthur Miller (ii) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott. Fitzgerald (iii) ‘To be or not to be’, Hamlets’ Soliloquy INDIAN AND AFRICAN NOVEL Representative Features of Indian and African Novel in English Unit II: The Voice Unit III: Kanthapura TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN NOVEL Representative Features of Twentieth Century British and American Novel A Passage to India A Farewell to Arms History of English Studies OLD ENGLISH (i) History 7

(ii) Excerpts from Beowulf MIDDLE ENGLISH History Excerpts from Piers Plowman by William Langland and Everyman MODERN ENGLISH (Upto 17th Century and Early 18th Century) A: History B: Excerpts from Hamlet by William Shakespeare C. Excerpts: Donne: ‘The Sun Rising’ Milton: ‘On His Blindness’ Addison and Steele: ‘A Silent Man's Advantages in Society’ (Excerpts) Swift: Gulliver's Travels Defoe: Robinson Crusoe MODERN ENGLISH (Upto 19th Century) A: History: (18th & 19th Century) b. Excerpts: Pope: ‘Rape of The Lock’ (Excerpts) Swift: Gulliver's Travels Defoe: Robinson Crusoe 8

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Coleridge: ‘The Rime of Ancient Mariner’ Wordsworth: ‘Lucy Poems’ Thackery: Vanity Fair Browning: ‘My Last Duchess’ Modern English (20th Century) A. History B. Excerpts: Walter Raleigh: Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914" Hemingway: ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ Tennesse Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Excerpt) Virginia Woolf: To The Light House (Excerpt) T. S. Eliot: The Wasteland (Excerpt) Beckett: Waiting for Godot (Excerpt) Alice Walker: The Color Purple (Excerpt) World Englishes A: Background B: Excerpts: Amos Tutuola: The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Excerpt)

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Amitav Ghosh: The Sea of Poppies (Excerpt) Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger Pablo Neruda: ‘I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You’ English Studies in Translation Excerpts: Ghalib: Excerpts from translated ghazals Manto: ‘Toba Tek Singh’ Premchand: ‘Sadgati’ Mahasweta Devi: ‘Dopadi’ Introduction to Critical Theory (a) Defining Theory; Theory and Criticism; From Liberal Humanist Criticism to Theory. (b) Reader-Response Criticism: The Narratee; Affective Stylistics; Reception Theory; (c) Literary Competence. Marxist Criticism: Basic Concepts; Soviet Socialist Realism; The Frankfurt School; Ideology. (a) Postcolonial Theory and Criticism: From Commonwealth to Postcolonial; Theories of Colonial Discourses; Postcolonialsim and Nationalism; Diaspora Identities.

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Unit III:Cultural Studies: Approaches to Culture; The Development of Cultural Studies; Theoretical bases of Cultural Studies; Impact of Cultural Studies. (a) Dialogic Criticism: Polyphony, Dialogism, Heteroglossia, Carnivalesque.

Contents Syllabus ........................................................................................ 3 MA English 2021-22 ................................................................... 12 MA English 2020-21 ................................................................... 33 MA English 2019-20 ................................................................... 57 M.A ENGLISH 2018-19................................................................ 79

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MA English 2021-22 1. The rhyme scheme in an Italian Sonnet is a) ABBA ABBA CDE CEE b) ABAB ABAB CDE CDE c) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE d) ABAB BCBC CDE DCE Ans: The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as Italian sonnet perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE. 2. a) b) c) d)

The smallest unit of a word is called: Juncture Morpheme Phoneme Allophone

Ans: b)The Morpheme is the smallest unit of a language that can carry meaning. 3. Language which seems smooth, pleasant and musical to the ear is called a) Euphony b) Cacophony c) Racket d) Monody Ans: a) 4. Which of the following is called the ‘Decade of Decadence’ 12

a) b) c) d)

1890s 1880s 1910s 1920s

Ans: a) ‘Decade of Decadence’ a literary movement especially of late 19th-century France and England characterized by refined aestheticism, artifice, and the quest for new sensations. 5. Identify the stanza in Blake’s poem The Tyger in which these lines occur ‘What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?’ a) First b) Last c) Both d) None Ans: First Stanza. Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 6. Identify the correct sentence: a) Hardly he had entered the station , when the train whistled. b) Hardly had he entered the station, when the train whistled c) He hardly had entered the station, when the train whistled d) Hardly he entered the station, when the train whistled Ans:b) The adverb 'hardly' must be followed by the verb 'had'. The noun 'I' will come 13

afterwards. So, the correct phrase will be 'Hardly had he entered'. 7. _______________is a sequence of two phrases or clauses which are parallel in synonym but which reverse the order of the corresponding words a) Oxymoron b) Antithesis c) Chiasmus d) Paralipsis Ans: c) Chiasmus is the reversing of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases or sentences. This rhetorical device is also referred to as reverse parallelism or syntactical inversion. An important subtype of chiasmus is anti metabole. Chiasmus is a poetic and rhetorical device in many languages. 8. A short narrative poem, often anonymous, intended to be sung is called a) Epic b) Pantoum c) Elegy d) Ballad Ans: d) 9. What is ‘Prosopoeia’ ? a) Change of fortune b) Personification c) Onomatopoeia d) Imitation Ans: b) A prosopopoeia /prɒsoʊpoʊˈpiːə/) is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object. The term literally derives from the Greek roots 14

prósopon "face, person", and poiéin "to make, to do;" it is also called personification. 10. Elia was the other name of a) William Hazlit b) Guy de Maupassant c) Voltaire d) Charles Lamb Ans: d) Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare. Lamb's greatest achievements were his remarkable letters and the essays that he wrote under the pseudonym Elia for London Magazine, which was founded in 1820. 11. Curtail sonnet is a form invented by: a) G.M Hopkins b) William Shakespeare c) Spenser d) Thomas Wyatt Ans: a) The curtal sonnet is a form invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and used in three of his poems. It is an elevenline (or, more accurately, ten-and-a-half-line) sonnet. The curtal sonnet, or the contracted sonnet, is an eleven-line sonnet that follows a pattern of either ABCABCDCBDC or ABCABCDBCDC. 12. The Mode of Literature in 16th century England that values the presentation a simple and humble life in a country, of shepherds and shepherdesses called______ a) Satiral b) Elegy c) Pastoral d) Sonnet 15