Suggestions For Honours 2nd Year ( All Subjects)

Suggestions For Honours 2nd Year ( All Subjects)

Introduction to Drama Suggestions For Honours 2nd Year 
Exam:- 2021+Retake

Part-B: Suggestions

Honours Second Year Subject:- Introduction to Drama

• Describe the function/role of Chorus in 'King Oedipus'. ★★★
• Provide a brief account of the encounter between Oedipus and Teiresias. ★★★
• In what situation did Oedipus kill his father? ★★★
• What was the prophecy of Teiresias about Oedipus? ★★
• What reasons does Oedipus give for his self-blinding? ★★★
• Write the seven stages of human life as shown in 'As You Like It'./What are the seven stages in a man's life?***
• How does Orlando save Oliver's life in the Forest of Arden? ★★★
• Briefly describe the sub-plot in 'As You Like It'. ★★
• Why is 'Arms and the Man' called an anti-romantic comedy? ★★★
• What is Raina's view on killing the fugitives? ★★
• What farcical elements do you find in 'Arms and the Man'? ★★★
• How can Bluntschli be called an 'Anti-hero?/Is Bluntschli really a gentleman? How? [Bluntschli এর character টা জানলে প্রায় দুটি প্রশ্নই লেখা যাবে।] ★★★
• Why does Bluntschli compare Sergius to Don Quixote? ★★
• Who embodies life force in 'Arms and the Man'? ★★★
• How do Nora and Cathleen serve the purpose of the chorus? ★★★
• Why did Bartley decide to go to the Galway Fair? ★★
• Show the universal appeal of 'Riders to the Sea'. ★★★
• What supernatural elements does J. M. Synge use in 'Riders to the Sea'? ★★★
• How does the sea in Riders to the Sea' represent fate?/Is the sea in Riders to the Sea' the representative of fate? ★★
• What is bride-price? Why does Sidi regard it so important?/ Analyze Sidi's attitude towards bride-price. ✶✶✶
• How does Lakunle try to convince Sidi to marry him without bride-price? ★★
• Why, according to Sidi, does Baroka want to marry her? ★★★
• Who or what is being satirized in Wole Soyinka's 'The Lion and the Jewel'? ★★
• Why does Sidi marry Baroka at the end of the play 'The Lion and the Jewel'? ★★★

Short note and Explanations:

• Write a short note on Delphic-Oracle. ★★★
• "All the world's a stage

          And all men and women merely players". ★★★

• Write a short note on coat-episode in 'Arms and the Man'. 4. "No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied." ★★

Part C: Suggestions

• Evaluate 'Oedipus Rex' as a tragedy. ★★

• What is dramatic irony? Discuss with reference to 'King Oedipus'./Comment on dramatic
• irony used by Sophocles in 'Oedipus Rex'. ★★★

• Give an account of the encounter between Oedipus and Teiresias, and comment on its

dramatic significance.★★★

• Sketch the character of Rosalind. ★★★

• Comment on Shakespeare's use of wit and humour in 'As You Like It'. ★★★

• Remark on Shaw's philosophy about love and war in the light of 'Arms and the Man'/Evaluate 'Arms and the Man' as an anti-romantic comedy. ★★★

• Comment on the first meeting scene between Raina and Bluntschli in Shaw's play 'Arms and the Man'. ★★★

• Evaluate 'Riders to the Sea' as a modern tragedy with classical setting. ★ ★ ★

• Tell about the life of the islanders in 'Riders to the Sea'. ★ ★ ★

• What role does the sea play in 'Riders to the Sea'? ★★

• Discuss the theme of Wole Soyinka's play 'The Lion and the Jewel. ★★★

• "Wole Soyinka's play 'The Lion and the Jewel is about the victory of traditional values over western ones." -- Elucidate. ★★★

• Justify the title of the drama 'The Lion and the Jewel' by Wole Soyinka. ★ ★

বি:দ্র:
The questions given here are important + forthcoming. The reason for giving more than 2/4 questions is for more than 5 common readings in the exam.

এখানে দেয়া প্রশ্নগুলো গুরুত্বপূর্ণ + আসার মতো তাই তুলে ধরা হয়েছে । ২/৪ টা প্রশ্ন বেশী দেওয়ার কারন হলো পরীক্ষায় ৫ টার বেশী কমন পড়ার জন্য।

Suggestions For Honours 2nd Year ( All Subjects)

Romantic Poetry Suggestions For Honours 2nd Year
Examination:- 2021 + Retakes

Part B And Part C Suggestions

Honours Second Year, Subject:- Introduction to Drama

Part-B Suggestions

• What do the songs of innocence teach is about life? ✶✶
• How are the lamb, the child and Christ connected?
  
• What kind of person is the nurse in the "Songs of Innocence"?
  
• How does Blake criticize society in the poem "London"? ★★★
  
• What does Wordsworth advise his sister Dorothy in "Tintern Abbey"? ★★★
  
• What is Wordsworth's idea of immortality of human soul in "Intimations of Immortality
  Ode"? ★★
• What are the losses and gains in life as mentioned in the poem "Immortality to Ode"? ★★★
• How was the old sailor relieved of his curse? ★★★
  
• What lesson did the old sailor learn from his last journey? **
  
• What things does Byron want to satirize in the poem "Don Juan"?/Comment on Byron as a satirist. ★★★
  
• Briefly state the theme of "Don Juan Canto I".
  
• What do you know about a Byronic hero/ What are the main features of Don Juan's character? ★★★
  
• Treat Byron as a revolutionary poet and a poet of freedom. ✶✶✶
  
• Briefly describe the education of Donna Inez. ★★
  
• Why does Shelley forbid to mourn for Adonais? ★★★
  
• Describe the possession of mourners in "Adonais".
  
• What is depicted on the Urn? ★★★
  
• Analyze Keats' conception of beauty and truth in 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'. ✶✶✶
  
• How does Keats' establish the superiority of the Grecian Urn over all other earthly things?
  
• What is the feeling of Keats after reading Chapman's Homer? ✩✩✩
  
  
  

Short note and Explanations:

• Write a short note on Pantheism. ★★★
  
• What is 'poetic licence'? ★★★
  
• Write a short note on the Wedding Guest. ★★★
  
• Draw the significance of Death and Life-in-Death in "The Rime of the Ancient
  Mariner"/Describe the spectre ship and its sailors. ★★★
• What is 'poetic licence'? ★★★
• Write a short note on the Wedding Guest. ★★★
• Draw the significance of Death and Life-in-Death in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"/Describe the spectre ship and its sailors. ★★★

• Write a short note on the use of supernaturalism in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"/"
  Kubla Khan". ★★★
• Explain the following line:- "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought",
  
• What is Hellenism? ★★★
  
• Write a short note of Sensuousness. ★★★

Part C: Suggestions

• Bring out the mystified elements in Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience'. ★★
  
• How does Blake represent two contrary states of human soul? ★★★
• Discuss Wordsworth's attitude towards childhood as revealed in the 'Immortality Ode'.
  
• Write a critical appreciation of the poem "London 1802". ★★★
  
• How does Coleridge mingle natural and supernatural in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
  
• "Kubla Khan is a product of sheer fancy" ---- Discuss. ★★
  
• Write a note on the autobiographical elements in Byron's poetry. ★★★
• 'Don Juan Canto l' is a social satire. ---- Discuss./Describe Byron as a satirist with reference to Don Juan. ★★★
• How does Shelley idealize the bird 'Skylark'? ★★★
  
• Write a note on Shelley's treatment of nature in 'Adonais'. ★ ★ ★
• Consider Keats as a romantic poet with reference to his odes. ★★★
  
• Evaluate John Keats as a poet of beauty and sensuousness. ★ ★ ★
  
• How is the world of mankind contrasted with that of the Nightingale in 'Ode to a Nightingale'? ★ ★ ★
  
  

বি:দ্র:
The questions given here are important + forthcoming. The reason for giving more than 2/4 questions is for more than 5 common readings in the exam.

এখানে দেয়া প্রশ্নগুলো গুরুত্বপূর্ণ + আসার মতো তাই তুলে ধরা হয়েছে । ২/৪ টা প্রশ্ন বেশী দেওয়ার কারন হলো পরীক্ষায় ৫ টার বেশী কমন পড়ার জন্য।

Suggestions For Honours 2nd Year ( All Subjects)

History of English Literature Suggestions For Honours 2nd Year 
Exam:- 2021+Retake
Part-B: And Part C: Suggestions

Honours Second Year Subject:- History of English Literature

Part-B: Suggestions

• What do you know about King Alfred? ★★★
• Write a short note on Beowulf. ★★★
• Write a short note on "The Black Death'. ★★
• Write a short note on Reformation. Why did reformati CSP) happen in England?
• Write a short note on Anglicanism/Protestantism. ★★★
• Write a short note on 'Renaissance' Humanism. ★★★
• Write about the Globe Theatre.
• For what is Ben Jonson remarkable in Jacobean literature? ★★★
• Write a short note on the 'Comedy of Humour'. ★★
• Who are Cavalier poets? Write a note on the qualities of them. ★★★
• What were the causes for the rise of the Puritan Age? ★★★
• In what sense is John Milton a 'Classicist'? ***
• Who is Sir Roger de Coverley? ★★★
• Write a short note on the 'Comedy of Manners/Restoration Comedy'. ★★
• Write a short note on 'Neo-Classicism'.★★★
• How does Pope reflect the critical spirit of the eighteenth century? For broad alsol ★★★
• Why is Blake called 'the precursor of Romanticism? ★★★
• Write a brief note on 'Lyrical Ballads'. ★★
• What are the characteristics of romantic poetry?★★★
• Briefly discuss Coleridge's idea of "Willing Suspension of Disbelief". ★★★
• What is Victorian Compromise? ★★★
• What is dramatic monologue? ★★
• Write a short note on Pre-Raphaelitism. ★★★
• Write a note on the woman novelists of the Victorian Age.(Jane Austen) ★★★
• What is absurd drama? ***

Part-C: Suggestions

Part-C: Suggestions

• What do you know Norman Conquest and its effect on English literature?
• Discuss the three stages of Chaucer's poetic development. Write a note on Chaucer's contribution to English literature in three phases. ★★★
• Why is the Elizabethan age called the Golden Age of English Literature? ★★★
• Write a note on 'Decadent Play'. ★★
• Assess the contribution of the University Wits to English drama. ★★★
• What age do the metaphysical poets belong to? What made them distinct poets?/Who are the Metaphysical poets? Evaluate their contribution to English poetry. ★★★
• Discuss the general characteristics of the poetry of the Neo-Classical Age. ★★★
• Why is the Eighteenth Century called an age of Prose and Reason? Illustrate your answer with reference to at least two authors of the age. ★★★
• Describe the major romantic poets and their contribution to English poetry.
• Examine the influence of the French Revolution on Romantic poetry ★★★
• 11. Consider Tennyson as a representative poet of the Victorian Age. ★★★
• Discuss the conflict between Science and Religion of the Victorian Period. ★★ 
• Discuss Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy as Victorian novelists. ★★★
• What do you know about the major trends in modern poetry? Discuss the salient features of modern poetry. What social picture do you notice in modern poetry? ★★★

বি:দ্র:
The questions given here are important + forthcoming. The reason for giving more than 2/4 questions is for more than 5 common readings in the exam.

এখানে দেয়া প্রশ্নগুলো গুরুত্বপূর্ণ + আসার মতো তাই তুলে ধরা হয়েছে । ২/৪ টা প্রশ্ন বেশী দেওয়ার কারন হলো পরীক্ষায় ৫ টার বেশী কমন পড়ার জন্য।