MJC 5 Question Paper 2025 ,Bankura University B.A. 4th Semester (Major) Examination, 2025: British Literature: 18th Century (MJC-5) Question Paper

  

    

B.A. 4th Semester (Major) Examination, 2025: British Literature: 18th Century (MJC-5) Question Paper

    

Based on National Education Policy (NEP) Syllabus

  

     

                                                                                                                                         

Degree: B.A. 4th Semester (Major)	Subject: ENGLISH
Course ID: 40311	Course Code: A/ENG-401/MJC-5
Paper title: British Literature: 18th Century (NEP)	Time Allowed: 2 Hours
Full Marks: 40	Instructions: Answer all the questions. Figures in the margin indicate full marks.

  

  

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1. Answer any one of the following questions.

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1. Evaluate Swift's satirical methods and techniques with reference to Gulliver's Travels (Books I & II).
        
2. Critically analyse the character of Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels with reference to Books I & II.
        
3. How does Equiano construct his identity in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano?
        
4. Explore the ways in which Equiano's narrative engages with the Enlightenment ideas of reason and progress.
      

    

         

      

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2. Answer any one of the following questions:

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1. Gray glorifies the simple, ordinary and commonplace life of the countrymen in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Discuss.
        
2. How does Dr Johnson explore the relationship between urban life and human experience in the poem 'London'?
      

    

         

      

        

3. Write short notes on any two of the following:

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1. The Rivals as a Comedy of Manners
        
2. Augustan verse satire
        
3. Any one precursor of Romanticism
        
4. The Tatler and The Spectator
      

    

         

      

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4. Answer any five of the following questions:

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1. How did Gulliver reach the island of Lilliput?
        
2. Why did Gulliver find the manner of writing of the Lilliputians peculiar?
        
3. Who first detected Gulliver in Brobdingnag and how did he treat Gulliver initially?
        
4. Who is the narrator of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano? By what name is he known for the most of his life?
        
5. How were Equiano and his sister separated?
        
6. Bring out the significance of Greenwich in the poem London.
        
7. Which place is referred to as "consecrated earth" in Dr. Johnson's poem and why?
        
8. To whom does the owl complain in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and why?
        
9. Who was Hampden? What does Gray mean by "some village Hampden"?
        
10. "Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." Bring out the implication of the quoted line.
      

    

  

     

    

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