Honours 3rd Year Exam 2023 Held 2025
Department: English.
17th and 18th Century Non-Fictional Prose: 231105
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B-Part

  1. How does Addison want to reform the society?100%
  2. Mention the four objections raised by the bill against the Charter of the
    East India Company. 100%
  3. How does Johnson compare Cowley and Milton as poets?100%
  4. Why can’t Cowley’s ‘Davideis’ be judged as an epic?100%
  5. What are the features of Metaphysical poetry?100%
  6. Write a short note on Addison’s humour.100%7. Describe Bacon’s concept of truth. 100%
  7. “Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects”.100%
  8. “Planting of countries is like planting of woods” Why are countries compared to woods?99%
  9. What practical advice did Bacon give to the men in high position? 99%
  10. It is impossible to love and be wise-Explain. 99%
  11. Show your familiarity with the members of the Spectator club.99%
  12. How did Sir Roger die?How does Steele portray the character of the Clergyman?99%
  13. What do you understand by ‘charted rights’ of man?99%
  14. What was the East India Company’s policy regarding revenue collection?99%
  15. Write a note on ‘Fox’s India Bill.99%

C-Part

  1. How does Burke criticize Hasting and his Lieutenants in his “Speech on the East India Bill”?100%
  2. Comment on Dr. Samuel Johnson as a critic and biographer. 100%
  3. Critically analyze Burke’s view on India as revealed in ‘Speech on East India Bill’. 100%
  4. What, according of Johnson, are Cowley’s limitations as a poet?100%
  5. What, according to Johnson, are the epic qualities found in ‘Davideis?100%
  6. Consider Johnson’s “The Life of Cowley as a literary criticism. 100%
  7. Critically analyze Johnson’s art of writing a biography. 100%
  8. Evaluate Francis Bacon as an essayist.100%
  9. Comment on Bacon’s personal view with reference to his essays (1) of Love
    (ii) of Marriage and Single Life.99%10. In what ways is Bacon a Renaissance essayist?99%
  10. “Addison uses irony as a stylistic device Explain. 99%
  11. Discuss Sir Roger as a fascinating and humorous character.99%
  12. Analyze Edmund Burke’s prose style with special reference to “
    Speech on East India Bill”.99%
  13. Write an essay on Addison’s prose style.99%
  14. Depict the 18th century social pictures portrayed in ‘Coverly