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Classical Poetry Important Questions MA English Annual System University of Sargodha Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

Classical Poetry
Important Questions
MA English Annual System
University of Sargodha
Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

1. The Prologue , Mirror of 14th century (Most important)
2. Chaucer attitude towards Contemporary Church / Views about Religious Characters.
3. Chaucer's Art of Characterization (Most Important)
4. Wife of Bath
5. The Knight

John Donne

1. Love Poetry of John Donne
2. As Metaphysical Poet
3. Three Moods Of Love
4. As Poet
5. Critical Appreciation

Paradise Lost

1. Hero of Paradise Lost
2. Milton's Grand Style
3. Satan's Character
4. As an Epic
5. Justification of God's Ways

The Rape of The Lock

1. Pop as a Classical Poet
2. As a Satirist
3. As a social Document
4. Mock Epic
5. As a Social Satire
6. Role of Machinery

William Shakespeare

1. Major Themes
2. As a Sonneteer
3. Art of Shakespearean Sonnets
4. Critical Appreciations

The Faerie Queen

1. Edmund Spenser as Poet of Poets
2. Eminent poet of Elizabethan age
3. Elements of Renaissance in Faerie Queen
4. As an Allegory

Note : Thomas Wyatt and Earl of Surrey are not included in Your Syllabus.

Prose Important Questions MA English Annual System University of Sargodha Pakistan

Prose
Important Questions
MA English Annual System
University of Sargodha
Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

Francis Bacon

1. Worldly Wisdom
2. Wisest , Brightest , Meanest
3. Dispersed Meditation
4. Prose Style
5. As an Essayist

Gulliver's Travels

1. Social Satire
2. Misanthrope
3. An Allegory
4. Character of Gulliver
5. Mock Utopia

Lytton Strachey

1. Character of Florence Nightingale
2. Character of Charles George Gordon
3. Strachey as Greatest Biographer

Unpopular Essays

1. Ideas that have helped Mankind
2. Ideas that have Harmed Mankind
3. Future of Mankind
4. Functions of Teacher
5. Crusade against Dogmatism
6. Russell's Prose Style
7. Russell's appeal to the modern Reader

Edward Said

1. Culture and Imperialism
2. American Interpretor
3. Cultural Integrity
4. Affect of Imperialism on The Culture of a Colonized nation

General Questions

1. Compare and Contrast between Bacon and Swift's Prose Style
2. Principal traits of 18th century. Why it is called age of Reason.

Note: Charles Lamb , John Ruskin and Seamus Heaney are note included in your syllabus.

American Literature Important Questions for UOS

American Literature
Important Questions
MA English Annual System
University of Sargodha
Pakistan

Robert Frost
1. Salient Features of Frost Poetry
2. As a Poet of Nature
3. Themes

Most Important Critical Appreciation
1. Mending Walls
2. The Road Not Taken
3. After Apple Picking
4. Stopping by Woods

John Ashbery
1. As a Modern Poetry
2. Themes

Critical Appreciation
1. The Painter
2. Melodic Trains

Richard Wilbur
1. Characteristics of modern poetry in Richard Wilbur and John Ashbery
2. As a Modern Poet

Critical Appreciation
1. After The Last Bulletin
2. Still Citizen

Walt Whitman
1. Characteristics of Walt Whitman's Poetry
2. Themes

Critical Appreciation
1. O Captain! My Captain!
2. There was a Child went Forth
3. To a Stranger
4. These Carols.

Mourning Becomes Electra

1. Mother daughter relationship
2. Adam Brant as a True Villain
3. As Modern Tragedy
4. Art of Characterization
5. Psychoanalysis / psychological Drama of lust.

The Crucible

1. Significance of Title
2. Themes
3. Historical and Cultural Background
4. Theme of Witch Craft
5. Character of John Proctor

A Farewell to Arms

1. Significance of Title
2. Views on Love and War
3. Autobiographical Novel
4. Robert Jordan as a Typical Hemingway Hero
5. Catherine Barkley as a typical Hemingway Heroin.

Jazz

1. Significance of Title
2. Role of Women Characters
3. Depiction of Urban Life
4. Thematic and Symbolic Importance of Music
5. Identity and Memory in Jazz
6. Violet as a Representative of Black Woman.

Note: Try to learn all critical appreciation of all poems which are included in your syllabus.

Linguistics short questions

How is language Arbitrary?

There is no logical relation between the sound or written word and the object. Same object have different names in different areas shows that there is no logical relation between word and object. So, language is arbitrary.

How is linguistics a Science?

Linguistics is the scientific study/ systematic study of language. In linguistics the method is applied by making observations, testing hypotheses and deriving theories. So, linguistics is a science but social science not a practical science.

What is meant by Synchronic and Diachronic study of language?

Synchronic study of language is the study of language at a fix point or present but Diachronic study of language is the study of language change or study of language through history.

How does Ferdinand de Saussure make a distinction between Langue and Parole?

According to Ferdinand de Saussure the distinction between langue and parole is that langue is the structure of language in the mind/grammar of language in mind and the parole is the speech or written language.
What does Noam Chomsky mean by Competence?

According to Noam Chomsky competencemean the linguistic knowledge of the native speaker to understand and speak.

How does Noam Chomsky argue about Performance?

According to Noam Chomsky the performance is the actual use of language in concrete situation. It is like Parole as described by Ferdinand de Saussure.

What is LAD according to Chomsky?

According to Noam Chomsky the LAD (Language Acquisition Device) is instinctive mental facility to acquire and speak language.

What are different Organs of Speech?

The different Speech Organs are teeth, lips, tongue, nasal cavity, alveolar ridge, hard palate, velum (soft palate), uvula and glottis etc.

What is meant by Received Pronunciation (RP)?

Received Pronunciation (RP) means the standard accent of British English Language. It is associated with formal speech.

Differentiate between Dialect and Idiolect.

Dialect is variety of language used by a social or regional group and Idiolect is the variety of language used by an individual.

Define Register.

Register is the use of variety of language by the group of peoples of different professions like lawyers and doctors etc.

Define Syntax.

Syntax is the arrangement of word to create a phrase or sentence in language. It is grammar or the rules to construct a sentence.

Differentiate between Pidgin and Creole.

Pidgin is the mixture of multi languages used by traders as second language and Pidgin when used by the peoples as first language it becomes Creole or Linguafranca.

What are Bound and Free Morphemes?

Bound Morphemes are element of a word with prefixes or suffixes cannot stand alone as a word but Free Morphemesstand alone, a single morpheme as a word.

What is multilingualism? Give examples.

Multilingualism means use of two or more languages by an individual or society. for example Punjabi and Urdu or Sindhi, Punjabi and Urdu etc.

What is code switching and code mixing?

Code Switching is using more than one language and changing from one language to another but Code Mixing is using more than one language as mixture, use of multi languages in one sentence.

What is language lateralization?

Language lateralization refers to the functions of the left and right hemispheres in the brain and distinct functions of left and right hemisphere.

What is the difference between derivational morpheme and inflectional morpheme?

Inflectional morpheme is a morpheme that does not change the category of the word like smaller from small these both are adjectives. For example: great greater, tall taller, old older and short shorter.
Derivational morpheme is a morpheme that change the category of the word like movement from move here movement is a noun and move is a verb. Improve improvement, easy easily and entertain entertainment.

What is the difference between voiced and voiceless sounds?

Voiced sounds are those in which vocal chords vibrate and in voiceless sounds vocal chords do not vibrate. For example “v, m, n, b and d” are voiced and “s, h and f” are voiceless.

What are infixes?

Infixes are affixes that inserted nor in beginning neither at the end but in the base word. For example: cupsful