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E.M. Forster: A Great Novelist

E.M. Forster as a Novelist Edward Morgan Forster is popularly known as E.M. Forster. He is a British novelist, essayist and critic of modern period. His popularity rests on his novels. His best known novels are A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. E.M. Forster was a writer of great sensitivity and insight. His compositions explored the golden threads of kinship. His greatest success is A Passage to India which was written in 1924. The relationship between East and West has been taken as its major subject. E.M. Forster was born on January 1, 1879 in London, England. He was the member of a very cultured family. His father was an architect who died when the author was a baby. As a boy he attended Tonbridge School. After completing school education at Tonbridge, he went on to King’s College, Cambridge, in 1897. He is ranked among the most cosmopolitan men of his day. As a modern novelist he received fantastic popularity for his five novels - Where Angels Fear t

Questions for CCE Dec 2022: MA English Sem III, Paper IV (American Literature); Govt. P.G. College Satna

MA III Sem English Paper IV (American Literature): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Discuss Walt Whitman as poet of democracy 2. Discuss Robert Frost as a pastoral poet. 3. What do you know about expressionism? Show that The Hairy Ape is a great expressionistic play. 4. What do you understand by 'Transcendentalism'? Explain with reference to the essays you have read.

Questions for CCE Dec 2022: MA English Sem III, Paper III (Indian Writings in English); Govt. P.G. College Satna

MA III Sem English Paper III (Indian Writings in English): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions - 1. Discuss R.N. Tagore as a poet. 2. Give a summary of Wings of Fire by Kalam. 3. Discuss Badal Sircar as a playwright. 4. Discuss Anita Desai as a novelist. 5. Give a character sketch of Savitri. 6. Sketch the character of Maya of Cry, the Peacock .

Questions for CCE Dec. 2022: MA English Sem III, Paper II (English Language); Govt. P.G. College Satna

MA III Sem English Paper II (English Language): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any three of the following Questions: 1. Write a detailed note on language covering its definition, its function, its characteristics and development of English language. 2. Write a short note on any three: i. Diachronic approach ii. Synchronic approach iii. Phonemes iv. Register v. Difference between phonetics and phonology. 3. Write about cardinal vowels/ English vowels (Pure Vowels & Diphthongs) and Consonants. 4. What do you mean by TGG in context of linguistics? Write in detail. 5. Write with diagrams (where necessary) about the organs involved in articulation of speech sounds.

Questions for CCE Dec 2022: MA English Sem III, Paper I (Critical Theory); Govt. P.G. College Satna

MA III Sem English Paper I (Critical Theory): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Discuss Aristotle’s theory of imitation. 2. Discuss Longinus’s five sources of sublimity. 3. Discuss Wordsworth’s theory of poetry. 4. Discuss Eliot’s theory of impersonality.

Questions for CCE Dec. 2022: MA English Sem I; Paper IV (Prose); Govt. P.G. College Satna

MA I Sem English Paper IV (Prose): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any three of the following Questions: 1. Write a detailed note on Francis Bacon covering his essays prescribed for you. 2. How does Republic start? Name of the characters participating in discussion. Also write about the content of Book II. 3. Write about IV Chapter of The Autobiography or My Story. 4. Write a note on William Hazlitt and his essays.

Questions for CCE Dec. 2022: MA English Sem I; Paper III (Fiction); Govt. P.G. College Satna

MA I Sem English Paper III (Fiction): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Discuss Don Quixote as a parody of chivalric romance. 2. Discuss Tom Jones as a picaresque novel. 3. Discuss Charles Dickens as a social reformer with special reference to Great Expectation s. 4. Discuss Kenilworth as a historical romance.

Questions for CCE Dec. 2022: MA English Sem I; Paper II (Drama); Govt. P.G. College Satna

MA I Sem English Paper II (Drama): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Sketch the character of Shakuntala. 2. Discuss Hamlet’s madness. 3. Discuss Twelfth Night as a romantic comedy. 4. Sketch the character of Viola. 5. ‘ Dr. Faustus reflects the spirits of renaissance’. Discuss.

Questions for CCE Dec. 2022: MA English Sem I; Paper I (Poetry); Govt. P.G. College Satna

MA I Sem English Paper I (Poetry): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Write a note on Milton’s use of epic similes. Illustrate your answer from Paradise Lost Book I. 2. Write a note on Chaucer’s art of characterization. 3. Discuss characteristics of Metaphysical poetry. 4. Discuss The Rape of the Lock as a mock epic poem.