NSOU- Netaji Subhas Open University BDP 1st Year EEG 4 Assignment Solved 2020

NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY

BDP Assignment,

December-2019 & June-2020

Elective Course

ENGLISH ( New Syllabus ), (4th Paper),

The Eighteenth Century : EEG-4

1. Answer any two of the following : 20 × 2 = 40

a) Why is the 18th Century called the neo-classical age ? Show how it is linked with

the Restoration.Click Here

b) Explain the significance of Gulliver’s fourth voyage in Gulliver’s Travels.Click Here

c) Bring out the elegiac elements in Gray’s poem “Elegy Written in a Country

Churchyard”.Click Here

d) Would you consider The Rivals a comedy or a farce ? Give reasons for your answer.Click Here

2. Answer any three of the following : 12 × 3 = 36

a) What are the general ‘defects’ that Dr. Johnson finds with Shakespeare’s works.Click Here

b) Comment on the role of the sylphs in The Rape of the Lock.Click Here

c) Critically comment on the character of Mrs. Malaprop.Click Here

d) Write a note on the use of humour in Addison’s essays.Click Here

e) How does Gray describe country life in his ‘Elegy’ ?Click Here

f) What do you understand by the concept of Imitation ? How was it used in the

literature of the neo-classical period ?Click Here

3. Answer any four of the following : 6 × 4 = 24

a) Do you consider Robinson Crusoe to be a fable ? Give reasons for your answer.Click Here

b) Write a note on the quest-motif with reference to any one of the novels of the
eighteenth century.Click Here

c) Bring out the satire on courtly and upper-class life in The Rape of the Lock,
Canto III.Click Here

d) How does Gray recreate pastoral atmosphere in his Elegy ?Click Here

e) What is an invocation ? Whom does Thomson invoke in his poem The Seasons ?Click Here

f) Briefly comment on Swift’s portrayal of the Yahoos.Click Here

g) Comment on the title of Goldsmith’s Play She Stoops to Conquer.Click Here


h) Briefly comment on the views expressed on female education in The Rivals.Click Here

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