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PSSOU From Restoration to Middle Georgian age Solved Assignment 2024 (January – December 2024)

PSSOU MA English Solved Assignment 2024

Pandit Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University
Assignment Work
Session – January – December 2024
M.A (English Literature) Previous
Subject – From Restoration to Middle Georgian age

(Assignment—1)
Section—A
1. What card game do the Baron and Belinda play ?
2. Who has written ‘Essay on Man’ ?
3. What is the second title of Mac Flecknoe given by John Dryden ?
4. What is the name of Belinda’s lap dog ?
5. In which year John Dryden attained the post of Poet Laureate ?
6. When and where was Thomas Gray born ?
7. What is full name of Sheridan, the dramatist ?
8. In which year the famous periodical ‘The Spectator’ started by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele ?
Section—B
9. Write a short note on the supernatural characters in ‘The Rape of the Lock’.
10. Write a brief note on the humorous setting of Mac Flecknoe.
11. Comment on the metre and rhyme scheme of the ‘Elegy Written in Country Churchyard’.
12. What is Pindaric Ode ?
13. What is the significance of the title ‘The Rivals’ ?
14. Why is Sunday important in essay ‘Sir Roger at Church’ ?
(Assignment—2)
Section—C
Explain the following passages with reference to the context :
15. Whether the nymph shall break Diana’s law,
Or some frail China jar receive a flaw;
Or stain her honour, or her new brocade,
Forget her pray’s or miss a masquerade,
16. So Sh………… swore, nor should his vow bee vain,
that he till Death true dullness would maintain,
And in his father’s right and realms defense,
Ne’er to have peace with wit, nor with sense.
17. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure,
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor.
18. The fair understanding between Sir Roger and his Chaplain and their mutual concurrence in doing good, is the more remarkable, because the very next village is famous for the differences and contentions that rise between the parson and the squire, who live in perpetual state of war.
(Assignment—3)
Section—D
19. Comment on the toilet scene in ‘The Rape of the Lock’.
20. Write a critical appreciation of ‘Mac Flecknoe’.
21. Discuss the romantic elements found in the ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’.
22. Write the summary of ‘The Spectators Account of Himslef’.
(Assignment—4)
Section—E
23. Discuss ‘Rape of the Lock’ as a piece of social satire.
24. Discuss Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’ as a comedy of manners.