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Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (UPRTOU)

UPRTOU MAEN-103(N) Solved Assignment 2025-26

Session: 2025-26 Max. Marks: 30
Program Name: MA English
Course Code: MAEN-103 (N)
Course Title: English Prose

NOTE: All Questions are Compulsory

SECTION-A
Q.No. NOTE: Short answer type question (approx. 150 to 200 words)
1 What is the significance of the essay as a prose genre?
2 How does Bacon present the advantage of Single life in his essay? 2
3 Discuss in very brief the temperament of flatterer.
4 Give a few reasons for the popularity of the Periodical essays in the Eighteenth Century. 2
5 What is the theme of “Recollections of Childhood”? 2
6 What does Aldous Huxley mean by “Snobbery”? 2

SECTION- B
NOTE: Long answer type question (approx. 350 to 500 words)
7 Discuss the origin and development of English essay.
8 Critically examine Steele’s essay Judicious Flattery as a piece of social satire.
9 Write a note on A.G. Gardiner as an essayist and his prose style.