BJ0030-ENGLISH LITERATURE 1

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ASSIGNMENT

DRIVE	SUMMER
PROGRAM	BAJM
SEMESTER	1
SUBJECT CODE & NAME	BJ0030-ENGLISH LITERATURE 1
CREDIT	4
BK ID	B1027
MAX.MARKS	60

Note: Answer all questions. Kindly note that answers for 10 marks questions should be approximately of 400 words. Each question is followed by evaluation scheme.

Q.1 Write a long note on the personal life, works, settings and themes, characters and style (such as surprise endings and love for humanity) of O’Henry.

Answer: - O. Henry was an American writer whose short stories are known for wit, wordplay and clever twist endings. He wrote nearly 600 stories about life in America.

He was born William Sidney Porter on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a medical doctor. When William was three his mother died and he was raised by his grandmother and aunt. He left school at the age of 15 and then had a number of jobs, including bank clerk. In 1896 he was accused of

Q.2 what are the source of short stories? Discuss their origins.

Answer: - Short stories can be an excellent way to break into the competitive field of fiction publishing. Novel publishers are more willing to look at work written by an author whose work has already appeared in print. Magazines and periodicals love the short form, so selling the work can often be simpler than pushing an entire novel manuscript.  Readers are more willing to pay money for work from an author they are already familiar with. Most importantly, though, short stories provide a fertile ground for bigger ideas to spring from.

Q.3 What is speculative fiction (include science fiction, horror fiction, and fantasy)? Discuss in detail.

Answer:- Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction, weird fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.

Science fiction: - Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature

Q.4 Discuss Rudyard Kipling’s biography, works and themes, style and salient features.

Answer:- Rudyard Kipling was an English author, famous for his works: Just So Stories, The Jungle Book and "Gunga Din." He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

Major Themes

Poor treatment of soldiers:-

Kipling was a proud Briton and believed that it was an honor to serve in the country's military. He regretted that he was unable to serve due to poor eyesight and he encouraged his own son to enlist. He touted the virtues of courage and fighting

Q.5 Write a long analysis on the essays ‘Grace before meat’ and ‘On running after one’s hat’

Answer: - I feel an almost savage envy on hearing that London has been flooded in my absence, while I am in the mere country. My own Battersea has been, I understand, particularly favoured as a meeting of the waters. Battersea was already, as I need hardly say, the most beautiful of human localities. Now that it has the additional splendour of great sheets of water, there must be something quite incomparable in the landscape (or waterscape) of my own

Q.6 Explain point of view? Write a long note on the various ‘points of view’ used to describe how a story gets told.

Answer: - The perspective from which a speaker or writer recounts a narrative or presents information. Depending on the topic, purpose, and audience, writers of nonfiction may rely on the first-person point of view (I, we), the second-person (you, your), or the third-person (he, she, it, they).

"Point of view is the place from which a writer listens in and watches. Choosing one place over another determines what can and can't be seen, what minds can

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