BJ0030 – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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DRIVE	SUMMER 2015
PROGRAM	BAJM
SEMESTER	1
SUBJECT CODE & NAME	BJ0030 – ENGLISH LITERATURE I
BK ID	B1027
CREDIT & MARKS	4 CREDITS & 60 MARKS

Note: Answer all questions. Each question is followed by evaluation scheme.

1 Discuss O’Henry’s personal life, works, settings and themes, characters and style.

Answer: William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.

Early life: William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–65). William's parents had married on April 20, 1858. When William was three, his mother

2 Write a long note on the source and origins of short stories.

Answer: A short story is a brief work of literature, usually written in narrative prose. Emerging from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century, the short story has grown to encompass a body of work so diverse as to defy easy characterization. At its most prototypical the short story features a small cast of named characters, and focuses on a self-contained incident with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood. In doing so, short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components to a far greater degree than is typical of an

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

Answer: The term speculative fiction refers to any fiction story that includes elements, settings and characters whose features are created out of human imagination and speculation rather than based on attested reality and everyday life. Notable genres of speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy and horror, typically feature fictional beings, such as mythical creatures and supernatural entities, and technologies that do not exist in real life, like time machines and interstellar spaceships.

History: Speculative fiction as a category ranges

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

Answer: Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.

Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems

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

Q6 Explain point of view? Write a long note on the various ‘points of view’ used to describe how a story gets told.

Answer: The term “point of view” has many applications, from video game development to the interpretation of art.  This page will discuss point of view as it pertains to the study of reading and literature. When studying the perspective of the narrator, the reader is concerned with the relationship between the person telling the story (the narrator) and the agents referred to by the story teller (the characters).

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