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A short summary of the novel Emma by Jane Austen

Summary of The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope

Discuss “Sons and Lovers” as a Bildungsroman or Kunslerroman novel

How did James Joyce present the element of “epiphany” in his novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”?

Write a note on the ‘Theresa Complex’ in Dorothea in “Middlemarch” by George Eliot

Bring out the element of Symbolism in the novel “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

Discuss Thomas Hardy’s use of different symbols in his novel “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”

Discuss Henry Fielding’s novel “Tom Jones” as a picaresque novel

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Explain the line “Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd..” from “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H.Auden

Explain the line “A terrible beauty is born” from Yeats’ poem “Easter 1916”

Summary and Critical analysis of the poem The Little Vagabond by William Blake

Describe the natural scene of England as depicted by Auden in his poem “Look, Stranger”

“Those who sharpen the tooth of the dog, meaning death/Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird, meaning.. Explain the lines from Eliot’s poem Marina

Critically examine Auden’s portrait of an unknown citizen in his poem “An Unknown Citizen”

”Tis that repeated shocks, again, again/ Exhaust the energy of strongest souls,..” explain the lines

Discuss the conflict between good and evil in the poem Christabel Part I by Coleridge

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Synecdoche: Definition, Types and examples

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) English Philosopher and his famous works

Critically examine Auden’s portrait of an unknown citizen in his poem “An Unknown Citizen”

Discuss the conflict between good and evil in the poem Christabel Part I by Coleridge

Cacophony: Definition, Meaning and Examples

Richard Hooker (1554–1600) English theologian

Distinguish between the madness of Lear, the madness of Edgar, and the madness of the Fool in King Lear

Discuss the Latin American Boom in late 1950s and 1960s,

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“But these are all lies: men have died from time/ to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love” from As You Like It by Shakespeare

What is the symbolic significance of Python in “Tughlaq” by Girish Karnad

Distinguish between the madness of Lear, the madness of Edgar, and the madness of the Fool in King Lear

Comment on the dramatic significance of the opening scene in ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare

“And Pity, like and naked new-born babe” explain the line from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Examine the structure of “King Lear:” pointing out its merits and demerits.

Discuss the significance of the character of Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Write a note on Shakespeare’s mixture of prose and verse in “King Lear”.