Major · 01/ENG/MJR/151T · 2026–27 intake

Appreciating Poetry

Semester II · 6 credits · 5 units

Examination scheme & source discrepancies

The source lists 3 hours, 120 end-semester marks and 30 sessional marks.

Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.

Paper Setting & Marking Scheme: Time: 03 Hours MM= 120 Part- A (10x2=20 Marks) Ten compulsory short answer questions, at least two from each units—1,2,3and 4. Answer to each question shall be limited up to 50 words. Part- B: (5x20=100 Marks) Unit 1: Short notes on any 04 out of 08 of 05 marks each in not more than 125 words. Unit 2: Short notes on any 04out of 08 of 05 marks each in not more than 170 words each. Unit 3: Short notes on any 02 out of 04 of 10 marks each in not more than 250 words each. Unit 4: 01 out of 02 critical appreciation of 20 marks from the prescribed poems. Unit 5: Critical appreciation of 01 out of 02 unseen poems, 20 marks.

Unit IProsody / Rhythm and more

9 entries

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Basic Elements of Poetry: Prosody: Rhythm, Meter – Rhyme - hard rhyme, soft rhyme, internal rhyme - Alliteration, Assonance – Diction.

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Unit IIMetaphor / Simile and more

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Figures of Speech: Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Oxymoron, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Transferred Epithet.

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Unit IIILyric / Ode and more

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Poetic Forms: Lyric, Ode, Sonnet, Ballad, Couplet, Dramatic Monologue, Elegy, Satire, Mock Epic, Free Verse

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Unit IVOn His Blindness / La Belle Dame sans Merci and more

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Sonnet: John Milton: On His Blindness Ballad: John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci Ode: P B Shelley: Ode to a Skylark Elegy: W H Auden: In Memory of W. B. Yeats Dramatic Monologue: Robert Browning: Evelyn Hope

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Unit VAppreciation of an unseen poem

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Appreciation of an Unseen poem.

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Recommended readings in the source

  • A Concise Companion to Literary Forms. Emerald, 2013.
  • Bernard Blackstone. Practical English Prosody: A Handbook for Students. Longman, 2009.
  • M.H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms,