BEGC-105 · June 2023 · English
IGNOU BEGC-105 June 2023 Previous Year Question Paper
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-105, June 2023 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 3 · Sections: 3
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (HONOURS) ENGLISH
PROGRAMME (BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
June, 2023
BEGC-105 : AMERICAN LITERATURE
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Attempt questions from all three Sections.
Each Section has internal choices.
Section—A
Q1.Explain the meaning of the following stanzas with reference to the context (any four) : 4×5=20
(a) If the red slayer thinks he slays Or if the slain thinks he is slain They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again
(b) In the old world, the east, the Suez Canal The New by its mighty railroad spanne’d The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wires; Yet first to sound, and ever sound, the cry with thee O soul
(c) But O heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead
(d) Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The carriage held just ourselves And Immortality
(e) A thought went up my mind today That I have had before, But did not finish,—some ways back, I could not fix the year.
Section—B
Q2.Answer the following questions in about 300 words each (any four) : 10×4=40
(a) Discuss one of the major themes of All My Sons.
(b) Write a note on the visual imagery in the novel The Scarlet Letter.
(c) Examine the theme of ‘Snows of Kilimanjaro’ and the techniques Hemingway employs to project this theme.
(d) Write an extended note on the poetic devices used in ‘Passage to India’.
(e) How do you account for the characteristic vagueness of the poem ‘A thought went up my mind today’ ?
Section—C
Q3.Answer any two of the following questions in about 500 words each : 2×20=40
(a) Do you think that the title of the play All My Sons is justified ? Give a reasoned answer.
(b) How does Hawthorne present the organic - mechanical contrast in the novel The Scarlet Letter ?
(c) Write a detailed note on ‘Realism’ in American Drama.