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NTRCA Written Short Suggestion on the History of English Literature

1. What do you understand by Renaissance? Discuss its impact on the Elizabethan Drama.

2. What Renaissance qualities do you find in the works of Marlowe? Or Evaluate Doctor Faustus as a Renaissance hero. (2007, 2015, 2017, 2013)

3. Who are University Wits? Discuss their contribution to English Drama. NTRCA-2008,12

Or, Write a note on Pre-Shakespearean drama. NTRCA Written Question.

4. Evaluate Doctor Faustus as a Renaissance Hero. NTRCA-2017

Or, Write a note on the Renaissance character of the play Doctor Faustus. NTRCA-2015

5. Discuss “The Elizabethan age was the golden age of English Literature.” NTRCA-2013,14, 17

Shakespeare: NTRCA Written Question.

The Merchant of Venice

1. Comment on the trial scene of The Merchant of Venice. Or Write on Shakespeare’s characterization of Shylock. ***

As You Like It: NTRCA Written Question.

1. Discuss As You Like It as a romantic comedy. Or Bring out the romantic elements in As You Like It. Look at LX NTRCA Written Page No. 95

2. Write on Shakespeare’s wit and humor in As You Like It. Or Bring out comic elements in As You Like It. Look at LX NTRCA Written Page No. 96

The Tempest: NTRCA Written Question School Level.

1. How does Shakespeare match Time, Place, and Action in The Tempest? Or, Write a note on the use of three dramatic unities in The Tempest. ***

2. Discuss Shakespeare’s treatment of the theme of usurpation in The Tempest.

John Milton: NTRCA Written Question.

John Milton থেকে এইবার প্রশ্ন হবে না। ২০২৩ এ এসেছে। NTRCA এর প্রশ্ন গুলো ১/২ বছর গ্যাপ দিয়ে করা হয়। তবুও কিছু গুরুত্বপূর্ণ প্রশ্ন দেওয়া হলো। যারা বেশি পড়তে চান তারা এগুলো প্রশ্ন পড়তে পারেন।

1. Write a note on Milton’s poetic style in Paradise Lost. (2007,12)

2. What leadership qualities of Satan do you find in Milton’s Paradise Lost?

3. Give an assessment on Milton’s justification of God’s ways to man.

Or, How far in your opinion has Milton been able to justify the ways of God to man?

19. Discuss a tale of two cities as a historical novel.

Or, show how Dickens integrates a private drama with a great historical event in A Tale of Two Cities. NTRCA-2007

20. “Modern life is complex, urban and industrial, and it is faithfully mirrored in the poetry of the period.” Justify your answer by illustrating some poems by W. B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot. NTRCA-2014,17.

Or, Why does Eliot reject Wordsworth’s definition of poetry as “an emotion recollected in tranquility”? Elaborate with reference to Tradition and Individual Talent. NTRCA-2007

21. Discuss Eliot’s impersonal theory.

Or, Why does Eliot reject Wordsworth’s definition of poetry as “an emotion recollected in tranquility”? Elaborate with reference to Tradition and Individual Talent. NTRCA-2007

Individual Authors: NTRCA Written Question.

1. William Shakespeare-2006, 07, 11, 12, 13, 14 (10th), 14 (11th), 17, 19 ***

2. John Milton-2005, 07, 09, 12, 15, 16, 23

3. Jonathan Swift-2006, 14, 17, 18, 19 ***

4. Alexander Pope-2008, 10, 12, 14 (11th), 18, 23

5. Charles Dickens-2009, 14 (11th), 16, 18, 23

6. William Wordsworth-2017, 23

7. ST Coleridge-2005, 11, 15 ***

8. John Keats 2005, 07, 10, 12 ***

9. PB Shelley-2006, 09, 11, 13, 19 ***

10.Byron-2006

11. EM Forster-2005, 07, 10, 14, 19 ***

12.GB Shaw-2008, 10, 13, 15, 17, 18 ***

13.TS Eliot-2008, 09, 11, 14 (11th), 16***

14. Robert Browning-2008, 14

15. Daniel Defoe 2013

16. Christopher Marlowe 2015

William Shakespeare ***

William Shakespeare থেকে বিগত যেসব বছর গুলোতে প্রশ্ন হয়েছে।

Hamlet: NTRCA Written Question

1. Who is responsible for the tragedy of Hamlet – Character or fate? Discuss (2017)

2. Discuss the reasons behind Hamlet’s procrastination. Or Why does Hamlet delay in taking revenge? Or Hamlet as a tragedy of reflection. (2011) ***

Othello: NTRCA Written Question

1. Discuss the intrigues in Othello. Or Write a short note about Shakespeare’s use of intrigues in Othello. Look at

King Lear: NTRCA Written Question

1. Evaluate King Lear as a man more sinned than sinned. Or To what extent do Lear’s pain and suffering correspond to his initial errors of judgment in King Lear? ***

Macbeth: NTRCA Written Question

1. Discuss Lady Macbeth’s role in the tragedy of her husband. Or How does his wife influence Macbeth?

Or What role does Lady Macbeth play in guiding the action of the play Macbeth? ***

2. How do the Three Witches influence Macbeth’s decisions and actions?

The Merchant of Venice: NTRCA Written Question

1. Comment on the trial scene of The Merchant of Venice. Or Write on Shakespeare’s characterisation of Shylock. ***

As You Like It: NTRCA Written Question

1. Discuss As You Like It as a romantic comedy. Or Bring out the romantic elements in As You Like It.

2. Write on Shakespeare’s wit and humor in As You Like It. Or Bring out comic elements in As You Like It.

The Tempest

1. How does Shakespeare match Time, Place, and Action in The Tempest? Or, Write a note on the use of three dramatic unities in The Tempest. ***

2. Discuss Shakespeare’s treatment of the theme of usurpation in The Tempest.

Jonathan Swift ***

Jonathan Swift থেকে যেসব বছর গুলোতে প্রশ্ন হয়েছে।

1. Critically comment on Swift’s satirical technique in the first two books of Gulliver’s Travels. Or, How does Swift satirize politics in the first two books of Gulliver’s Travels? ***

2. Describe the rational criticism of contemporary life you found in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. (NTRCA- 2018)**

3. Consider Swift, a great humanist.

Or, Do you think Jonathan Swift is a misanthropist? Justify your answer. (NTRCA-2006) ***

ST Coleridge থেকে যেসব বছর গুলোতে প্রশ্ন হয়েছে।

1. How does Coleridge mingle natural and supernatural in the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? NTRCA-2011 ***

Or, Discuss Coleridge as a supernatural poet. NTRCA-2015

Or, How does Coleridge blend real and unreal in “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”

Or, How does Coleridge transform us to his world of “Willing suspension of disbelief? NTRCA-2005 Or, Discuss Coleridge’s treatment of supernatural elements in “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”

2. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is an allegory of crime, punishment, and redemption-Discuss. Or describe the allegorical significance of the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

V. John Keats ***

John Keats থেকে যেসব বছর গুলোতে প্রশ্ন হয়েছে।

1. Evaluate John Keats as a poet of beauty and sensuousness. [NTR Exam 2010] Page No. 138

Or, Write a note on Keats’ sensuousness in his odes. [NTRCA Exam-2012]

2. Discuss Keats as an escapist with illustrations from “Ode to a Nightingale”

3. Show how Keats contrasts the world of Nightingale with the world of man in “Ode to a Nightingale”. *** Or, What difference does Keats notice between the world of the Nightingale and that of our own? [NTRCA Exam-2005]

PB Shelley থেকে যেসব বছর গুলোতে প্রশ্ন হয়েছে।

1. Discuss the theme of hope and regeneration as you find it in Shelley’s poetry.

Or. Write a note on Shelley’s optimism with illustrations from his poems. ***

Or, Consider Shelley as a poet of hope with reference to his poem Ode to the West Wind. [NTR Exam- 2011]

Or. Shelley calls the West Wind “Destroyer and Preserver”. How does his Ode bring out this two-fold nature of the Wind? [NTR Exam-2009]

Or. Critically comment on Shelley’s treatment of Nature in Ode to the West Wind.

Or, Discus Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind as an expression of a feeling at once personal and universal.

Or, How does Shelley build up the image of the west wind as a “destroyer and preserver” in Ode to the West Wind? [NTR Exam-2019]

Or, Comment on Shelley’s use of the cycle of seasons in Ode to the West Wind. How is it related to the theme of death and rebirth?

Or, Write a note on Shelley’s use of imagery with special reference to Ode to the West Wind.

Or, Consider Shelley as a revolutionary poet with particular reference to the Ode to the West Wind. Or, It is said that Shelley is either in ecstasy or in despair. Do you agree? [NTR Exam-2006]

Or, What optimistic note do you find in P.B. Shelley’s poetry? [NTR Exam-2013]

Bernard Shaw ***

Bernard Shaw থেকে যেসব বছর গুলোতে প্রশ্ন হয়েছে।

1. Discuss Shaw’s treatment of love, marriage, and war in the play Arms and the Man, NTRCA-2015,17 ***

Or, Discuss “Arms and the Man” as a satire on foolish ideals about love and war.

Or, how does the author deromanticize the popular fascination with war through the character?

Or, Remark on Shaw’s approach towards love and marriage in his famous play Arms and the Man.

Or, discover the problems of the play Arms and the Man.

Or, Discuss Arms and the Man is an anti-romantic play. NTRCA-2008

E.M. Forster ***

E.M. Forster থেকে যেসব বছর গুলোতে প্রশ্ন হয়েছে।

1. Comment on the theme of conflict of cultures in A Passage to India. 173

Or, A Passage to India is a novel about the clash of cultures- Discuss. NTRCA-2008,10,14

Or, how is the separation represented in “A Passage to India”?

Or, critically explain Foster’s depiction of the Anglo-Indian community in Chandrapur.

2. Comment on the British Raj in India in the novel “A Passage to India”.

Or, justify the title of the novel “A Passage to India”.

TS Eliot থেকে যেসব বছর গুলোতে প্রশ্ন হয়েছে।

1. How does Eliot make a link between the past and the present in The Waste Land? NTRCA-2008,11,16,18 ***

Or, Discuss the myths and legends of the poem “The Waste Land”.

Or, “The Waste Land” is a sigh for the vanished glory of the past. Examine the view critically.

2. Discuss how T. S. Eliot reflects on the disorder and decay of modern civilization in his poem The Waste Land’. ***

Or, How does T.S. Eliot express the conflict of modern man in the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?

Or, how does T.S. Eliot build up an atmosphere of futility and barrenness in “The Love Song of John Alfred Prufrock”?

Literary Terms

1. Morality Plays *** (

2. Parable

3. Romance ***

4. Interlude

5. Ode ***

6. Satire ***

7. Miracle ***

8. Allegory ***

9. Ballad ***

10. Fable

11. Three Unities ***

Figures of Speech

1. Simile ***

2. Metaphor ***

3. Symbol

4. Personification ***

5. Hyperbole ***

6. Paradox**