ENG-257 UNDERSTANDING PROSE QUESTION BANK
1.Describe the importance of the Bible in literature?
2.What type of style did Milton use in Paradise Lost?
3.Write a note on the significance of travel accounts in literature?
4.Why argumentative prose requires two or three readings to understand it
fully? Explain with proper example?
5. Does the writer set out simply to describe Mr. Squeers in an impartial way? Give
reasons for your answer.
6.Who took an initiative to prose style from verse in eleventh century?
7. Give five characteristics of the literature.
8. What do you think is the most important theme of ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’?
9.What are the ‘attendants’ of man that make his confrontation with death easy?
10.Who would be remembered and loved even after death?
11. Account for the rise of the essay in the 18th century.
12.Why is the narrative prose a pleasure to read?
13. What good qualities did Orwell find in Gandhi?
14. How is the personality of the author depicted in a familiar essay?
15. Why is ‘Beowulf ’ considered as an important poem in English Literature?
16. What wonderful things does nature offer us during our youth?
17. What points of criticism will you bear in mind in the art of essay writing?
18. What pieces of advice does Addison give to women in ‘The Spectator’?
19. What points of consideration should be borne in by the prospective biographer before
he becomes deeply involved in any character?
20.Describe the field that Gulliver Saw in Brabdingnag.
21. What is poetry and eloquence capable of ?
22. Comment on travel motif in ‘Gulliver’s Travels by Swift.
23.Trace those piece of literary writing that reflect speculative and Argumentative forms
of prose.
24. Give only five causes which tend to make autobiographical narratives inaccurate or
false.
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