ISC 2018 English Literature Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 English Paper 2 (Literature in English) from the 2018 board examination, code 1218-801B. It carries 100 marks and lasts three hours, with an extra fifteen minutes for reading only. The paper has 18 questions. Candidates answer one from Section A and four from Section B, on at least three textbooks, and on only one play: Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing or Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. Section A is a reference-to-context question in which two of three passages are chosen. Section B sets twenty-mark essays on those plays and on Ivanhoe, the ISC Collection of Essays, the ISC Collection of Short Stories and the ISC Collection of Poems. This copy has the questions only.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

English Literature

Year

2018

Paper code

1218-801B

Maximum marks

100

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

18

Pages

8

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  20 marks

  One context question on either Much Ado about Nothing or Arms and the Man: two passages chosen from three, with short questions on each

• Section B

  80 marks

  Four essays of 20 marks each, on at least three textbooks, which may include only one of the two plays

Topics covered

• Much Ado About Nothing
• Arms and the Man
• Ivanhoe
• Unbirthday and Other Presents
• On Running after One's Hat
• On Going on a Journey
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• A Real Durwan
• Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
• Dulce et Decorum Est
• Breaking Out

Questions from this paper

1. Referring closely to Much Ado about Nothing, trace Don John's plots against Claudio and Don Pedro from their earliest beginnings. How do the plots end?
2. What purpose do Dogberry, Verges and the Watch serve in the development of Much Ado about Nothing?
3. Referring closely to specific instances in Arms and the Man, discuss how Shaw presents class distinctions and social snobbery.
4. With close reference to Ivanhoe, discuss how the central plot revolves around the conflicts between the Normans and the Saxons.
5. In On Running after One's Hat, how does G. K. Chesterton treat an inconvenience as an adventure wrongly considered?
6. How does Dulce et Decorum Est become Wilfred Owen's condemnation of war?