NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. (Cancelled) June 2024 ENGLISH

Total Questions: 100

11. Which of the following texts deals with the theme of realization?

Correct Answer: (d) Wide Sargasso Sea
Solution:

Creolization is a term referring to the process by which elements of different cultures are blended together to create a new culture. Among the given texts, Wide Sargasso Sea deals with the theme of Creolization.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

12. Match List-I with List-II.

  List-I (Term)  List-II (Definition)
 A. Anaphoric word I. A unit of language that cannot be analysed into smaller units.
 B. Morpheme II. Refers back to a work phrase previously used.
 C. Antecedent III. Use of two or more words to express a meaning which could otherwise be expressed in a single word.
 D. Periphrasis IV. A word or phrase that is referred back to by a pronoun.

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Solution:

The correct match will be:
(i) Anaphoric word: It is a rhetorical device in which a word or expression is repeated at the beginning of a number of sentences, clauses or phrases.
(ii) Morpheme: Morphemes are the indivisible basic units of language, much like the atoms which physicists once assumed were the indivisible units of matter.
(iii) Antecedent: A word or phrase that is referred back to by a pronoun.
(iv) Periphrasis : It is the use of a larger number of words with an implicit comparison to the possibility of using fewer
Hence, option (c) is correct.

13. The poetic line "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" appears in:

Correct Answer: (b) Alfred Tennyson's "In Memoriam A.H.H"
Solution:

The given expression "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" appears in an elegy In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Hence, option (b) is correct.

14. In the 1985 essay, "Three Women's Texts and a critique of Imperialism,"Gayatri Spivak shows the development of the white liberal feminist subject. Which are the texts referred in the title of the essay?

A. The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
B. Jane Eyre by Charolotte Bronte
C. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
D. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
E. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A, B and C only
Solution:

In the 1985 essay, Three Women's Texts and Critique of Imperialism, Gayatri Spivak shows the development of the white liberal feminist subject. The white Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are the texts referred in the title of the essay.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

15. Barbara Smith, in her essay, Toward a Black Feminist Criticism, raises concerns for:

A. Only Black women
B. Black lesbian women
C. Black women in the White world only
D. Black lesbian women amongst black women vis-a-vis the White women
E. Black and White women, both together, as they have universal concerns Choose the correct. answer from the option given below:

Correct Answer: (a) B and D only
Solution:

Barbara Smith, in her essay, Toward a Black Feminist Criticism raises concerns for Black lesbian women and black lesbian women amongst black women vis-a-vis the white women.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

16. Who among the following was not associated with Cambridge School of Critics?

Correct Answer: (d) Kenneth Burke
Solution:

Cambridge School of Critics was a group of critics in the mid-1920S and established an intellectually rigorous school of critical standards in the field of literature. The leaders were I.A. Richards, F.R. Leavis and William Empson. Kenneth Burke was not the part of it.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

17. Arrange the following literary movements in chronological order of their emergence:

A. Imagism
B. Impressionism
C. Absurdism
D. Futurism
E. Pre-Raphaelitism
Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Correct Answer: (d) E, B, D, A, C
Solution:

Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870S and 1880S. The Pre- Raphaelite was a group of English painters, poets and art critics founded in 1848 by William H. Hunt, J.V. Millais, D.G. Rossetti etc. Imagism started in the early 20th century by T.Е. Hulme, Ezra Pound etc., while Futurism was an artistic and social movement originated in the early 20th century.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

18. Who among the following was not a proponent of Oxford Movement?

Correct Answer: (d) Charles Kingsley
Solution:

The Oxford Movement was a Movement of high church members of the church of England which began in the 1830S and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.
Leaders of the Movement were John Henry Newman, Richard Hurrel Froude, John Keble and Edward Pusey. Hence, Option (d) is correct.

19. Match List-II with List-II.

  List-I (Works)  List-II (Writer)
 A. Language as Paradox I Raymond Williams
 B. Against Interpretation II. Cleanth Brooks
 C. Realism and The Contemporary Language III. George Orwell
 D. Politics and the English Language IV. Susan Sontag

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Solution:

The correct match will be:
⇒ Language as Paradox - Cleanth Brooks
⇒ Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag
⇒Realism and the Contemporary Language - Raymond Williams
⇒Politics and the English Language - George Orwell.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

20. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following books of D.H. Lawrence?

A. Lady Chatterley's Lover
B. Sons and Lovers
C. The Rainbow
D. The White Peacock
E. The Plumed Serpent
Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Correct Answer: (b) D, B, C, E, A
Solution:

The White Peacock (1911).
Sons and Lovers (1913).
The Rainbow (1915).
The Plumed Serpent (1926).
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928-29).
Hence, Option (b) is correct.