NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. December 2022 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following poem and answer the question:

Talking in Bed Talking in bed ought to be easiest. Lying together there goes back so far. An emblem of two people being honest. Yet more and more time passes silently. Outside, the wind's incomplete unrest Builds and disperses clouds about the sky. Ana dark towns heap up on the horizon. None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why At this unique distance from isolation It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind. Or not untrue and not unkind. Philip Larkin

Which of the following statement is true?

Correct Answer: (c) The poet says that talking in bed should be easy but it is not.
Solution:

According to the given poem Talking in Bed by Philip Larkin, the poet says that talking in bed should be easy but it is not.
Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.

92. The poet says that when two people are lying together, they look like.

Correct Answer: (a) Two pure human beings.
Solution:

According to the given stanzas of the poem by Philip Larkin, the poet says that when two people are lying together, they look like two pure human beings. Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.

93. The poet says that while lying in bed he and his companion pass time.

Correct Answer: (c) Silently.
Solution:

According to the given poem, the poet says that while lying in bed he and his companion pass time silently.
Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.

94. The poet and his companion are.

Correct Answer: (d) In a place away from the towns.
Solution:

According to the given poem Talking in Bed by Philip Larkin, the poet and his companions are in a place away from the towns.
Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.

95. The poet says that while lying in bed with one's companion it is difficult to find words which are.

Correct Answer: (a) At once honest and caring
Solution:

According to the given poem, Talking in Bed by Philip Larkin, the poet says that while lying in bed with one's companion it is difficult to find words which are at once honest and caring.
Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.

96. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follows :

Poetry in its use of language continually distorts and denies the structure of reality to exalt the structure of the self. By means of rhyme, assonance or alliteration it couples together words which have no rational connection, that is, no nexus through the world of external reality. It breaks the word up into lines of arbitrary length, cutting across their logical construction.

It breaks down their associations, derived from the world of external reality, by means of inversion and every variety of artificial stressing and counterpoint. Thus the world of external reality recedes and the world of instinct, the affective emotional linkage behind the words, becomes the world of reality....... In the novel, too, the subjective elements are valued for themselves, and rise to view, but in a different way. The novel blots out external reality by substituting a more or less consistent mock reality which has sufficient 'stuff to stand between the reader and reality.

This means that in the novel the emotional associations attach not to words but to the moving current of mock reality symbolised by the words. This is why rhythm, 'preciousness', and style are alien to the novel: why the novel translate so well: why novels are not composed of words. They are composed of scenes, actions, stuff, people, just as play are.

The above passage, Christopher Caudwell's statement. "Poetry in its use of language continually distorts and denies the structure of reality to exalt the structure of the self" implies:

Correct Answer: (b) The capacity of poetry to draw attention to itself as an aesthetic object or artifact.
Solution:

The capacity of poetry to draw attention to itself as an aesthetic object or artefact. Somewhere, it is closely associated to the principles of Wordsworth and aesthetic beauty with the help of poetry, we can perceive all that abstract things which are impossible to experience with being poetic.
Thus, option (b) will be correct answer.

97. What does the word "assonance" mean?

Correct Answer: (b) Repetition of identical or similar vowels.
Solution:

'Assonance' is used as a figure of speech, where we can see the repetition of identical or similar vowels. The repetition created by assonance enhances our writing with rhythm, mood and emphasis.
Thus, option (b) will be correct answer.

98. What does Caudwell imply by the statement, "The novel blots out external reality by substituting a more or less consistent mock reality which has sufficient 'stuff to stand between the reader and reality"?

Correct Answer: (a) The implication is that the reality of fiction has no existence independent of the words, and our emotional responses are directed by the words.
Solution:

Caudwell's statement clearly shows that the reality of fiction has no existence independent of the words, and our emotional responses are directed by the words. It means that we cannot stay in the world of imagination for a long time, we have to face the stark reality of life.
Thus, option (a) will be correct answer.

99. What do you understand by "mock reality" in context of the usage in the above passage?

Correct Answer: (a) The reality contrived into existence by novelists through strategic use of words.
Solution:

According to the passage, 'mock-reality' means something that is not genuine, sham, counterfeit or forgery. It is a kind of reality hard to believe or we can say it pretention.
Thus, option (a) will be correct answer.

100. If rhythm, 'preciousness' and style are alien to the novel, in which genre are they distinctive features?

Correct Answer: (b) Poetry
Solution:

If rhythm, 'preciousness' and style are alien to the novel, that will come in the genre of poetry. Along with these things voice, diction, imagery, symbolism, syntax, meter, allegory and structure are the basic elements of poetry.
Thus, option (b) will be correct answer.