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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century
• He was affectionately known as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
• He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, Mostly for his masterpiece Cien anos de Soledad (1967) in English, One Hundred Years of solitude (1970).
• He was the fourth Latin American to be honoured with the Nobel Prize preceded by Gabriela Mistral (1945), Pablo Neruda (1971), and Miguel Angel Asturias (1967). So, the correct combination for the question is : B, C, E. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

The novels The Grapes of Wrath (1939), East of Eden (1952), and Cannery Row (1945) are written by American writer and 1962 Nobel Prize (in Literature) winner John Steinbeck.
• Novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) is written by Norman Mailer.
• To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee.
• So, the correct combination of Steinbeck's novels is : B, C, E.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

The leading characters in the novels written by Mulk Raj Anand from the given options are : Munoo, Coolie (1936); Bakha, Untouchable (1935); Gangu, Two Leaves and A Bud (1937).
• The correct combination of Mulk Raj Anand's characters is A, B, and D.
• Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

The correct pairs of writer and their works is "A", "B", and "C".
• Amsterdam is a novel written by Ian Mc Ewan is 1998.
• If on a Winter's Night A Traveller (1979) is written by Italo Calvino.
• The Circle of Reason (1986) is a novel written by Amitav Ghosh
• The Testaments is written by Margaret Atwood in 2019. It is sequel to the Handmaid's Tale.
• The Everest Hotel is authored by Allan Sealy in 1998.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

The correct pairs of books and their writers is A, B, and C.
• Aristotle's Rhetoric is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BCЕ.
• Latin teacher and writer, Quintilian's work on rhetoric, Institution Oratorio, is a major contribution to educational theory and literary criticism.
• Understanding Fiction (1943) is a collection of short stories and literary criticism authored by Cleanth Brooks and edited by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren.
• The Verbal Icon by William K. Wimsatt is series of essays between (1941 - 1952).
• The Great Tradition (1948) is a book of literary criticism written by F.R. Leavis. So, the correct pairs are A, B, and C.
• Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

The correct match of the writers with their works is (A)-III, (B)-IV, (C)-I, (D)-II.
• Emily Dickinson's Because I could not Stop for Death, published posthumously in 1890, is an exploration of both the inevitability of death and uncertainties that surround what happen when people actually die.
• Kath walker's We are Going (1965) examines the consequences of British colonialism in Australia. The poem also elaborates what has been lost because of British conquest and what will be lost in future if Aboriginal people aren't valued and respected.
Note: Kath Walker is popularly known by her name Oodyeroo Noonuccal.
• Judith Wright's Woman to Man (1949) is her second collection of poetry and won Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1949.
• Banking Potatoes is authored by American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner (1994) Yusef Komunykaa.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

The correct match of List-I with List-II is : A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III.

• Comedy of humours is a dramatic genre most closely associated with the English playwright Ben Jonson from the late 16th century.
• The term derives from the Latin humor, meaning "liquid" and its use in the medieval and Renaissance medical theory that the human body held a balance of four liquids, or humours: Blood (Sanguine), phlegm (phlegmatic), yellow bile (choler), and black bile (Melancholy).
• According to Ben Jonson, when these fluids are Properly balanced, humours are thought to give the individual a healthy mind in a healthy body. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

The correct match of List-I with List-II is (A)-III, (B)-IV, (C)-I, (D)-II

•'Aporia' is a term commonly used in Deconstruction theory to describe the difficulty in understanding the meaning of the words. The term refers to the unresolvable problems that may arise while reading a text.
• Arjun Appadurai, an anthropologist, defined the five Scapes to develop the concept of global cultural flow. The Scapes can help us understanding the complexity of process of globalization. These five Scapes are ethnoscapes, technoscapes, ideoscapes, finamescapes, and Mediascapes.
• In Marxist theory, especially that of Louis Althusser, interpellation is a culture's or ideologie's creating of identity for "individual".
• 'Mirror stage' is a concept from Jaques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).