NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. June 2023 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Most near, most dear, most loved and most far, Under the window where I often found her Sitting as huge as Asia, Seismic with laughter Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand, Irresistible as Rabelais, but most tender for The lame dogs and hurt birds that surroud her,

_____

She is a procession no one can follow after But be like a little dog following a brass band. She will not glance up at the bomber, condescend To drop her gin and scuttler to a cellar, But learn on the mahogany table like a mountain Whom only faith can move, and so I send O all my faith, and all my love to tell her That she will move from mourning into mourning.

The person described in the poem

Correct Answer: (e) *
Solution:

The person described in the poem is alive and dead.
Hence, option (a & b) will be correct answer.

92. The person described in the poem is

Correct Answer: (c) a believer
Solution:

The person described in the poem is a believer.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

93. The third line of the poem suggests something about

Correct Answer: (b) the physique of the person
Solution:

According to the poem, the third line suggests something about the physique of the person and development of his body.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

94. The person described in the poem is sympathetic to

Correct Answer: (c) disabled dogs and wounded birds
Solution:

According to the poem, the person described in the poem is sympathetic to disabled dogs and wounded birds.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

95. The poem uses

Correct Answer: (a) cartographic and nature images
Solution:

The poet has used cartographic and Nature images, where the art and science of graphically representing a geographical areas.
Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

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

At school the study of literature can still involve a close reading or 'practical criticism' of a novel, play or poem without much or any recourse to external material. Practical criticism is the method of analysing a poem, in isolation from the circumstances of its production, developed by I.A. Richards (1893-1979) in the 1920s.

Hе felt that concentration upon 'the words on the page', the technical aspects of the ways verse creates effects, would result in meaningful judgements upon whether a peom was intrinsically 'good' or simply reputedly so. The methodology of practical criticims seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language. Richards and his colleagues felt that this practice was 'scientific' and led to objective value judgements.

He was part of a group of lectures at Cambridge University who played a crucial role in the development of the discipline of English Literature and whose influnced the critical practices of the New Critics, John Crowe Ranson (1888- 1974) and Cleanth Brooks (1906-94) and their colleagues in the US. Their 'scientific' examination of literature asserted a hierarchy of texts, those that held universal meaning and significance through aesthetic form and those deemed too formulaic to warrant academic scrutiny. The first reversed group of texts is often referred to as the literary canon.

In the context of the above passage, what does 'literary canon' imply?

Correct Answer: (c) A selection of literary texts established as part of a great tradition.
Solution:

In the context of the given passage, 'literary canon' has been used as a set of texts that serve as a recognized standard against which other writers and texts are judged.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

97. What kind of value judgement did practical criticism as a radical movement promote or promulgate?

Correct Answer: (d) Evaluating value in terms of universal truths.
Solution:

Evaluating value in terms of universal truths is a kind of value judgment, which is promoted by Practical criticism.
Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

98. "The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of langauge." What could be the implication of this statement?

Correct Answer: (d) Practical criticism is activism-based criticism.
Solution:

The implication of the given statement will be what is mentioned in the option (c).

99. In the context of the above passage, close reading implies

Correct Answer: (d) reading a text by focussing on words and the technical aspects.
Solution:

Close reading is rooted in the techniques espoused by I.A. Richards. It implies reading a text by focusing on words and the technical aspects. Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

100. The purpose of I.A. Richard's 'practical criticism' was to

Correct Answer: (b) usher in objective approach to the study of texts
Solution:

I.A. Richards is best-known for advancing the close reading of literature. His Practical Criticism was to usher in an objective approach to the study of texts. Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.