NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam June 2024 ENGLISH

Black Feminism pays attention to :
# The material lives of Black Women.
# The patriarchal nature of black society and traditions.
# The possibilities of 'Sisterhood' of black women.
Black feminism is a branch of feminism that focuses on the African-American Woman's experiences and recognizes the intersectionality of racism and sexism. Black activists and intellectuals formed organizations such as the National Association of colored Women and the National Council of Negro Women.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

Lycidas (1637) is an example of pastoral elegy. The originator of the pastoral was the Greek poet Theocritus who in the third century BC wrote poems representing the life of Sicilian shepherds. Other terms often used synonymously with pastoral are - Idyll, Eclogue and Bucolic. It is the memory of Edward king, a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the Coast of Wales in August in 1637.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

Time Machine (1895) and Brave New World (1932) both can be classified as science fiction.
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. It is related to fantasy, horror and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Hence, option (c) is correct.

Feminist literary and cultural theory draws a link between the representation of women in art and the real material conditions in which women live. Feminist literary and cultural theory aims to reflect women's voices and experiences and literature. It also seeks to challenge traditional nations of gender and integrate emotion and knowledge in literature. Feminist literary criticism explores the social relationships and roles of men and women.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

The correct chronological order and their publication.
A Time to Change and other Poems (1952)
Sixty Poems (1953)
The Unfinished Man (1960)
The Exact Name (1965)
Hymns in Darkness (1976)
These all poems are written by Nissim Ezekiel.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

It rejects the teaching of grammar and language rules. This statement is not correct about cognitive approach to language learning, and rest of all are correct.
In cognitive language learning, activities used should focus on the effects in developing students thinking ability and problem solving ability. The goal is to get them thinking and applying problem-solving strategies without the use of preparation or steps that lead to an answer.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947) describes himself "as not an Indian poet but a poet writing a universal language of poetry, of feeling, of love, hate and sex". Mehrotra has published six collections of poetry in English and two of translation - a volume of Prakrit love poems. The Absent Traveller and Songs of Kabir.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

The correct statements about "Synecdoche"-
# It is a figure of speech in which part refers to the whole.
# It is a figure of speech in which the whole refers to part. Synecdoche is a type of Metonymy; it is a figure of speech that uses a term for a part of something to refer to the whole. Synecdoche is common literary device, especially in poetry to create vivid images in the reader's mind.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

The Metaphysical Poets is a work by T.S. Eliot, first published in the Times Literary Supplement, 20 October, 1921. It is a critical review of Herbert J.C. Grierson's anthology Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century.
Eliot argued that "the metaphysical poets were great and mature poets who continued the mainstream of English poetry. He believed that their work represented a fusion of thought and feeling that was lost in later poets."
Hence, option (c) is correct.

Rene Descartes is not an Empiricist philosopher, and rest of all are Empiricist philosopher : John Locke, David Hume, George Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, Francis Bacon, William James, Seatus Empiricus, John Dewey.
In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence. Hence, option (a) is correct.