NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam June 2025 ENGLISH

Total Questions: 100

1. The term "remainder" has been first used by-

Correct Answer: (c) Jacqus Derrida
Solution:

The term "Remainder" has been first used by Jacques Derrida. In a remarkable philosophical context, the term "Remainder" is one of the most influential concepts in Derrida's work. He explained how meaning is never wholly present, but always withheld or suspended.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

2. Match List-I with List-II

   List-I                              List-II
 A. Pidgin I. The language special to an individual, sometimes described as a' personal dialect'.
 B.  Creole II. A language defined according to social use, such as scientific, formal, religious, and journalistic.
 C.  Idiolect III. A contact language which draws on elements from two or more languages
 D. Register IV. A term relating to people and languages especially in the erstwhile colonial tropics and subtropics, in the Americas, Africa, the India ocean, and Oceania.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) A-III, B-VI, C-I, D-II
Solution:
  List-I                               List-II
 A. Pidgin III. A contact language which draws on elements from two or more languages
 B. Creole IV. A term relating to people and languages especially in the erstwhile colonial tropics and subtropics, in the Americas, Africa, the India ocean, and Oceania.
 C. Idiolect I. The language special to an individual, sometimes described as a' personal dialect'.
 D. Register II. A language defined according to social use, such as scientific, formal, religious, and journalistic.

3. Choose the correct statement regarding scopе of linguistics from the following:

A. to describe and trace the history of all observable languages.
В. Тo determine the forces that are permanently and universally at work in all languages.
C. To study manifestations of civilized human speed only
D. To consider only correct speech and flowery language.
E. To Delimit and define itself.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A, Band E only
Solution:

Scope of linguistics describes and traces the history of all observable languages, it determines the forces that are permanently and universally at work in all languages, and it delimits and defines itself.

4. Lord Curzon used the report of India Universities Commission of 1902 to:

Correct Answer: (d) Centralize school education under a Director-General of Education.
Solution:

Lord Curzon used the report of India Universities Commission of 1902 to investigate, redefine and centralize school and university education for the new nation under a Director-General of Education and it was passed in 1904.

5. Which of the following works is written by Joseph Conrad?

Correct Answer: (a) Tales of Unrest
Solution:

A collection of five short fictions, Tales of Unrest, is a work of Joseph Conrad. It was first published in 1898. The Madonna of the Future and other Tales (1879), The Two Magics (1898) and The Spoils of Poynton (1896) are the works by Henry James.

6. Read the following statement carefully and choose the correct ones:

A. A mixed metaphor conjoins two or more obviously diverse metaphoric vehicles.
B. In metonymy a part of something is used to signify the whole.
C. To scan a passage of verse is to go through it line by line to analyze its content, theme and diction.
D. The term 'kenning' denotes the recurrent use, in the poems written in old Germanic languages, of a descriptive phrase in place of the ordinary name for something.
E. Figurative language is often divided into two categories: Tropes and schemes.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A, D and E only
Solution:

The correct statements are following-
• A mixed metaphor conjoins two or more obviously diverse metaphoric vehicles.
• The term 'kenning' denotes the recurrent use, in the poems written in old Germanic languages, of a descriptive phrase in place of the ordinary name for something.
• Figurative language is often divided into two categories: Tropes and schemes. • Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used as a substitute for another closely associated word or phrase.
• Scanning a passage for verse primarily refers to analyze its meter and rhythm, not its content, theme and diction.

7. Which of the following critics are associated with Frankfurt School of German Intellectuals:

A. Walter Benjamin
B. Luara Mulvey
C. Travis Henderson
D. Max Horkheimer
E. Leo Lowenthal
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A, D and E only
Solution:

Frankfurt School is a school of thought associated with the Institute for Social Research, it may founded in 1923 at the University of Frankfurt am Main, known as Goethe University Frankfurt. The prominent figures associated with the school include Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, Wilhelm Reich, Leo Lowenthal etc.

8. Choose the correct key points related to approach to Feminism and Gender Studies:

A. Feminism is concerned with the marginalization of women in a patriarchal culture.
B. Feminist critics explain how the subordination of women is reflected or challenged by literary texts.
C. Mary Wollstonecraft defines four models of sexual difference biological, linguistic, psychoanalytic, and cultural.
D. Feminist critics, goals: to expose patriarchal premises and resulting prejudices, to promote the discovery and reevaluation of literature by women, and to examine social, cultural, and psychosexual contexts of literature and literary criticism.
E. Simone de Beauvoir prefers "womanism" to "feminism."
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) A, B and D only
Solution:

Feminism is the belief that women deserve equal social, economical, political and independent rights. Feminism is concerned with the marginalization of women in a patriarchal culture. Feminist critics and writers explores how the subordination of women is reflected or challenged by literary texts and examine the experiences of woman of all races, classes, sexual preferences and cultures. They aim to expose patriarchal patterns and resulting biasness. They raise the revolution of literature by women and examine social, cultural and psychosexual contexts of literature and literary criticism.

9. Identify the poem in which the following lines occur:

"My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart
With tender gladness, thus t look at thee".

Correct Answer: (b) "Frost at Midnight"
Solution:

"My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart
With tender gladness, thus to look at thee".
These lines are excerpted from the poem "Frost at Midnight" written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in 1798. This poem discusses the childhood experience of Coleridge in a negative manner. He hopes the better for his son, Hartley.

10. Arrange the following works of John Storey in their chronological order of publication:

A. Inventing popular culture: From folklore to globalization
B. Cultural theory and popular culture: An introduction
C. What is cultural studies: A Reader
D. Cultural consumption and Everyday life
E. Culture and Power in cultural studies: The politics of signification
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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

The works of John Storey in their chronological order of publication are- •Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. An Introduction (1994)
• What is Cultural Studies: A Reader (1996)
• Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life (1999)
• Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization (2003)
• Culture and Power in Cultural Studies: The Politics of Signification (2010.)