NTA UGC NET/JRF Re-Exam June 2024 ENGLISH (Shift-II)

Neo-Platonism was founded by Plotinus and Porphyry. The term Neo-platonism was invented by 19th century historians to refer to the philosophy of Platinus and the period of platanic philosophy that followed. Platinus is considered the founder of Neo-platonism. It is a philosophical movement that began in the 3rd century AD and is considered a branch of platonic philosophy. Hence, option (c) is correct.

Quantitative research treats physical and social world as objects based on standardized data. Quantitative research is a research strategy that focuses on quantifying the collection and analysis of data. Hence, option (c) is correct.

The Wrongs of Man and Thoughts on the Education of Sons are not written by Mary Wollstonecraft and rest of all are written by Mary Wollstonecraft : •Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790)
• Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790)
• Vindication of the Rights of woman (1792)
• The Wrongs of Woman (1798) (Posthumoushly published)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a British writer, philosopher and advocate of women's rights, she argues that women are not naturally inferior to man but appear to be only because they lack education. Hence, option (d) is correct.

Love in a Wood is not a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
The screen adaptation of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is The Boys from Syracuse, Angoor, Do Dooni char, and Bhranti Bilas.
The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humor coming from slapstick and mistaken identity in addition to puns and word play set in the Greek city of Ephesus. It tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

The Metaphysical Society was a famous British debating society, founded in 1868 by James Knowles, who acted as secretary. Membership was by invitation only, and was exclusively male. Many of its members were prominent clergymen, philosophers and politicians.
■ T. H. Huxley, Alfred Tennyson and William Gladstone are the members of Metaphysical society.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

The correct match will be:
■ Othering was coined by Gayatri Spivak
■ Ecological Imperialism was coined by Alfred W. Crosby.
■ Colonial Desire, the term was employed by Robert J.C. Young.
■ Third Space was coined by Homi k. Bhabha.
Ecological Imperialism (1986), book by Alfred W. Crosby.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

In the Post Modern Condition (1979), Lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narrative. The one whose death he above all sought to declare was Classical Socialism.
In this book the author analyzes the notion of knowledge in postmodern society as the end to "Grand narratives" or metanarratives, which he considers a quintessential feature of modernity. Jean-Francois Lyotard introduced the term Postmodernism, which was previously only used by art critics, into philosophy and social sciences, with the following observation: "Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives." Hence, option (D) is correct.

Phonetics refers to- Production of speech sounds.
Phonetics is the study of speech sounds, including how they are produced and perceived, and how they are classified: production, classification and transmission. Phonetics is a branch of linguistics and is also known as Speech science or Phonetic sciences.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

The correct chronological order of Toni Morrison's works and their publication :
• The Bluest Eye (1970)
• Song of Solomon (1977)
• Tar Baby (1981)
• Beloved (1987) (The novel won the Pulitzer Prize)
• Jazz (1992) (Historical novel)
Toni Morrison was the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York city in the late 1965's. Morrison's notable awards' Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Humanities medal, Nobel prize in literature (1993), and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1987).
Hence, option (c) is correct.

The correct match will be :
• A Room Called Earth (2020) by Madeleine Ryan.
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2022) by Gabrielle zevin
• A Time to Dance (2014) by Padma Venkatraman
• Almond: A Novel (2027) by Won Pyung Sohn.
Hence, option (C) is correct.