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

Alexander Pope's famous quote, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" appears in An Essay on Criticism (1711).It is one of the first major poems. The Verse essay was not an uncommon form in 18th century poetry, deriving ultimately from classical forebears including Horace's Ars Poetica and Lucrelius' De Rerum Natura.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

The correct chronological order of their publication:
• Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable (1935).
• Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940).
• K.A. Abbas's Tomorrow is ours : A Novel of the India of Today (1943).
• Manohar Malgaonkar's Distant Drum (1960).
• Chaman Nahal's Azadi (1975).
Hence, option (*) is correct. Note: This particular question has been dropped by NTA due to some discrepancies.

The immediate motivation for Philip Sidney to write Apologie for Poetrie as a Defense of Poetry (1995): is attack on poetry in The School of Abuse by Stephen Gosson.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

This Historical order is not a state of human mental disposition as posited by Jacques Lacan. Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". "The Imaginary", "Symbolic" and the "Real" there are three terms in the psychoanalytic perspective of Jacques Lacan.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

The recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Orhan Pamuk (2006) (Turkish writer)
Harold Pinter (2005) (British playwright)
Herta Muller (2009) (Romanian German novelist)
Hence, option (d) is correct.

The poetic line, "There is one great society alone on earth : the noble living and the noble dead" appears in The Prelude Book XI. Full name of the poem : The Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem is an autobiographical Poem in blank verse by William Wordsworth. Wordsworth began The Prelude in 1798, at the age of 28, and continued to work on it throughout his life and finally published in 1850. He never gave it a title, but called it the Poem to Coleridge in his letters to his sister Dorothy Wordsworth. Hence, option (b) is correct.

The works of Raymond Williams in the correct chronological order of their publication :
Culture and Society (1613)
The Long Revolution (1961)
Modern Tragedy (1966)
The Country and the City (1973)
Keywords (1976)
Hence, option (b) is correct.

• Thanda Gost (story) by Saadat Hasan Manto
• Jila - Watan : is the debut album by Pakistani rock band call.
• Lajwanti: is a Indian drama film directed by Narendra Suri.
These stories are deal with the theme of partition.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

The correct match will be :
• Epigram A short poem with a witty turn of thought or a wittily condensed expression in prose.
• Epigone → An inferior or derivative follower of a more distinguished writer. •Diegesis → A term used in modern narratology to designate the narrated events as a level distinct from that of the narration.
• Elision → The slurring or suppression of a vowel sound or syllable.
List-II is the correct definition of list-I.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

The nineteenth century novel portray disabled characters in them :
• Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857).
• Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol (1843).
• Melville's Moby Dick (1851).
Note: This particular question has been dropped by NTA due to some discrepancies.