UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam. December 2020/June 2021 ENGLISH-II (Shift-I)

In "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" Virginia Woolf analyses the state of modern fiction by contrasting two generations of writers. The essay is framed as a response to an essay by novelist Arnold Bennett in which he declares that the current generation of Georgian authors- D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot-have failed as writers because they have not created real, convincing characters. But Woolf challenges Bennett's concept of reality. Thus, appropriate answer is (c).

Pretentious diction and Dying Metaphors. "Politics and the English Language" is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the 'ugly and inaccurate' written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. In the remedy of six rules, Orwell said that never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. He described such phrases "ring the changes" "Achilles heel, Swan song" as dying metaphors and argued that they were used without knowing what was truly being said.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Thus, the correct option is (b).

Correct matched option is (c) (A -II , B-III C-IV, D-I)

"Of Ambition" is an argumentative essay by Francis Bacon, in which he argues about the benefits and outbursts of being ambitious.

The appropriate chronological sequence of characters are-
Shylock → Sir Epicure Mammon → Mirabell → Jimmy Porter.
'Shylock' is character of William Shakespeare" play 'The Merchant of Venice' published in 1600.
'Sir Epicure Mammon' is character of Ben Jonson's comedy 'The Alchemist', first performed in 1610 by the King's Men.
'Mirabell' is character of William Congreve's play 'The Way of the World', published in 1700. 'Jimmy Porter' is a character of John Osborne's play 'Look Back in Anger' formed in 1956, published in 1957. Hence, the appropriate answer is (b).

Pastiche and Schizophrenia concepts are deployed in the work of Frederic Jameson. Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. He is known for his books-'The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism' (1991) and 'The Political Unconscious' (1981). According to Jameson, parody has, in the postmodern age, been replaced by Pastiche. Pastiche is like parody, the imitation of a peculiar or unique. idiosyncratic style, the wearing of a linguistic mask. speech in a dead language. Schizophrenia is the psychological response to the conditions of postmodernity. Thus, the correct answer is (d).

The appropriate chronological sequence of plays are-
Man and Superman→The Playboy of the Western World→Look Back in Anger→Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. 'Man and superman' is a four act drama written by G.B. Shaw in 1903. The series has written in response of a call for Show to write a play based on the Don Juan theme.
'The Playboy of the Western World' comedy in three acts by J.M. Synge, published and produced in 1907. It is a masterpiece of the Irish literary renaissance.
'Look Back in Anger' (1957) is a realist play written by John Osborne. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working class. The protagonist of this play is 'Jimmy Porter'. 'Serjeant Musgrave's Dance' (1959) is regarded as John Arden's first important play. Hence, option (c) is correct answer.

The speaker might mean when he addresses 'Time' in a Shakespearean sonnet and declares that "I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee", 'with time comes change' and 'Time removes human life'. The line "I will be true, despite they scythe and thee" is taken from 'Sonnet 123' by William Shakespeare, depicts the revenges of time and how he sees himself, his love and his character as beyond them. In the line, the speaker says that no matter what happens in the world, he's going to be true to himself and to his love.

'The living-room of a house on a seaside town' and 'He hangs the drum around his neck, taps it gently with the sticks, then marches round the table, beating it regularly' are the two stage directions from Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. The Birthday Party, drama in three acts by Harold Pinter, produced in 1958 and published in 1959. Pinter's first full-length play established his trademark "comedy of menace", in which a character is suddenly threatened by the vague horrors at large in the outside world. The Birthday Party was first staged at the Lyric Hammersmith.

Lines of poetry in their Chronological sequence will be as (B, D, A, C).
1807-"The world is too much with us".
1862- "After great pain, a format feeling comes"
1928-"An aged man is but a paltry thing".
1965- "Daddy, I have had to kill you"
The line......." is taken from "The World Is Too Much with Us" (1807) by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. The line 'The World is Too Much With Us', "After great pain, a formal...." is taken from Emily Dickinson's poem "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" (1862). The line "An aged man is....." is taken from "Sailing to Byzantium" 1928, a poem by William Butler Yeats. The line "Daddy, have had......"is taken from "Daddy", published in 1965, by Sylvia Plath.