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

'Murray Colonial and Home Library Series' and 'Colonial Library Series by Macmillan' are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India. 'The Home and Colonial Library' was a series of works published in London from 1843 to 1849, comprising 49 titles by John Murray III.
Macmillan's Colonial Library are typically marked "Intended for circulation only in India and the British colonies". Thus, an appropriate answer is option (c).

'Woman to Man' (1949) and 'The Old Prison' are the poems written by Judith Wright. The poem 'Woman to Man' describes the feelings of a woman from the time of sexual encounter with her husband until the time of labour. She expresses her feelings as a wife as well as the holder of her future offspring in her belly. 'The Old Prison' is a poem by Judith Wright, an Australian who played a crucial role in the upholding of aboriginal Australian's rights and took strong decisions in protecting our environmental issues.

'The Taming of The Shrew' is a Shakespearean comedy which is structured as a play within a play because there are many plot structures. There is the framing plot and the triple action play that included the induction: Christopher Sly and the trick played on him. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina the headstrong obdurate shrew. Thus, an appropriate answer is option (d).

Octavio Paz wrote 'The Labyrinth of Solitude'. Octavio Paz (1914-1998) Mexican poet, writer and diplomat is recognized as one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century. He received the Nobel prize for literature in 1990. 'The Labyrinth of solitude' offered an existentialism and psychoanalytic interpretation of Mexican culture. Hence, option (d) is correct answer.

'Estragon' and 'Pozzo' are the characters that are figured in Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot'. Estragon is one of the tulo men (Often referred to as 'tramps') who are waiting for Mr. Godot. He is the first to appear in the play and is more docile and timid than his friend Vladimir.
'Pozzo' is the bold, brutal, insensitive, and overbearing figure who intimidates Estragon and Vladimir in the first act of play after he drives his slave, Lucky, in the scene. Hence, option (a) is correct.

Homophones : It is word with the same pronunciation and different meanings. For example 'Flower' and 'Flour' are homophones because they are pronounced the same but have different meanings.

"Taking after the practice of the Moralities and Interludes, Ben Jonson named his dramatic personae" and "Chapman's. 'All Fools' and Middleton's 'A Trick to Catch the Old one belong to the genre of comedy of humours that Jonson is said to have pioneered" are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson. The legacy Jonson left through the publication of his folio of works came with an extra irony attached. Thus, the correct answer is option (b).

The right sequence of (D, B, A, C) the stages of a child's first language acquisition are- Cooing → Babbling → Holophrastic and Telegraphic speech. First language acquisition refers to the way children learn their native language. Second language acquisition refers to the learning of another language or languages besides the native language.
For children learning their native language, linguistic competence develops in stages from babbling to one word to two words.........
Thus, the correct option is (d).

J.L. Austin and John Searle are linguists associated with Speech Acts. John L. Austin coined the term 'Speech Act' in his book, How to Do Things With Words' published in 1962. According to Austin's preliminary informal description the idea of an 'Illocutionary act' can be captured by emphasizing that 'by saying something, we do something.'
John R. Searle gave an alternative to Austin's explanation of the illocutionary act saying, a "Speech act" is often meant to refer to exactly the same thing as the term illocutionary act.

'Samuel Johnson' and 'Horace Walpole' condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771. In 1718, the transportation act introduced penal transportation. People convicted of capital crimes had their sentences 'commuted' to 14 years of life in the Americas. Convicts found guilty of non-capital crimes received seven year sentences. Between 1718 and 1776, over 50,000 convicts were transported to Virginia and Maryland in the modern united states. Thus, the correct answer is option (b).