UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam. December 2021/June 2022 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

The given lines are written by Kingsley Amis, who raised in a small community called Norbury. Thus, option (b) will be correct answer.

In the given options, statement II has been taken from 'Unto This Last' by John Ruskin. Here, both statements are correct, hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

The line "faces along the bar/cling to their average day" has been taken from 'September 1, 1939', a poem by W.H. Anden. It was written during the World War II. In the option (b), the line "the awful during of a moments surrender" comes from the section 'What The Thunder Said' which is the part of 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot. Here, awful daring" means making a momentary decision that may change the trajectory of one's life. The line "bent double, like old beggars under sacks" has been mentioned by a war poet Wilfred Owen in the poetry 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'. In this line, the poet compares soldiers to old beggars who are "bent double". Instead of being dressed smartly and proudly in their uniform, they are pictured "under sacks"
The line "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" has been taken from the poetry 'Howl' by beat generation writer Allen Ginsberg. Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

J. Hillis Miller, one of the leading exponents of deconstruction makes a deconstructionist reading of P.B. Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life' by saying that the business of deconstructionism is not to deconstruct the text but to show how the text has deconstructed itself, because deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself. In 1986, J. Hillis Miller was asked to give the Presidential address at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association. Here, Miller proclaimed the 'triumph of theory', which has preoccupied English studies for the last twenty-five years at least.
Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

In the given options, there is no correct match at all for the right answer, that's why NTA has dropped this question.
Spondee is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables in modern meters, while. Pyrrhic is a metrical foot consisting of two short or unaccented syllables. Amphimacer is a trisyllabic foot consisting of a short syllable between two long syllables in quantitative verse or of an unstressed syllable between two stressed syllables in accentual verse.
Choriambus is a four-syllable metrical foot with the first and last syllables stressed. The choriambic metre is found in Greek choruses and was favoured in Latin by Horace, but is very rarely used in English as the basis for whole lines:
'Trochaic' (adjective form) or Trochee is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, but in Latin and Ancient Greek poetic metre, a trochee is a heavy syllable followed by a light one. In this respect, a trochee is the reverse of an iamb.

Pastoral writing spans the genres of poetry, drama, and prose fiction. Despite its extreme artificiality, it is often capable of oblique or overt social criticism, in which rural harmony is contrasted with the corruptions of court or city. English pastoral writing derives from classical sources (the Idylls of Theocritus). Lycidas (1637) is a pastoral elegy by John Milton, it laments the death of Edward king who drowned while crossing from Chester Bay to Dublin when his ship struck a rock and sank in calm water.
Dr. Samuel Johnson condemned it by saying "easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting". 'Adonais' (1821) is an elegy on the death of John Keats. by P.B. Shelley. It is composed in 55 Spenserian stanzas, inspired partly by the Greek elegies of Bion and Moschus. Shelley strongly identified himself with keats' sufferings, and in his preface he attacks the Tory reviewers with pen 'dipped in consuming fire'. 'Thyrsis' a monody commemorates the Matthew Arnold's friend, Arthur Hugh Clough who died at Florence, 1861. The poem is a pastoral elegy lamenting Clough as Thyrsis.
'In Memory of W.B Yeats' is an elegy written by W.H. Auden, while 'In Memoriam' is written in memory of Arthur Henry Hallam by Tennyson between 1833 and 1850 and published anonymously in the later year. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

In the given options, statement I is related to comparative literature in which literary works and traditions of more than one nation or language are studied. By contrast with nationally or linguistically defined disciplines such as 'English literature, comparative literature ranges freely across frontiers in search of cross-cultural influences and correspondences. Distinguished practitioners have included Rene Wellek and George Steiner, while in the study of literature and culture, the importance of methodology is not secondary. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

The correct chronological sequence of publication of the given novels by Margaret Atwood are:
(i) Lady Oracle (1976) (ii) The Blind Assassin (2000) (iii) The Handmaid's Tale (1985), (iv) The Testaments (2019) (v) Alias Grace (1996). Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet and novelist. Her novel 'The Blind Assassin' (2000; Booker Prize) is the story of two sisters, whose relationship is revealed within complex layers of parallel narratives. 'Alias Grace' (1996) revisits the ambiguous history of a 16 year-old Canadian housemaid, convicted of the murder of her employer and his housekeeper in 1843. 'The Testament' (2019) is a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (1985). 'The Handmaid's Tale' (1985) is a dystopia set in the imaginary Republic of Gilead, where failing fertility results in the sexual enslavement of women for breeding purposes. Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

'Men Without Women' is a collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami and it was published in 2014. The story revolves around an unnamed narrator who receives a phone call in the middle of the night who tells him that his former lover has committed suicide.
Thus, option (c) will be correct answer.

Miles Coverdale revised and completed Tyndale's work, producing the first complete printed English Bible in 1535. This became the basis of the English Church's first official Bible, the Great Bible (1539-40) later revised as the Bishops' Bible (1568). The principal Bible of English religion and culture since the 17th century is the King James Bible (KJB) or Authorized version (1611). Before the Reformation, English writers and readers knew the Bible from the Vulgate. The earliest complete English translation was the Lollard or Wycliffe Bible. Thus, option (c) will be correct answer.