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

"Thou still unravished bride of quietness....... this line comes under the figure of speech called Assonance because there is repetition of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of neighbouring words. It is distinct from full rhyme in that while the vowel sounds correspond, the consonants do not.
"Willing to would, and yet afraid to strike", this line is the example of antithesis. Antithesis accentuates the idea of contrasted clauses or phrases. Literally, it means the opposite, it is a device in which two contradictory viewpoints are put together in a sentence to achieve the opposite effect. The line "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession................ is the example of irony, a figure of speech in which there is a contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is really meant. The line "And ice, mast high........is the example of simile.
Thus, option (b) will be correct answer.

In the given options, "Lucky Jim' (1954) by Kingsley Amis whose hero, lower-middle-class lecturer Jim Dixon, with his subversive attitudes (anti-establishment, anti-pretension, anti-arts and crafts) was hailed as an 'Angry Young Man'. David Lodge's 'Changing Places' (1975) comes under
the category of campus novel. 'The History Man' (1975) by Malcolm Bradbury is a campus novel. 'The Masters is the fifth novel in C.P. Snow's series 'Strangers and Brothers'.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

'The Last September' (1929) is a novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen. It is based on Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century. J.G. Farrell's (Frederic William)' Troubles' (1970) is novel, set in Ireland, in the decaying Majestic Hotel just after the First World War, against a background Sinn Feien violence, while 'The Siege of Krishnapur (1973, Booker Prize) deals with the events of the India Mutiny, in a characteristically ironic and comic vein while Black Bartlemv's Treasure' is written by Jeffery Farnol. Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o changed his name from James Ngugi when he stopped writing in English and began publishing in Gikuyu. Both decisions were motivated by his belief that writing in the language of the colonizer alienated Africans from their own culture Through his article "Literature in Schools", he ha depicted the relevance, adequacy, shortcomings present education system. He had talked about the failure, cultural integrity and educational enlightenment. Actually, he was born in Kenya, where a State of Emergency was declared in 1952 because of the Mau Mau Mau uprising. Thus, option (d) will be correct answer.

'The importance of Being Earnest': A Trivial Comedy for Serious People' is a play by Oscar Wilde and according to W.H. Auden it is the purest example in English Literature of a 'Verbal Opera'.
Here, both statement are true, hence option (a) will be correct answer.

Gaiutra Bahadur wrote an autobiographic novel titled 'Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture'. The story is about Sujaria, the great grandmother of the author, while 'An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India'. An Era of Darkness' came along, there was no single work that clearly and unambiguously catalogued all the harm done to India under British rule. The publication of Subramani's 'Dauka Puran' is an important event in the literary and cultural history of the Indo-Fijan community in particular, and of Fiji in general. Hence option (c) will be correct answer.

Stuart Hall belongs to Birmingham schools of cultural studies. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural studies was a research centre at the University of Birmingham, England. It was founded in 1964 by Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

Kimberle Crenshaw's term "intersectionality is widely used for racial justice, complex construction of power and identity politics. 'Intersectionality is a qualitative analytic framework flourished in the late 20th century that identifies how interlocking systems of power affect those who are most marginalized in society. Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

'Footnotes in Gaza' is a graphic narrative based on bloody incidents between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza during the Suez Crisis. According to united Nations figures quoted in the book, Israeli forces killed 275 Palestinians in Khan Yunis on in November, 1956.
'Maus' is also a graphic narrative by an American Cartoonist Art Spiegelman about the experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. Here Jews are depicted as mice, wehrmacht soldiers as cats, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs, the British as fish, the French as frogs, the Swedes as reindeer and the Romani as gypsy moths. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

Rights of Passage (1967) is a notable work of Kamau Brathwaite while 'Rights of Passage' is a novel based on science-fiction, written by Alexi Panshin and published in 1968. Another work 'Rights of Passage' is written by William Golding in 1980. It is an account of a voyage by sea to Australia 'Islands (1969) is written by Kamau Brathwaite, a Barbadian poet, while 'Masks' was published in (1968). 'The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy' by Kamau Brathwaite, comprising three earlier volumes: 'Rights of Passage, 'Masks' and 'Islands'. Note: NTA has dropped this question.