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

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

Such is the matter of imaginative or artistic literature- this transcript not of mere fact, but of fact in its infinite variety, as modified by human preference in all its infinitely varied forms. It will be good literary art not because it is brilliant or sober, or rich, or impulsive, or severe, but just in proportion as its representation of that sense, that soul fact, is true, verse being only one department of such literature, and imaginative prose, it may be thought, being the special art of the modern world. That imaginative prose should be the special and opportune art of the modern world results from two important facts about the later: first, the chaotic variety and complexity of its interests, making the intellectual issue, the really master currents of the present time incalculable- a condition of mind little susceptible of the restraint proper to verse form, so that the most characteristic verse of the nineteenth century has been lawless verse; and secondly, an all pervading naturalism, a curiosity about everything whatever as it really is, involving a certain humility of attitude, cognate to what must, after all be the less ambitious form of literature. And prose thus asserting itself as the special and privileged artistic faculty of the present day, will be, however critics may try to narrow its scope, as varied in its excellence as humanity itself reflecting on the facts of its latest experience- an instrument of many stops, meditative, observant, descriptive, eloquent, analytic, plaintive, fervid.

Artistic literature is the representation of: 

Correct Answer: (b) facts transformed by human predilection in an array of forms
Solution:

While discussing about style in literature, Walter Pater writes in "Appreciations with an Essay on Style" that artistic literature is the representation of facts transformed by human predilection (liking) in an array of forms. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

92. Which of the following is closest to what the author means by "less ambitious form of literature"?

Correct Answer: (a) literature responsive to heightened state of human perception
Solution:

"Less ambitious form literature" in the given excepts by Pater closely means "literature responsive to heightened state of human perception"

93. In the above passage, Walter Horatio Pater's statement, "Imaginative prose should be special" implies;

Correct Answer: (c) intellectual complexities
Solution:

The statement from the above passage "Imaginative prose should be special" implies "intellectual complexities".

94. According to the author, prose should be:

Correct Answer: (c) as varied as human experience
Solution:

According to the author, prose should be as varied as human experience. As mentioned in the passage, prose should be of infinite variety, as modified by human preference in all its infinitely varied form; as human experiences differently in different circumstances.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

95. Which of the these expressions closely represent the meaning of 'fervid'?

Correct Answer: (b) portraying feelings that are too strong
Solution:

"Fervid" means "believing or feeling something too strongly; portraying feeling that are too strong".
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

96. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:

SMOKE
Light-winged Smoke! Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight; Lark without-song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou, my incense, upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Henry David Thoreau

Correct Answer: (d) fire in the village
Solution:

Henry David thoreau's poem "Light-Winged Smoke" deals with "fire in the village". As the mention of lark circling their nest; circling the hamlets where they live, indicates that bigger area has been burnt in fire.
Hence the correct answer is option (d).

97. Why does the poet seek pardon from the Gods?

Correct Answer: (c) the speaker admits sin of setting the fire.
Solution:

The poet Henry David Thoreau seeks pardon from the Gods because some how he finds himself Guilty of burning down the hamlet (a large area of forest, hamlet or animal habitant etc.)
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

98. In the first line of the poem, "Icarian bird" connotes________.

Correct Answer: (e) *
Solution:

The question has been dropped by NTA due to ambiguity in the given options.

99. Which figure of speech is implicit in "light winged smoke!"?

Correct Answer: (a) Apostrophe
Solution:

Light-winged smoke ! Icarian bird, ----" is contains a figure of speech 'Apostrophe'. Apostrophe a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses someone in which a speaker directly addresses someone or something that is not present or cannot respond in reality. It can be a absent, dead, or imaginary person or an inanimate object (stars, ocean). Here, "light-winged smoke" has been addressed in the poem. Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

100. The word "Lark" in the third line means________.

Correct Answer: (d) skylark
Solution:

The word "lark" mentioned in the third line of the poem means "Skylark", a bird.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).