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

'Bhagavad Gita' was translated into English by Charles Wilkins.
'The Bhagavad Gita' is a 700 verse Hindu scripture that part of the Epic Mahabharata and was composed by an ancient sage named Ved Vyasa.
In 1785, 'The Bhagavad Gita' was first translated into English by Charles Wilkins and published as " Bhagavad Gita or Dialogues' of Krishna and Arjoon" by the British East India company with an introduction by Lord Warren Hastings, the first British Governor-General of India.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

In the above given statements, statement (I) is correct and statement (II) is incorrect. Statement (I) is correct as the term 'Negative Capability' was coined by John Keats in 1817. It is a theory about the artists access to truth without the pressure and framework of logic on science.
Statement (II) is incorrect as T.S. Eliot proclaimed that Hamlet is an artistic failure in his essay 'Hamlet and His Problems'. In the essay, Eliot notoriously deems Shakespeare's most famous tragedy an 'artistic failure', maintaining that the play represents a primary problem and that it contains certain weaknesses as a whole.
While, Dissociation of Sensibility is a phrase used by Eliot in the essay 'The Metaphysical Poets' (1921) to explain the change that occured in English poetry after the heyday of the Metaphysical poets.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

'Magic realism' is one of the most unique literary movements of the last century. It is a genre of literature that depicts the real world as having an undercurrent of magic or fantasy. It is a part of the realism genre of fiction. Magical realism portrays fantastical events in an otherwise realistic tone. It brings fables, folk tales and myths into contemporary social relevance.
Out of the given options, the novels which use 'Magic realism' as a tool of narration are- 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Midnight Children', and 'Beloved'. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'(1967) is a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendia family, whose patriarch, Josh Arcadis Buendia, founded the fictitious town of Mocondo.
In the novel, the author uses magic realism as a tool draw the reader in and uses it as a representation of th Columbian culture which strongly influences the culture of the people living in Mocondo. 'Midnight Children (1981) is a novel by Salman Rushdie that deals wit India's transition from British colonialism Independence. Rushdie uses the sequence of event style in magic realism in midnight children with fantas blended in real life.
'Beloved' (1987) is a novel by Toni Morrison, which uses the magical realist technique to talk about the cruelty of slavery, to reinterpret the official history o white slave owners and put an alternative history from the perspective of the slaves. Hence, option (b) is correct.

Both the above given statements are correct Jerome K. Jerome was an English novelist and playwright whose humour won him wide following. Hi: work 'There Men in a Boat' (1889) is one of the mos popular English travelogues. It is humorous and journalist in form. It is about three young men and their dog on a holiday.
The story is about a boat trip that J. takes with his friends George and William Samuel Harris. It is a twc week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingstor upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. Hence, option (a) is correct.

'Uttararamacharita' is a Sanskrit play in seven acts in the Nataka style by Bhavabhuti which is based on Valmiki's Ramayana. It is a celebrated play on the life of Rama after his return to Ayodhya. The play occupies a very high place in Sanskrit dramatic literature and is based on the will known story of Uttara-kand of Ramayan, with certain changes introduced by the poet.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

Paronomasia is a figure of speech based on sound. They can be defined as a phrase intentionally used to exploit the confusion between words having similar sound but different meanings.
Zeugma is a based on construction. It is a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways.
Euphemism is based on indirectness. It is used to express a mild, indirect or vague term to substitute for a harsh, blunt on offensive term.
Irony has nothing to do with imagination. It is a rhetorical device that is used to express an intended meaning by using language that conveys the opposite meaning when taken literally.
Chiasmus is not about association. It is a two part sentence or phrase, where the second part is a mission image of the first.
Hence option (a) is correct.

The 'Voyage and Travail of Sir John Mandeville' was originated in French about 1356-57 and was soon translated into many languages, and the English version appeared around 1375. The worked purports to tell the story of John Mandeville, a knight from St. Albans in the south of England, who set off an a journey to the Holy Land and on to Asia and Africa in 1332. It was completed by an anonymous author.
The work was written in Midland dialect. The Midland Dialect consists of the west midlands and the East Midlands. The Midland Dialect is similar to what is typically thought of as General American English. Hence option (c) is correct.

The term 'bowling alone' was used by Robert Putnam to describe the erosion of community ties in the united states. Putnam first published it as and essay and its purpose was to emphasize the positive effects that civic engagement can have on a community. Later in 2000, he published a nonfiction book named, 'Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community'. It was developed from his 1995 essay entitled Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital. It mode a claim that out to the quick of American voluntary: Americans just are not doing things together anymore.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

Bricolage is the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new. Levi-Strauss used this team in 'The Savage Mind' (1962).
Dasein is German word for 'existence'. Heidegger uses the expression Dasein to refer to the experience of being that is peculiar to human beings. Parapraxis or a freudian slip is a verbal or memory mistake linked to the unconscious mind. It can also be called slip of the tongue. Freud claimed that unconscious process reveal themselves through paraphraxes.
Polyphone according to Bakhtin, is a plurality of independent and unmerged voices and consciousness, a genuine polyphony of fully valid voices. Hence option (d) is correct.

'Carnival or Carnivalesque' is a literary genre which challenges authority, traditions and rules. Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian linguist and literary critic, used this term to characterize writing that depicts the de- stabilization or reversal of power structures, as happens in the traditional form of Carnival. Carnival means the way in which popular humour subverts officially authority in classical, medieval and renaissance text and culture. It overturns to established hierarchy and sets up a popular and democratic counter-culture. Hence option (a) is correct.