UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, June-2019 ENGLISH (SOLVED PAPER-II)

Total Questions: 100

31. Which type of textual copу is concerned with an assessment of the physical details of the books and their exact relationship to the condition in which the book was planned to appear at the time of its initial publication?

Correct Answer: (b) Ideal copy
Solution:

Ideal type of textual copy is concerned with an assessment of the physical details of the books and their exact relationship to the condition in which the book was planned to appear at the time of its initial publications.
Hence option (b) is correct.

32. Match the following journals with their distinguishing aims and methods of scholarship:

Correct Answer: (d)
Solution:
 Option (d) is correct journals with their distinguishing aims and methods of scholarship.
 A. Obsidian iii. Feminist writing
 B. Clio i. Literature, History and the philosophy of history
 C. Interventions iv. Postcolonial writing
 D. Signs ii. Literature and arts in the African diaspora

33. "He that is not with us is against us. He that is not against us is with us." Who said this?

Correct Answer: (b) Francis Bacon
Solution:

The lines,, "He that is not with us is against us. Hе that is not against us is with us" appear in the famous essay of Francis Bacon in 1601 entitled - "Of Unity in Religion". Hence option (b) Francis Bacon is correct.

34. Which one of the following novels of Jane Austen was abandoned unfinished?

Correct Answer: (c) The Watsons
Solution:

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was famous novelist of Romantic era. The Watsons' is unfinished novel of Jane Austen. Her another novel are very famous such as - Pride and Prejudice (1813), Sense and Sensibility (1811), Northanger Abbey (1818), Emma (1816), Persuasion (1818) etc.

35. Which of the following works is reviewed in George Orwell's essay, Inside the Whale?

Correct Answer: (a) Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer
Solution:

"Inside the Whale" is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Henry Millers work - Tropic of Cancer. Hence option (a) is correct.

36. Match the works with authors:

Correct Answer: (d)
Solution:
 Option (d) is correctly matched the works with authors–   Works Authors
 A. Image-Music-Text (1977) iii. Roland Barthes
 B. Why Marx was Right (2011) iv. Terry Eagleton
 C. The Mirror and the Lamp (1953) i. M.H. Abrams
 D. Culture and Society (1958) ii. Raymond Williams
 Hence option (d) is correct.

37. Who among the following established and popularized the concept of 'Cardinal Vowels'?

Correct Answer: (c) Daniel Jones
Solution:

'Cardinal Vowels' are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sounds of language. Daniel Jones established and popularized the concept of 'Cardinal Vowels'. He wrote - "The values of cardinal vowels cannot be learnt from written descriptions; they should be learnt by oral instruction from a teacher who knows them."

38. Which one of the following of Plato's beliefs/ acts was Shelley countering by Saying that 'Poets are the unacknowledged Legislators of Mankind'?

Correct Answer: (c) Preference for legislators over poets
Solution:

Shelley countering by saying that Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind' in his famous critical work - 'In A Defence of Poetry' written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in essays, Letters from Abroad, Translation and fragments by Edward Moxon in London. This essay was written in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock's article The Four Ages of Poetry' published in 1820. Shelley nominated unlikely figures such as -Plato and Jesus in their excellent use of language to conceive the inconceivable, in preference for legislators over poets.

39. Which artistic technique best describes the interplay of light and shade in the following lines?

"I have looked at it so long I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully."

Correct Answer: (d) Chiaroscuro
Solution:

The term 'Chiaroscuro' originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper but in literature Chiaroscuro is the use of strong contrast between light and dark, usually bold contrast affecting the whole composition. So the lines-
"I have looked at it so long I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over A woman bends over me, |Searching my reaches for what she really is Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect if faithfully" are best example of Chiaroscuro artistic technique.

40. Which of the following poets does William Hazlitt call 'Don Quixote-like' in his essay, My First Acquaintance with Poets?

Correct Answer: (a) William Wordsworth
Solution:

'My First Acquaintance with Poets' was published in 1823 in a short-lived but a highly significant periodical of the Romantic age by William Hazlitt. In this essay William Hazlitt calls William Wordsworth - Don Quixote- like'. Don Quixote' is a Spanish novel by Miguel De Cervantes.