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

Total Questions: 100

51. Identify the stage that falls between the imaginary and symbolic stages according to Jacques Lacan:

Correct Answer: (e) *
Solution:

The question remains cancelled and marks awarded to all candidates appeared in the test.

52. Which one of the following arrangements of poets is in the correct chronological order?

Correct Answer: (c) Layamon, William Langland, William Dunbar
Solution:

Correct chronological order of the poet is option (c).
Layamon (Late 12th/early 13th century)
William Langland (1332-1386)
William Dunbar (1459-1520)
Hence option (c) is correct.

53. Which of the following aptly names the language resulting from the contact of two mutually unintelligible language systems?

Correct Answer: (d) Pidgin
Solution:

A Pidgin is grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. Hence option (d) is correct.

54. Which of the following poems by Thomas Hardy was originally titled by the century's Deathbed?

Correct Answer: (c) The Darkling Thrush
Solution:

The Darkling Thrush' is one of Hardy's most anthologized poem. The word Darkling' means 'in the dark' and has poetic associations with Keat's 'Ode to a Nightingale'. The poem was written on 31 December 1900 and was first called - By the Century's Deathbed'.

55. All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (The idea of) what ugliness is; they all know the skill of the skillful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what the want of the skill is.

So it is that existence and non-existence gave birth to (the idea of) the other, that difficulty and ease produce (the idea of) the other, that the length and shortness fashion out the one figure of the other, that (the idea of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of one with the other, that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another, and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another. Which one of the following is the correct meaning of the ominous little phrase "the idea of in the first sentence of the passage?

Correct Answer: (a) Prior knowledge
Solution:

Priar knowledge is the knowledge the learner already has before they meet new information. A learner's understanding of a text can be improved by activating their prior knowledge before dealing with the text, and developing this habit is good learner training for them. So the correct meaning of the ominous little phrase "the idea of" in the first sentence of the passage is option (a) Prior knowledge.

56. What is the meaning of Ziaudding Sardar's statement? "Cultural studies started as a dissenting intellectual tradition outside academia, dedicate to exposing power in all its cultural forms. But it has now become a discipline and a part of the academic establishment and its power structure."

Correct Answer: (c) Institutionalization
Solution:

Ziauddin Sardar's statement - "Cultural studies started as a dissenting intellectual tradition outside academia, dedicate to exposing power in all its cultural forms. But it has now become a discipline and a part of the academic establishment and its power structure."
Institutionalization- Institutionalization refers to the process of embedding some conception within an organization social system or society as whole.

57. What is the meaning of 'langue' in Saussurean linguistics?

Correct Answer: (e) *
Solution:

Ferdinand de Sassure was a Swiss linguist and semiotician. In his 'Course of General Linguistics' Ferdinand de Saussure introduced term - Langue, Language and parole. According to him Langue means Language in the abstract sense and an organized system of differences. Langue is a composite of all the traits of a language, think of it as a big container that hosts all the parts of language as we use it. Particularly the image and words that come to mind and the sound-to-symbol connection that occurs when we speak. All of those stared images, words-meaning and sub-meanings comprise 'Langue'.

58. Which of the following statements best describes T.S. Eliot's assertion that Shakespeare's Hamlet is an 'artistic failure'?

Correct Answer: (a) Hamlet's emotion is not adequately objectified
Solution:

Hamlet and his Problems' is an essay written by T.S. Eliot in 1919, that offers a critical reading of Hamlet. The essay first appeared in Eliot's - The Sacred Wood : Essay on Poetry and Criticism in 1920. It was Eliot who said Hamlet, far from being success. Shakespeare's masterpiecе 'Hamlet' is most certainly is an artistic failure. Eliot thought that Shakespeare could not established "Objective Corelatives" to Hamlet's sensibilities. Hamlet's emotion is not adequately objectified.

59. Which one of the following groups of novelists has, in the given order, Captain Ahab, Hester Prynne, Roderick Usher and Daisy Miller as characters in their novels?

Correct Answer: (b) Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar A. Poe, Henry James
Solution:

Option (b) is correct.

 Character Work Novelist
 Captain Ahab Moby Dick Herman Melville
 Hester Prynne The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
 Roderick Usher The Fall of the House of Usher (Essay) Edgar A. Poe
 Daisy Miller Daisy Miller (Novella) Henry James

60. From which Greek word does the term 'comedy' derive and what does it man?

Correct Answer: (b) Komoidia revel-song
Solution:

The term 'Comedy' is derived from Greek word 'Komoidia' which means - revel song.