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

Total Questions: 100

61. Which one of the following is the right definition of 'peer review'?

Correct Answer: (b) A pre-publication process in which work submitted for publication is evaluated for quality by experts in the field
Solution:

'Peer review' means - "A pre publication process in which work submitted for publication is evaluated for quality by expert in the field. Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competences as the producer of the work (Pear) It functions as a form of self regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field.

62. Who is referred to as 'beast' in the quote 'Kill the beast! cut his throat! Spill his blood' in William Golding's Lord of the Flies?

Correct Answer: (c) Simon
Solution:

After Killing yet another pig, the boys chant - "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood". They say it as the way react the murdering of the pig. When Simon appears, they see him not as a human being, but as the beast and violently kill him. 'Lord of the Flies' is a novel by Nobel Prize winning British author - William Golding, published in 1954.

63. Who among the following analysed the naturalization of connotative meanings into myths?

Correct Answer: (d) Ronald Barthes
Solution:

Ronald Gerard Barthes was a French Literary theorist, philosopher, critic and semiotician. Barthes ideas explored a diverse range of field and he influenced the development of many schools of theory including structuralism, semiotician, social theory, design theory anthropology and post-structuralism. He analyzed the naturalization of connotative meaning into myth.

64. What is the name of the poetic style characterized by short staccato rhymed lines, as shown below?

What can it avayle
To dryve forth a snayle,
Or to make a sayle
Of a herynges tayle?

Correct Answer: (d) Skeltonic
Solution:

'Skeltonic' short verses of an irregular meter much used by the Tudor poet John Skelton. The Verses have two or three stresses arranged sometimes in falling and sometime in rising rhythm.

65. What is the Priest's entreaty to Oedipus in the opening scene of Oedipus Rex?

Correct Answer: (b) To rid Thebes of the plague that afflicts its people
Solution:

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title Oedipus Tyrannous or Oedipus the king is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. Sophocles's Oedipus Rex begins as a priest of Apollo asks king Oedipus of Thabes to help end the plague that is ravaging the city. In response, Oedipus reveals that he has already sent his brother in law Creon, to consult with the oracle of Apollo at Delphi on the matter.

66. While looking for publication details of a book, a researcher may consult the book's copyright page, which may appear

Correct Answer: (b) usually the reverse of the title page
Solution:

The book's copyright page appears usually the reverse of the title page.

67. Which two writers have written essays on the defence of poetry?

A. Sir Philip Sidney
B. P.B. Shelley
C. Dr. Mathew Arnold
D. T.S. Eliot
Choose the correct option:

Correct Answer: (d) A and B
Solution:

Sir Philip Sidney and P.B. Shelley have written essays on the defence of poetry. Sidney's "The Defence of Poesy" was originally published under two different title, The Defence of Posie' and 'An Apologie for Poetrie'.
"A Defence of Poetry" is an essay by the English poet P.В. Shelley written in 1821. This essay was written in response to his friend - Thomas Love, Peacock's article "The Four Ages of Poetry".

68. Which of the following correctly describes 'black humour' as a morbid and provocative treatment of

Correct Answer: (c) death and disease
Solution:

'Black Comedy' also known as black humour, dark comedy or gallows humour is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss or death and disease.

69. Read the following liens:

IN A STATION OF THE METRO
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Which of the following poetic programmes is illustrated by the above lines?

Correct Answer: (d) Imagism
Solution:

In the above line 'In A Station of The Metro' that is composed by Ezra Pound, poetic programme 'Imagism' is illustrated. Imagism is a movement in early 20th century English and American poetry which sought clarity of expression through the use of precise image. The movement derived in part from the aesthetic philosophy of T.E. Hulme and involved Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Amy Lowell and others.

70. Who says the following lines and to whom? "If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently."

Correct Answer: (c) Brutus to Cassius
Solution:

The following lines-
"If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently" are said by Brutus to Cassius in Act I scene II in Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599.