UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, June-2020 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

Total Questions: 100

41. Which two of the following strictly follow the parameters of documentation prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?

1. Nunberg Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
2. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Trans. Thomas Colchie, London: Vintage, 1991.
3. Nunberg Geoffrey, ed. The Future of the Book. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.
4. Puig, Manuel, Kiss of the Spider Woman. Translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (c) 1 and 4 only
Solution:

The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting source in the eight edition of the MLA Handbook. The Future of the Book and Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Translated by Thomas Colchie strictly follow the parameters of documentation prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook.

42. A research hypothesis is :

1. a proposition which is always true
2. a provisional explanation of anything
3. a theory which will be disproved by evidence
4. a statement which is assumed to be true for the sake of argument
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) 2 and 4 only
Solution:

A hypothesis is a concept or idea that you test through research and experiments. In other words, it is a prediction that can be tested by research. If you want to test a relationship between two or more things, you need to write hypothesis before you start your experiment or data collection. So it can be said that 'A research hypothesis is a specific, clear and testable preposition or predictive statement about the possible outcome of a scientific research study based on a particular property of a population, such as presumed differences between groups on a particular variable or relationship between variables'.

43. Which two of the following aspects are to be scrupulously followed to avoid the trap of plagiarism?

1. subjectivity
2. acknowledgement
3. citation
4. interpretation
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) 2 and 3 only
Solution:

To avoid plagiarism in research work it is very important to acknowledge the work of others with proper citation in the Bibliography section of the thesis.

44. Which two texts among the following are linked to literary feminism?

1. A Small Place
2. The Yellow Wallpaper
3. Emma
4. A Room of One's Own
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) 2 and 4 only
Solution:

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published in 1892 in the New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitude towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.
"A Room of One's Own" is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Mewnhan College and Girton College, women's constituent colleges at the University of Cambridge.

45. Who among the following feminist theorists posited a separate realm of female experience captured in a style of writing different from men's?

1. Elaine Showalter
2. Luce Irigaray
3. Kate Millett
4. Simone de Beauvoir
5. Helene Cixous
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (d) 2 and 5 only
Solution:

'Lucy Irigaray' is a Belgian born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. 'Helene Cixous' is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critics and rhetorician. Cixous is best known for her article "The Laugh of the Medusa" which established her as one of the early thinkers in post-structural feminism.

46. Which of these statements describe correctly the basic assumption of Structuralism?

1. Structuralism is concerned with signs and signification.
2. A structuralist theory considers only verbal conventions and codes.
3. Structuralism began in the works of Jacques Derrida that influenced the 20th-century literary criticism.
4. Structuralism challenges the long-standing belief that literature reflects a given reality.
5. All signs are arbitrary but without them we cannot comprehend reality. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) 1, 4 and 5 only
Solution:

Structuralism is a method of interpreting and analyzing such a things as language, literature and society, which focuses on contrasting ideas or elements of structures and attempts to show how they relate to the whole structure. It sought to analyze the adult mind (defined as the sum total of experience from birth to present) in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fits together in complex form.

47. Which two terms among the following are associated with formalist criticism?

1. aura
2. actant
3. narratee
4. defamiliarization
5. foregrounding
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) 4 and 5 only
Solution:

Formalist literary criticism focuses on the text as the mayor artifact worthy of study rather than, say, the author him or herself, the historical time period during which the text was written, how the text responds to gender roles or class concerns during the period, or anything else that exists outside of the text's world itself. The term 'defamiliarization' and 'foregrounding' are associated with formalist criticism.

48. Who among the following believed that rhyme is not an integral part of poetry?

1. William Wordsworth
2. Horace
3. Samuel Daniel
4. Philip Sidney
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) 2 and 4 only
Solution:

Sidney's notion of "Fore-Conceit" means that a conception of the work must exist in the poet's mind before it is written. Free from the limitations of nature and independent from nature, poetry is capable of "making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or quite a new, forms such as never were in Nature. Horace believed that poetry is not mere imitation alone. He said that a poet 'often mingles facts with fancy, putting on something of his own'. He didn't like too much fancy on the part of the poet and added that 'fiction composed to please should be very near to the truth'.

49. Who among the following are the two great masters of the French language that T.S. Eliot contrasts with Dryden and Milton in "The Metaphysical Poets"?

1. Francois Villon
2. Jean Racine
3. Charles Baudelaire
4. Arthur Rimbaud
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) 2 and 3 only
Solution:

Eliot's essay 'The Metaphysical Poets' was first published as a review of J.G. Gierson's edition of Metaphysical lyrics and poems of the 17th Century. In this essays Eliot had given the reference of two great master of the French language as following-
"In French literature the great master of the seventeenth century Racine and the great master of the nineteenth -Baudelaire- are in some ways more like each other then they are like anyone else. The greatest ................Milton and Dryden, triumph with a dazzling................

50. Which two terms from among the following are specifically linked to the work of Pierre Bourdieu?

1. habitus
2. consciousness
3. desire
4. distinction
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) 1 and 4 only
Solution:

Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher and public inflectors. Bourdieu developed a theory of the action, around the concept of 'habitus' which exerted a considerable influence in the social sciences. 'Habitus' refers to the physical embodiment of cultural capitals to the deeply ingrained habits, skill and disposition that we passes due to our life experience. In 'Distinction', Bourdieu reveals how social class determines individual tastes in things like art food and music.