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![]() As you want to get Solved Question Paper of UGC NET English Paper II, so here I am providing the following question paper: UGC NET English Paper II Solved Question Paper 1. In Pinter’s Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it ? (A) A toy (B) A piano (C) A drum (D) A violin 2. How does Lord Jim end ? (A) Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin. (B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching glance. (C) Jim answers “the call of exalted egoism” and betrays Jewel. (D) Jim surrenders himself to Doramin. 3. “Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books.” To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission ? (A) Graham Greene (B) George Orwell (C) Charles Morgan (D) Evelyn Waugh 4. Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our culture with culture itself”. Who is the critic ? (A) Stephen Spender (B) Malcolm Bradbury (C) Lionel Trilling (D) Joseph Frank • Lionel Trilling in his essay "On the Teaching of Modern Literature" 5. “Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.” The above lines are quoted from (A) “Tintern Abbey Revisited” (B) “Michael” (C) “Frost at Midnight” (D) “This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison” • Frost at Midnight & This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison are poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Michael & Tintern Abbey are by Wordsworth. 6. Which one of the following modern poems employs ottava rima ? (A) “Among School Children” (B) “In Praise of Limestone” (C) “The Wild Swans at Coole” (D) “The Shield of Achilles” • Among School Children' is WB Yeats' poem included in "The Tower" 1928. The poem has eight stanzas of eight lines each with a rhyme scheme of abababcc. 7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare’s (A) Troilus and Cressida (B) The Merchant of Venice (C) Antony and Cleopatra (D) Measure for Measure 8. Arrange the following works in the order in which they appear. Identify the correct code : I. No Longer at Ease II. Things Fall apart III. A Man of the People IV. Arrow of God The correct combination according to the code is : Code : (A) III, IV, II, I (B) IV, III, I, II (C) II, I, IV, III (D) I, II, III, IV • Things Fall apart 1958, No longer at ease 1960, Arrow of God 1964, A Man of the People 1966. Things Fall apart, No longer at ease and Arrow of God were also considered as 'African Trilogy'. 9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from (A) 1660 to 1669 (B) 1649 to 1660 (C) 1662 to 1689 (D) 1660 to 1689 10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry ? (A) A magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader. (B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader. (C) A moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models. (D) A realistic power that cannot be made to seem like mere illusion and trickery. 11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of the following contemporary individuals : (A) Addison and Lord Hervey (B) Dryden and Rochester (C) Swift and Steele (D) Smollett and Defoe 12. Match the following authors with their works : List – A List – B (Authors) (Works) I. Alice Walker 1. Invisible Man II. Ralph Ellison 2. The Color Purple III. Richard Wright 3. Their Eyes Were Watching God IV. Zora Neale Hurston 4. Native Son Which is the correct combination according to the code : Code : I II III IV (A) 2 1 3 4 (B) 3 4 2 1 (C) 4 3 1 2 (D) 1 2 4 3 incorrect code. Ø Alice Walker - The Color Purple, Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man, Richard Wright - Native Son, Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God. 13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use ‘cross-dressing’ as a device ? (A) As You Like It (B) Julius Caeser (C) Cymbeline (D) Two Gentlemen of Verona 14. Which of the following works cannot be categorised under postcolonial theory ? (A) Nation and Narration (B) Orientalism (C) Discipline and Punish (D) White Mythologies 15. Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of___Philosophy. (A) Aesthetic (B) Empiricist (C) Nationalist (D) Realist 16. “Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times.” Who said this ? (A) Edward Said (B) Michel Foucault (C) Jacques Derrida (D) Roland Barthes 17. Which one of the following is not written by an Australian Aboriginal writer ? (A) Kath Walker (B) Peter Carey (C) Robert Bropho (D) Jack Davis The question is ambiguous. • Except Peter Carey, all are Australian aboriginals. Kath Walker, known as Oodgeroo Noonuccal (pronounced /udjeru: nu:nekel/) was a poetess. Robert Bropho, from Perth, was an activist who was imprisoned for sexual abuse and Jack Davis was a playwright and poet. Peter Carey is the Australian novelist to have won the Booker prize twice. Only two others-JM Coetzee and Hilary Mantel- have won Booker twice. 18. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey jointly brought out Tottel’s Miscellany during the Renaissance. Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey from the following : (A) Thomas Lodge (B) Thomas Nashe (C) Thomas Sackville (D) Henry Howard Richard Tottel's 'Songs and Sonnets written by the Right Honorable Lord Henry Howard late Earl of Surrey and other' ( now Tottel's Miscellany) appeared in 1557 ten years after the execution of Henry Howard in 1547 for charges of treason. Out of the 271 poems in the collection, 40 were by Surrey, 96 by Wyatt, and the rest by various courtier poets. 19. Match the following lists : List – I List – I (Novelists) (Novels) I. Margaret Laurence 1. Surfacing II. Margaret Atwood 2. The Stone Angel III. Sinclair Ross 3. Medicine River IV. Thomas King 4. As for Me and My House Which is the correct combination according to the code : Code : I II III IV (A) 1 4 3 2 (B) 3 2 1 4 (C) 4 3 2 1 (D) 2 1 4 3 20. The dramatic structure of Restoration comedies combines in it the features of I. The Elizabethan Theatre II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and France III. The Irish Theatre IV. The Greek Theatre The correct combination according to the code is : Code : (A) I and IV are correct. (B) III and IV are correct. (C) II and III are correct. (D) I and II are correct. 21. Which American poet wrote : “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world” ? (A) Robert Lowell (B) Walt Whitman (C) Wallace Stevens (D) Langston Hughes 22. The etymological meaning of the word “trope” is (A) gesture (B) turning (C) mirror (D) desire • from Latin 'tropus' from Greek 'tropos' meaning turn. 23. Who among the following English poets defined poetic imagination as “a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite ‘I AM’ ” ? (A) Blake (B) Wordsworth (C) Coleridge (D) Shelley • Read Biographia Literaria (chapter 13) 24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’ (A) David Copperfield (B) The Old Curiosity Shop (C) Bleak House (D) Great Expectations 25. Match the following : (Schools/Concept of Criticism) (Critics) I. Formalism 1. John Crow Ransom II. New Critics 2. The Jungians III. Psychological Theory of the Value of Literature 3. Victor Shklovsky IV. Literary art as archetypal image 4. I.A. Richards The correct combination according to the code is : Code : I II III IV (A) 3 1 4 2 (B) 2 4 1 3 (C) 4 1 2 3 (D) 3 2 1 4 26. In the late seventeenth century a “Battle of Books” erupted between which two groups ? (A) Cavaliers and Roundheads (B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves (C) Champions of Ancient and Modern Learning (D) The Welsh and the Scots 27. “Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day Love’s pleasure drives his love away…” In the above quote the last line is an example of (A) allusion (B) pleonasm (C) paradox (D) zeugma 28. Match the author with the work : List – I List – II (Authors) (Works) I. Kingsely Amis 1. Saturday and Sunday Morning II. Allan Silletoe 2. The Golden Note Book III. Doris Lessing 3. The Left Bank IV. Jean Rhys 4. Lucky Jim Which is the correct combination according to the code : Code : I II III IV (A) 3 4 1 2 (B) 4 1 2 3 (C) 2 3 1 4 (D) 1 2 3 4 29. In which of Hardy’s novels does the character Abel Whittle appear ? (A) Far from the Madding Crowd (B) The Return of the Native (C) A Pair of Blue Eyes (D) The Mayor of Casterbridge 30. The phrase “dark Satanic mills” has become the most famous description of the force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by (A) William Wordsworth (B) William Blake (C) Thomas Carlyle (D) John Ruskin 31. “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the scared river ran.” Where does this ‘sacred river’ directly run to ? (A) A lifeless ocean (B) The caverns measureless (C) A fountain (D) The waves "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean; " - from Kubla Khan 32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who rejected the label “British” though he has always written in English rather than his regional language ? (A) Douglas Dunn (B) Seamus Heaney (C) Geoffrey Hill (D) Philip Larkin 33. Which of the following statements best describes Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici ? (A) It is a story of conversion or providential experiences. (B) It emphasizes Browne’s love of mystery and wonder. (C) It is full of angst, melancholy and dread of death. (D) It reports the facts of Browne’s life. (question is weak) 34. Which of the following characters from Eliot’s Waste Land is not correctly mentioned ? (A) The typist (B) Madam Sosostris (C) The Merchant from Eugenides (D) The Young Man Carbuncular • Mr. Eugenides is the smirna merchant. 35. Which one of the following best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ? (A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism (B) The triumph of science and morbidity (C) Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal (D) Raucous celebration combined with paranoid interpretation 36. Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude” ? (A) Mont Blanc (B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (C) “Adonais” (D) Alastor 37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable ? (A) The Knight’s Tale (B) The Monk’s Tale (C) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (D) The Miller’s Tale 38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Morel (A) sets off in quest of life away from his mother. (B) considers the option of committing suicide. (C) joins his elder brother William in London. (D) embraces a Schopenhauer – like nihilism. 39. When you say “I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips” you are using a rhetorical device of (A) Enumeration (B) Antanagoge (C) Parataxis (D) Hypotaxis 40. The following are two lists of plays and characters. Match them. List – I List – II (Plays) (Characters) I. Women Beware Women 1. Malevole II. The Malcontent 2. Beatrice III. The City Madam 3. Bianca IV. The Changeling 4. Doll Tearsheet Which is the correct combination according to the code : Code : I II III IV (A) 3 1 4 2 (B) 2 1 2 4 (C) 1 2 3 4 (D) 4 3 2 1 41. With Bacon the essay form is (A) an intimate, personal confession (B) witty and boldly imagistic (C) the aphoristic expression of accumulated public wisdom (D) homely and vulgar 42. Evelyn Waugh’s Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about (A) The English at War (B) The English Aristocracy (C) The Irish question (D) Scottish nationalism 43. Who coined the phrase “The Two Nations” to describe the disparity in Britain between the rich and the poor ? (A) Charles Dickens (B) Thomas Carlyle (C) Benjamin Disraeli (D) Frederick Engels 44. Milton introduces Satan and the fallen angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two of the chief devils reappear in Book II. They are I. Moloch II. Clemos III. Belial IV. Thamuz The correct combination according to the code is Code : (A) I and IV are correct. (B) I and III are correct. (C) I and II are correct. (D) II and III are correct. 45. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a “noble pillar of order”, he is using (A) irony (B) simile (C) understatement (D) personification 46. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is an example of (A) drawing room comedy (B) kitchen-sink drama (C) absurd drama (D) melodrama 47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty ? (A) Blanche Ingram (B) Mr. Brocklehurst (C) Sir John Rivers (D) Eliza Reed 48. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as ‘a person perverted into a thing’ ? (A) Blake (B) Coleridge (C) Keats (D) Shelley 49. John Suckling belongs to the group of (A) Metaphysical poets (B) Cavalier poets (C) Neo-classical poets (D) Religious poets • Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace and John Suckling are the important cavalier poets, a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. 50. Sir Thomas More creates the character of a traveller into whose mouth the account of Utopia is put. His name is (A) Michael (B) Raphael (C) Henry (D) Thomas 1. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage motif ? (A) “Adonais” (B) The Revolt of Islam (C) “Ode to the West Wind” (D) Alastor 2. In Sydney’s sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet (#108) (A) brings no resolution (B) ends in joy (C) brings a definite resolution (D) promises another sonnet sequence 3. Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643 ? (A) John Milton (B) Thomas Browne (C) Andrew Marvell (D) Abraham Cowley 4. Who claimed : “I have not published a single paper that is not written in a spirit of benevolence and with a love of mankind” ? (A) Pope (B) Dryden (C) Swift (D) Addison 5. A protagonist writes a letter of confession, but it gets lost under the carpet only to be found on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist ? (A) Bathsheba (B) Lucetta (C) Sue (D) Tess 6. In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys. The italicised words are an example of (A) a transferred epithet (B) a simile (C) a metaphor (D) a hyperbaton 7. In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with the help of ‘brighton rock’ which is (A) a kind of sugar-candy (B) a form of grenade (C) a baton (D) a kind of rock 8. Which poet among this group does not belong to the ‘Auden Generation’ group of poets ? (A) Stephen Spender (B) Alun Lewis (C) Cecil Day Lewis (D) Louis Macneice 9. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the ‘beast’ is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up ? (A) Jack (B) Simon (C) Roger (D) Ralph ENGLISH Paper – II Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory. S-30-13 3 Paper-II 10. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century ? Code : I. Eminent Victorians II. Jungle Book III. Philistine Victorians IV. The Way of All Flesh The correct combination according to the code is (A) II and IV are correct. (B) I and IV are correct. (C) III and IV are correct. (D) II and III are correct. 11. What event allowed mainstream British theatre companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially and sexually controversial without fear of censorship ? (A) The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968. (B) The illegal performance of works by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond. (C) The collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s. (D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a group of London dramatists. 12. The Wife of Bath’s philosophy of marriage shows that she (A) is a strong person with keen awareness of her own rights. (B) tends to say one thing and do the opposite. (C) cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong. (D) trusts thought too much instead of feeling. 13. Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in conformity with an African tribal custom ? (A) Okonkwo (B) Obierika (C) Ikemefuna (D) Nwoye 14. “We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.” The repetition of a phrase is (A) Antiphrasis (B) Diacope (C) Aposiopesis (D) Enumeratio 15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the group : (A) Wallace Stevens (B) Robert Lowell (C) Sylvia Plath (D) Anne Sexton 16. Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest is associated with the Earth ? (A) Ferdinand (B) Ariel (C) Caliban (D) Prospero 17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon attempted a preliminary survey of the entire field of learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its advancement. Identify from among the following choices the one that he did not mention as an obstacle : (A) Rhetoric (B) Medieval scholasticism (C) Inductive method (D) Pseudo sciences 18. Who among this group of young male characters in Jane Austen’s novels is not sent to the University for education ? (A) Tom Bertram (B) John Thorpe (C) James Morland (D) Henry Tilney 19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his portrayal of (A) Paul Dombey (B) Thomas Gradgrind (C) Philip Pirrip (D) Harold Skimpole 20. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the category / term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ ? (A) Jean Genet (B) Jean Giraudoux (C) Samuel Beckett (D) Eugene Ionesco 21. The following are two lists of lines from poems and their titles. Match them : (Lines from poems) (Titles of poems) I. “The squat pen rests as snug as a gun.” 1. “Church Going” II. “A serious house on serious earth it is.” 2. “Hawk- Roosting” III. “Time held me green and dying.” 3. “Digging” IV. “I hold creation in my foot.” 4. “Fern Hill” Which is the correct combination according to the above code ? Code : I II III IV (A) 4 1 2 3 (B) 2 3 4 1 (C) 1 2 3 4 (D) 3 1 4 2 22. _________ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes. (A) Alliteration (B) Onomatopoeia (C) Oxymoron (D) Enthymeme 23. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below : I. The Dictionary of the English Language II. The History of Rasselas III. The Vanity of Human Wishes IV. Lives of the English Poets Which is the correct combination according to the above code ? Code : (A) III, I, II, IV (B) I, II, III, IV (C) IV, III, II, I (D) II, III, I, IV 24. Arrange the following forms in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below : I. commedia dell’arte II. confessional poetry III. agitprop IV. picaresque novel The correct combination is : Code : (A) IV, I, II, III (B) I, IV, III, II (C) II, IV, I, III (D) I, III, IV, II 25. Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations ? (A) “Birches” (B) “Home Burial” (C) “Mending Wall” (D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” 26. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them : (Writers) (Works) I. Katherine Susannah Prichard 1. Barungin II. Colin Johnson 2. My Place III. Sally Morgan 3. Wild Cat Falling IV. Jack Davis 4. Coonardoo Which is the correct combination according to the above code ? Code : I II III IV (A) 3 2 1 4 (B) 4 3 2 1 (C) 2 1 4 3 (D) 1 4 3 2 27. How does John Stuart Mill define ‘happiness’ ? (A) Doing what one wants to do (B) Leading a fulfilling life (C) Pleasure and the absence of pain (D) Virtuous activity 28. “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime … But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.” Andrew Marvell in these lines emphasizes the theme of (A) love (B) love and transience (C) love and political passion (D) love and flattery 29. The following are two lists of dramatists and their plays. Match them : I. George Etheredge 1. The Country Wife II. William Wycherley 2. The Man of Mode III. John Vanbrugh 3. The Double Dealer IV. William Congreve 4. The Provok’d Wife The correct combination is : Code : I II III IV (A) 2 3 4 1 (B) 3 2 1 4 (C) 4 3 2 1 (D) 2 1 4 3 30. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them : I. Uma Parameswaran 1. Drums of My Flesh II. Bharati Mukherjee 2. Trishanku III. Michael Ondaatje 3. Jasmine IV. Cyril Dabydeen 4. Anil’s Ghost Which is the correct combination according to the above code ? Code : I II III IV (A) 1 3 2 4 (B) 3 4 1 2 (C) 2 3 4 1 (D) 4 1 3 2 31. Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled (A) All for Love (B) The State of Innocence (C) Annus Mirabilis (D) Religio Medici 32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch were published in (A) 1969 (B) 1968 (C) 1970 (D) 1967 33. Who defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’ ? (A) Wordsworth (B) Coleridge (C) Keats (D) Shelley 34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ? (A) Britain’s pre-eminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages. (B) Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe. (C) Even a foreign author is better than a home-grown scoundrel. (D) Leave England and emigrate to Germany. 35. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting discourses present in his own culture. Identify the two discourses from the following : (A) Modernism and anticolonialism (B) Modernism and structuralism (C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism (D) Material culturalism and tribalism 36. Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis without a net ? (A) Robert Frost (B) Ezra Pound (C) Philip Larkin (D) William Carlos Williams 37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except (A) Tamburlaine the Great (B) The Jew of Malta (C) Richard III (D) Edward II 38. According to Barthes, a text which draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in which it is structured, is called (A) writerly text (B) aesthetic text (C) readerly text (D) formal text 39. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope’s The Rape of the Lock ? (A) A mock heroic poem (B) Written in heroic couplets (C) Pope’s tribute to Queen Anne (D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 5 cantos 40. From the following list, choose the work which is not written by E.M. Forster : (A) Where Angels Fear to Tread (B) Maurice (C) A Room of One’s Own (D) The Longest Journey 41. The ‘Vulgate Bible’ was prepared to make the Bible available to (A) the ecclesiastics (B) the elite class (C) the courtiers (D) the common men 42. Literary works such as Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man provide examples of which following novelistic form ? (A) Nouveau roman or new novel (B) Epistolary novel (C) Bildugsroman (D) Historical novel 43. “I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed !” expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded heart from “Ode to the West Wind” by Shelley. The poem consists of (A) fourteen line terza rima stanzas (B) four-lined stanza characterized by swift action (C) a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle (D) an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one 44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats’s Muse figure is (A) Thea (B) Moneta (C) Lamia (D) Calliope 45. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil particularly regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration ? (A) Gay’s Beggar’s Opera (B) Butler’s Hudibras (C) Pope’s Dunciad (D) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel 46. Who among the Victorian authors has described himself/herself as an agnostic ? (A) Matthew Arnold (B) Charles Dickens (C) George Eliot (D) Thomas Hardy 47. Preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was written by (A) Aime Cesaire (B) Ania Loomba (C) Jean Paul Sartre (D) Edward Said 48. Who among the following theorists formulated the concept of the utile dulci, profit combined with delight ? (A) Plato (B) Aristotle (C) Horace (D) Longinus 49. Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves as specially prone to (A) choler (B) blood (C) phlegm (D) melancholy 50. Who among the following Romantic poets ended his life, lauded and respected as ‘The Sage of Highgate’ ? (A) William Blake (B) S.T. Coleridge (C) P.B. Shelley (D) William Wordsworth ![]() ![]() Last edited by Aakashd; May 30th, 2019 at 07:47 PM. |
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As you want to get UGC NET English II Question Paper so here I am giving you some questions of that paper: 1. “The just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines ? (A) Syntactic (B) Semantic (C) Collocation (D) None of the above 2. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given : List – I List – II i. Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables. iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable Codes : i ii iii iv (A) 2 1 3 4 (B) 3 2 1 4 (C) 4 1 2 3 (D) 3 1 2 4 3. The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in _______ than in medieval works of literature and art. (A) Ben Jonson (B) Shakespeare (C) Philip Sidney (D) Edmund Spenser 4. “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.” This statement is an example of (A) Irony (B) Paradox (C) Hyperbole (D) Euphemism 5. A Spenserian stanza has (A) four iambic pentameters (B) six iambic pentameters (C) eight iambic pentameters (D) ten iambic pentameters 6. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below : List – I (Critic) List – II (Theory) i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity ii. William Empson 2. Paradox iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery Codes : i ii iii iv (A) 2 1 4 3 (B) 3 2 1 4 (C) 1 2 3 4 (D) 2 3 4 1 7. “The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen.” Henry James is talking here about the artist’s (A) impersonality (B) absence (C) presence (D) creativity 8. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below : List – I (Theorist) List – II (Book) i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics- Queer Reading Which is the correct combination according to the code : Codes : i ii iii iv (A) 3 1 2 4 (B) 3 1 4 2 (C) 4 2 1 3 (D) 4 3 1 2 9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was “not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who was this critic ? (A) T.S. Eliot (B) F.R. Leavis (C) David Lodge (D) Allen Tate 10. Derrida’s American disciples were (A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller (B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan (C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman (D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari For full question paper here is the attachment: UGC NET English II Question Paper ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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