UGC NET Paper 2 — English
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Which are the main components of a language? A. Phonetics B. Syntactic C. Discourse D. Semantics E. Pragmatics Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Arrange the following in order of increasing intension. A. Prose B. Story C. Short Story D. Literary Work Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
The word 'drastic' in the passage means:
The synonym of the word 'diagnosing' is
The world 'apprentice' implies:
The antonym of the word 'frustrater' used in the passage is
Which among the following are not mentioned as the aspects of the novel by E.M. Forster? (A) Story (B) Imagination (C) Plot (D) Harmony (E) Prophecy Choose the correct answer from...
Which among the following is not a type of meaning in a poem as defined by I.A. Richards in Practical Criticism?
Choose the correct key points related to approach to Feminism and Gender Studies: A. Feminism is concerned with the marginalization of women in a patriarchal culture. B. Feminist c...
Who among the following wrote "Plan of a Novel"?
Who among the following is credited with ending the system of patronage with his "Letter to Lord Chesterfield"?
What is the correct sequence of various periods of English Literature ? A. Caroline Age B. Jacobean Age C. Restoration Age D. Commonwealth Period E. Augustan Age Choose the correct...
Roland Barthes in his "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives" (1966) proposed three levels of narrative structure. Which among the following are the narrative struc...
Match the LIST-I with LIST-II LIST-I (Novel) A. The Childhood of Jesus B. The Go-Between C. Brideshead Revisited D. The Catcher in the Rye LIST-II (Novelist) I. L. P. Hartley II. E...
Who said that "Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Johnson was the Vergil, the pattern of elaborate writing"? 1. Matthew Arnold 2. John Dryden 3. Samuel Joh...
Which one of the following English novels received Sahitya Academy Awards for the year 2023?
Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct ones: A. Patrick White, Christina Stead and Robertson Davies are the famous Australian novelists. B. The notion of "c...
Which of the following works is not written by Chinna Achebe?
Which of the following works of R. K. Narayan were published after independence? A. The Dark Room B. The English Teacher C. The Financial Expert D. Swami and Friends E. The Guide C...
Arrange the following in the chronological order of the dates of publication: (A) Michel Foucault's The Order of Things (B) M.K. Gandhi's Hind Swaraj or The Indian Homerule (C) Ste...
The term "Trace", which refers to the trace of the other, has been borrowed by Jacques Lacan from:
Arrange the following in chronological order of their year of publication: A. Nation and Narration B. The Dialogic Imagination C. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter D. Discour...
Name the British poet who wrote Sohrab and Rustum :
What is the correct chronological sequence of famous dramatists in order of their birth? A. William Congreve B. John Dryden C. William Wycherley D. George Barnard Shaw E. John Mill...
The line "Thou still unravished bride of quietness" presents which of the following rhetorical figures?
M.H. Abram's The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition- A. describes 18th century English Literature as 'mirror' B. describes 19th century English Literat...
Who, amongst the following, attempted to reconcile discrepancies between various classical authors such as Plato and Aristotle, as well as between philosophy and poetry?
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased." These are the opening lines of:
From the following writers, who are known for Magic Realism ? A. R.K. Narayan B. Salman Rushdie C. V.S. Naipaul D. Gabriel Garcia Marquez E. Mulk Raj Anand Choose the correct answe...
If the glide is distinct enough to be heard, the vowel + glide will be treated as
Match List - I with List - II. List - I (Term) (A) Heteroglossia (B) Structures of Feeling (C) Ambiguity (D) Discourse List - II (Coined by) (I) William Empson (II) Raymond William...
Which one of the following novels by E.M. Forster is about 'homosexual love'?
Three satirical stories by W.M. Thackeray portraying unhappy marriage and exploitation of one partner by the other, are titled as -
Which among the following poems has not been composed by P.B. Shelley?
Match List-I with List-II: List-I List-II A. John Gross I. A History of English Prose Rhythm B. Wendy Martin II. The Oxford Book of Essays C. George Saintsbury III. Essays by Conte...
Who among the following African writers observed that “O my body, make of me always a man who questions" ?
Which among the following writers once remarked that "I awoke one morning and found myself famous" ?
Match List-I with List-II: List-I List-II A. Surprised by Sin: the Reader in "Paradise : Lost" I. Louise Rosenblatt B. Five Readers Reading II. Stanley Fish C. The Reader, the Text...
What is not true about D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers? (A) Sons and Lovers is a semi-autobiographical novel. (B) It is a psychological study of the familial and love relationships...
Which of the following is true about Arthur Miller's plays? (A) After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play. (B) Incident of Vichy deals with Nazi prosecution of the Jews. (C) T...
Which of the given statements are correct? A. Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan is a novel. B. Joothan represents the Dalit Valmiki community in critical light. C. Joothan enumerates the...
What is the correct chronological order of the works of John Milton? A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Lycidas D. Comus E. L'Allegro Choose the correct answer from the optio...
Arrange the following novels in a chronological order as per their years of publication: A. The Serpent and the Rope B. Two Leaves and a Bud C. A Bend in the Ganges D. So Many Hung...
Who said that an author has no claim to original thought but only to apt presentation of what was already being thought by others?
John Dryden's Of Dramatick Poesy: An Essay is written in the form of a dialogue between Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander, where Neander represents:
Which of the following statements are valid for postcolonial theory and literature? (A) Abrogation, resistance and assertion form the basis of postcolonial thought. (B) Postcolonia...
Speech Act in which utterance is equal to an action is called as:
Match List - I with List - II. List - I (Poem) A. To His Coy Mistress B. The Scholar Gypsy C. Still I Rise D. If List - II (Poet) I. Rudyard Kipling II. Andrew Marvel III. Matthew...
Match List-I with List-II: List-I A. Thick description B. Transcendental signified C. Vehicle, Tenor D. Alienation Effect List-II I. Jacques Derrida II. I A Richards III. Bertolt B...
Identify the ones which are matched correctly. A. Barbara Christian: "The Race for Theory" B. Alfred W. Crosby: "Unhiding the Hidden" C. Paul Carter: "Naming Place" D. Graham Hugga...