UGC NET Paper 2 — English
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'Evening Hours of a Hermit' is written by :
In the passage, instead of the word 'purge', which of the following words can be used :
The antonym of the word 'frustrater' used in the passage is _________.
Another word for "seamlessly" can be:
The word 'drastic' in the passage means:
Choose the word that can replace the word "superficial" in the passage:
Another word for "seamlessly" can be:
Lingering on the expedition was not possible because
Lingering on the expedition was not possible because
Choose the word that can replace the word "superficial" in the passage:
According to Freud's example in his Interpretation of Dreams, the psychoanalytic critic tends to associate symbols with images. Which of the following symbols is not correct in tha...
According to Freud's example in his Interpretation of Dreams, the psychoanalytic critic tends to associate symbols with images. Which of the following symbols is not correct in tha...
In 1832, at the end of what is now called the Romantic age, Samuel Taylor Coleridge described "three silent revolutions in England". Identify the wrong option.
In 1832, at the end of what is now called the Romantic age, Samuel Taylor Coleridge described "three silent revolutions in England". Identify the wrong option.
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: The years after 1945 saw changes in English poetry. Reason R: Some...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: The years after 1945 saw changes in English poetry. Reason R: Some...
Which of the following statements are correctly matched with the texts: A. "(T)he poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs; the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher" - "...
Which of the following statements are correctly matched with the texts: A. "(T)he poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs; the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher" - "...
In which novel of Anita Desai, the heroine, in her fifth pregnancy, leaves her husband in a mood of unease to seek peace in an island, Manori, off Bombay?
In which novel of Anita Desai, the heroine, in her fifth pregnancy, leaves her husband in a mood of unease to seek peace in an island, Manori, off Bombay?
Who defined culture as "one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language"?
Who defined culture as "one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language"?
Which of the following novels of E. M. Forster doesn't display the mentioned contrast?
Which of the following novels of E. M. Forster doesn't display the mentioned contrast?
Empedocles on Etna is an example of
Empedocles on Etna is an example of
Which of the following novels is not an example of dystopian novel?
Which of the following novels is not an example of dystopian novel?
Arrange the following works of criticism in chronological order: A. T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism B. J.C. Smith, A Study of Wordsworth C. D. G. James, Sce...
Arrange the following works of criticism in chronological order: A. T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism B. J.C. Smith, A Study of Wordsworth C. D. G. James, Sce...
Arrange the following events in chronological order of their appearance related to George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man A. Arms and the Man was first performed at the Avenue Thea...
Arrange the following events in chronological order of their appearance related to George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man A. Arms and the Man was first performed at the Avenue Thea...
Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield define the term "Cultural materialism" as designating a critical method having characteristics. Which of the following characteristics has not...
Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield define the term "Cultural materialism" as designating a critical method having characteristics. Which of the following characteristics has not...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: The best-known cycles of miracle or mystery plays come from York,...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: The best-known cycles of miracle or mystery plays come from York,...
Which of the following is an example of Functional Morpheme?
Which of the following is an example of Functional Morpheme?
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: Bacon's position as an essayist is peculiar. Reason R: He has no r...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: Bacon's position as an essayist is peculiar. Reason R: He has no r...
Which of the following issues is not focussed by Horace in his Ars Poetica? 1. The detachment of a writer to his work, tradition, and custom 2. The moral and social functions of po...
Which of the following issues is not focussed by Horace in his Ars Poetica? 1. The detachment of a writer to his work, tradition, and custom 2. The moral and social functions of po...
Who wrote the following about Rousseau? "Like his favorite philosopher, Plato, Rousseau sought to discover and produce the moral man who would make the moral society, and a moral s...
Who wrote the following about Rousseau? "Like his favorite philosopher, Plato, Rousseau sought to discover and produce the moral man who would make the moral society, and a moral s...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is in many ways a seminal text of li...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is in many ways a seminal text of li...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: The technique of art is to make objects "unfamiliar" to make forms...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: The technique of art is to make objects "unfamiliar" to make forms...
Match the LIST-I with LIST-II LIST-I (Term) A. "Feral" B. "Grand Narrative" C. "Gaze" D. "Diegesis" LIST-II (Meaning) I. "the way heterosexual women are posited as scopophilic obje...
Match the LIST-I with LIST-II LIST-I (Term) A. "Feral" B. "Grand Narrative" C. "Gaze" D. "Diegesis" LIST-II (Meaning) I. "the way heterosexual women are posited as scopophilic obje...