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26th November 2014, 02:58 PM
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UGC NET English Question Paper
I want to get UGC NET English question paper will you please provide me that ?
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26th November 2014, 03:45 PM
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Re: UGC NET English Question Paper
As you want to get UGC NET English question paper so here I am providing 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 11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in late sixteenth century London from the following groups : (A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope (B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus (C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe (D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames 12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. Good Signior, you shall more command with years. Than with your weapons.” The above lines are addresses by Othello to (A) Roderigo and officers (B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers (C) The Duke and Senators (D) Montano and Cassio 13. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the Second shows the murder of the king. Where does it take place ? (A) Westminster, a room in the palace (B) A room in Berkeley Castle (C) A room in Killingworth Castle (D) Within the Abbey of Neath 14. Identify the correctly matched set : (A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579 Tottels Miscellany – 1557 Astrophel and Stella – 1591 The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585 (B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559 Tottels Miscellany – 1579 Astrophel and Stella – 1585 The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591 (C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585 Tottels Miscellany – 1591 Astrophel and Stella – 1579 The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557 (D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579 Tottels Miscellany – 1591 Astrophel and Stella – about 1585 The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557 15. Match the items in the List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below : List – I (Authors) List – II (Works) i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures iv. Margaret Cavendish 4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson Codes : i ii iii iv (A) 2 3 1 4 (B) 4 3 2 1 (C) 4 1 2 3 (D) 4 2 1 3 16. “But deeds, and language, such as men do use; And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the time, and sport with human follies, not with crime.” In the above lines Jonson I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic tragic-comedy. II. Initiates the use of realism. III. Considers analysis of moral short comings more important IV. Encourages the use of farce with melodrama. Find out the correct combination according to the code : (A) I, II and III are correct (B) I, II and IV are correct (C) I, III and IV are correct (D) II, III and IV are correct 17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove, We’ll build in ________ pretty roomes.” (A) lyrics (B) epics (C) sonnets (D) stanzas 18. “That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me.” (Paradise Lost, Book I) What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan ? (A) The courage never to submit or yield (B) To reign in Hell (C) To defeat God (D) To spread evil 19. It has been described as a “novel without predecessors”, the product of an original mind and became immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend of pathos and humour, though the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of becoming offensively sentimental. The novel was published in 1760. What is the name of the novel ? (A) Gulliver’s Travels (B) The Castle of Otranto (C) Tristram Shandy (D) A Tender Husband 20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer throughout his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who could not write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing himself in letters. Who is the novelist ? (A) Daniel Defoe (B) Samuel Richardson (C) Henry Fielding (D) Tobias Smollett 21. “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be wise.” Who wrote the following lines ? (A) Pope (B) Gray (C) Collins (D) Southey 22. Which of the following works is not actually a prose essay ? (A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy (B) Essay on Man (C) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision 23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into believing that he loves her in The Way of the World ? (A) Millamant (B) Lady Wishfort (C) Mrs. Marwood (D) Mrs. Fainall 24. “Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had. We must ride where we formerly walked : live better and be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we had means to do in the good old days you speak of.” Who speaks these words and to whom ? (A) Lamb to Bridget (B) Wordsworth to Dorothy (C) Dorothy to Bridget (D) Lamb to Dorothy 25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, was not published until ________. (A) 1815 (B) 1820 (C) 1830 (D) 1850 26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the wreathed trellis of a working brain.” The above lines are quoted from (A) ‘Adonais’ (B) ‘Ode to Psyche’ (C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’ (D) ‘Endymion’ 27. “Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight.” This selfish and possessive nature of love is illustrated in Blake’s (A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’ (B) ‘The Sick Rose’ (C) ‘A Poison Tree’ (D) ‘Ah Sunflower’ 28. Who is the author of Mary, and the unfinished The Wrongs of Woman ? (A) Mary Wollstonecraft (B) William Godwin (C) Mary Hay (D) Elizabeth Inchbald 29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’ theory of the novel : (A) It should be sentimental (B) It should be objective (C) It should be realistic (D) It should be viewed as an artistic form 30. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below : List – I (Novels) List – II (Characters) i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore ii. A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom iii. To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe Codes : i ii iii iv (A) 3 1 2 4 (B) 2 1 4 3 (C) 4 2 1 3 (D) 1 3 2 4 31. Which among the following novels was not written in 1922 ? (A) Ulysses (B) Jacob’s room (C) Aaron’s Rod (D) A Passage to India 32. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.” Who is the author of the above lines ? (A) W.B. Yeats (B) T.S. Eliot (C) W.H. Auden (D) D.H. Lawrence 33. “Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal.” The above lines are taken from (A) “Felix Randal” (B) “Sailing to Byzantium” (C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931” (D) “The Second Coming” 34. Who among the following is not a surrealist poet ? (A) Hugh Sykes Dykes (B) David Gascoyne (C) Kenneth Allot (D) C. Day Lewis 35. The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent to him for smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe. This scene occurs in one of the novels of Graham Greene – Identify the novel (A) The End of the Affair (B) The Heart of the Matter (C) The Ministry of Fear (D) Our Man in Havana 36. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the English titles is (A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy (B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies (D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy 37. Among the following playwrights, who was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920 ? (A) Eugene O’Neill (B) Sean O’Casey (C) William Somerset Maugham (D) J.B. Priestly 38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of ________ in his novels. (A) Realism (B) Naturalism (C) Primitivism (D) Expressionism 39. Who among the following is not an American modernist poet ? (A) William Carlos Williams (B) Ezra Pound (C) William Ellery Channing, the younger (D) Marianne Moore 40. An important poet and playwright who in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in the spirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ that expressed a pan-African, organic and whole sensibility. (A) Henry Louis Gates Jr. (B) Amiri Baraka (C) Ishmael Reed (D) Bell Hooks 41. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below : List – I (Authors) List – II (Books) i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters iii. Marina Warners 3. Wide Sargasso Sea iv. J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men Codes : i ii iii iv (A) 4 2 3 1 (B) 4 1 2 3 (C) 4 3 2 1 (D) 1 3 4 2 42. Yasmine Gooneratne’s The Pleasures of Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of the nineties is ironically enough set in the tropical island nation of (A) Sri Lanka (B) Fiji (C) The Caribbean (D) Amnesia 43. Which of the following is not an Asian – Canadian writer ? (A) Shauna Singh Badlwin (B) Himani Banerjee (C) Joy Kogawa (D) Meena Alexander 44. Which of the following is true ? (A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books (B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnets from the Portuguese (C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book (D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry” 45. “The old order changeth yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many way.” In which of the following poems do these lines appear ? (A) ‘Locksley Hall’ (B) ‘Two Voices (C) ‘Morte d’Arthur’ (D) ‘Ulysses’ 46. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian Renaissance was not successful. Which was this novel ? (A) Adam Bede (B) Felix Holt (C) Silas Marner (D) Romola 47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by passion and revenge, add a new dimension to the concept of suffering ? (A) Wuthering Heights (B) Jude the Obscure (C) Mill on the Floss (D) Hard Times 48. From the following women characters in Hardy’s novels choose the odd one out : (A) Bathsheba Everdene (B) Eustacia Vye (C) Elizabeth Jane (D) Lucetta 49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte And this figure he added eek therto, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?” In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a man : 1. who loved money 2. who criticized the corrupt clergy 3. who practiced what he preached 4. who was a poor but honest clerk Find the correct combination according to the code : (A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct (B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct (C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct (D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct 50. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below : List – I (Plays) List – II (Characters) i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell iii. Every Man in his Humour 3. Vittoria Corombona iv. The Spanish Tragedie 4. Aspatia Codes : i ii iii iv (A) 4 3 1 2 (B) 2 1 3 4 (C) 3 4 2 1 (D) 4 3 2 1 |
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12th December 2014, 02:23 PM
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UGC NET English Question Paper
Can you provide me the solved question papers of English of UGC (University Grants Commission) NET (National Eligibility Test)?
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12th December 2014, 03:40 PM
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Re: UGC NET English Question Paper
There are two question papers, UGC NET English Paper II and Paper III (Parts – A & B). UGC NET English Paper II will cover 50 Objective Type Questions (Multiple choice, Matching type, True / False, Assertion – Reasoning type) carrying 100 marks. UGC NET English Paper III will have two Parts – A and B ; Paper III ( A ) will have 10 Short Essay type questions ( 300 words ) carrying 16 marks each. In it there will be one question with internal choice from each unit ( i.e. 10 questions from 10 units; Total marks will be 160 ). UGC NET English Paper III ( B ) will be compulsory and there will be one question from each of the Electives. The candidate will attempt only one question ( one Elective only in 800 words ) carrying 40 marks. Total marks of UGC NET English Paper III will be 200. UGC NET English Paper II Chaucer to Shakespeare Jacobean to Restoration Periods Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature Romantic Period Victorian Period Modern Period Contemporary Period American and other non – British Literature’s Literary Theory and Criticism Rhetoric and Prosody UGC NET English Paper III ( A ) ( Core Group ) British Literature from Chaucer to the present day Criticism and Literary Theory. Unit – I : Literary Comprehension ( with internal choice of poetry stanza and prose passage; four comprehension questions will be asked carrying 4 marks each ). Unit – II : Up to the Renaissance. Unit – III : Jacobean to Restoration Periods. Unit – IV : Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature. Unit – V : Romantic Period. Unit – VI : Victorian and Pre – Raphaelites. Unit – VII : Modem British Literature. Unit – VIII : Contemporary British Literature. Unit – IX : Literary Theory and Criticism up to T. S. Eliot. Unit – X : Contemporary Theory. UGC NET English Paper III ( B ) ( Elective / Optional ) Elective – I : History of English Language, English Language Teaching. Elective – II : European Literature from Classical Age to the 20th Century. Elective – III : Indian writing in English and Indian Literature in English translation. Elective – IV : American and other non – British English Literatures. Elective – V : Literary Theory and Criticism. UGC NET English Question Paper |
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