| Unit Name | Total |
|---|---|
| British Lit | 18 |
| Indian Lit | 9 |
| American Lit | 2 |
| Literary Movements | 4 |
| Literary Theory | 9 |
| Match The Following | 4 |
| Language and Pedagogy | 7 |
| Cultural Studies | 1 |
| Chronology Type | 10 |
| Literary Criticism | 4 |
| Research Methodology | 3 |
| Postcolonial Lit | 3 |
| English In India | 1 |
| Reading Comprehension | 10 |
For detail strategy to crack UGC-NET Exam, watch this YouTube Video:
🎯 Ready to conquer NET English with confidence?
Our comprehensive course offers detailed coverage of all these topics with expert guidance and practice materials.
Limited Time Offer – Join Now!
December 2024 UGC-NET English Literature PYQs
Q.51 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. Discourse on Colonialism
E. Orientalism
B. The Dialogic Imagination
C. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
D. Discourse on Colonialism
E. Orientalism
⚠️ This question was dropped by NTA.
Q.52 Which of the following statements are true about A. K. Ramanujan?
A. He is a poet of the sixties.
B. His poetry draws his sustenance from his awareness of Hindu heritage.
C. He has poor sense of rhythm.
D. His verse poorly utilises Akam constructed techniques.
E. He utilises Akam constructed techniques in his poetry.
B. His poetry draws his sustenance from his awareness of Hindu heritage.
C. He has poor sense of rhythm.
D. His verse poorly utilises Akam constructed techniques.
E. He utilises Akam constructed techniques in his poetry.
Q.53 Arrange the following works of Francis Bacon in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Advancement of Learning
B. De Augmentis Scientiarum
C. Novum Organum
D. The New Atlantis
E. History of Henry VII
B. De Augmentis Scientiarum
C. Novum Organum
D. The New Atlantis
E. History of Henry VII
Q.54 When was ‘International Phonetic Alphabet’ (IPA) developed and promulgated?
Q.55 Match List I with List II
List I (Author)
A. Basudev Sunani
B. Om Prakash Valmiki
C. Bama
D. Urmila Pawar
List II (Text)
I. Karukku
II. Weave of My Life
III. Cast Out
IV. Joothan
Q.56 An ideal research paper should include:
A. A statement that establishes the problem or controversial issue that the paper intends to examine.
B. Background information to establish past theories and current ideas on the topic.
C. Summarizing and paraphrasing
D. Glorification of the paper writer himself.
E. A thesis to establish one’s position.
B. Background information to establish past theories and current ideas on the topic.
C. Summarizing and paraphrasing
D. Glorification of the paper writer himself.
E. A thesis to establish one’s position.
Q.57 The Grammar Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on:
Q.58 Identify the correct statements about ‘Langue’ and ‘Parole’:
A. Langue is the abstract language system, the grammar of a language.
B. Parole is the language actually produced by its users following Langue.
C. Langue is the language actually produced by its users following Parole.
D. Parole is the abstract language system, the grammar of a system.
E. Langue and Parole are not related to one language as concepts.
B. Parole is the language actually produced by its users following Langue.
C. Langue is the language actually produced by its users following Parole.
D. Parole is the abstract language system, the grammar of a system.
E. Langue and Parole are not related to one language as concepts.
Q.59 Choose the correct sequence of the following works of Pablo Neruda in chronological order:
A. Spain in the Heart
B. Works and Book of Twilights
C. The Inhabitant and His Hope
D. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
E. The Trying of Infinite Man
B. Works and Book of Twilights
C. The Inhabitant and His Hope
D. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
E. The Trying of Infinite Man
Q.60 Arrange the following in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Deconstruction and Criticism
B. Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities
C. Literary Theory and the Claims of History
D. The Western Canon
E. An Appetite for Poetry
B. Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities
C. Literary Theory and the Claims of History
D. The Western Canon
E. An Appetite for Poetry
Q.61 Which of the following are correct according to the MLA Handbook, 9th edition?
A. One inch margin on all sides is compulsory in a research page.
B. Co-ordinating conjunctions are written in bold letters in the title of a research paper.
C. Slash is used between two nouns paired as opposites.
D. ‘Hanging indent’ in the work cited entry is ½ inches.
E. Subordinating conjunctions are not written in bold letters in the title of the research paper.
B. Co-ordinating conjunctions are written in bold letters in the title of a research paper.
C. Slash is used between two nouns paired as opposites.
D. ‘Hanging indent’ in the work cited entry is ½ inches.
E. Subordinating conjunctions are not written in bold letters in the title of the research paper.
Q.62 Who among the following illustrated the works of Thomas Gray and Robert Blair?
Q.63 Identify the statements which are correct:
A. The term ‘Flâneur’ is often associated with the poetry of Baudelaire.
B. The term ‘Habitus’ is associated with Pierre Bourdieu.
C. Michel Foucault is associated with the concept of ‘Modernity: An Unfinished Project’
D. Frantz Fanon is associated with the term ‘Imagined Community’
E. The term ‘Thick Description’ is associated with Clifford Mentz.
B. The term ‘Habitus’ is associated with Pierre Bourdieu.
C. Michel Foucault is associated with the concept of ‘Modernity: An Unfinished Project’
D. Frantz Fanon is associated with the term ‘Imagined Community’
E. The term ‘Thick Description’ is associated with Clifford Mentz.
Q.64 Arrange the following novels of D. H. Lawrence in chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Women in Love
B. The White Peacock
C. Sons and Lovers
D. The Rainbow
E. The Trespasser
B. The White Peacock
C. Sons and Lovers
D. The Rainbow
E. The Trespasser
Q.65 Which of the following is not correctly matched?
Q.66 Match List I with List II
List I (Text)
A. Bodies that Matter
B. A World of Difference
C. A Literature of their Own
D. Vamps and Tramps
List II (Author)
I. Barbara Johnson
II. Judith Butler
III. Camille Paglia
IV. Elaine Showalter
Q.67 In which of the texts, the following lines occur?
“Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never failing vice of fools.”
Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never failing vice of fools.”
Q.68 Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. S. Menon Marath’s The Wound of Spring
B. Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers
C. Anand Lall’s The House of Adampur
D. Sudhindra N. Ghose’s The Vermillion Boat
E. Ved Mehta’s Delinquent Chacha
B. Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers
C. Anand Lall’s The House of Adampur
D. Sudhindra N. Ghose’s The Vermillion Boat
E. Ved Mehta’s Delinquent Chacha
Q.69 Who among the following is credited with ending the system of patronage with his “Letter to Lord Chesterfield”?
Q.70 From the statements given below, what is true about the Gothic Novel?
A. It appeared in 14th Century American Literature.
B. It often uses the medieval form of architecture as setting.
C. It is a form of baroque art.
D. It represents a style of mosaic and fresco wall painting.
E. It aims at evoking chilling terror by exploiting mystery and a variety of horrors.
B. It often uses the medieval form of architecture as setting.
C. It is a form of baroque art.
D. It represents a style of mosaic and fresco wall painting.
E. It aims at evoking chilling terror by exploiting mystery and a variety of horrors.
Q.71 From which poem are the following lines extracted?
“Once more the storm is hauling and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid,
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle.
But Gregory’s wood and one bare hill.”
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid,
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle.
But Gregory’s wood and one bare hill.”
Q.72 Who has composed the above lines?
“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.”
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.”
Q.73 Who is the critic associated with the term ‘Blue Humanities’?
⚠️ This question was dropped by NTA.
Q.74 The line “Thou still unravished bride of quietness” presents which of the following rhetorical figures?
Q.75 Which of the following novels deal with the theme of apartheid?
A. Purple Hibiscus
B. July’s People
C. Cry, the Beloved Country
D. The Mimic Men
E. My Son’s Story
B. July’s People
C. Cry, the Beloved Country
D. The Mimic Men
E. My Son’s Story
Q.76 Match 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. Evelyn Waugh
III. J. M. Coetzee
IV. J. D. Salinger
Q.77 What is ‘Practical Criticism’?
Q.78 Who is the author of English in India: Its Present and Future published in 1964?
Q.79 Match List I with List II
List I (Text)
A. The Golden Light
B. The Lotus
C. Indian Dancers
D. The Harp of India
List II (Author)
I. Toru Dutt
II. Sarojini Naidu
III. Henry Derozio
IV. Sri Aurobindo
Q.80 Match the following concepts with the theorists:
List I (Concept)
A. Defamiliarization
B. Uncanny
C. Actor Network Theory
D. Homo Sacer
List II (Theorist)
I. Giorgio Agamben
II. Bruno Latour
III. Viktor Shklovsky
IV. Sigmund Freud
Q.81 Match List I with List II
List I (Author)
A. Manohar Malgaonkar
B. Chaman Nahal
C. Ruskin Bond
D. Arun Joshi
List II (Text)
I. The Weird Dance and Other Stories
II. The Survivor
III. Rumble Tumble
IV. Neighbour’s Wife and Other Stories
Q.82 Who amongst the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group?
Q.83 The first folio of Shakespeare’s plays appeared in:
Q.84 Chronologically arrange the following works according to the year of publication:
A. Gauri Viswanathan’s Masks of Conquests
B. Meenakshi Mukherjee’s The Twice Born Fiction
C. G. N. Devy’s After Amnesia
D. M. K. Naik’s A History of Indian English Literature
E. Harish Trivedi’s Colonial Transactions
B. Meenakshi Mukherjee’s The Twice Born Fiction
C. G. N. Devy’s After Amnesia
D. M. K. Naik’s A History of Indian English Literature
E. Harish Trivedi’s Colonial Transactions
Q.85 Which of the following is not a character in William Congreve’s The Way of the World?
Q.86 Which among the following novels is not written by Mary Shelley?
Q.87 Who said “The introduction of foreigners does not necessarily destroy the nation, they merge in it”?
Q.88 The famous short poem “Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog” appears in which one of the following Eighteenth Century novels?
Q.89 Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
B. Thomas Browne’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
C. P. B. Shelley’s Defence of Poetry
D. Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
E. Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance
B. Thomas Browne’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
C. P. B. Shelley’s Defence of Poetry
D. Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
E. Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Q.90 Arrange the following steps of ‘Decision making’ in the research process:
A. The choice of a research topic or theme.
B. Data collection
C. Analysis and interpretation of data.
D. Formulating the research problem.
E. Conceptualization and operationalization.
B. Data collection
C. Analysis and interpretation of data.
D. Formulating the research problem.
E. Conceptualization and operationalization.
Q.91 Which of the following texts has been written by Rabindranath Tagore?
Q.92 Match List I with List II
List I (Poet)
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Philip Sidney
C. Thomas Wyatt
D. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
List II (Text)
I. “Whose List to Hunt”
II. “So Cruel Prison how could Betide”
III. “The Faerie Queene”
IV. “The Defense of Poesy”
Q.93 Which of the following poems uses ‘terza rima’?
Q.94 Arrange the following in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. “The Tyger”
B. “The Solitary Reaper”
C. “Adonais”
D. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
E. “Ode to Autumn”
B. “The Solitary Reaper”
C. “Adonais”
D. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
E. “Ode to Autumn”
Q.95 “There is nothing outside the text” is a statement by:
Q.96 Which of the following is not an autobiography?
Q.97 Which of the following novelists did not employ “Stream of Consciousness” technique?
Q.98 Which of the following statements are true about Modernism?
A. Modernism marked a break with formal conventions
B. Old ways of thought underwent cultural shift
C. Decline of liberal humanism
D. Modernism revived classical scholarship
E. Modernism promoted logocentric way of thoughts
B. Old ways of thought underwent cultural shift
C. Decline of liberal humanism
D. Modernism revived classical scholarship
E. Modernism promoted logocentric way of thoughts
Q.99 Who has written The Life Divine?
Q.100 Which of the statements given below are true?
A. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was established in Berkeley in 1960.
B. Jürgen Habermas traces the rise of the public sphere to the rise of print culture.
C. Paul Gilroy introduced the concept of the Black Atlantic.
D. Adorno praises the alien nature of avant-garde modernist art such as the atonal music of Schoenberg.
E. Chuttnification was a term used by Edward Soja.
B. Jürgen Habermas traces the rise of the public sphere to the rise of print culture.
C. Paul Gilroy introduced the concept of the Black Atlantic.
D. Adorno praises the alien nature of avant-garde modernist art such as the atonal music of Schoenberg.
E. Chuttnification was a term used by Edward Soja.
Q.101 Who among the following has written the poem “Jejuri”?
Q.102 Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne’s wife who died in 1617?
Q.103 What does deductive method of reasoning refer to?
Q.104 Which among the following is the last novel of George Eliot?
Q.105 Which of the following is a Dramatic Monologue?
Q.106 Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a:
Q.107 Arrange the following in chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Fraser’s Magazine
B. The Spectator
C. The Westminster Review
D. The Quarterly Review
E. Edinburgh Review
B. The Spectator
C. The Westminster Review
D. The Quarterly Review
E. Edinburgh Review
Q.108 Arrange the plays of William Shakespeare in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. The Tempest
B. Love’s Labour’s Lost
C. Twelfth Night
D. Much Ado About Nothing
E. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B. Love’s Labour’s Lost
C. Twelfth Night
D. Much Ado About Nothing
E. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Q.109 In which year was Raja Rao’s Kanthapura published?
Q.110 Arrange the following texts in chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Coolie
B. The Big Heart
C. The Village
D. Two Leaves and a Bud
E. Seven Summers
B. The Big Heart
C. The Village
D. Two Leaves and a Bud
E. Seven Summers
Q.111 Identify the one who was not a ‘New Critic’:
Q.112 Identify the correct options from the following statements:
A. Ecocriticism has often explained the ‘human and non-human webs of interrelation.’
B. In Ecocriticism, human accountability to the environment is part of the text’s ethical orientation.
C. Ecocriticism foregrounds the notion of an interplay between environment and the body.
D. There is only one wave of Ecocriticism.
E. Ecocriticism has not tackled the issue of gender.
B. In Ecocriticism, human accountability to the environment is part of the text’s ethical orientation.
C. Ecocriticism foregrounds the notion of an interplay between environment and the body.
D. There is only one wave of Ecocriticism.
E. Ecocriticism has not tackled the issue of gender.
Q.113 Which of the following statements are correct about ‘Litotes’?
A. It contains an understatement for emphasis.
B. It is not opposite of hyperbole.
C. It is used with laconic intentions.
D. It is used with ironic intentions.
E. It is used in dramatic context.
B. It is not opposite of hyperbole.
C. It is used with laconic intentions.
D. It is used with ironic intentions.
E. It is used in dramatic context.
Q.114 Identify the statements which are true for Psychoanalytic Criticism:
A. The premises and procedures were established by Sigmund Freud.
B. Freud posited that artists are like neurotic patients.
C. Freud posited that ‘Psychoanalysis’ can be used to account for many developments and practices in the history of civilization.
D. A repressed wish does not become fantasy.
E. Freud proposed that literature and other arts manifest the repressed subconscious and unconscious drives of the artist.
B. Freud posited that artists are like neurotic patients.
C. Freud posited that ‘Psychoanalysis’ can be used to account for many developments and practices in the history of civilization.
D. A repressed wish does not become fantasy.
E. Freud proposed that literature and other arts manifest the repressed subconscious and unconscious drives of the artist.
Q.115 Match List I with List II
List I (Author)
A. Kamala Markandaya
B. P. Sivakami
C. Anita Desai
D. Raj Lakshmi Debi
List II (Text)
I. The Grip of Change
II. The Enchanted Fruit
III. Possession
IV. Cry, the Peacock
Q.116 Which among the following does not fall in the category of a Revenge Tragedy?
Q.117 Identify all the Australian Aboriginal writers out of the following:
A. Kim Scott
B. Peter Carey
C. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
D. Kevin Gilbert
E. Derek Walcott
B. Peter Carey
C. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
D. Kevin Gilbert
E. Derek Walcott
Q.118 Which of the following options are true about the epistemological dimension of research?
A. Scientific realism
B. The search for truth
C. Critical theory
D. Certain and indubitable knowledge
E. Mechanism of social control
B. The search for truth
C. Critical theory
D. Certain and indubitable knowledge
E. Mechanism of social control
Q.119 Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too, Sing America” is a response to which of the following poets?
Q.120 Match List I with List II
List I (Text)
A. Nala and Damayanti
B. Jayadeva
C. The Viziers of Bassora
D. The Flute of Krishna
List II (Author)
I. Sri Aurobindo
II. Vasudeva Rao
III. P. A. Krishnaswamy
IV. Harindranath
Q.121 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 difficulties of being a Dalit in independent India.
D. Joothan was translated into English by Arun Prabha Das.
E. Joothan critiques the upper castes.
B. Joothan represents the Dalit Valmiki community in critical light.
C. Joothan enumerates the difficulties of being a Dalit in independent India.
D. Joothan was translated into English by Arun Prabha Das.
E. Joothan critiques the upper castes.
Q.122 Match List I with List II
List I (Author)
A. Henry Miller
B. John Steinbeck
C. James Jones
D. James Baldwin
List II (Text)
I. The Grapes of Wrath
II. No Name in the Streets
III. Tropic of Cancer
IV. From Here to Eternity
Q.123 Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is in opposition to the:
Q.124 Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. “Adam’s Curse”
B. “Among School Children”
C. “The Second Coming”
D. “The Wild Swans at Coole”
E. “Under Ben Bulben”
B. “Among School Children”
C. “The Second Coming”
D. “The Wild Swans at Coole”
E. “Under Ben Bulben”
Q.125 Match List I with List II
List I (Term)
A. Antonomasia
B. Antiphrasis
C. Apocrypha
D. Aretalogy
List II (Meaning)
I. Writings or statements of doubtful or spurious authorship.
II. A figure of speech in which some defining word or phrase is substituted for a person’s proper name.
III. A narrative of miraculous deeds of God or Hero.
IV. Ironic or humorous use of words in senses opposite to the generally accepted meanings.
Q.126 The incorrect works cited entries according to MLA Handbook, 9th edition are:
A. Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of Destruction. Oxford UP, 2011.
B. Charon, Rita, et al. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine. Oxford UP, London, 2017.
C. Saban, Ann. “The Perils of Ownership”. American Review, vol.10, no.2, 2007, pp.1-27.
D. Riddle, Julie. “Shadow Animals.” The Georgia Review, 67.3, pp. 424-47.
E. Copeland, Edward. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Cambridge UP, 1997. 131-48.
B. Charon, Rita, et al. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine. Oxford UP, London, 2017.
C. Saban, Ann. “The Perils of Ownership”. American Review, vol.10, no.2, 2007, pp.1-27.
D. Riddle, Julie. “Shadow Animals.” The Georgia Review, 67.3, pp. 424-47.
E. Copeland, Edward. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Cambridge UP, 1997. 131-48.
Q.127 Arrange the following works of literature chronologically based on their year of publication:
A. The English Patient
B. The Swinging Bridge
C. Lives of Girls and Women
D. Family Matters
E. Birnam Wood
B. The Swinging Bridge
C. Lives of Girls and Women
D. Family Matters
E. Birnam Wood
Q.128 The above lines were spoken by which of the following characters?
“O Sir, content you,
I follow him to serve my turn upon him.
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.”
I follow him to serve my turn upon him.
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.”
Q.129 Which of the following is not matched correctly?
Q.130 Match List I with List II
List I (Theorist)
A. Mikhail Bakhtin
B. Michel Foucault
C. Roland Barthes
D. Sigmund Freud
List II (Concept)
I. “Archaeology of the Human Sciences”
II. “Text can be either readerly or writerly”
III. “Dialogue as the intrinsic feature of language”
IV. “Dreams and the unconscious”
Q.131 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
B. The English Teacher
C. The Financial Expert
D. Swami and Friends
E. The Guide
Q.132 Match List I with List II
List I (Text)
A. My Days with Gandhi
B. Among the Great
C. Life of Sri Aurobindo
D. Rabindranath Tagore
List II (Author)
I. D. K. Roy
II. N. K. Basu
III. Krishna Kripalani
IV. A. B. Purani
Q.133 Identify the poet who has composed the following lines:
“Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
The jungle crouched, humped in silence.”
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
The jungle crouched, humped in silence.”
Q.134 Match List I with List II
List I (Text)
A. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
B. My Son’s Father
C. All through the Gandhian Era
D. My God Died Young
List II (Author)
I. Dom Moraes
II. A. S. Iyengar
III. Sasthi Brata
IV. Nirad C. Chaudhury
Q.135 Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Orientalism
B. Black Skin, White Masks
C. Masks of Conquest
D. The Wretched of the Earth
E. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
B. Black Skin, White Masks
C. Masks of Conquest
D. The Wretched of the Earth
E. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
⚠️ This question was dropped by NTA.
Q.136 Identify the correct statements concerning the respective genre:
A. An epistle is a literary genre in the form of letter.
B. Epigraph is an inscription on funeral monument.
C. Epigram is a short, pithy poem wittily expressed.
D. Epitaph is a formal statement in the beginning of a literary work.
E. Epyllion is a short poem in the meter of an epic poetry.
B. Epigraph is an inscription on funeral monument.
C. Epigram is a short, pithy poem wittily expressed.
D. Epitaph is a formal statement in the beginning of a literary work.
E. Epyllion is a short poem in the meter of an epic poetry.
Q.137 Match List I with List II
List I (Author)
A. Paul Ehrlich
B. Lawrence Buell
C. Nevil Shute
D. Rachel Carson
List II (Text)
I. The Environmental Imagination (1995)
II. On the Beach (1957)
III. Silent Spring (1962)
IV. The Population Bomb (1972)
Q.138 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 Huggan : “Ecological Imperialism”
E. Thomas B. Macaulay : “Minutes on Indian Education”
B. Alfred W. Crosby : “Unhiding the Hidden”
C. Paul Carter : “Naming Place”
D. Graham Huggan : “Ecological Imperialism”
E. Thomas B. Macaulay : “Minutes on Indian Education”
Q.139 The author of “The Politics of Translation” and translator of Mahasweta Devi’s “Stanadayini” is:
Q.140 Who is the best known figure amongst the following for articulating the concept of ‘Negritude’?
📖 Reading Comprehension (Q.141–Q.145)
One key development in the evolving discussion surrounding popular culture which occurred during the early twentieth century was the association of popular culture with the United States of America. Through Hollywood and associated modes of popular entertainment, USA was beginning to exercise international cultural influence. The term ‘Mass culture’ is particularly relevant in this context as it refers to both the effects of American culture as well as to a specific theoretical debate that emerged in America during the post-war period. Dominic Strinati contends that ‘mass culture refers to popular culture which is produced by the industrial techniques of mass production, and marketed for profit to a mass public of consumers.’ Such a view of popular culture argues that the industrial revolution produces a series of atomised individuals who had not only lost touch with the communities of shared interest to which they once belonged but that they had also been subjected to the process of mechanisation and alienation. This rendered them ripe for systematic cultural manipulation through uniform, mass produced formulae designed to evoke standardised escapist and superficial pleasures.
Q.141 What is the meaning of ‘Atomised individuals’ in the above paragraph?
Q.142 Systematic cultural manipulation takes place through:
Q.143 “Mass Culture” refers to:
Q.144 What is the core issue discussed in the above paragraph?
Q.145 When did popular culture get associated with U.S.A.?
📖 Reading Comprehension (Q.146–Q.150)
In all my wand’rings round this world of care,
In all my griefs—and God has giv’n my share—
I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,
Amidst these humble bow’rs to lay me down;
To husband out life’s taper at the close,
And keep the flame from wasting by repose:
I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,
Amidst the swains to show my book-learn’d skill,
Around my fire an ev’ning group to draw,
And tell of all I felt, and all I saw.
In all my griefs—and God has giv’n my share—
I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,
Amidst these humble bow’rs to lay me down;
To husband out life’s taper at the close,
And keep the flame from wasting by repose:
I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,
Amidst the swains to show my book-learn’d skill,
Around my fire an ev’ning group to draw,
And tell of all I felt, and all I saw.
Q.146 What is the mood of the poem?
Q.147 What does the poem say about the nature of the world?
Q.148 Identify the meter in the poem.
Q.149 What does the poet intend to do in life?
Q.150 Identify the rhyme scheme in the poem.
Analysis
- British Literature (18 questions)
- Questions: 62 (William Blake), 67 (Essay on Criticism), 69 (Samuel Johnson), 83 (Shakespeare’s First Folio), 85 (The Way of the World), 86 (Mary Shelley), 88 (Vicar of Wakefield), 89 (chronology of works), 92 (Spenser/Sidney/Wyatt), 93 (Shelley’s Ode), 94 (chronology of poems), 102 (John Donne), 104 (George Eliot), 105 (Dramatic Monologue), 106 (Much Ado About Nothing), 108 (Shakespeare plays), 116 (Revenge Tragedy), 128 (Othello quote)
- Indian Literature (9 questions)
- Questions: 91 (Tagore), 99 (Sri Aurobindo), 101 (Arun Kolatkar), 109 (Raja Rao), 110 (chronology of Indian texts), 115 (Indian authors), 120 (Indian writers), 131 (R.K. Narayan), 132 (Indian biographies)
- American Literature (2 questions)
- Questions: 119 (Langston Hughes), 122 (American authors)
- Literary Movements (4 questions)
- Questions: 70 (Gothic Novel), 82 (Bloomsbury Group), 97 (Stream of Consciousness), 98 (Modernism)
- Literary Theory (9 questions)
- Questions: 63 (Flaneur/Habitus), 77 (Practical Criticism), 80 (literary concepts), 95 (Derrida quote), 111 (New Critics), 112 (Ecocriticism), 113 (Litotes), 114 (Psychoanalytic Criticism), 130 (literary theorists)
- Match The Following (4 questions)
- Questions: 55 (author-text matching), 66 (text-author matching), 76 (novel-novelist matching), 79 (text-author matching)
- Language and Pedagogy (7 questions)
- Questions: 54 (IPA), 57 (Grammar Translation Method), 58 (Langue and Parole), 74 (rhetorical figures), 123 (Functional Communicative Approach), 125 (literary terms), 136 (literary genres)
- Cultural Studies (1 question)
- Question: 140 (Negritude)
- Chronology Type (10 questions)
- Questions: 51, 53, 59, 60, 64, 84, 107, 124, 127, 135 (all about arranging works chronologically)
- Literary Criticism (4 questions)
- Questions: 112 (Ecocriticism), 113 (Litotes), 114 (Psychoanalytic Criticism), 130 (literary theorists)
- Research Methodology (3 questions)
- Questions: 56 (research paper components), 90 (research process), 103 (deductive reasoning)
- Postcolonial Literature (3 questions)
- Questions: 75 (apartheid novels), 87 (nation quote), 139 (translation politics)
- English in India (1 question)
- Question: 78 (V.K. Gokak)
- Reading Comprehension (10 questions)
- Questions: 141-150 (based on given passages)
Absolutely amazing. Thanks a lot. Please keep posting in similar fashion. Thanks again.