UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-13 (D-2012)

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-13

21. In Aristotle’s Poetics we read that it is the imitation of an action that is complete and whole, and of a certain magnitude….having a beginning, a middle, and an end’. What is ‘it’ ? 
(A) tragedy
(B) epic
(C) poetry
(D) farce

22. According to Matthew Arnold, ‘touchstones’ help us test truth and seriousness that constitute the best poetry. What are the ‘touchstones’ ?
(A) The purple passages of lyric poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
(C) The lines and expressions of the great masters
(D) Passages of epic strength and vigour

23. ‘An extremely simplified form of language used for oral, verbal contact among a community whose members speak different languages but do not share a common language in order to fulfill the essential needs of communication.’ Which of the following is best described by this definition ?
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Dialect
(D) Lingua franca

24. What do the prosodic features of a language tell us ?
(A) The speaker’s native language and its cognate languages.
(B) The speaker’s age, emotional state, social class, educational background, geographical provenance etc.
(C) The speaker’s self-confidence or lack of it.
(D) The speaker’s command of the resources of the language spoken by him/her and their deployment.

25. What novel answers to the following descriptions ? This was a 1990 best-seller by a British writer. The work incorporates many genres such as letters, diaries and poetry as also third-person narratives. The plot here involves two time-periods – contemporary and Victorian. The work is subtitled A Romance.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
(D) The Sea Lady

26. The following words and phrases, ‘peace makers’, ‘help-meet’, ‘the fat of the land’, ‘a labour of love’, ‘the eleventh hour’ and ‘the shadow of death’ were made current by
(A) the British Greek scholars like Roger Ascham
(B) the fifteenth century British prelates
(C) the Puritan tractarians
(D) the sixteen-century translators of the Bible

27. Who among the following writers asserted ‘Commonwealth Literature’ does not exist ?
(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Sulman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Nirad Chaudhari

28. Identify the one in correct chronological sequence :
(A) The Norman Conquest – The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Birth of William Shakespeare
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Birth of William Shakespeare – The Norman Conquest
(C) The Norman Conquest –William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of William Shakespeare
(D) William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Norman Conquest – The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of William Shakespeare

29. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) Mary Wellstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France.
(B) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
(C) Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
(D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

30. Who is John Keats’s ‘Sylvan Historian’ ?
(A) Fanny Brawne
(B) Nightingale
(C) The Grecian Urn
(D) The Bridge of Quietness

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