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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-3 21. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were written : (i) ‘Lycidas’ (ii) Arthur Hugh Clough (iii) ‘Adonais’ (iv) A.H. Hallam (v) In Memoriam (vi) Edward King (vii) Thyrsis (viii) Keats (A) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (iv); (vii) - (ii); (v) - (vi) (B) (iii) - (viii); (i) - (iv); (iii) - (ii); (v) - (ii) (C) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (viii); (v) - (iv); (vii) - (ii) (D) (v) - (vi); (i) - (viii); (iii) - (ii); (vii) - (iv) 22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a series of reflections on : (A) Jazz music (B) Disability sports (C) ...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-4 31. Prosody studies : (A) Line endings  (B) Meanings of words (C) Patterns of prose  (D) Metrics 32. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play ? (A) Everyman (B) Gorboduc (C) Romeo and Juliet (D) The Duchess of Malfi 33. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of ... (A) New Historicism  (B) New Aristotelianism (C) New Criticism  (D) The New Left 34. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Sensibility. The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason ? (A) sixteenth century  (B) seventeenth century (C) eighteenth century  (D) nineteenth century 35. What is common to the following poems ? Wordsworth’s “The Recluse” Shelley’s “The Triumph...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-2 11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said’s thesis in Orientalism ? (i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational and primitive. (ii) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as irrational and primitive. (iii) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern. (iv) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern. (A) (iii) (B) (iv) (C) (i) and (iv) (D) (ii) and (iii) 12. Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same year belonging to two separate periods. Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary ...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-1 1. In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term ‘Lake School of Poets’ grouping... (A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe (B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron (C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt (D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey 2. “I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark...” The above lines are taken from... (A) “The Soldier” (B) “Dulce et Decorum Est” (C) “To His Dead Body” (D) “Strange Meeting” 3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its inspiration : (i) Coral Island                       (ii) The Odyssey (iii) The Mahabharat             (iv) Jane Eyre (v) The Great Indian Novel   (vi) W...