Question with Answer UGC - NET - English

1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term.

(1) aporia

(2) difference

(3) erasure

(4) supplement

Answer : (1)

1. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?

(1) Harold Pinter

(2) Alan Bennett

(3) Caryl Churchill

(4) Tom Stoppard

Answer : (4)

1. Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?

(1) Sons and Lovers

(2) Ulysses

(3) The Power and the Glory

(4) Heart of Darkness

Answer : (4)

The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

(1) W. B. Yeats, Lady George and Edward Martyn

(2) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

(3) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine

(4) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

Answer : (1)

1. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?

(1) Troilus and Criseyde

(2) The House of Fame

(3) The Book of Duchess

(4) The Legend of Good Women

Answer : (3)

The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of

(1) Gorboduc

(2) Ralph Roister Doister

(3) Damon and Pythias

(4) Lamentable Tragedy

Answer : (1)

1. Who of the following poets is Australian?

(1) Austin Clarke

(2) Judith Wright

(3) Edwin Muir

(4) Derek Walcott

Answer : (2)

1. "He found it ( English) brick and left it marble ", remarked one great writer on another. Who were they?

(1) Milton on Shakespeare

(2) Dryden on Milton

(3) Johnson on Dryden

(4) Jonson on Shakespeare

Answer : (3)

The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift 's '" A Modest Proposal " are

(1) comic

(2) solemn

(3) hortatory

(4) irony

Answer : (4)

C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing

(1) Practical Criticism

(2) New Criticism

(3) Standard English Project

(4) Basic English Project

Answer : (4)

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