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UGC NET Paper-II English Syllabus consists of: 

Drama
Poetry
Fiction & short story
Non-Fictional Prose
English in India: history, evolution, and futures
Literary Criticism
Research Methods, and Materials in English
Language: Basic concepts, theories, and pedagogy.
English in Use
Cultural Studies
Literary Theory post World War II.

UGC NTA NET JRF English Previous Papers Questions
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1. ‘Mythologies’ was written by:
2. John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’ is an example of
3. Samuel Butler’s ‘Erewhon’ is an example of :
4. A content word is not a function word.
2. A content word has lesser meaning than a function word.
3. A content word has no function.
4. A content word bears lexical meaning whereas a function word just about means functionally.
Which of these statements are correct ?
5. “Count no man happy until he dies, free of pain at last”, is the last line of
6. The phrase “disassociation of sensibility” was first used by:
7. Chaucer's ‘The Knight's Tale’ is a high romance told in :
8. The arrival of printing in fifteenth century England was engineered by :
9. Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare’s :
10. W.B. Yeats’ “Easter 1916” is:
11. The assertion, 'We had a very restful holiday,' implies :
12. “To Suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite” is written by :
13. ‘The Confessions of an English Opium Eater’ was written by:
14. ‘Victorian Compromise’ is an expression first used by :
15. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in the portrait of Sporus?
16. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements of subjects borrowed from other works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche.
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a ‘purple passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its use of figurative language.
(a) (i) and (ii) are correct.
17. Which of the following novel-novelist pair is correctly matched ?
18. Pecola is a character in :
19. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, ‘A Trivial Comedy for Serious People’?
20. Raskolnikov murders the old lady :
I. to get her money and achieve his ambition in life
II. to achieve his political goal as an extremist and a nihilist
III. to prove his superiority over other young men of the time.
IV. All of the above Find the correct combination according to the code :
21. The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims was :
22. ‘Tale of a Tub’ is about:
23. The title of William Faulkner’s ‘The Sound and the Fury’ is derived from a play by :
24. How does Lord Jim end?
25. “Ripeness is all” occurs in :

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