A Set of Objective Questions & AnswersUGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK
1.Oxymoron: A figure of
speech made up of two seemingly opposite words.
2. John Dryden’s poems
that describe the political and social events of the Restoration period: Astraea Redux, in celebration of Charles
II’s return to the English throne and Annus
Mirabilis giving a spirited account of the great fire in London . The title
Annus Mirabilis means the wonders of
the year .
3. Absalom and Achitophel: Dryden wrote Absalom and Achitophel. It is a political satire in the form of
allegory. The historical figures hidden under the Biblical characters referred
to in the title are Charles II, the Duke of York and the Earl of Shaftsbury.
4. Allusion: A passing reference
to something outside of a literary work.
5. Restoration:
Restoration indicates the restoration of monarchy. Charles II was restored the
throne of England after a period of Puritan vale.
6. The personal satire
by Dryden: Macflecknoe. Dryden
satirized his political and poetical rival Shadwell.
7. Dryden’s play on the
subject of Shakespeare’s Antony and
Cleopatra: All For Love and The World
Well Lost.
8. Dryden’s longest
prose work: Essay of Dramatic Poesie .It is a major piece
of English literary criticism. It shows the lucid direct prose style that
Dryden introduced.
9.John Dryden wrote The Hind and the Panther: It is an
allegorical defense of the Roman Catholic faith written after the accession of
James.
10. Restoration comedies
by William Congreve: The Old Bachelor ,
The Double Dealer, Love for Love, The Way of the World , The Morning Bride –a tragedy.
11. Plays / comedies by
William Wycherley: Love in a Wood , The
Gentleman Dancing-master , The Country-wife , The Plain Dealer .
12. Two plays by George
Farquhar: The Recruiting Officer , The
Beaux Stratagem .
13. Two Restoration
Tragedies: Venice Preserved by Thomas
Olway, Caligula by John Crowne.
14. Genre: A class of
literature.
15. Antagonist: The
person or thing that presents a problem.
16. Samuel Butlers: Samuel Butler wrote Hubibras . It was a satire on the
Puritans. Samuel Butler wrote Hubibras and he belonged to the later 17th
century. Another Samuel Butler wrote
Erewhon and The Way of all Flesh.
And he belonged to the later 19th century. John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress.
17. Important diarists of
the Restoration period: Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.
18. Metaphor: A type of
figurative language that makes a direct comparison not using like or as. (
19. Allusion: The
representation of ideas or moral principles by means of symbolic characters, events,
or objects.
20. Setting: The time and
place a story takes place.
21. Two graveyard poets
of the 18th century: Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Edward Young etc.
22. The Red cross Knight
is Spenser’s Faerie Queene
represents: Truth. Here it is philosophical treatise. Truth, a concept in
philosophy that treats both the meaning of the word true and the criteria by
which we judge the truth or falsity in spoken and written statements.
Philosophers have attempted to answer the question ‘What is truth?’ for
thousands of years. The four main theories they have proposed to answer this
question are the correspondence, pragmatic, coherence, and deflationary
theories of truth.
23. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway: A writer on
safari in Africa is close to death and looks back on his life regrettably in
this short tale.
24. The South by Jorge Luis Borges: Considered by
Borges to be one of his best short stories, this story centers on a man who is
on his way home after a near death experience.
25. Macbeth: The line Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings
appear in: Macbeth .Macbeth, tragedy
in five acts, written by English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. First
performed in about , the play was originally printed in the edition of Shakespeare's works known as the
First Folio. The author’s principal source for Macbeth was Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland by English chronicler Raphael Holinshed. The
play’s title role is loosely based on the career of a King Macbeth of Scotland.
A commander under King Duncan I, Macbeth murdered Duncan in and claimed the kingdom for himself. After a
rule of years, Macbeth was killed by
Duncan’s son Malcolm, who later became King Malcolm III.
26. Reflections: Edmund Burke denounced the French
Revolution in: Reflections.
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Ref: 1. History of English Literature- Albert
2. The Concise Cambridge History of English
Literature
3. UGC NET OLD
QUESTION PAPERS
4. Baugh, A.C and
Cable T . A History of the English
Language. th ed. London: Routledge
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