English Literature

UGC NET (English): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit – V: Language: Basic Concepts, Theories and Pedagogy, English in Use Unit – V: Language: Basic Concepts, Theories and Pedagogy, English in Use 1. What branch of linguistics studies the production, transmission, and perception of speech sounds? Phonetics. 2. What branch of linguistics studies the organization and function of sounds within a particular language system? Phonology. 3. What is the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish meaning in a language? Phoneme. 4. What is the smallest meaningful unit of grammatical structure in a language? Morpheme. 5. What is the term for a phonetic variant of a phoneme that does not change word meaning? Allophone. 6. What is the term for a variant form of a morpheme that varies depending on phonetic context? Allomorph. 7. What branch of linguistics studies sentence structure and phrase formation? Syntax. 8. What branch of linguistics studies word meaning and ...

UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit – IV: Non-Fictional Prose Unit – IV: Non-Fictional Prose 1. Who is widely regarded as the father of the English personal essay, whose Essais influenced Francis Bacon? Michel de Montaigne. 2. Which English philosopher and statesman published the pioneering essay collection Essays in 1597? Francis Bacon . 3. What Baconian essay famously opens with the line 'What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer'? 'Of Truth'. 4. Who wrote the 17th-century prose masterpiece Religio Medici ? Sir Thomas Browne. 5. Which Jacobean-era prose work by Robert Burton explores the causes, symptoms, and cures of melancholy? The Anatomy of Melancholy. 6. Who wrote the 1644 radical prose tract Areopagitica , defending freedom of speech and opposing licensing? John Milton . 7. What classical Greek text by Aristotle investigates the rhetoric of persuasion and public speaking? Rhetoric. 8. ...

UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit – III: Fiction, Short Story Unit – III: Fiction, Short Story 1. What 18th-century novel by Daniel Defoe tells the story of a castaway stranded on a remote island for 28 years? Robinson Crusoe. 2. Who wrote the epistolary novel Pamela ; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740)? Samuel Richardson. 3. Which Fielding novel is considered a picaresque masterpiece of the 18th century following a foundling's adventures? Tom Jones. 4. Who authored the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1764)? Horace Walpole. 5. What term describes a novel composed of letters written by characters, such as Richardson's Pamela ? Epistolary novel. 6. Who wrote the Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho ? Ann Radcliffe. 7. Which Jane Austen novel features the spirited protagonist Elizabeth Bennet? Pride and Prejudice. 8. What Jane Austen novel explores the themes of sense versus sensibility through the Dashwood sisters? Sense and...

UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit II- Poetry Unit – II: Poetry 1. Who is considered the father of English poetry and author of The Canterbury Tales ? Geoffrey Chaucer. 2. What 14-line lyric poem structure consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet is known as the English sonnet? Shakespearean (or Elizabethan) Sonnet. 3. Which 14-line poem structure divided into an octave and a sestet is known as the Italian sonnet? Petrarchan Sonnet . 4. Who introduced the Petrarchan sonnet form into English poetry during the 16th century? Sir Thomas Wyatt. 5. Who pioneered blank verse in English poetry through his translation of Virgil's Aeneid ? Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. 6. What is the standard unrhymed meter of five iambic feet per line used extensively in English verse? Blank verse. 7. Who wrote the Elizabethan allegorical epic poem The Faerie Queene ? Edmund Spenser. 8. What name is given to the nine-line stanza scheme invented b...