English Literature

UGC NET (English): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit – VII: Cultural Studies Unit – VII: Cultural Studies 1. What academic movement emerged at the University of Birmingham, focusing on popular culture and power dynamics?  British Cultural Studies (Birmingham School of Cultural Studies). 2. Who is considered one of the founding figures of British Cultural Studies and author of The Uses of Literacy (1957)? Richard Hoggart. 3. Which British cultural theorist wrote Culture and Society (1958) and The Long Revolution (1961)? Raymond Williams. 4. Who wrote the foundational essay 'Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms' and served as a highly influential director of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies? Stuart Hall. 5. What Marxist concept, popularized by Antonio Gramsci, refers to the cultural and ideological dominance of a ruling class over society?  Cultural Hegemony. 6. According to Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model, what are the thr...

UGC NET (English): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit – VI: English in India: History, Evolution and Futures Unit – VI: English in India: History, Evolution and Futures 1. What historical resolution passed in 1835 officially introduced English education in British India? The English Education Act of 1835 ( Based on  Thomas Babington  Macaulay’s 'Minute on Education'.) 2. Who authored the controversial 1835 'Minute on Education' advocating for Western curriculum in English? Thomas Babington Macaulay. 3. Which British governor-general endorsed Macaulay's 'Minute on Education', making English the administrative language of India? Lord William Bentinck. 4. What landmark 1854 document, known as the 'Magna Carta of English Education in India,' laid the foundation for the modern University system? Wood’s Despatch. 5. Which three Universities were established in India in 1857 following Wood's Despatch? Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras Un...

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. ...