Reading Comprehension – Previous Year Questions
169 questions from past UGC NET English papers, each with the correct answer. Open any question for its explanation.
- Why do the poet and his father move the furniture to the walls?
- What is 'Moriarty'?
- Which statement about the father's grip is true?
- What is the 'weapon' in the first line of the fourth stanza?
- What does the last stanza show about the father?
- What does the claim that literature is 'a number of ways in which people relate themselves to writing' imply?
- What does 'there is no essence of literature whatsoever' imply?
- What does 'non-pragmatic' mean in the passage?
- What is the significance of the 'weed' analogy?
- What does 'ontological' mean?
- Which of the following statements is true?
- The poet says that two people lying together look like:
- The poet says that while lying in bed he and his companion pass the time:
- The poet and his companion are:
- The poet says it is difficult to find words that are:
- 'Poetry in its use of language continually distorts and denies the structure of reality to exalt the structure of the self' implies:
- What does the word 'assonance' mean?
- What does Caudwell imply by 'The novel blots out external reality by substituting a more or less consistent mock reality'?
- What is meant by 'mock reality' in the passage?
- If rhythm, 'preciousness' and style are alien to the novel, in which genre are they distinctive features?
- Pater's claim that imaginative prose should be the special art of the modern world implies:
- Which expression is closest to the meaning of 'fervid'?
- Artistic literature is the representation of:
- What does the author mean by 'the less ambitious form of literature'?
- According to the author, prose should be:
- The poem deals with:
- Which figure of speech is implicit in 'Light-winged Smoke!'?
- In the first line, 'Icarian bird' connotes:
- The word 'Lark' in the third line means:
- Why does the poet seek pardon from the gods?