ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A dunce cap, also variously known as a dunce hat, dunce’s cap or dunce’s hat, is a pointed hat, formerly used as an article of discipline in schools in Europe and the United States-especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries-for children who were disruptive or were considered slow in learning.

Detailed explanation-2: -dunce cap; fool’s cap; hat; chapeau; lid.

Detailed explanation-3: -When a character does something wrong (such as in school) or does something remarkably stupid they’re shown wearing a large, white, coned shaped hat. “DUNCE” in large red letters, or a large “D", may be added for humiliation related purposes, or to exaggerate it.

Detailed explanation-4: -OTHER WORDS FOR dunce dullard, numbskull, blockhead, ignoramus, simpleton, nincompoop, ninny.