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MCQs: Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ?
Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random.
Strange attractors are complex forces that are determined by the laws of physics.
Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined.
Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random
MCQs 1: What is defamiliarization ?
A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality
An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 2: Who used the words “romanticism” and “romantic” first ?
MCQs 3: Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?
The West spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.
The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.
The West views matters through its own limited historical position.
The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.
MCQs 4: Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature ?
MCQs 5: Who coined the term New Historicism ?
MCQs 6: To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer ?
An infant’s inability to speak prior to the mirror stage
The referential relationships among symbols, signifiers, and signs
The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work
All of the above answers are correct
MCQs 7: Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author’s intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief ?
MCQs 8: Seven is an archetype associated with____________?
MCQs 9: Horace was a friend of_______________?
MCQs 10: “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility.” Who has defined poetry in these words ?
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