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- Literary Theory & Criticism Mcqs - Set 4
MCQs 1: From whom did New Historicists draw the idea of “self-regulating systems” ?
MCQs 2: Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism ?
MCQs 3: The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ?
Begin your paper with an introduction that identifies the purpose of the paper and the text you are addressing.
Compose topic sentences (four or five, perhaps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis.
Select specific passages in the text of the story that help you to develop each topic sentence.
Build your paper to a climax; save your most engaging or important topic sentence for discussion last.
MCQs 4: What is mimesis ?
MCQs 5: Who was the first literary critic who said that “Art is twice removed from reality” ?
MCQs 6: What do structuralist and formalist critics have in common ?
Both sets of critics reject the importance of historical context in studying literature.
Both sets of critics look for an objective way to view texts.
Both sets of critics focus on evaluating literature in a scientific manner.
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 7: The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
MCQs 8: The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Explicate Poetry”. Which comes in as second to the last thing to do before writing a critical essay of a poem ?
MCQs 9: Is Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ?
MCQs 10: The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Analyze a Play”. Which comes in as second thing to do before writing a critical essay of a play ?
Identify External Factors Related to the Work
Interpret the Play
Analyze the Staging
Analyze the Essential Elements of the Play
MCQs 11: Wordsworth’s theory of poetry appears in_____________?
MCQs 12: In which capter of Biographia Lieraria, Coleridge make a distinction between fancy and imagination ?
MCQs 13: Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that ?
the meaning of a text always relies on context.
texts are always heterogeneous.
any system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless.
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 14: They believe that this approach tends to reduce art to the level of biography and make it relative (to the times) rather than universal. What approach possess this disadvantage ?
MCQs 15: Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
MCQs 16: To whom “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful passion.” ?
MCQs 17: A critic of Thomas Otway’s “Venice Preserv’d” wishes to know why the play’s conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, are portrayed in a sympathetic light. She examines the author’s life and times and discovers that there are obvious similarities between the conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot. She is most likely a critic ?
MCQs 18: The name “Ars Poetica” (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace’s Epistle to the Pisos by____________?
MCQs 19: What is humanism ?
An idea traditionally associated with the Renaissance
A humanity-centered view of the universe
A theory that values restraint, form, and imitation
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 20: What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?
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