Category: Introduction to Literary Studies

A. All dogs have four legs, all creatures do not have four legs, hence all creatures with four legs are dogs.
B. All men breathe air, all dogs breathe air, hence all men are dogs.
C. All mammals are warm-blooded, all dogs are mammals, hence all dogs are warm-blooded.
D. All dogs have hair, all people have hair, hence anything with hair is a dog or a person.

A. A poem that has no rhyme scheme
B. A poem that eulogizes the dead
C. A poem that carries a pattern on two rhymes and offers an alternating refrain
D. A poem that celebrates the life of a cruel person

A. They involve the solving of a crime.
B. They explore mysterious religious topics.
C. They were written by medieval mystics.
D. They were produced by medieval craft guilds, which were knows as “mysteries”.

A. A story of one person’s fall from grace and into destruction
B. A story of one person’s growth and development within a particular social order
C. A story of one person’s success within a capitalistic economic system
D. A story of one person’s selfrealization and attempt to return to innocence

A. Logos refers to a writer’s presentation of character and image.
B. Logos refers to a writer’s ability to present evidence.
C. Logos refers to a writer’s ability to inspire action in readers.
D. Logos refers to a writer’s ability to inspire emotional responses in readers.

A. Epic theater is plot-driven theater.
B. Epic theater turns the passive spectator into an active observer.
C. Epic theater privileges feeling over reason.
D. Epic theater maintains the illusion of realism.

A. A member of the royalty
B. A lowborn, wandering adventurer
C. A member of the middle class engaging in self-exploration
D. A child as he or she develops into an adult

A. An ode
B. An elegy
C. An epitaph
D. A ballad

A. Hamlet is deeply disturbed by his father’s death.
B. It is never proven within the play that Claudius murdered King Hamlet.
C. Hamlet doubts the proper course of action to take.
D. Ophelia dies by drowning.

A. Satan was ultimately heroic.
B. The fall of Adam and Eve was a tragic event.
C. Adam and Eve were driven to evil by their children.
D. God abandoned the realm of Eden without reason.