Category: Introduction to Literary Studies

A. The conflict between marriages based on love and those based on money
B. The ways in which appearances don’t always match realities
C. The danger in not recognizing the difference between reality and fiction
D. All of these

A. An atmosphere of dread, fear, and darkness
B. An isolated protagonist
C. A hero or protagonist who is tempted
by a villain
D. All of these

A. Fate and free will
B. The corruptive force of technology
C. The power of religious faith
D. Disobedient children

A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts.

A. Formalism focuses on examining how a text exemplifies its writer’s psychology.
B. Formalism focuses on examining the structural dynamics of poems.
C. Formalism focuses on examining the use of literary devices within a literary text.
D. Formalism focuses on examining the historical contexts and backgrounds of literary texts.

A. She is mature and realistic.
B. She is immature and has difficulty recognizing the difference between fact and fiction.
C. She is a matchmaker trying to set up romances between her friends, all the while unable to find true love herself.
D. B and C

A. An awareness of the historical circumstances surrounding a text’s production
B. A set of objective criteria for critical analysis
C. An awareness of the economic circumstances surrounding a literary text
D. Strict criteria for evaluating the quality of a literary text

A. Character
B. Setting
C. Plot
D. All of these

A. the psychologies of individual authors.
B. the typographical structures of literary texts.
C. translation issues.
D. how children relate to their parents in terms of literary texts.

A. A hypothesis about how literary texts can be understood
B. A methodology for applying ideas to literary texts
C. The practice of interpreting literary texts
D. A trend in university English departments