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Which of the following represents a stage of development in the poetic form of the elegy ?
A. Lamentation, in which the speaker demonstrates grief
B. Praise and admiration for the dead
C. Consolation and solace
D. All of these
Which of the following are examples of literary interpretation ?
A. Investigating the relationship between words and objective reality
B. Comparing the Bible to folk tales from other cultures
C. Researching an author’s biography for clues about how to understand his or her writing
D. Researching what previous critics have said about a literary work
Which of the following offers the best description of the concept of pathos ?
A. Pathos refers to a writer’s presentation of character and image.
B. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to present evidence.
C. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to inspire action in readers.
D. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to inspire emotional responses in readers.
What are some of the hallmarks or conventions of the poetic form of the ode ?
A. Simplicity in language, brevity in form, and humorousness in attitude
B. Complexity in language, lengthiness in form, and seriousness in attitude
C. Simplicity in language, lengthiness in form, and humorousness in attitude
D. Complexity in language, brevity in form, and humorousness in attitude
Which of the following statements would Percy Shelley, author of “A Defense of Poetry”, agree with ?
A. Art serves a particular worldly purpose.
B. Art’s supreme function is to entertain the public.
C. Artists are dangerous to social order.
D. Artists serve to construct the foundations of culture.
Which of the following descriptions of Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” seems most appropriate ?
A. It offers a critique of Romantic poetry and ideology.
B. It serves to parody gothic novels.
C. It is a horror novel.
D. It is a memoir based on Jane Austen’s childhood.
Which of the following offers the best description of literary theory ?
A. Literary theory involves coming to a precise understanding of a writer’s psychology.
B. Literary theory involves measuring the quality of a literary work.
C. Literary theory involves considering the publication history of literary texts.
D. Literary theory involves describing the underlying principles of a literary work.
Which of the following statements best describes the worldview represented by postmodern theater ?
A. The world is a bright and interesting place.
B. Universal truth doesn’t exist, and audience members must discover truth for themselves.
C. The world is so complex that it does not require literature or theater.
D. Mainstream audiences are so shallow that it is not worth writing plays for them.
A work of criticism that considers how the author’s childhood trauma influenced his characters would be an example of_____________?
A. psychoanalytic criticism.
B. Marxist criticism.
C. New Criticism.
D. structuralism.
As a mode of literary criticism or theory, gender theory attempts to bring which of the following to literary texts ?
A. An understanding of the various conceptions and understandings of gender that have carried throughout various cultures
B. An understanding of gender as a human construct
C. An understanding of how standard histories of western societies are presented in terms of heterosexual identity
D. All of these.
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