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Category: Introduction to Literary Studies
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.
A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?
A. Marxist criticism
B. Reader-response criticism
C. Psychoanalytic criticism
D. New Criticism
Which of the following poems can be described as a haiku ?
A. Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”
B. Bishop’s “One Art”
C. Auden’s “Paysage Moralisé”
D. William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”
In his preface to “Lyrical Ballads”, Wordsworth calls for poetry to be written in what kind of language?
A. Typically poetic and fanciful language
B. Ancient languages
C. Complicated and difficult language
D. Common, everyday language
In his essay, “The Significance of Fictionalizing”, Wolfgang Iser argues which of the following points ?
A. Historically, writers have been considered liars or at the very least irrelevant.
B. Fictionalizing reality is a basic human need.
C. Every text includes traces from the outside world, including social, historical, and literary remnants.
D. All of these.
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