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The statements below are steps on “How to Read a Short Story Critically”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the critical reading of a narrative ?
A. Analyze the Structure of the Story
B. Analyze Rhetorical Elements
C. Analyze the Meaning of the Story (Interpretation)
D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the Story
Who made a distinction between Fancy and Imagination ?
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Southey
D. Hazlitt
Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ?
A. Carlyle
B. Ruskin
C. T. S. Eliot
D. F. R. Leavis
Who said that Keat’s love letters of a surgeon’s apprentice ?
A. Arnold
B. Shelley
C. Byron
D. Hazlitt
What is the main function of literary theory ?
A. To understand the importance of the formal elements of literary structure
B. To formulate relationships among an author, a reader, and a literary work
C. To understand the role of sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity in literary study
D. All of the above answers are correct.
What approach is described by the paragraph? This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader ?
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Reader Response Approach
C. Formalism
D. Mimetic Approach
Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
A. Cleanth Brooks
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Karl Marx
D. Toni Morrison
In his essay “The Business of Theory,” William Deresiewicz argues which of the following about Terry Eagleton’s book After Theory ?
A. It offers a strong outline for how theory can be conducted in the 21st century.
B. It should not be read or considered by any student or scholar.
C. It offers some valid ideas and critiques, but its author is not entirely trustworthy.
D. It offers a strong counterpoint to Jacques Derrida’s notion of deconstruction.
One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective ?
A. Reader Response Criticism
B. Formalist Criticism
C. Historical Criticism
D. These are all equally subjective
In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
A. The idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.
B. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
C. The author may not always exist.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
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