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Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?
A. Hélène Cixous
B. Judith Butler
C. Lucy Irigaray
D. Mary Wollstonecraft
The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” applies to which poet/critic ?
A. Charles Lamb
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Coleridge
D. Wordsworth
Who is the meaning of the term Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?
A. Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good
B. Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad
C. Constancy in the fortune of the hero
D. Fluctuations occurring in the fortune of the hero
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by_______________?
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Southey
D. Shelly
What is affective fallacy ?
A. A term first used by literary theorists William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
B. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection of the real world because______________?
A. Art presents only part of the world
B. Art describes only what appears and not what is real
C. Art tells lies about the world
D. Art is an exaggeration of the world
Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . ”
C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
D. Edward Said’s Orientalism
According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?
A. To connect human beings with a higher ideal
B. To entertain those who enjoy it
C. To criticize society through satire
D. All of the above answers are correct.
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