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Category: English Literature Mcqs
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
The Musical Theory of the origin of language was advanced by_________________?
A. Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget
B. Noire
C. Max__Muller
D. Otto Jespersen
The dedication of Byron’s “Don Juan” can be best described as ________________?
A. Sincere and heartfelt
B. Mocking and satirical
C. Mournful and dark
D. Polemic and dry
In which of the following ways does Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho combine the features of the Gothic and the sentimental ?
A. It emphasizes emotion over reason.
B. It has a didactic moral focus.
C. There is a focus on a central love story.
D. All of these answers
Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?
A. Robert Frost
B. R. W. Emerson
C. Walt Whitman
D. Edgar Allen Poe
Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language ?
A. Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons.
B. Language can include socio-ideological contradictions from the past.
C. Language exhibits and is bound up in the social lives and historical context of the people who speak it.
D. Language is loaded with the intentions of others.
As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?
A. Seeing his mother die
B. Watching a slave get beaten to death
C. Watching his aunt get whipped
D. Watching his dad beat his mother
What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
A. A language about another language
B. A supernatural language
C. A language that does not yet constitute a real language
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
B. the Norman Conquest of 1066.
C. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
D. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
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