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Category: English Literature Mcqs
New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?
A. Reject all previous modes of literary theory
B. Focus on a return to traditional critical methods
C. Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories
D. Work only with ideas developed by post- Marxist theorists
Human language is structured at the levels of phonemes and morphemes and at the level of words. This property of language is called_______________?
A. Duality of structure
B. Recursiveness
C. Displacement
D. TransferencE.
What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
A. Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
B. Butler’s Hudibras
C. Fielding’s Jonathan Wild
D. Pope’s Dunciad
Which statement below best defined Dickinson’s idea of circumference ?
A. Above and beyond
B. limitations
C. no limitations
D. Eqaulity
In the play, “Richard III,” who is Richard’s elder brother ?
A. Clarence
B. King Edward IV
C. Tyrell
D. Richmond
The repetition of similar ending sounds_______________?
A. alliteration
B. onomatopoiea
C. rhyme
D. none of the above
Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by ?
A. Sir Walter Scot
B. Christopher Marlow
C. Ben Johnson
D. George Herbert
Which literary theorist argues that “there is nothing outside the text” ?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Jacques Lacan
C. Jacques Derrida
D. Stanley Fish
The Prince was written to gain favor of the_______________?
A. Pazzi
B. Republic
C. Medici
D. Inquisition
In which work do you read: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?
A. Adonais
B. Bright Star
C. Ode on a Grecian Urn
D. La Bell Dame Sans Merci
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