English Literature MCQs

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Who coined the term New Historicism ?


aJacques Derrida


bTerry Eagleton


cFredric Jameson


dStephen Greenblatt


View Answer Stephen Greenblatt

Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature ?


aTrauma theory


bEcotheory


cChaos theory


dFormalism


View Answer Trauma theory

Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?


aThe West spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.


bThe West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.


cThe West views matters through its own limited historical position.


dThe West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.



Who used the words “romanticism” and “romantic” first ?


aWordsworth


bColeridge


cCarlyle


dSchlegel


View Answer Schlegel

What is defamiliarization ?


aA term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality


bAn idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky


cA term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit


dAll of the above answers are correct.



Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ?


aStrange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random.


bStrange attractors are complex forces that are determined by the laws of physics.


cStrange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined.


dStrange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random



What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?


aA language about another language


bA supernatural language


cA language that does not yet constitute a real language


dAll of the above answers are correct.



Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?


aAll linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.


bAll linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.


cAll linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



What is the main goal of ethnic criticism ?


aTo bring attention to false Euro-centric paradigms


bTo rectify the double experiences of certain racial groups


cTo reconcile cultural identity with individual identity


dAll of the above answers are correct.



Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?


aAgathon


bAeschylus


cSophocles


dEuripides


View Answer Euripides

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