English Literature MCQs

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What does the critical term ’esemplatic’ mean ?


aThe unifying power


bAbility to coin new word


cPower of imagination


dNegative capability


View Answer The unifying power

What is affective fallacy ?


aA term first used by literary theorists William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley


bA 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


cAn important term in the field of New Historicism


dAll of the above answers are correct.



What is false consciousness ?


aA term for the false neuroses expressed in dreams


bA feminist term for the state that occurs when texts written by women are not considered in the study of literature


cAnother term for the unconscious


dAn ideology that involves dominating the consciousness of exploited classes



With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?


aSigmund Freud


bCarl Jung


cWilliam James


dTheodor W. Adorno


View Answer Theodor W. Adorno

What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?


aThe hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw


bThe hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw


cThe hero’s recognition of his adversary


dThe hero’s recognition of his tragic end



Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language ?


aLanguage includes multiple social dialects and jargons.


bLanguage can include socio-ideological contradictions from the past.


cLanguage exhibits and is bound up in the social lives and historical context of the people who speak it.


dLanguage is loaded with the intentions of others.



‘On Translating Homer’ is written by________________?


aMathew Arnold


bWalter Pater


cT. S. ELiot


dWilliam Hazlit


View Answer Mathew Arnold

Who is the meaning of the term Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?


aChange in the fortune of the hero from bad to good


bChange in the fortune of the hero from good to bad


cConstancy in the fortune of the hero


dFluctuations occurring in the fortune of the hero



“It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long gown maketh an advocate”. Whose view is this ?


aShakespeare’s


bMarlowe’s


cSpenser’s


dSidney’s


View Answer Sidney’s

In his essay “The Business of Theory,” William Deresiewicz argues which of the following about Terry Eagleton’s book After Theory ?


aIt offers a strong outline for how theory can be conducted in the 21st century.


bIt should not be read or considered by any student or scholar.


cIt offers some valid ideas and critiques, but its author is not entirely trustworthy.


dIt offers a strong counterpoint to Jacques Derrida’s notion of deconstruction.



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