English Literature MCQs

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He was an influential force in archetypal criticism ?


aFreud


bTate


cRichards


dJung


View Answer Jung

What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?


aLiterary texts should not be read as a projection of the author’s psyche.


bLiterary texts solely reflect an author’s intentions.


cLiterary texts reveal secret elements of an author’s unconscious.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



What is humanism ?


aAn idea traditionally associated with the Renaissance


bA humanity-centered view of the universe


cA theory that values restraint, form, and imitation


dAll of the above answers are correct.



The name “Ars Poetica” (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace’s Epistle to the Pisos by____________?


aHorace


bQuintillion


cCicero


dVirgil


View Answer Quintillion

A critic of Thomas Otway’s “Venice Preserv’d” wishes to know why the play’s conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, are portrayed in a sympathetic light. She examines the author’s life and times and discovers that there are obvious similarities between the conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot. She is most likely a critic ?


aHistorical


bFeminist


cTory


dPsychological


View Answer Historical

To whom “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful passion.” ?


aKeats


bShelley


cWordsworth


dColeridge


View Answer Wordsworth

Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?


aCleanth Brooks


bFerdinand de Saussure


cKarl Marx


dToni Morrison


View Answer Ferdinand de Saussure

They believe that this approach tends to reduce art to the level of biography and make it relative (to the times) rather than universal. What approach possess this disadvantage ?


aMoral/Philosophical


bFormalism/New Criticism


cHistorical/Biographical


dPsychological



Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that ?


athe meaning of a text always relies on context.


btexts are always heterogeneous.


cany system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



In which capter of Biographia Lieraria, Coleridge make a distinction between fancy and imagination ?


a14


b15


c12


d13


View Answer 13

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