English Literature MCQs

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Which of the following offers the best definition of the concept of persuasion ?


aPersuasion is the art of making readers or listeners believe what the writer or speaker is stating.


bPersuasion is the art of lying to good effect.


cPersuasion is the opposite of rhetoric.


dPersuasion is the use of syllogisms to influence the opinions of readers and listeners.



Which of the following offers the best definition of a frame narrative ?


aA narrative that introduces readers to the main characters of a story


bA narrative that summarizes the plot of the novel


cA story within a story


dA story that reminds the reader that the story is fictional



Which of the following statements would Percy Shelley, author of “A Defense of Poetry”, agree with ?


aArt serves a particular worldly purpose.


bArt’s supreme function is to entertain the public.


cArtists are dangerous to social order.


dArtists serve to construct the foundations of culture.



What does Percy Shelley mean when he refers to poets as being the “unacknowledged legislators of the world” ?


aHe is suggesting that artists serve to develop culture.


bHe is suggesting that all artists are from high social classes.


cHe is suggesting that artists are repressed throughout society.


dHe is suggesting that the making of laws is itself an art.



As a mode of literary criticism or theory, gender theory attempts to bring which of the following to literary texts ?


aAn understanding of the various conceptions and understandings of gender that have carried throughout various cultures


bAn understanding of gender as a human construct


cAn understanding of how standard histories of western societies are presented in terms of heterosexual identity


dAll of these.


View Answer All of these.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea behind Anthony DiMatteo’s essay, “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’” ?


aHamlet is a tragedy focusing on the plight of the early-modern self.


bHamlet is a tragedy that reflects Shakespeare’s own political circumstances.


cHamlet is a tragedy that focuses on the Elizabethan era’s loss of faith in humanity’s ability to govern itself without violence.


dHamlet is a tragedy that reflects upon enlightened and progressive political systems that developed during Shakespeare’s time.



Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” pursues which of the following themes ?


aThe conflict between marriages based on love and those based on money


bThe ways in which appearances don’t always match realities


cThe danger in not recognizing the difference between reality and fiction


dAll of these


View Answer All of these

Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” explores which of the following themes ?


aFate and free will


bThe corruptive force of technology


cThe power of religious faith


dDisobedient children


View Answer Fate and free will

Which of the following statements best defines the poetic form of the villanelle ?


aA poem that has no rhyme scheme


bA poem that eulogizes the dead


cA poem that carries a pattern on two rhymes and offers an alternating refrain


dA poem that celebrates the life of a cruel person



What is the relationship between the practices of New Historicism and New Criticism ?


aNew Historicism was a reaction against New Criticism, which was seen as too narrowly focused on text rather than context.


bBoth fields of literary study are American in origin.


cNew Historicism is simply an early form of Cultural Materialism.


dBoth fields of study are strictly focused on how readers interpret and invent meanings for literary texts.



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