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Introduction to English Literature

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Fiction is a narrative that is partly or whole related to events that are not factual but

imaginary and created by someone based on their creation.

a)

true

b)

false

2.

Fiction takes steps in the form of a story, to convey the point, the author's perspective, or just

to entertain.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Drama is a literary work written in the form of dialogue with the intention of being shown.

Drama can be performed in various forms, such as theater performances, plays, films,

soap operas, and so on.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

The drama structure is divided into 3, such as Prologue, Dialogue, and Epilogue.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

There are five approaches in terms of text-oriented approaches, such as Philology, Rhetoric, Formalism and structuralism, New criticism, Semiotics, and deconstruction.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Rhetoric is a form of effective persuasive writing and reading.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Biographical criticism is the theory that literature can be best understood as a product of the individual author’s life story and a response to the particular events of the author’s life at the time of composition.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

This approach has the main important literary theory that is Marxist theory. An important school that places literary works in the context of larger sociopolitical

mechanisms are the Marxist literary theory (Klarer, 2004:94).

a)

True

b)

False

9.

It also shows how certain literary methods and approaches are used not just for analysis and interpretation, but also for evaluation and critique. In his “Regretfully, We are Returning Reader’s Reports” (1972), Eco wrote a series of fictitious negative reviews of texts

belonging to the classical canon of literary history.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Poetry is the other way of using language. Perhaps in some hypothetical beginning of things, it was the only way of using language or simply was language tout court, the prose being the derivative and younger rival. Both poetry and language are fashionably thought to have belonged to ritual in early agricultural societies; and poetry, in particular, it has been claimed, arose at first in the form of magical spells recited to ensure a good harvest.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

The film also known as a movie or a motion picture is a series of moving images shown on a screen, usually with sound, that make up a story. Films are similar to novels or short stories that tell a story including the same genres such as romantic, historical, thriller, adventure,

horror, and science fiction.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Blank verse. Blank verse is drama written with a precise meter—almost always iambic pentameter—that does not rhyme.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Reception theory contradicts the new critical dogma of affective error which demands an interpretation that is free from subjective contributions by the reader.

a)

true

b)

false

14.

The term context approach here refers to a heterogeneous group of schools and

methodologies that do not consider literary texts as independent works of art but try to place them in a wider context depending on the movement this context can be historical, background, social and political.

a)

true

b)

false

15.

What Is Author-Oriented Approaches?

Author-oriented approaches means deal with the text in combination with the

biography of the author and its subconscious influence on the text. In other words, this approach focused on the existence of the author and the reviewer studied the connection between the literary text and the biography of the author.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

In this Middle English example, the onomatopoeia (verbal imitation of natural sounds) of the cuckoo’s calling is clearly audible. The acoustic dimension is a typical feature of poetry, one which continues in modern pop songs.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Elegy, ode, sonnet, and imagery are the elements of poetry in Literature

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Further stylistic features include rhetorical figures, or figures of speech. For example ....

a)
Hyperbole and Personification
b)
Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
c)
Irony and Oxymoron
d)
Simile and Metaphor