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WorksheetsLiterary Criticism Part I
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
In which of the following poems, the couple become hermits by devoting themselves to each other?
The Canonization
It is a Beauteous Evening
The Phoenix and the Turtle
What is Cleanth Brooks' main argument?
Wordsworth's poems carry paradox
The language of poetry is the language of paradox
Paradox is a device that can be used only in poetry
Which of the following writers is famous for using paradox?
Cleanth Brooks
Wordsworth
Chesterton
Which of the following statements of I. A. Richards does Brooks use to argue his point?
Language should be treated like notation
All of the subtler states of emotion... necessarily demand metaphor for their expression
Connotations and denotations have an equal role to play
In literature, the paradox is an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight. It functions as a method of literary composition and analysis that involves examining apparently contradictory statements and drawing conclusions either to reconcile them or to explain their presence.
True
False
Brooks ends his essay with a reading of John Donne's poem ___________, which uses a paradox as its underlying metaphor.
The Canonization
Battar My Heart
Flee
none of the above
Frye's work breaks from both _______and________ in such a way that it is distinct from its anthropological and psychoanalytical precursors. For Frye, the death-rebirth myth, that Frazer sees manifest in agriculture and the harvest, is not ritualistic since it is involuntary, and therefore, must be done.
Brooks, Jung
Frazer, Jung
Marx, Frazer
none of the above
Each category is further subdivided into two categories:
comedy and romance for the comedic
tragedy and satire (or ironic) for the tragic
tragedy and romance for the comedic
comedy and satire for the comedic
Who is the writer of "The Laugh of the Medusa"?
Helene Cixous
Sigmund Frued
Simone de Beauvoir
Judith Bulter
Writing in "white ink" is metaphorical. What does Cixous mean by this?
Women write with breastmilk
Women use white pens
Women must mother other women
Women must be braver than men
She conveys this message by employing a conversational dialogue in which she instructs her audience directly. She urges her audience to write, using many direct conversational statements such as--
Mark the right statements
Writing is for you
you are for you
your body is yours, take it
reading for you
Epistemology of the Closet is a book published in 1990 by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who is considered one of the founders of __________ studies.
feminist
bisexual
queer
none of the above
In Epistemology of the Closet, Sedgwick argues that standard ____________ limit freedom and understanding, especially in the context of sexuality.
gender conflict
logical oppositions
binary oppositions
none of the above
Which work of Eve Sedgwick attacks the question of what makes up human sexuality?
Hint: The basis for the answer to this question comes from Sedgwick's understanding and examination of queer theory, which she describes for her readers.
Tendencies
Epistemology of the Closet
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
none of the above
What is the 'poetics of space' written by Gaston Bachelard?
Science of the concrete in which the mind has to make objects familiar and orderly by terming everything according to its classification.
The meaning of space is interpreted with an imaginative value by the emotional and rational sense of ones' mind.
The poems can be written about places
Orientalizing the orient
Why should we care about Orientalism?
Because Orientalism seeps into the modern culture
Because those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it
Because the current world has been constructed by the colonial past
Because Orientalism teaches us that western values are great examples
What is imaginative knowledge?
Knowledge about the objective truth about something
Knowledge of the poetics of space which caters to the dream
Knowledge which represents the orients based upon creations
Knowledge that is constructed based upon assumptions
A criticism that argues that social contexts must be considered when analyzing a text.
Sociological
Feminist
Marxist
The following are Sigmund Freud's theory of mind except ...
Id
Ego
Super Ego
Super Id
Asserts that most “literature” throughout time has been written by men, for men.
Masculinity
Feminist
Feminism
Masculine
A Criticism that argues that we must take an author’s life and background into account when we study a text.
Biological
Biographical
Bio data
Biology
Criticism argues that every literary work is a product of its time and its world.
New History
Old History
New Historicism
New Historicist
What is the surname of Emily in the story "A rose for Emily"?
Grierson
Giersen
Anderson
Exorcism
When did Queer Theory emerge & it deals with ---------
1990's
queer readings of text
1909, theorization of queerness
1990, Queer readings of the text and theorization of queerness.
The term "dissociation of sensibility" was a phrase introduced by T S Eliot in the essay
Tradition and Individual Talent
The Metaphysical Poets
Hamlet and His Problems
None of the above
Written mostly in blank verse (though not iambic pentameter), it incorporates elements from Greek drama and mid-twentieth-century detective plays to portray the hero's journey from guilt to redemption.
The Elder Statesman
The Rock
The Confidential Clerk
The Family Reunion
The Cocktail Party
A poem should not mean but be. This argument can be attributed to
Formalism
Marxism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
New Historicism
In Religion and Literature T.S Eliot speaks of the application -----
religion
christ
community
people
"Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay written by poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot. The essay was first published in (a) (1919) and later in Eliot's first book of criticism, "The Sacred Wood" (1920).
Eliot, a classicist, felt that the true incorporation of tradition into literature was unrecognised, that tradition, a word that "seldom... appear except in ____________," was actually a thus-far unrealised element of literary criticism.
a phrase of sensibility
a phrase of censure
a censure
none of the above
Eliot claims that this "____________" is not only a resemblance to traditional works but an awareness and understanding of their relation to his poetry.
historical sense
historical beliefs
historical sensibility
none of the above
This leads to Eliot’s so-called "Impersonal Theory" of poetry. Since the poet engages in a "continual surrender of himself" to the vast order of tradition, artistic creation is a process of depersonalisation. The mature poet is viewed as a medium, through which tradition is channelled and elaborated.
True
False
