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Literary Criticism Part I

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

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Class
Date
1.

In which of the following poems, the couple become hermits by devoting themselves to each other?

a)

The Canonization

b)

It is a Beauteous Evening

c)

The Phoenix and the Turtle

2.

What is Cleanth Brooks' main argument?

a)

Wordsworth's poems carry paradox

b)

The language of poetry is the language of paradox

c)

Paradox is a device that can be used only in poetry

3.

Which of the following writers is famous for using paradox?

a)

Cleanth Brooks

b)

Wordsworth

c)

Chesterton

4.

Which of the following statements of I. A. Richards does Brooks use to argue his point?

a)

Language should be treated like notation

b)

All of the subtler states of emotion... necessarily demand metaphor for their expression

c)

Connotations and denotations have an equal role to play

5.

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.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Brooks ends his essay with a reading of John Donne's poem ___________, which uses a paradox as its underlying metaphor.

a)

The Canonization

b)

Battar My Heart

c)

Flee

d)

none of the above

7.

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.

a)

Brooks, Jung

b)

Frazer, Jung

c)

Marx, Frazer

d)

none of the above

8.

Each category is further subdivided into two categories:

a)

comedy and romance for the comedic

b)

tragedy and satire (or ironic) for the tragic

c)

tragedy and romance for the comedic

d)

comedy and satire for the comedic

9.

Who is the writer of "The Laugh of the Medusa"?

a)

Helene Cixous

b)

Sigmund Frued

c)

Simone de Beauvoir

d)

Judith Bulter

10.

Writing in "white ink" is metaphorical. What does Cixous mean by this?

a)

Women write with breastmilk

b)

Women use white pens

c)

Women must mother other women

d)

Women must be braver than men

11.

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

a)

Writing is for you

b)

you are for you

c)

your body is yours, take it

d)

reading for you

12.

Epistemology of the Closet is a book published in 1990 by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who is considered one of the founders of __________ studies.

a)

feminist

b)

bisexual

c)

queer

d)

none of the above

13.

In Epistemology of the Closet, Sedgwick argues that standard ____________ limit freedom and understanding, especially in the context of sexuality.

a)

gender conflict

b)

logical oppositions

c)

binary oppositions

d)

none of the above

14.

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.

a)

Tendencies

b)

Epistemology of the Closet

c)

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

d)

none of the above

15.

What is the 'poetics of space' written by Gaston Bachelard?

a)

Science of the concrete in which the mind has to make objects familiar and orderly by terming everything according to its classification.

b)

The meaning of space is interpreted with an imaginative value by the emotional and rational sense of ones' mind.

c)

The poems can be written about places

d)

Orientalizing the orient

16.

Why should we care about Orientalism?

a)

Because Orientalism seeps into the modern culture

b)

Because those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it

c)

Because the current world has been constructed by the colonial past

d)

Because Orientalism teaches us that western values are great examples

17.

What is imaginative knowledge?

a)

Knowledge about the objective truth about something

b)

Knowledge of the poetics of space which caters to the dream

c)

Knowledge which represents the orients based upon creations

d)

Knowledge that is constructed based upon assumptions

18.

A criticism that argues that social contexts must be considered when analyzing a text.

a)

Sociological

b)

Feminist

c)

Marxist

19.

The following are Sigmund Freud's theory of mind except ...

a)

Id

b)

Ego

c)

Super Ego

d)

Super Id

20.

Asserts that most “literature” throughout time has been written by men, for men.

a)

Masculinity

b)

Feminist

c)

Feminism

d)

Masculine

21.

A Criticism that argues that we must take an author’s life and background into account when we study a text.

a)

Biological

b)

Biographical

c)

Bio data

d)

Biology

22.

Criticism argues that every literary work is a product of its time and its world.

a)

New History

b)

Old History

c)

New Historicism

d)

New Historicist

23.

What is the surname of Emily in the story "A rose for Emily"?

a)

Grierson

b)

Giersen

c)

Anderson

d)

Exorcism

24.

When did Queer Theory emerge & it deals with ---------

a)

1990's

b)

queer readings of text

c)

1909, theorization of queerness

d)

1990, Queer readings of the text and theorization of queerness.

25.

The term "dissociation of sensibility" was a phrase introduced by T S Eliot in the essay

a)

Tradition and Individual Talent

b)

The Metaphysical Poets

c)

Hamlet and His Problems

d)

None of the above

26.

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.

a)

The Elder Statesman

b)

The Rock

c)

The Confidential Clerk

d)

The Family Reunion

e)

The Cocktail Party

27.

A poem should not mean but be. This argument can be attributed to

a)

Formalism

b)

Marxism

c)

Psychoanalytic Criticism

d)

New Historicism

28.

In Religion and Literature T.S Eliot speaks of the application -----

a)

religion

b)

christ

c)

community

d)

people

29.

"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).

30.

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)

a phrase of sensibility

b)

a phrase of censure

c)

a censure

d)

none of the above

31.

Eliot claims that this "____________" is not only a resemblance to traditional works but an awareness and understanding of their relation to his poetry.

a)

historical sense

b)

historical beliefs

c)

historical sensibility

d)

none of the above

32.

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.

a)

True

b)

False