WorksheetsQuiz 2 Literary Criticism
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The Neoclassical Period lasted for how many years between the Renaissance and Romantic period?
150 years
200 years
100 years
90 years
Who coined the term “Dark Ages”?
Aristotle
Plato
Marx
Petrarch
is a theory about comedy that violates the mental patterns and expectations of the people.
Relief theory
Incongruity theory
Superiority theory
Script-Based Theory
Vernacular discourse refers to a linguistic form that can challenge dominant ways of thinking and speaking.
True
False
Neither
Both
It introduced the critical ideas of Renaissance theorists to England.
The School of Abuse
Astrophell and Stella
The Defence of Poesy
Lectures about the Comic Writers
It contains a store of information of the utmost importance for our understanding of Dante's intellectual evolution.
The Inferno
De Vulgari Eloquentia
The Convivo
La Vito Nuevo
He was a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato.
John Dryden
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stephen Gosson
Jonathan Swift
Which dates correspond to the 'Dark Ages'?
500 - 1500 A.D.
1500 B.C. - 500 A.D.
500 B.C - 500 A.D.
1500 A.D. - present
A great example for a series of common examples of essays during the nineteenth century that contained the causes of laughter would be:
Sancho Panza
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Aesop's Fables
Arabian Nights
This work is considered a major contribution to the field of language and literature?
Defence of Poesy
A Dictionary of the English Language
The school of Abuse
De Vulgari Eloquentia
