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Group 6 - New Criticism

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the definition of Moral criticism?

a)

How something is portrayed

b)

What someone's opinion is on a action

c)

The value of the literature based on its moral lessons or ethical teachings

d)

How accurate the story is

2.

Type of literary critique that judges the value of the literature

a)

Archetypal Criticism

b)

Moral Criticism

c)

New Criticism

d)

New Historicism

3.

According to Joseph Campbell, there is a common structure of hero myths and stories that includes several basic stages which almost every hero-quest goes through.

a)

mythology

b)

monomyth

c)

hero’s journey

d)

stages of journey

4.

John Crowe Ransom became the founder and editor of ________ at Vanderbilt, Kenyon College.

a)

Vanderbilt Post

b)

The Kenyon Review

c)

American times

d)

Kenyon Press

5.

The term “New Criticism is derived from his book. “The New Criticism”.

a)

Samuel Johnson

b)

Jonathan Swift

c)

John Crowe Ransom

d)

Allen Tate

6.

New Critics see literary works as___.

a)

an Individual entity

b)

Dependent to its author

c)

Dependent to its historical background

d)

Dependent to its price

7.

____ contains essays that were considered as key concepts in new criticism.

a)

The Verbal Icon

b)

The Verbatim

c)

The Iconic Essays

d)

The New Criticism

8.

He(J.C. Ransom) became a member of the group ___, it is a group of poets that was rooted in the preservation of classical and traditional values and styles.

a)

Deans

b)

Analytics

c)

Fugitives

d)

Detective

9.

It is a belief that man can be satisfied by nature(in terms of aesthetic), but with the presence of machinery, the man's creative mind is trapped.

a)

Taoism

b)

Agrarianism

c)

Fundamentals

d)

Fugitive

10.

According to Frye a monomyth can best be diagrammed as a circle containing four separate phases, with each phase corresponding to?

a)

Season of the year (fall, winter, autumn, summer)

b)

Earth elements (Fire, water, winds, soil)

c)

Hero’s Life Cycle (Birth, Quest, Journey, Triumph)

d)

Archetypes (Persona, Animus/Anima, Shadow, Self)