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Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. Trauma theory primarily developed out of the work of which psychoanalyst?
2. With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated?
3. Who coined the term New Historicism?
4. According to Aristotle pity and fear are evoked by
5. What is dialogism?
6. Twelve delicious means .....
7. Biographia Literaria was written by
8. What is mimesis?
9. Who considers poetry 'a mother of lies'
10. What is the purpose of feminist theory?
11. Philip Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is a defence of poetry against the charges brought against it by:
12. What has Dryden to say about the observance of the three Classical Dramatic Unities?
13. Which theorist is associated with the idea that art is a copy of a copy?
14. Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic?
15. In general, what is Judith Butler's concept of gender?
16. Who used the words "romanticism" and "romantic" first?
17. "Of all philosopher's Plato is the most poetic." Who said this
18. Name the author of The New Criticism.
19. What is double consciousness?
20. Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published?
21. Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase "to make the stones stonier" ?
22. On the Sublime is written in
23. Who said that Keat's love letters of a surgeon's apprentice?
24. Which literary theorist argues that "there is nothing outside the text" ?
25. Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following?
26. Who established the Lyceum?
27. Who was the most illustrious pupil of Plato?
28. Who is the writer of 'Hamlet and Oedipus' (1949)
29. What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama?
30. Horace was a friend of
31. How does Wolfgang Iser envision the reader?
32. How many poets were included in Jhonson's 'The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets'?
33. Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in:
34. In which capter of Biographia Lieraria, Coleridge make a distinction between fancy and imagination?
35. Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in :
36. What does the critical term 'esemplatic' mean?
37. Coleridge considered imagination as
38. "Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility." Who has defined poetry in these words?
39. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria appeared in the year.....? .
40. From where has the term Oedipus Complex originated?
41. The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was
42. What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski?
43. "The end of writing is to instruct, the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing." Whose view is this?
44. Who developed the reading approach known as 'Practical Criticism? 'a.
45. 'Preface to the Lyrical Ballads' was published in
46. The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought?
47. This critical approach assumes that language does not refer to any external reality. It can assert several, contradictory interpretations of one text.
48. One archetype in literature is the scapegoat. Which of these literary characters serves that purpose?
49. Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare's Hamlet?
50. Who made a difference between 'poetry' and 'poem'
51. On the Sublime was written in
52. Is Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of?
53. Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation?
54. To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer?
55. Who is the author of Ars Poetica?
56. Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austin's performativity theory?
57. Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology?
58. Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that
59. Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem?
60. Wordsworth's theory of poetry appears in
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