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Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 3 (44 MCQs)

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1. What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author's life and times?
2. In which book of the Republic did Plato ban poets from his ideal world?
3. 'Gynocriticism' is associated with
4. In which chapter of Biographia Literaria Coleridge criticize the theory of language of Wordsworth?
5. This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have "high seriousness."
6. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as:
7. Who accused Aristotle of social snobbishness and arrogance?
8. Identify the bust of Plato
9. Who is this very famous English Romantic Poet?
10. Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this?
11. The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories?
12. Plato's Republic is written in the form of
13. Regarding the observance of the three Classical Unities in a play, Dr. Johnson's view is that:
14. The name "Ars Poetica" (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace's Epistle to the Pisos by
15. Who coined the term 'esemplastic'?
16. The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy?
17. Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with
18. Who contributed the term "to see the object as in itself it really is" ?
19. What is phenomenology?
20. What is the main goal of ethnic criticism?
21. "It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long gown maketh an advocate" . Whose view is this?
22. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by
23. Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism?
24. "Be Homer's works your study and delight. Read them by day and meditate by night." Who gives this advice to the poets?
25. Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist?
26. On the Sublime is considered
27. The statements below are parts of the steps on "How to Explicate Poetry" . Which comes in as second to the last thing to do before writing a critical essay of a poem?
28. What is the philosophical theory known as pragmatism?
29. Who was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates?
30. Plato has a positive view of art, in so far as .....
31. "The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poet's thought." Whose view is this?
32. With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated?
33. Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection of the real world because
34. With which theorist is the concept imaginative geography associated?
35. What is New Historicism?
36. Aristotle and Plato belong to ..... phase of criticism.
37. According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child:
38. Which of the following theorists is associated with formalism?
39. What are some common criticisms of literary theory?
40. Who is the author of the notorious book entitled The School of Abuse?
41. Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic?
42. What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
43. According to trauma theorists, a testifying subject needs which of the following to deliver a successful testimony?
44. An Elizabethan Puritan critic denounced the poets as 'fathers of lies', 'schools of abuse' and'caterpillars of a commonwealth'. Mark him out from the following crities:
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