Literary Criticism Quiz 1 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is Virtue?
2. In which book does Plato banish the poets?
3. A Criticism that argues that we must take an author's life and background into account when we study a text.
4. Virginia Woolf in one of her books wrote about the problems women writers face. What was the name of that book?
5. What example is, "Pocahontas" ?
6. According to Lacan, 'unconscious is the ..... of our being'
7. Who wrote Poetics?
8. Has a hidden meaning. A story within a story.
9. Which of the following schools of literary criticism does NOT focus on how one group has been oppressed by another?
10. If I examine the choices that Lewis Carrol had to make in his own life and how those choices impacted the book, I would be using which theory?
11. Plato is the disciple of .....
12. Aristotle REQUIRES all of the following in a tragedy EXCEPT
13. Criticism argues that every literary work is a product of its time and its world.
14. Which theory? This theory uses psychological theories to analyze a text.
15. This approach attempts to describe what could be in the readers' mind.
16. What type of criticism looks for overarching storylines that are present in multiple different genres and individual pieces?
17. The signs of emotions visible on the characters are known as .....
18. Which literary theory uses an author's life and experience to analyze his works?
19. In which form did Plato present his philosophy?
20. What does the word "Philosopher" mean?