This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Criticism > Literary Criticism – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Criticism Quiz 19 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It is a process when you consider how a text has been put together-you dissect it, more or less, to see how it works. A) Analyze. B) Conclusion. C) Discussion. D) Summarize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analyze. 2. Which of the following responses to a story is the most specific? A) I didn't like the story. It wasn't interesting. Nothing much happened. B) I liked the characters. They seemed like nice people. The main character was especially nice. C) I didn't like the plot. It wasn't clear why events took place, so the story wasn't logical. D) I liked the characters, and the plot was good. This was a great story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I didn't like the plot. It wasn't clear why events took place, so the story wasn't logical. 3. What aspects or characters of the text do you identify with, and how does this process of identification affect your response to the text? A) Biographical. B) Reader-response. C) Mimeticism. D) Intertextuality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reader-response. 4. A sample question for this theory:How is the text influenced by other texts? A) Formalism. B) Structuralism. C) Post Colonialism. D) Post Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structuralism. 5. What is the term used by Aristotle for "recognition" or " discovery" in a tragedy. A) Mimesis. B) Peripetia. C) Anagnorisis. D) Hamartia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anagnorisis. 6. Hamartia is a moral fault . A) Yes. B) No. C) May be. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 7. He highlight poetry's emotional quality A) William Wordsworth. B) Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. C) Mattew Arnolds. D) Sir Phillip Sydney. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Wordsworth. 8. The thesis statement is clearly stated on the ..... A) Body. B) Conclusion. C) Introduction. D) Summary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Introduction. 9. Which of the following analyses depicts Marxist approach? A) In the story, the characters have proven that true love waits. B) The story tells a message that with God nothing is impossible. C) In the story, the society depicted an unequal distribution of goods. D) The story serves as a reminder that when there is light there is hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the story, the society depicted an unequal distribution of goods. 10. This is a long narrative poem A) An apology for poetry. B) Devine comedy. C) The republic. D) Letter to Can grande. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Devine comedy. 11. Diction as an element of tragedy refers to ..... A) The dialogues of the actors. B) The use of language in the play. C) The length of the play. D) The meaning of the words in the play. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The use of language in the play. 12. Where does Aristotle define tragedy? A) Poetics. B) Metaphysics. C) Topics. D) Politics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetics. 13. Psychoanalytical theory often uses which psychologist's theories to interpret literature? A) Freud. B) Karl Marx. C) Dr. Seuss. D) Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freud. 14. Which of the questions belong to feminist approach? A) What is the author's attitude toward women in the society?. B) How was the problem in the story being resolved?. C) What are the values implied in the text?. D) How do characters from different classes interact or conflict?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What is the author's attitude toward women in the society?. 15. Main area of interest in Criticism:The meaning of text. A) Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. B) William Wordsworth. C) Matthew Arnold. D) Henry James. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. 16. Transactional analysis explains that A) Meaning is produced through knowing the writer. B) Meaning is produced through analysis. C) Meaning is produced through knowing the background of the writer. D) Meaning is produced through a process of reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meaning is produced through a process of reading. 17. They seek to give us answers to these questions, in addition to aiding us in interpreting literature except ..... A) Why do we read. B) How do we read. C) When do we read. D) What do we read. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When do we read. 18. Which of the below is an example of personification? A) The wind grabbed my umbrella. B) The wind was terrible. C) The man was cold in the wind. D) The cold and the wind were chilling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The wind grabbed my umbrella. 19. Appropriateness of Character means A) They have to behave according to gender. B) They have to behave according to status. C) They have to behave according to capability. D) They have to behave according to relationships. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They have to behave according to status. 20. Who condemned literature? A) Plato. B) Aristotle. C) Horace. D) Ovid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plato. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Criticism Quiz 1Literary Criticism Quiz 2Literary Criticism Quiz 3Literary Criticism Quiz 4Literary Criticism Quiz 5Literary Criticism Quiz 6Literary Criticism Quiz 7Literary Criticism Quiz 8Literary Criticism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books