This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Criticism > Literary Criticism – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Criticism Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the author of On the Sublime? A) Longinus. B) Horace. C) Plato. D) Demosthenes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Longinus. 2. It is a paradigm of dramatic structure outlining the seven key steps in successful storytelling:exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and denouement. A) Freytag's pyramid. B) Jung unconscious. C) Literary foil. D) Mythemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freytag's pyramid. 3. Reader Response Theory charges that readers are likely to read and interpret a text ..... A) Differently. B) Critically. C) Quickly. D) Similarly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Differently. 4. A sample question for this theory:What is the rhyming scheme used in poetry? A) Reader Response. B) Formalism. C) Moral Philosophical. D) Post Colonialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formalism. 5. For his poems in the Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth chose incidents and situations from ..... A) Imagination. B) Common life. C) City life. D) Life of the nobility. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Common life. 6. According Aristotle ..... is the soul of tragedy? A) Character. B) Plot. C) Diction. D) Spectacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 7. Error of Judgement or frailty of a character is called A) Mimesis. B) Peripetia. C) Catharsis. D) Hamartia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamartia. 8. A plot that depends on a series of chance meetings would best be described as ..... A) Unrealistic. B) Natural. C) Predictable. D) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unrealistic. 9. How Many Elements of Tragedy did Aristotle Outline? A) 5. B) 6. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6. 10. What is one of Plato's most famous books? A) The Republic. B) The Bible. C) The Great Gatsby. D) The Book of Socrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Republic. 11. What is the nearest literary criticism to use in "Minsan may isang Gamo Gamo" ? A) Feminist. B) Sociological. C) Historical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sociological. 12. The importance of writing critiques on a particular work is to develop ..... A) A knowledge of the work's subject area or related works. B) A recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of the work. C) An understanding of the work's purpose, intended audience, development of argument, structure of evidence or creative style. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. Which theory? This theory looks only at the structure of the text itself, including examining things like figurative language and theme. A) Archetypal. B) Formalist / close reading. C) Reader response. D) Historical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formalist / close reading. 14. Deconstruction is the concept of A) Jean Jacques Derreida. B) Sassure. C) Lacan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jean Jacques Derreida. 15. What are the two system of signification according to Barthes A) Denotation and connotation. B) Syntagmatic and paradigmatic. C) Synthesis and para synthesis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation and connotation. 16. What is the surname of Emily in the story "A rose for Emily" ? A) Grierson. B) Giersen. C) Anderson. D) Exorcism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grierson. 17. Minsan may isang gamo gamo portrays Philippines under what colonizer? A) Japanese. B) Chinese. C) American. D) Spaniards. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) American. 18. What other literary texts are referenced and could be used to further analyze the meaning of the text? A) Biographical. B) Reader-response. C) Mimeticism. D) Intertextuality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intertextuality. 19. Who said this-Justice is for justice sake, we enjoy doing it A) Thrasymachus. B) Polemarchus. C) Glaucon. D) Socrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glaucon. 20. Does it show how people really act? A) Biographical. B) Reader-response. C) Mimeticism. D) Intertextuality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mimeticism. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Criticism Quiz 1Literary Criticism Quiz 2Literary Criticism Quiz 3Literary Criticism Quiz 4Literary Criticism Quiz 5Literary Criticism Quiz 6Literary Criticism Quiz 8Literary Criticism Quiz 9Literary Criticism Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books