This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Theory > Literary Theory And Criticism – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was A) Inspiration. B) Imagination. C) Fancy. D) Decorum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagination. 2. What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski? A) A language about another language. B) A supernatural language. C) A language that does not yet constitute a real language. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A language about another language. 3. "The end of writing is to instruct, the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing." Whose view is this? A) Wordsworth's. B) Coleridge's. C) Dr. Johnson's. D) Matthew Arnold's. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr. Johnson's. 4. Who developed the reading approach known as 'Practical Criticism? 'a. A) I. A Richards. B) Derrida. C) F.R. Leavis. D) Brooks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I. A Richards. 5. 'Preface to the Lyrical Ballads' was published in A) 1798. B) 1800. C) 1802. D) 1815. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1800. 6. The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought? A) Formalism. B) Structuralism. C) Poststructuralism. D) Marxism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marxism. 7. This critical approach assumes that language does not refer to any external reality. It can assert several, contradictory interpretations of one text. A) Deconstructionism. B) Formalist Criticism. C) Structuralism. D) Mimetic Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deconstructionism. 8. One archetype in literature is the scapegoat. Which of these literary characters serves that purpose? A) Billy Budd. B) Hamlet. C) Captain Ahab. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Billy Budd. 9. Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare's Hamlet? A) Neurotic behavior. B) Changes in emotional states. C) Slips of the tongue. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 10. Who made a difference between 'poetry' and 'poem' A) Coleridge. B) Addison. C) Arnold. D) Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coleridge. 11. Horace was a A) Greek writer. B) Roman Writer. C) Italian writer. D) English writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Roman Writer. 12. On the Sublime was written in A) 1st Century BC. B) 1st Century AD. C) 2nd Century AD. D) 3rd Century AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1st Century AD. 13. Is Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of? A) Interpretative Criticism. B) Legislative Criticism. C) Comparative Criticism. D) Textual Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comparative Criticism. 14. Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation? A) Jacques Derrida. B) Jacques Lacan. C) Edward Said. D) Plato. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plato. 15. To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer? A) An infant's inability to speak prior to the mirror stage. B) The referential relationships among symbols, signifiers, and signs. C) The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work. 16. Who is the author of Ars Poetica? A) Plato. B) Aristotle. C) Horace. D) Longinus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horace. 17. Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austin's performativity theory? A) Performance is the ultimate objective of all human beings. B) Language is used to indicate action as well as thought. C) Individuals perform gender actively. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language is used to indicate action as well as thought. 18. Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology? A) The Moscow School. B) The Chicago School. C) The Frankfurt School. D) The Geneva School. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Geneva School. 19. Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that A) It is only lyrical songs in the play. B) It should be regarded as one of the actors. C) It should make only reports. D) It should only comment on the action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It should be regarded as one of the actors. 20. Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem? A) Trauma theory. B) Ecotheory. C) Game theory. D) Marxist theory. 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