This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Theory > Literary Theory And Criticism – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Wordsworth's theory of poetry appears in A) Excursion. B) Tintern Abbey Lines. C) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. D) Immortality Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. 2. What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy? A) Tragic end of the tragedy. B) Working of fate against the hero. C) A weak trait in the character of the hero. D) A strong quality in the character of the hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A weak trait in the character of the hero. 3. Who called Aristotle "the very Alexander of criticism" ? A) Saintsbury. B) Murray. C) Atkins. D) Tyllard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saintsbury. 4. Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization? A) Aristotle's Poetics. B) Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. C) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. D) W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. 5. Who coined the expression "objective corelative" ? A) Coleridge. B) T. S. Eliot. C) Allen Tate. D) F. R. Leavis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T. S. Eliot. 6. How many times do the word Katharsis appear in the Poetics A) 3. B) 2. C) 4. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 7. Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author's intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief? A) The pathetic fallacy. B) The intentional fallacy. C) The affective fallacy. D) The objective correlative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The intentional fallacy. 8. What is humanism? A) An idea traditionally associated with the Renaissance. B) A humanity-centered view of the universe. C) A theory that values restraint, form, and imitation. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 9. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism? A) Cleanth Brooks. B) Ferdinand de Saussure. C) Karl Marx. D) Toni Morrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ferdinand de Saussure. 10. In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden's own views? A) Lisideius. B) Eugenius. C) Neander. D) Crites. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neander. 11. This literary critic coined the term "fancy." A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) Virginia Woolf. C) Matthew Arnold. D) Carl Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 12. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective. A) Reader Response Criticism. B) Formalist Criticism. C) Historical Criticism. D) These are all equally subjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reader Response Criticism. 13. With which theorist is phenomenology associated? A) Edmund Husserl. B) Wolfgang Iser. C) Jean-Paul Sartre. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 14. A critic examining Pope's "An Essay on Man" asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a ..... critic. A) Feminist. B) Reader Response. C) Formalist. D) Mimetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mimetic. 15. Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school? A) Psychoanalysis. B) Marxism. C) Feminism. D) Deconstruction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Psychoanalysis. 16. He was an influential force in archetypal criticism. A) Freud. B) Tate. C) Richards. D) Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jung. 17. With which theorist is the term implied reader associated? A) Wolfgang Iser. B) William Wimsatt. C) Cleanth Brooks. D) Harold Bloom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wimsatt. 18. What is defamiliarization? A) A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality. B) An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky. C) A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 19. Michael Foucault was the major practitioner of this school of criticism. A) Formalist Criticism. B) Deconstructionism. C) Structuralism. D) Mimetic Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structuralism. 20. According to Aristotle the unravelling of the plot A) Should arise from the circumstances of the plot itself. B) By supernatural machinery. C) By narration. D) By the choral odes. 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