Literary Theory And Criticism MCQs

Option A: Disintrestedness

Option B: Intresedness

Option C: Purification

Option D: Civilization

Correct Answer: Disintrestedness ✔

Option A: Aristotle

Option B: Longinus

Option C: Aristophanes

Option D: Socrates

Correct Answer: Aristotle ✔

Option A: Pope

Option B: Arnold

Option C: Dr. Jhonson

Option D: Ben Jonson

Correct Answer: Ben Jonson ✔

Option A: Critical faculty

Option B: Modifying power

Option C: A psychological experience

Option D: A product of intellect

Correct Answer: Modifying power ✔

Option A: Wordsworth

Option B: Coleridge

Option C: Keats

Option D: Charles Lamb

Correct Answer: Coleridge ✔

Option A: Psychoanalysis

Option B: Marxism

Option C: Feminism

Option D: Deconstruction

Correct Answer: Psychoanalysis ✔

Option A: Wordsworth

Option B: Coleridge

Option C: Southey

Option D: Hazlitt

Correct Answer: Coleridge ✔

Option A: 2 sources

Option B: 3 sources

Option C: 4 sources

Option D: 5 sources

Correct Answer: 5 sources ✔

Option A: 1st Century BC

Option B: 1st Century AD

Option C: 2nd Century AD

Option D: 3rd Century AD

Correct Answer: 1st Century AD ✔

Option A: Sigmund Freud

Option B: Carl Jung

Option C: Michel Foucault

Option D: Jacques Derrida

Correct Answer: Sigmund Freud ✔

Option A: Tragic end of the tragedy

Option B: Working of fate against the hero

Option C: A weak trait in the character of the hero

Option D: A strong quality in the character of the hero

Correct Answer: A weak trait in the character of the hero ✔

Option A: Agathon

Option B: Aeschylus

Option C: Sophocles

Option D: Euripides

Correct Answer: Euripides ✔

Option A: To bring attention to false Euro-centric paradigms

Option B: To rectify the double experiences of certain racial groups

Option C: To reconcile cultural identity with individual identity

Option D: All of the above answers are correct.

Correct Answer: All of the above answers are correct. ✔

Option A: All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.

Option B: All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.

Option C: All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.

Option D: All of the above answers are correct.

Correct Answer: All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful. ✔

Option A: A language about another language

Option B: A supernatural language

Option C: A language that does not yet constitute a real language

Option D: All of the above answers are correct.

Correct Answer: A language about another language ✔

Option A: Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random.

Option B: Strange attractors are complex forces that are determined by the laws of physics.

Option C: Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined.

Option D: Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random

Correct Answer: Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined. ✔

Option A: A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality

Option B: An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky

Option C: A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit

Option D: All of the above answers are correct.

Correct Answer: All of the above answers are correct. ✔

Option A: Wordsworth

Option B: Coleridge

Option C: Carlyle

Option D: Schlegel

Correct Answer: Schlegel ✔

Option A: The West spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.

Option B: The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.

Option C: The West views matters through its own limited historical position.

Option D: The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.

Correct Answer: The West views matters through its own limited historical position. ✔

Option A: Trauma theory

Option B: Ecotheory

Option C: Chaos theory

Option D: Formalism

Correct Answer: Trauma theory ✔

Option A: Jacques Derrida

Option B: Terry Eagleton

Option C: Fredric Jameson

Option D: Stephen Greenblatt

Correct Answer: Stephen Greenblatt ✔

Option A: An infant’s inability to speak prior to the mirror stage

Option B: The referential relationships among symbols, signifiers, and signs

Option C: The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work

Option D: All of the above answers are correct

Correct Answer: The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work ✔

Option A: The pathetic fallacy

Option B: The intentional fallacy

Option C: The affective fallacy

Option D: The objective correlative

Correct Answer: The intentional fallacy ✔

Option A: Perfection

Option B: Birth

Option C: Evil

Option D: Death

Correct Answer: Perfection ✔

Option A: Alexander the Great

Option B: Emperor Augustus

Option C: Julius Caesar

Option D: Pompey

Correct Answer: Emperor Augustus ✔

Option A: Shelley

Option B: Wordsworth

Option C: Coleridge

Option D: Matthew Arnold

Correct Answer: Wordsworth ✔

Option A: Discourse of English Poetry

Option B: Discoveries

Option C: Arte of English Poesie

Option D: An Apologie for Poetrie

Correct Answer: Discoveries ✔

Option A: Reader Response

Option B: Feminist

Option C: Mimetic

Option D: Formalist

Correct Answer: Formalist ✔

Option A: To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin

Option B: To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.

Option C: To enable to form judgments about literature.

Option D: All of the above answers are correct.

Correct Answer: To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin ✔

Option A: To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.

Option B: To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.

Option C: To enable to form judgments about literature.

Option D: All of the above answers are correct.

Correct Answer: To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings. ✔