A. Psychoanalytic criticism

B. New Criticism

D. Reader-response criticism

A. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.

B. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.

C. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the plays use of language.

A. Marxist theory

B. deconstruction

C. psychoanalytic theory

A. Lines of text with words that rhyme at the end

B. Unrhymed lines

C. A continuous block of text

A. A member of the royalty

B. A member of the middle class engaging in self-exploration

D. A child as he or she develops into an adult

A. She is immature and has difficulty recognizing the difference between fact and fiction.

C. She is mature and realistic.

D. She is a matchmaker trying to set up romances between her friends, all the while unable to find true love herself.

A. A story told to little children

B. A story that takes place in the distant past

D. A light-hearted, humorous story in which viewers are shown proper ways to behave

B. Consolation and solace

C. Lamentation, in which the speaker demonstrates grief

D. Praise and admiration for the dead

A. The way they are structured

C. The type of people who write them

D. The language in which they are written

A. Bishops One Art

B. William Shakespeares Sonnet 18

C. Audens Paysage Moralis

A. I began driving at the age of 16 and have never been involved in a serious car accident.

C. No one under the age of 18 should be allowed to drive.

D. Every year countless people are killed by drivers under the age of 18.

A. The supernatural

C. Love

D. The sublime

A. passive readers and critics of literary texts.

B. capable of realizing that the viewpoints of some critics are more important than others.

D. aware that Hamlet is a remarkable work of literature.

A. Mainstream audiences are so shallow that it is not worth writing plays for them.

C. The world is a bright and interesting place.

D. The world is so complex that it does not require literature or theater.

A. Handguns dont kill people, people do

B. According to research, 22 percent of the American population owns an unsecured handgun.

D. I own a handgun and keep it in a secure place in my house.

A. A play in which no form of humor appears

B. A play in which someone gets revenge

C. A play in which a hero faces likely defeat and overcomes it

A. It is a horror novel.

B. It offers a critique of Romantic poetry and ideology.

C. It is a memoir based on Jane Austens childhood.

A. a meter.

C. a measure.

D. a line.

A. Hamlet despises his mother and suspects she has killed his father.

C. Hamlet has a personality disorder.

D. Hamlet is entirely masculinized throughout the play, and thus, is ultimately unlike his mother in terms of his position in the play.

A. I heard a car crash / just as I died.

B. Death comes for all of us / even you.

C. To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to live forever.

A. begins with a preview of the plays conclusion.

B. begins at the apparent end of the story.

D. introduces the characters of the play one by one.

A. I wandered lonely as a cloud.

B. I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.

D. And the world didnt even think of stopping for me.

B. Hamlet is intellectually passive and deeply frightened of his fathers ghost.

C. Hamlet is naive and simple minded.

D. Hamlet is spoiled and manipulative.

A. New Criticism.

B. structuralism.

D. Marxist criticism.

A. All novelists are painters at heart.

C. George du Maurier was a tremendous influence on Victorian novelists.

D. George du Maurier attacked the social position of the novelist in his illustrations.

A. Characters who are sympathetic to issues facing the working classes

B. The political and social meanings of literary texts

C. The relationship between economics and the production of literary texts

B. A play in which characters make humorous remarks

C. A play in which elite members of society are mocked

D. A play in which no characters die or suffer

B. Simplicity in language, lengthiness in form, and humorousness in attitude

C. Simplicity in language, brevity in form, and humorousness in attitude

D. Complexity in language, brevity in form, and humorousness in attitude

B. readers choose their favorite works of literature.

C. readers decide which works of literature to read.

D. readers develop their own unique and personal critical discourses.

B. The psychological study of authors

C. A system for categorizing books

D. A reader-response test

A. Pathos refers to a writers ability to present evidence.

B. Pathos refers to a writers presentation of character and image.

C. Pathos refers to a writers ability to inspire action in readers.

B. Persuasion is the use of syllogisms to influence the opinions of readers and listeners.

C. Persuasion is the opposite of rhetoric.

D. Persuasion is the art of lying to good effect.

B. A narrative that summarizes the plot of the novel

C. A story that reminds the reader that the story is fictional

D. A narrative that introduces readers to the main characters of a story

A. The ways in which appearances dont always match realities

B. The conflict between marriages based on love and those based on money

D. The danger in not recognizing the difference between reality and fiction

B. Emotional arguments

C. Deductive arguments

D. Inductive arguments

B. A narrative poem is a poem that does not have a plot or tell a story.

C. A narrative poem is vague and difficult in style.

D. A narrative poem is a poem written in the style of a conversation.

A. They explore mysterious religious topics.

B. They involve the solving of a crime.

D. They were written by medieval mystics.

B. A poem that eulogizes the dead

C. A poem that celebrates the life of a cruel person

D. A poem that has no rhyme scheme

A. In a Greek tragedy, the hero suffers but always survives at the end of the play.

B. In a Greek tragedy, evil people are vanquished by the forces of good.

D. In a Greek tragedy, the tragic hero dies at the end of the play.

A. A novel set in the past

B. A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

D. A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

A. Literary theory involves considering the publication history of literary texts.

B. Literary theory involves measuring the quality of a literary work.

D. Literary theory involves coming to a precise understanding of a writers psychology.

A. wanted to subvert middle class values.

B. had a negative view of human nature.

D. wrote in a hyperrealistic fashion.

A. Redemption comes from surrendering to a higher power.

B. Good things, including salvation, come to those who are patient.

C. The world can be fully understood if people listen closely to what others are saying.

A. Faruqi actually argues that historical novels do not exist.

B. A historical narrative tells only part of the story surrounding a historical event; a historical novel tells the whole story.

D. A historical narrative and a historical novel are the same thing.

A. As a brilliant warrior

B. As a crazed fool

D. As boyish and immature

A. Ethos refers to a writers ability to inspire action in readers.

B. Ethos refers to a writers ability to inspire emotional responses in readers.

C. Ethos refers to a writers ability to present evidence.

B. He is suggesting that the making of laws is itself an art.

C. He is suggesting that artists are repressed throughout society.

D. He is suggesting that all artists are from high social classes.

A. Hamlets fathers ghost is not really a ghost.

C. Hamlet is truly insane in the play.

D. Hamlet is an impossible play to truly understand.

A. Ancient and sophisticated

C. Futuristic and technologically advanced

D. Flowery and ornate

A. A narrative that conveys the illusion of reality

B. A narrative that emphasizes character development

D. A narrative with a unified, plausible plot structure