7251. Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?
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A. The West spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.

B. The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.

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

D. The West views matters through its own limited historical position.
7253. What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussures Course in General Linguistics ?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. There are five phases of linguistic development.

C. Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements.

D. Language is inseparable from its historical context.

7256. Aristotle and Plato belong to phase of criticism ?
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A. Hellenic

B. Graeco-Roman

C. Hellenistic

D. Renaissance

7257. What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?
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A. A weak trait in the character of the hero

B. A strong quality in the character of the hero

C. Tragic end of the tragedy

D. Working of fate against the hero

7258. What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient ?
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A. It illustrates the fundamental political equality of all nations.

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. It was produced by Western scholarship.

D. It has little relationship to the colonization of Asian countries by the West.

7259. Biographia Literaria was written by_________________?
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A. Wordsworth

B. Coleridge

C. Keats

D. Charles Lamb

7260. What is hermeneutics ?
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A. A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text

B. A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon

C. A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature

D. A term that describes the interpretation of meaning
7262. Horace was a friend of_______________?
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A. Julius Caesar

B. Pompey

C. Emperor Augustus

D. Alexander the Great

7263. Who coined the term New Historicism ?
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A. Jacques Derrida

B. Terry Eagleton

C. Fredric Jameson

D. Stephen Greenblatt
7264. Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory ?
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A. Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text.

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory.

D. Literary criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work.

7266. In her essay The Laugh of the Medusa, what does Hlne Cixous suggest for women ?
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A. Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.

B. Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying womens literature from the past.

C. All of the above answers are correct.

D. Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.

7267. Who remarked, Spenser write no language. ?
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A. Arnold

B. Ben Jonson

C. Pope

D. Dr. Jhonson

7269. Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in _______________?
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A. Ars Poetica

B. Poetics

C. Art Poetique

D. Rhetoric

7270. To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer ?
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A. All of the above answers are correct

B. An infants inability to speak prior to the mirror stage

C. The referential relationships among symbols, signifiers, and signs

D. The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work
7271. Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others ?
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A. Roland Barthess The Death of the Author

B. W.E.B. Du Boiss The Souls of Black Folk

C. Jacques Lacans The Mirror Stage . . .

D. Judith Butlers Gender Trouble

7272. Which of the following is a critical work of Ben Jonson ?
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A. An Apologie for Poetrie

B. Discoveries

C. Arte of English Poesie

D. Discourse of English Poetry

7274. Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?
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A. Feminism

B. Marxism

C. Psychoanalysis

D. Deconstruction

7275. Trauma theory primarily developed out of the work of which psychoanalyst ?
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A. Jacques Derrida

B. Michel Foucault

C. Sigmund Freud

D. Carl Jung

7276. Who is the author of Ars Poetica ?
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A. Aristotle

B. Horace

C. Longinus

D. Plato

7280. The phrase willing suspension of disbelief applies to which poet/critic ?
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A. Charles Lamb

B. Coleridge

C. Wordsworth

D. Joseph Conrad

7281. Who was the most illustrious pupil of Plato ?
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A. Aristophanes

B. Longinus

C. Aristotle

D. Socrates

7282. On the Sublime is considered ______________?
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A. Romantic approach

B. A classical approach

C. None of these

D. Neo-classical approach

7283. How does the Encyclopdie best epitomize the mission of the Enlightenment ?
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A. By emphasizing the idea that gathering knowledge together can lead to human improvement

B. By dismissing all knowledge from outside Europe

C. By questioning the nature of scientific method

D. By rejecting the divine right of kings

7284. Which of the following statements about Elizabeth Barrett Brownings sonnet 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.) is false ?
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A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.

B. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.

C. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworths Tintern Abbey is a romantic poem.

D. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence Sonnets from the Portuguese.

7285. Which of the following events was NOT associated with the Victorian period ?
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A. Repeal of the corn laws

B. French Revolution

C. Opium Wars

D. Great Exhibition

7286. Which of the following statements does NOT accurately characterize a lyric poem ?
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A. The lyric poem is a popular form in the Romantic era.

B. The lyric poem has a song-like quality.

C. The lyric poem focuses on action.

D. The lyric poem creates a personal sense of emotion.

7287. In Pamela, how does the epistolary style enhance the sentimental aspects of the novel ?
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A. All of these answers

B. It does not cloud the novel with authorial intrusion that confuses the emotions.

C. It provides access to the heroines innermost reactions.

D. It provides a sense of immediacy because the letters are written in the thick of the action.

7288. Which of the following best defines satire ?
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A. A work of literature that attempts to improve society

B. Literature that relies on devices like irony, sarcasm, and humor

C. All of these answers

D. A text that exposes serious flaws under the veil of comedy

7289. John Drydens poem Annus Mirabilis emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?
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A. The churchs potential to unify the populace after the English revolution

B. Parliaments ability to restrain the power of the King

C. The monarchs ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance

D. Englands power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London
7290. In which of the following ways did Hopkins revolutionize poetry ?
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A. He created a radically new form.

B. All of these answers

C. He made obscure allusions.

D. He used unusual, arcane words.

7291. Jonathan Swifts suggestion in A Modest Proposal that the Irish eat their children exemplifies the characteristics of a satire in all of the following ways EXCEPT_______________?
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A. its absurd response to a real issue.

B. its attempt to shock readers into acting.

C. its mocking tone.

D. its sentimental plea to its audience.
7292. Victor Frankensteins project to create life in Mary Shelleys novel can be linked to romanticism through which of the following ?
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A. His Promethean striving to exceed human limitations as explored by Byron and Percy Shelley

B. Its suggestion that the natural order has laws beyond human control

C. His desire to create a political revolution

D. Both A and B
7293. Popes comment that Know, then, thyself, presume God not to scan;/The proper study of mankind is man in his Essay on Man is indicative of all of the following EXCEPT______________?
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A. an Enlightenment focus on useful knowledge.

B. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and knowing limitations.

C. a radical questioning of revealed religion

D. his use of the heroic couplet.

7294. Complete the following sentence. Keatss Ode to a Nightingale is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
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A. its focus on his lost love.

B. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.

C. its rejection of scientific progress.

D. its development of elements from national folklore.

7295. The opening lines of Charlotte Smiths Beachy Head refer to the speaker reclin[ing] on the stupendous summit of a rock sublime as her Fancy went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?
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A. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelleys works

B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keatss poems

C. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byrons poems

D. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworths poems
7296. Which of the following statements accurately describes the theme of Wordsworths Tintern Abbey ?
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A. Sensitivity to natures message comes with age.

B. Nature loses its ability to affect human emotion over time.

C. Life experience does not have to power to alter human opinions.

D. It is not possible to appreciate beauty once one has aged.

7297. Which of the following is a central theme of Christina Rossettis poem Goblin Market ?
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A. All of these answers

B. The links between sexuality and economics

C. The importance of sisterly bonds

D. The dangers of sensuality to women

7298. Which of the following directives was part of Queen Victorias moral crusade ?
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A. Members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths should be excluded from public office.

B. Civil servants should talk more openly and publicly about their moral work.

C. There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world.

D. Concerts in the parks that were attended by ordinary people should be banned.

7299. Both the Gothic and sentimental fiction emphasize which of the following ?
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A. A sense of adventure

B. Reason over emotions

C. The power of feelings

D. The necessity for an aristocracy

7300. Complete the following sentence. Shelleys Ozymandias can be linked to his Defence of Poetry through its_______________?
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A. rejection of traditional form.

B. rejection of arts political role.

C. portrayal of the power of art to speak truth.

D. attempt to link poetry with music.