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Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

7121. Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in______________?
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A. The Neo-Classical Age

B. The Elizabethan Age

C. The Romantic Age

D. The Victorian Age

7122. The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories ?
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A. Psychoanalytic theory

B. Feminist theory

C. All of the above answers are correct.

D. Ethnic criticism

7123. Literary Theory and Criticism________________?
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A. Pope

B. Dryden

C. Dr. Johnson

D. Addison

7124. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
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A. Karl Marx

B. Toni Morrison

C. Cleanth Brooks

D. Ferdinand de Saussure

7125. Who is the writer of Hamlet and Oedipus (1949) ?
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A. Erik Erikson

B. Ernest Jones

C. Harold Bloom

D. Carl Jung

7126. The New Critics were_________________?
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A. Marxist critics

B. Psychological Critics

C. Feminist critics

D. Formalist critics

7127. Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeares Hamlet ?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. Slips of the tongue

C. Changes in emotional states

D. Neurotic behavior

7128. Ecotheorists tend to show an interest in which of the following ?
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A. Who is responsible for damaging the environment

B. How writers have damaged the environment

C. How writers conceptualize natural environments and the representation of environmental issues in literature and culture

D. How the environment can be repaired

7129. Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism ?
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A. Viktor Shklovsky

B. Aristotle

C. Stanley Fish

D. Toni Morrison

7130. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by_______________?
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A. Shelly

B. Coleridge

C. Wordsworth

D. Southey

7131. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning ?
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A. Representation

B. Copying

C. Interpretation

D. Criticism of life

7132. Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection of the real world because______________?
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A. Art presents only part of the world

B. Art is an exaggeration of the world

C. Art tells lies about the world

D. Art describes only what appears and not what is real

7133. The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
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A. Inspiration

B. Imagination

C. Fancy

D. Decorum

7134. What is denouement ____________?
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A. The ending of a comedy

B. The ending of a tragedy

C. The climax in a comedy

D. The climax in a tragedy

7135. In his essay What Is an Author? what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
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A. The idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.

B. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.

C. The author may not always exist.

D. All of the above answers are correct.

7136. The term collective unconscious is coined by_____________?
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A. Erik Erikson

B. Carl Jung

C. Sigmund Freud

D. Ernest Jones

7137. New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?
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A. Reject all previous modes of literary theory

B. Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories

C. Focus on a return to traditional critical methods

D. Work only with ideas developed by post- Marxist theorists

7138. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective ?
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A. Reader Response Criticism

B. These are all equally subjective

C. Historical Criticism

D. Formalist Criticism

7139. Wordsworths theory of poetry appears in_____________?
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A. Immortality Ode

B. Tintern Abbey Lines

C. Excursion

D. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

7140. How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus ?
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A. Six

B. Five

C. Four

D. Three

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