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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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

7141. What is the philosophical theory known as pragmatism ?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. An idea used to guide conduct towards clear objectives

C. A theory of practical actions developed by William James

D. A maxim of logic developed by Charles Sanders Peirce

7142. In which chapter of Biographia Literaria Coleridge criticize the theory of language of Wordsworth ?
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A. 17

B. 16

C. 14

D. 15

7143. Which literary theorist argues that there is nothing outside the text ?
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A. Jacques Derrida

B. Jacques Lacan

C. Stanley Fish

D. T.S. Eliot

7144. Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ?
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A. F. R. Leavis

B. Carlyle

C. Ruskin

D. T. S. Eliot

7145. Who was the first literary critic who said that Art is twice removed from reality ?
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A. Horace

B. Plato

C. Longinus

D. Aristotle

7146. In her essay The Poem as Event, Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function ?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. The reader is acted upon by the text.

C. The reader participates in a transaction with the text.

D. The reader acts upon the text.

7147. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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A. Evidence of an Oedipus complex

B. Female symbols

C. Male symbols

D. Phallic symbols

7148. The fall of the prison of Bacille, that marks the begining of French Revolution occurred on______________?
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A. June 14, 1798

B. July 14,1798

C. June 14,1789

D. July 14, 1789

7149. Who said that Keats love letters of a surgeons apprentice ?
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A. Byron

B. Shelley

C. Hazlitt

D. Arnold

7150. According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child _______________?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. refuses maternal bonds.

C. is able to separate the I from the Other.

D. looks into a mirror for the first time.

7151. What is humanism ?
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A. A theory that values restraint, form, and imitation

B. A humanity-centered view of the universe

C. An idea traditionally associated with the Renaissance

D. All of the above answers are correct.

7152. What is phenomenology ?
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A. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious

B. The examination of our unconscious experience

C. The examination of structures informing our conscious experience

D. The examination of desires informing our consciousness

7153. The statements below are parts of the steps on How to Explicate Poetry. Which comes in as second to the last thing to do before writing a critical essay of a poem ?
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A. Interpret the Poem.

B. Evaluate the Poem.

C. Analyze the Elements of the Poem

D. Introduce External Support.

7154. Who originated the term objective correlative, which is often used in formalist criticism ?
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A. Matthew Arnold

B. C.S. Lewis

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Virginia Woolf

7155. Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ?
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A. Rhetoric

B. Ethics

C. Ars Poetica

D. Metaphysics

7156. What is mimesis ?
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A. An imitation

B. A reversal

C. A poetic metaphor

D. A satire

7157. Who coined the term esemplastic ?
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A. Browning

B. Coleridge

C. William Worsworth

D. Eliot

7158. A critic argues that in John Miltons Samson Agonistes, the shearing of Samsons locks is symbolic of his castration at the hands of Delilah. What kind of critical approach is this critic using ?
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A. Mimetic approach

B. Formalist approach

C. Historical approach

D. Psychological approach

7159. What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the authors life and times ?
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A. Historical

B. All of these

C. Formalist

D. Mimetic

7160. What has Dryden to say about the observance of the three Classical Dramatic Unities ?
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A. He does not advocate their strict observance

B. He advocates their strict observance

C. He says that every dramatist should decide it for himself

D. He is silent about this issue

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