english literature MCQs – Page 361

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

7201. Who considers poetry a mother of lies ?
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A. Pope

B. Stephen Gosson

C. Plato

D. Aristotle

7202. Who coined the expression objective corelative ?
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A. Allen Tate

B. F. R. Leavis

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Coleridge

7203. What is double consciousness _______________?
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A. An understanding of how double experiences create identity

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. An early aspect of ethnic criticism

D. A concept developed by W.E.B Du Bois

7204. What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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A. A language about another language

B. A supernatural language

C. All of the above answers are correct.

D. A language that does not yet constitute a real language

7205. Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ?
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A. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random.

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

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

D. Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random

7206. What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is performed ?
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A. Real gender roles are scripted by excellent writers.

B. Gender does not reflect an essential truth, but rather is a role people play based on their internalization of socially constructed gender roles.

C. All of the above answers are correct.

D. Gender roles do not exist.

7207. Who contributed the term to see the object as in itself it really is ?
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A. Coleridge

B. Arnold

C. Wordsworth

D. Goethe

7208. In Fredric Jamesons book The Political Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest about literature ?
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A. Biography is essential to literary analysis

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. Politics and the economy are the most important factors in literary analysis

D. History comprises the essential framework for the performance of literary analysis