english literature MCQs – Page 363

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

7241. The Lyrical Ballads was published in____________________?
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A. 1805

B. 1815

C. 1798

D. 1780

7242. According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?
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A. To criticize society through satire

B. To connect human beings with a higher ideal

C. To entertain those who enjoy it

D. All of the above answers are correct.

7243. Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a works meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?
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A. Jacques Derridas Of Grammatology

B. T.S. Eliots Tradition and the Individual Talent

C. Platos The Republic

D. Jacques Lacans The Mirror Stage..

7244. Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this ?
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A. A Poetical Work

B. An Essay

C. An Interlocution

D. A Drama

7245. The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poets thought. Whose view is this ?
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A. Joseph Addisons

B. John Drydens

C. Dr. Johnsons

D. Alexander Popes

7246. Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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A. Euripides

B. Aeschylus

C. Agathon

D. Sophocles

7247. Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austins performativity theory ?
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A. Language is used to indicate action as well as thought.

B. All of the above answers are correct

C. Performance is the ultimate objective of all human beings.

D. Individuals perform gender actively.

7248. Who used the words romanticism and romantic first ?
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A. Carlyle

B. Coleridge

C. Wordsworth

D. Schlegel

7249. Coleridge considered imagination as______________?
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A. Critical faculty

B. A psychological experience

C. A product of intellect

D. Modifying power

7250. Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?
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A. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.

B. All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.

C. All of the above answers are correct.

D. All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.

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.

7252. This critical approach assumes that language does not refer to any external reality. It can assert several, contradictory interpretations of one text ?
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A. Structuralism

B. Formalist Criticism

C. Mimetic Criticism

D. Deconstructionism