B. An eccentric person

C. A character who is by nature melancholy

D. A character who is always cheerful and gay

B. Setting

C. Plot

D. Character

A. Rhetoric

B. Metaphysics

D. Ethics

A. Researching what previous critics have said about a literary work

B. Researching an authors biography for clues about how to understand his or her writing

D. Investigating the relationship between words and objective reality

B. Aristotle

C. Sir Thomas More

D. Sir Philip Sidney

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. Literary texts should not be read as a projection of the authors psyche.

D. Literary texts solely reflect an authors intentions.

A. 15 AD

B. 100 BC

D. 20 AD

A. She is a matchmaker trying to set up romances between her friends, all the while unable to find true love herself.

C. She is mature and realistic.

D. She is immature and has difficulty recognizing the difference between fact and fiction.

B. Harold Blooms An Elegy for the Canon

C. Jacques Lacans The Mirror Stage . . .

D. Cleanth Brookss Keatss Sylvan Historian

B. Arnold

C. Eliot

D. Addison

A. To formulate relationships among an author, a reader, and a literary work

C. To understand the role of sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity in literary study

D. To understand the importance of the formal elements of literary structure

A. A theory of practical actions developed by William James

B. An idea used to guide conduct towards clear objectives

C. A maxim of logic developed by Charles Sanders Peirce

A. Handguns dont kill people, people do

C. I own a handgun and keep it in a secure place in my house.

D. According to research, 22 percent of the American population owns an unsecured handgun.

A. terror at the thought of death.

B. a realization of ones empowered position in the world.

D. a feeling of being disconnected from the world.

B. Hazlitt

C. Byron

D. Shelley

A. Captain Ahab

B. Hamlet

C. Ophelia

A. How women really feel about male writers

C. Psychological studies of women

D. Second-wave feminism

A. Language is loaded with the intentions of others.

B. Language can include socio-ideological contradictions from the past.

C. Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons.

A. Allen Tate

B. Coleridge

D. F. R. Leavis

A. Latin

B. Italian

D. Hebrew

A. Structuralism

B. Marxism

D. Humanism

A. It is a memoir based on Jane Austens childhood.

C. It is a horror novel.

D. It offers a critique of Romantic poetry and ideology.

A. Plautus

C. Sophocles

D. Critus

B. Hamlet is intellectually passive and deeply frightened of his fathers ghost.

C. Hamlet is naive and simple minded.

D. Hamlet is spoiled and manipulative.

A. the actions of the play while participating in them

C. A group of characters who comment

D. Members of the audience who comment on the plays actions

E. Characters who remind the audience that the play is fictional

A. They were often done in honor of the Greek god Zeus.

B. They were not popular with ancient Greek audiences.

D. They were almost never set in the past.

A. Ethos refers to a writers ability to present evidence.

C. Ethos refers to a writers ability to inspire emotional responses in readers.

D. Ethos refers to a writers ability to inspire action in readers.

A. Tintern Abbey Lines

C. Immortality Ode

D. Excursion

A. Hamlets fathers ghost is not really a ghost.

C. Hamlet is truly insane in the play.

D. Hamlet is an impossible play to truly understand.

A. English writer

B. Italian writer

C. Greek writer

A. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt.

C. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.

D. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.

A. Virginia Woolf

B. Mary Wolstencraft

C. Ellen Mores

A. Inductive arguments

B. Emotional arguments

D. Deductive arguments

A. Jacques Derrida

B. Julia Kristeva

D. Theodor W. Adorno

A. Oedipus at Colonus

B. Jocasta, the Queen of Thebes

D. Antigone

A. Arguing that language, and therefore literary texts, relies on the difference between terms and therefore constantly defers meaning.

B. Calling into question the possibility of the coherence of discourse

D. Suggesting that the study of literature is based on the breakdown of language into signs

B. Moral/Philosophical

C. Formalism/New Criticism

D. Psychological

A. Henry James

B. David

D. Willy Loman

A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.

C. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.

A. A story of one persons success within a capitalistic economic system

B. A story of one persons fall from grace and into destruction

C. A story of one persons selfrealization and attempt to return to innocence

A. Derrida

C. J K Atkins

D. Hillis Miller

A. Unrhymed lines

B. A continuous block of text

C. Lines of text with words that rhyme at the end

A. Cleanth Brooks

B. Judith Butler

D. Mikhail Bakhtin

A. Subsequent Readings/Reviews

B. Identify External Factors Related to the Work

C. Identify the Mode of Development

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.

D. It can never be accessed.

A. A poetic metaphor

B. A satire

C. A reversal

A. Reject all previous modes of literary theory

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

D. Focus on a return to traditional critical methods

A. God abandoned the realm of Eden without reason.

B. Adam and Eve were driven to evil by their children.

D. Satan was ultimately heroic.

A. He is suggesting that the making of laws is itself an art.

B. He is suggesting that artists are repressed throughout society.

D. He is suggesting that all artists are from high social classes.

B. Lucy Irigaray

C. Julia Kristeva

D. Louise M. Rosenblatt