introduction to literary studies MCQs

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

B. Investigating the relationship between words and objective reality

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

A. A pastiche of different literary and historical sources

C. Nonlinear storytelling and the embracement of popular culture

D. Video clips and the use of popular music

A. An epitaph

C. An ode

D. An elegy

A. To bring forth life-in-death

B. To change the weather

D. For revenge

A. Writing that is complicated and scholarly

B. Questions for which the answers are obvious

C. Logical writing and speaking

A. Song composition

B. Stage design

D. Poetic diction

A. Logos refers to a writers ability to inspire emotional responses in readers.

B. Logos refers to a writers ability to inspire action in readers.

C. Logos refers to a writers presentation of character and image.

A. Plot

B. Setting

C. Character

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

C. Satan was ultimately heroic.

D. God abandoned the realm of Eden without reason.

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

B. A group of characters who comment

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

E. the actions of the play while participating in them

A. How women are portrayed in literary texts

C. The psychologies of female writers

D. How women have been socially oppressed in literary texts

A. An isolated protagonist

B. a villain

C. An atmosphere of dread, fear, and darkness

E. A hero or protagonist who is tempted

A. There is such a thing as an afterlife.

B. Dreams always tell the truth.

D. Heaven exists on earth.

A. Poetry should never concern itself with the natural world.

B. Poetry should be written in the common language of ordinary people.

C. Poetry should focus on the lives and thoughts of elite people.

B. A novel set in Europe in the 18th century

C. A novel that explores class conflict

D. A novel that attacks the lower classes

A. A tragi-comedy

C. A tragic play

D. A modern play

A. All dogs have hair, all people have hair, hence anything with hair is a dog or a person.

C. All dogs have four legs, all creatures do not have four legs, hence all creatures with four legs are dogs.

D. All men breathe air, all dogs breathe air, hence all men are dogs.

A. What are the effects of literature?

C. Why do people write literature?

D. What is literature?

A. Psychoanalytic criticism

B. New Criticism

D. Reader-response criticism

A. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.

B. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.

C. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the plays use of language.

A. Marxist theory

B. deconstruction

C. psychoanalytic theory

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

B. Unrhymed lines

C. A continuous block of text

A. A member of the royalty

B. A member of the middle class engaging in self-exploration

D. A child as he or she develops into an adult

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

C. She is mature and realistic.

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

A. A story told to little children

B. A story that takes place in the distant past

D. A light-hearted, humorous story in which viewers are shown proper ways to behave

B. Consolation and solace

C. Lamentation, in which the speaker demonstrates grief

D. Praise and admiration for the dead

A. The way they are structured

C. The type of people who write them

D. The language in which they are written

A. Bishops One Art

B. William Shakespeares Sonnet 18

C. Audens Paysage Moralis

A. I began driving at the age of 16 and have never been involved in a serious car accident.

C. No one under the age of 18 should be allowed to drive.

D. Every year countless people are killed by drivers under the age of 18.

A. The supernatural

C. Love

D. The sublime

A. passive readers and critics of literary texts.

B. capable of realizing that the viewpoints of some critics are more important than others.

D. aware that Hamlet is a remarkable work of literature.

A. Mainstream audiences are so shallow that it is not worth writing plays for them.

C. The world is a bright and interesting place.

D. The world is so complex that it does not require literature or theater.

A. Handguns dont kill people, people do

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

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

A. A play in which no form of humor appears

B. A play in which someone gets revenge

C. A play in which a hero faces likely defeat and overcomes it

A. It is a horror novel.

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

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

A. a meter.

C. a measure.

D. a line.

A. Hamlet despises his mother and suspects she has killed his father.

C. Hamlet has a personality disorder.

D. Hamlet is entirely masculinized throughout the play, and thus, is ultimately unlike his mother in terms of his position in the play.

A. I heard a car crash / just as I died.

B. Death comes for all of us / even you.

C. To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to live forever.

A. begins with a preview of the plays conclusion.

B. begins at the apparent end of the story.

D. introduces the characters of the play one by one.

A. I wandered lonely as a cloud.

B. I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.

D. And the world didnt even think of stopping for me.

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. New Criticism.

B. structuralism.

D. Marxist criticism.

A. All novelists are painters at heart.

C. George du Maurier was a tremendous influence on Victorian novelists.

D. George du Maurier attacked the social position of the novelist in his illustrations.

A. Characters who are sympathetic to issues facing the working classes

B. The political and social meanings of literary texts

C. The relationship between economics and the production of literary texts

B. A play in which characters make humorous remarks

C. A play in which elite members of society are mocked

D. A play in which no characters die or suffer

B. Simplicity in language, lengthiness in form, and humorousness in attitude

C. Simplicity in language, brevity in form, and humorousness in attitude

D. Complexity in language, brevity in form, and humorousness in attitude

B. readers choose their favorite works of literature.

C. readers decide which works of literature to read.

D. readers develop their own unique and personal critical discourses.

B. The psychological study of authors

C. A system for categorizing books

D. A reader-response test

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

B. Pathos refers to a writers presentation of character and image.

C. Pathos refers to a writers ability to inspire action in readers.

B. Persuasion is the use of syllogisms to influence the opinions of readers and listeners.

C. Persuasion is the opposite of rhetoric.

D. Persuasion is the art of lying to good effect.