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181. Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks book Epistemology of the Closet ?
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A. Literary study is unaffected by a lack of interest in sexuality.

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. Understanding homosexuality has little effect on understanding culture.

D. Understanding sexuality is crucial to understanding culture.

182. Aristotles critical work is entitled_______________?
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A. De Arte Poetica

B. Ars Poetica

C. Art Poetique

D. Poetics

183. A critic examining John Miltons Paradise Lost focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?
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A. Feminist

B. Reader Response

C. Formalist

D. Mimetic

184. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was published in______________?
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A. 1815

B. 1798

C. 1800

D. 1802

185. Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?
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A. How readers learn to read

B. How readers imagine visual images in a text

C. How readers regard critics

D. How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text

186. The probable date of composition of Ars Poetica is_______________?
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A. 100 BC

B. 15 AD

C. 12 to 8 BC

D. 20 AD

187. What is defamiliarization ?
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A. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky

B. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit

C. A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality

D. All of the above answers are correct.

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

B. 1815

C. 1798

D. 1780

189. 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.

190. 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..

191. 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

192. 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

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

B. Aeschylus

C. Agathon

D. Sophocles

194. 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.

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

B. Coleridge

C. Wordsworth

D. Schlegel

196. Coleridge considered imagination as______________?
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A. Critical faculty

B. A psychological experience

C. A product of intellect

D. Modifying power

197. 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.

198. 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.

199. 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

200. What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussures Course in General Linguistics ?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. There are five phases of linguistic development.

C. Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements.

D. Language is inseparable from its historical context.

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