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81. What is denouement ____________?
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A. The ending of a comedy

B. The ending of a tragedy

C. The climax in a comedy

D. The climax in a tragedy

82. In his essay What Is an Author? what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
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A. The idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.

B. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.

C. The author may not always exist.

D. All of the above answers are correct.

83. The term collective unconscious is coined by_____________?
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A. Erik Erikson

B. Carl Jung

C. Sigmund Freud

D. Ernest Jones

84. New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?
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A. Reject all previous modes of literary theory

B. Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories

C. Focus on a return to traditional critical methods

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

85. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective ?
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A. Reader Response Criticism

B. These are all equally subjective

C. Historical Criticism

D. Formalist Criticism

86. Wordsworths theory of poetry appears in_____________?
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A. Immortality Ode

B. Tintern Abbey Lines

C. Excursion

D. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

87. How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus ?
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A. Six

B. Five

C. Four

D. Three

88. What is the philosophical theory known as pragmatism ?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. An idea used to guide conduct towards clear objectives

C. A theory of practical actions developed by William James

D. A maxim of logic developed by Charles Sanders Peirce

89. In which chapter of Biographia Literaria Coleridge criticize the theory of language of Wordsworth ?
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A. 17

B. 16

C. 14

D. 15

90. Which literary theorist argues that there is nothing outside the text ?
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A. Jacques Derrida

B. Jacques Lacan

C. Stanley Fish

D. T.S. Eliot

91. Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ?
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A. F. R. Leavis

B. Carlyle

C. Ruskin

D. T. S. Eliot

92. Who was the first literary critic who said that Art is twice removed from reality ?
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A. Horace

B. Plato

C. Longinus

D. Aristotle

93. In her essay The Poem as Event, Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function ?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. The reader is acted upon by the text.

C. The reader participates in a transaction with the text.

D. The reader acts upon the text.

94. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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A. Evidence of an Oedipus complex

B. Female symbols

C. Male symbols

D. Phallic symbols

95. The fall of the prison of Bacille, that marks the begining of French Revolution occurred on______________?
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A. June 14, 1798

B. July 14,1798

C. June 14,1789

D. July 14, 1789

96. Who said that Keats love letters of a surgeons apprentice ?
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A. Byron

B. Shelley

C. Hazlitt

D. Arnold

97. According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child _______________?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. refuses maternal bonds.

C. is able to separate the I from the Other.

D. looks into a mirror for the first time.

98. What is humanism ?
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A. A theory that values restraint, form, and imitation

B. A humanity-centered view of the universe

C. An idea traditionally associated with the Renaissance

D. All of the above answers are correct.

99. What is phenomenology ?
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A. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious

B. The examination of our unconscious experience

C. The examination of structures informing our conscious experience

D. The examination of desires informing our consciousness

100. The statements below are parts of the steps on How to Explicate Poetry. Which comes in as second to the last thing to do before writing a critical essay of a poem ?
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A. Interpret the Poem.

B. Evaluate the Poem.

C. Analyze the Elements of the Poem

D. Introduce External Support.

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