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141. What is dialogism ?
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A. A term used to explain the use of multiple points of view in literature

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. A term used to describe how texts include a variety of styles

D. A term developed by Mikhail Bakhtin

142. From where has the term Oedipus Complex originated ?
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A. Oedipus the Rex

B. Oedipus at Colonus

C. Jocasta, the Queen of Thebes

D. Antigone

143. In his essay The Death of the Author, Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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A. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the authors politics.

B. A text and its author text are unrelated.

C. Literature is inextricably connected to its creator.

D. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.

144. What does Ben Jonson mean by a Humorous Character ?
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A. A character who is by nature melancholy

B. A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body

C. A character who is always cheerful and gay

D. An eccentric person

145. What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
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A. It includes too few works by women.

B. It includes too few works by non- European writers.

C. It includes too few works by non-white writers.

D. All of the above answers are correct.

146. On the Sublime was written in_____________?
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A. 1st Century BC

B. 2nd Century AD

C. 1st Century AD

D. 3rd Century AD

147. According to Aristotle the unravelling of the plot_____________?
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A. By narration

B. Should arise from the circumstances of the plot itself

C. By supernatural machinery

D. By the choral odes

148. Who considers poetry a mother of lies ?
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A. Pope

B. Stephen Gosson

C. Plato

D. Aristotle

149. Who coined the expression objective corelative ?
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A. Allen Tate

B. F. R. Leavis

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Coleridge

150. What is double consciousness _______________?
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A. An understanding of how double experiences create identity

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. An early aspect of ethnic criticism

D. A concept developed by W.E.B Du Bois

151. What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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A. A language about another language

B. A supernatural language

C. All of the above answers are correct.

D. A language that does not yet constitute a real language

152. Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ?
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A. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random.

B. Strange attractors are complex forces that are determined by the laws of physics.

C. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined.

D. Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random

153. What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is performed ?
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A. Real gender roles are scripted by excellent writers.

B. Gender does not reflect an essential truth, but rather is a role people play based on their internalization of socially constructed gender roles.

C. All of the above answers are correct.

D. Gender roles do not exist.

154. Who contributed the term to see the object as in itself it really is ?
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A. Coleridge

B. Arnold

C. Wordsworth

D. Goethe

155. In Fredric Jamesons book The Political Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest about literature ?
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A. Biography is essential to literary analysis

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. Politics and the economy are the most important factors in literary analysis

D. History comprises the essential framework for the performance of literary analysis

156. Sublimity has_______________?
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A. 5 sources

B. 3 sources

C. 2 sources

D. 4 sources

157. Who established the Lyceum ?
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A. Aristotle

B. Plato

C. Longinus

D. Horace

158. The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy ?
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A. Sophocles

B. Seneca

C. Euripides

D. Aeschylus

159. In which essay did Arnold say that for good literature to flourish two powers are necessary creative and the critical ?
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A. The Study of Poetry

B. The Function of Criticism

C. Essay on Wordsworth

D. Preface to Eighteen Fifty Three poems

160. Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?
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A. Civilization

B. Purification

C. Intresedness

D. Disintrestedness

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