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| 1. |
Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)? |
| A. | ts eliot |
| B. | william empson |
| C. | fr leavis |
| D. | ia richards |
| Answer» C. fr leavis | |
| 2. |
Which group of critics relied on “explication” or “close reading”? |
| A. | structuralist |
| B. | new critics |
| C. | romantics |
| D. | neo classical critics |
| Answer» B. new critics | |
| 3. |
The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by |
| A. | john crowe ranson |
| B. | ia richards |
| C. | t.s.eliot |
| D. | milton |
| Answer» B. ia richards | |
| 4. |
Writing Degree Zero is a book written by |
| A. | geoffrey hartman |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | derrida |
| D. | barthes |
| Answer» C. derrida | |
| 5. |
“Writerly books” and “Readerly books” are a distinction made by |
| A. | samuel johnson |
| B. | umberto eco |
| C. | derrida |
| D. | roland barthes |
| Answer» C. derrida | |
| 6. |
Ecriture the French word is used for |
| A. | speaking |
| B. | reading |
| C. | writing |
| D. | note making |
| Answer» D. note making | |
| 7. |
“Horizon of expectation “ is a term used in the reception theory of |
| A. | hans robert gauss |
| B. | george gardener |
| C. | robert c holub |
| D. | j p stern |
| Answer» B. george gardener | |
| 8. |
Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic |
| A. | hazlitt |
| B. | coleridge |
| C. | wordsworth |
| D. | f.r.leavis |
| Answer» B. coleridge | |
| 9. |
Who defined a good work as one which successfully communicates a valuableexperience? |
| A. | coleridge |
| B. | t.s.eliot |
| C. | f.r.leavis |
| D. | ia richards |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning? |
| A. | ia richards |
| B. | t.s.eliot |
| C. | f rleavis |
| D. | coleridge freud |
| Answer» B. t.s.eliot | |
| 11. |
Hamlet is a |
| A. | tragedy |
| B. | comedy |
| C. | farce |
| D. | novel |
| Answer» B. comedy | |
| 12. |
Ernest Jones Hamlet and Oedipus originally published in 1910in the first fullscale study of major work |
| A. | formalist |
| B. | psychoanalytic |
| C. | structuralist |
| D. | textual |
| Answer» C. structuralist | |
| 13. |
Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by |
| A. | adler |
| B. | freud |
| C. | jung |
| D. | piaget |
| Answer» C. jung | |
| 14. |
According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy. |
| A. | libido |
| B. | thanatos |
| C. | eros |
| D. | oedipus complex |
| Answer» B. thanatos | |
| 15. |
The term is suggestive of carefully worked out images that wereelaborated over a number of lines. |
| A. | well wrought |
| B. | simile |
| C. | humour |
| D. | zeitgeist |
| Answer» B. simile | |
| 16. |
The title of the book The Well Wrought Urn (1947) by Cleanth Brooks is taken fromthe poem by John Donne. |
| A. | the flee |
| B. | valediction |
| C. | the canonization |
| D. | the anniversary |
| Answer» D. the anniversary | |
| 17. |
wrote After the New Criticism(1980) |
| A. | f r leavis |
| B. | samuel jonson |
| C. | frank lentricchia |
| D. | shelley |
| Answer» D. shelley | |
| 18. |
wrote Defence of poetry |
| A. | shelley |
| B. | keats |
| C. | longinus |
| D. | shakespeare |
| Answer» B. keats | |
| 19. |
Which critic made a revaluation of Metaphysical poets and praised them for blendingstates of mind and feeling |
| A. | t s eliot |
| B. | f r leavis |
| C. | samuel jonson |
| D. | shelley |
| Answer» B. f r leavis | |
| 20. |
“The Philosophy of Composition” is by |
| A. | keats |
| B. | edgar allan poe |
| C. | coleridge |
| D. | tennison |
| Answer» C. coleridge | |
| 21. |
Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis? |
| A. | jacques lacan |
| B. | siigmund freud |
| C. | earnest jones |
| D. | jung |
| Answer» B. siigmund freud | |
| 22. |
Who wrote the famous essay “The Death of the Author”? |
| A. | roland barthes |
| B. | lacan |
| C. | foucault |
| D. | derrida |
| Answer» B. lacan | |
| 23. |
wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism . |
| A. | james thorpe |
| B. | vladimir propp |
| C. | eliot |
| D. | eagleton |
| Answer» B. vladimir propp | |
| 24. |
Which critical school has its ideal the establishment of an authentic text? |
| A. | new criticism |
| B. | aesthetic criticism |
| C. | textual criticism |
| D. | structuralism |
| Answer» D. structuralism | |
| 25. |
Who says that all “reading is …….misreading”? |
| A. | harold bloom |
| B. | foucault |
| C. | m h abrams |
| D. | todorov |
| Answer» B. foucault | |
| 26. |
Who is the proponent of affective stylistics? |
| A. | harold bloom |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | lacan |
| D. | stanley fish |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
Which of the following books is not of Jacques Derrida? |
| A. | of grammatology |
| B. | dissemination |
| C. | writing and dif erence |
| D. | waste land |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
Who coined the new word “difference” to mean “to differ” and “to defer” at the sametime? |
| A. | lacan |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | barthes |
| D. | tudor |
| Answer» C. barthes | |
| 29. |
“Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human sciences” is an essay by |
| A. | saussure |
| B. | lacan |
| C. | jacques derrida |
| D. | julia kristeva |
| Answer» D. julia kristeva | |
| 30. |
The figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole as in“ten hands” for “ten workers” is called |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | personification |
| D. | synecdoche |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by |
| A. | barthes |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | lacan |
| Answer» D. lacan | |
| 32. |
Ferdinand de Saussure who played an important part in the development ofstructuralism is a _ linguist. |
| A. | german |
| B. | italian |
| C. | british |
| D. | swiss |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
“The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious” is a celebrated essay by |
| A. | jacques lacan |
| B. | bakhtin |
| C. | derrida |
| D. | foucault |
| Answer» B. bakhtin | |
| 34. |
Jacques lacan’s formulation of the concept of psycho‐sexual development has thefollowing three stages of symbolic, imagination and the |
| A. | object |
| B. | subject |
| C. | self |
| D. | mirror stage |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
Who is called “the French Freud”? |
| A. | c j yung |
| B. | jacques lacan. |
| C. | lyotard |
| D. | foucault |
| Answer» C. lyotard | |
| 36. |
Zizek’s favourite philosopher who influences his works most is |
| A. | jacques lacan |
| B. | lyotard |
| C. | foucault |
| D. | habermas |
| Answer» B. lyotard | |
| 37. |
What is the subtitle of The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek?. |
| A. | why is the christian legacy worth fighting for? |
| B. | is the christian legacy worth fighting for? |
| C. | christian legacy |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. is the christian legacy worth fighting for? | |
| 38. |
O f the following |
| A. | in defence of lost causes |
| B. | the fragile absolute |
| C. | the ticklish subject |
| D. | the cultural turn |
| Answer» C. the ticklish subject | |
| 39. |
Slavoj Zizek is a native of |
| A. | iran |
| B. | america |
| C. | slovenia |
| D. | italy |
| Answer» D. italy | |
| 40. |
Who is the only writer who has won the Booker of Booker prize? |
| A. | rushdie |
| B. | hanif kureishi |
| C. | arundhadi roy |
| D. | david lodge |
| Answer» B. hanif kureishi | |
| 41. |
A book of synonyms is called |
| A. | dictionary |
| B. | reverse dictionary |
| C. | thesaurus |
| D. | oxymoron |
| Answer» D. oxymoron | |
| 42. |
Who is considered as the father of sociology? |
| A. | bipin chandra |
| B. | romila thapar |
| C. | emile durkheim |
| D. | d d kosambi |
| Answer» D. d d kosambi | |
| 43. |
Whose book is Imaginary Home lands? |
| A. | salman rushdie |
| B. | naipaul |
| C. | vikram seth |
| D. | bilkram chandra |
| Answer» B. naipaul | |
| 44. |
A brand of criticism that argues that writing in English continues colonialism is called |
| A. | neocolonialism |
| B. | nativism |
| C. | regionalism |
| D. | practicalism |
| Answer» C. regionalism | |
| 45. |
Who used the word social construction for the first time in the book The SocialConstruction of Reality ? |
| A. | david crystal |
| B. | peter berger& tomas luckman |
| C. | tomas luckman |
| D. | eagleton |
| Answer» C. tomas luckman | |
| 46. |
The comparison between two different things by not using like or as as in “O mylove’s a red red rose” is called a_ |
| A. | metaphor |
| B. | simile |
| C. | epic simile |
| D. | conceit |
| Answer» B. simile | |
| 47. |
The comparison between two different things by using like or as as in “O my love’slike a red red rose” is called a |
| A. | metaphor |
| B. | simile |
| C. | epic simile |
| D. | conceit |
| Answer» C. epic simile | |
| 48. |
In which century did Shakespeare live? |
| A. | eighteenth |
| B. | nineteenth |
| C. | twentieth |
| D. | sixteenth |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”? |
| A. | roman jakobson |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | todorov |
| D. | david cristal |
| Answer» C. todorov | |
| 50. |
What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean? |
| A. | emotion |
| B. | fear |
| C. | pity |
| D. | purgation of pity and fear |
| Answer» E. | |