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151.

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
152.

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
153.

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
154.

Writing Degree Zero is a book written by

A. geoffrey hartman
B. roland barthes
C. derrida
D. barthes
Answer» C. derrida
155.

“Writerly books” and “Readerly books” are a distinction made by

A. samuel johnson
B. umberto eco
C. derrida
D. roland barthes
Answer» C. derrida
156.

Ecriture the French word is used for

A. speaking
B. reading
C. writing
D. note making
Answer» D. note making
157.

“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
158.

Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic

A. hazlitt
B. coleridge
C. wordsworth
D. f.r.leavis
Answer» B. coleridge
159.

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.
160.

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
161.

Hamlet is a

A. tragedy
B. comedy
C. farce
D. novel
Answer» B. comedy
162.

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
163.

Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by

A. adler
B. freud
C. jung
D. piaget
Answer» C. jung
164.

According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy.

A. libido
B. thanatos
C. eros
D. oedipus complex
Answer» B. thanatos
165.

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
166.

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
167.

wrote After the New Criticism(1980)

A. f r leavis
B. samuel jonson
C. frank lentricchia
D. shelley
Answer» D. shelley
168.

wrote Defence of poetry

A. shelley
B. keats
C. longinus
D. shakespeare
Answer» B. keats
169.

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
170.

“The Philosophy of Composition” is by

A. keats
B. edgar allan poe
C. coleridge
D. tennison
Answer» C. coleridge
171.

Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis?

A. jacques lacan
B. siigmund freud
C. earnest jones
D. jung
Answer» B. siigmund freud
172.

Who wrote the famous essay “The Death of the Author”?

A. roland barthes
B. lacan
C. foucault
D. derrida
Answer» B. lacan
173.

wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism .

A. james thorpe
B. vladimir propp
C. eliot
D. eagleton
Answer» B. vladimir propp
174.

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
175.

Who says that all “reading is …….misreading”?

A. harold bloom
B. foucault
C. m h abrams
D. todorov
Answer» B. foucault
176.

Who is the proponent of affective stylistics?

A. harold bloom
B. derrida
C. lacan
D. stanley fish
Answer» E.
177.

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.
178.

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
179.

“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
180.

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.
181.

Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by

A. barthes
B. derrida
C. saussure
D. lacan
Answer» D. lacan
182.

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.
183.

“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
184.

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.
185.

Who is called “the French Freud”?

A. c j yung
B. jacques lacan.
C. lyotard
D. foucault
Answer» C. lyotard
186.

Zizek’s favourite philosopher who influences his works most is

A. jacques lacan
B. lyotard
C. foucault
D. habermas
Answer» B. lyotard
187.

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?
188.

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
189.

Slavoj Zizek is a native of

A. iran
B. america
C. slovenia
D. italy
Answer» D. italy
190.

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
191.

A book of synonyms is called

A. dictionary
B. reverse dictionary
C. thesaurus
D. oxymoron
Answer» D. oxymoron
192.

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
193.

Whose book is Imaginary Home lands?

A. salman rushdie
B. naipaul
C. vikram seth
D. bilkram chandra
Answer» B. naipaul
194.

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
195.

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
196.

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
197.

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
198.

In which century did Shakespeare live?

A. eighteenth
B. nineteenth
C. twentieth
D. sixteenth
Answer» E.
199.

Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”?

A. roman jakobson
B. roland barthes
C. todorov
D. david cristal
Answer» C. todorov
200.

What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean?

A. emotion
B. fear
C. pity
D. purgation of pity and fear
Answer» E.