Question 1

Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning?

Accepted Answer

A)  ia richards
B)  t.s.eliot
C)  f rleavis
D)  coleridge freud A

Question 2

Rene Wellek, American critic and Austin warren coauthored the book_ in 1949

Accepted Answer

A)  principles of literary criticism
B)  theory of literature
C)  language of fiction
D)  on the sublime B

Question 3

Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)?

Accepted Answer

A)  ts eliot
B)  william empson
C)  fr leavis
D)  ia richards B

Question 4

Who wrote the works Practical criticism (1929) and Principles of Literacy Criticism (1924)

Accepted Answer

A)  ia richards
B)  austin warren
C)  rene wellek
D)  william empson

Question 5

Who used the phrase "the heresy of paraphrase"?

Accepted Answer

A)  cleanth brooks
B)  austin warren
C)  rene wellek
D)  william empson

Question 6

Hamlet is a

Accepted Answer

A)  tragedy
B)  comedy
C)  farce
D)  novel

Question 7

Which group of critics relied on "explication" or "close reading"?

Accepted Answer

A)  structuralist
B)  new critics
C)  romantics
D)  neo classical critics

Question 8

"Writerly books" and "Readerly books" are a distinction made by

Accepted Answer

A)  samuel johnson
B)  umberto eco
C)  derrida
D)  roland barthes

Question 9

Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic

Accepted Answer

A)  hazlitt
B)  coleridge
C)  wordsworth
D)  f.r.leavis

Question 10

denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action, character types, themes and images which are identifiable in literature, myths, dreams and even social rituals.

Accepted Answer

A)  image
B)  motif
C)  archetype
D)  mythology

Question 11

Who criticizes William Empson's theory of ambiguity in "William Empson, Contemporary criticism and poetic diction"?

Accepted Answer

A)  ezra pound
B)  elder olson
C)  allan tate
D)  r s crane

Question 12

Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for the word

Accepted Answer

A)  ambiguity
B)  paradox
C)  simile
D)  metaphor

Question 13

Which important writer other than George Eliot and Henry James according to FR Leavis formed The Great Tradition in English novel?

Accepted Answer

A)  d h lawrence
B)  emilebronte
C)  joseph conrad
D)  golding

Question 14

Who defined a good work as one which successfully communicates a valuable experience?

Accepted Answer

A)  coleridge
B)  t.s.eliot
C)  f.r.leavis
D)  ia richards

Question 15

Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by

Accepted Answer

A)  adler
B)  freud
C)  jung
D)  piaget

Question 16

The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by

Accepted Answer

A)  john crowe ranson
B)  ia richards
C)  t.s.eliot
D)  milton

Question 17

Ecriture the French word is used for

Accepted Answer

A)  speaking
B)  reading
C)  writing
D)  note making

Question 18

Allan Tate's "Tension in poetry" appears in the book

Accepted Answer

A)  one the limits of poetry
B)  tensions in poetry
C)  the limits of poetry
D)  poetry

Question 19

"Horizon of expectation " is a term used in the reception theory of

Accepted Answer

A)  hans robert gauss
B)  george gardener
C)  robert c holub
D)  j p stern

Question 20

The slogan of the cultural movement launched by clack students in Paris in 1932 is

Accepted Answer

A)  negritude
B)  black art movement
C)  black aesthetics
D)  black movement

Exam 4: Literary Criticism and Theory: Part A