Deck 6: Literary and Cultural Studies: Authors, Works, and Concepts

Question 1

Who made a distinction between implied reader and actual reader?

A)wolf gang iser
B)kamla das
C)mahasweta devi
D)terry eagleton

Answer 1

wolf gang iser

Question 2

Who translated Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam into English?

A)homer
B)edward fitzgerald
C)harold bloom
D)terry eagleton

Answer 2

edward fitzgerald

Question 3

Who wrote the book Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992)?

A)henry louis gates
B)harold bloom
C)dinesh d'souza
D)milton

Answer 3

henry louis gates

Question 4

Who spoke about the concept of value in literature?

A)t s eliot
B)coleridge
C)frank kermode
D)wordsworth

Question 5

The word for copying another person's ideas, words, or work and using as if they are yours is called

A)plagiarism
B)theft
C)robbery
D)copyright

Question 6

"Piers Plowman" is a poem by

A)cervantes,
B)wycliffe
C)william langland
D)tyndale

Question 7

means intended to give instruction, is applied to a work with an educational value

A)didacticism
B)structure
C)textual criticism
D)sensualism

Question 8

Aestheticism means intended for_

A)learning
B)pleasure
C)teaching
D)spirituality

Question 9

My story is a fictional autobiography of

A)kamala das
B)a k ramanujam
C)indira nooyi
D)nissim ezikial

Question 10

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is of

A)nirad chaudhri
B)kamaladas
C)kushwant singh
D)dom moraes

Question 11

Who wrote the famous essay "What is an Author?" 1969?

A)roland bartthes
B)michel foucault
C)david crystal
D)david lodge

Question 12

Which of the following is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand?

A)a fine balance
B)untouchables
C)bye bye black bird
D)maneater of malgudi

Question 13

Who wrote Poetics?

A)plato
B)aristotle
C)longinus
D)horace

Question 14

What does the idea of "catharsis" by Aristotle mean?

A)emotion
B)fear
C)pity
D)purgation of pity and fear

Question 15

In which century did Shakespeare live?

A)eighteenth
B)nineteenth
C)twentieth
D)sixteenth

Question 16

Who wrote the essay "From work to Text"?

A)roman jakobson
B)roland barthes
C)todorov
D)david cristal

Question 17

The comparison between two different things by using like or as as in "O my love's like a red red rose" is called a

A)metaphor
B)simile
C)epic simile
D)conceit

Question 18

The comparison between two different things by not using like or as as in "O my love's a red red rose" is called a_

A)metaphor
B)simile
C)epic simile
D)conceit

Question 19

Who used the word social construction for the first time in the book The Social Construction of Reality ?

A)david crystal
B)peter berger& tomas luckman
C)tomas luckman
D)eagleton

Question 20

A brand of criticism that argues that writing in English continues colonialism is called

A)neocolonialism
B)nativism
C)regionalism
D)practicalism

Question 21

Whose book is Imaginary Home lands?

A)salman rushdie
B)naipaul
C)vikram seth
D)bilkram chandra

Question 22

Who is the only writer who has won the Booker of Booker prize?

A)rushdie
B)hanif kureishi
C)arundhadi roy
D)david lodge

Question 23

Slavoj Zizek is a native of

A)iran
B)america
C)slovenia
D)italy