Question: Who coined the term New Historicism ?

• 1. Jacques Derrida
• 2. Terry Eagleton
• 3. Fredric Jameson
• 4. Stephen Greenblatt

Question: To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer ?

• 1. An infant’s inability to speak prior to the mirror stage
• 2. The referential relationships among symbols, signifiers, and signs
• 3. The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work
• 4. All of the above answers are correct

Question: Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author’s intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief ?

• 1. The pathetic fallacy
• 2. The intentional fallacy
• 3. The affective fallacy
• 4. The objective correlative

Question: Seven is an archetype associated with____________?

• 1. Perfection
• 2. Birth
• 3. Evil
• 4. Death

Question: Horace was a friend of_______________?

• 1. Alexander the Great
• 2. Emperor Augustus
• 3. Julius Caesar
• 4. Pompey

Question: “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility.” Who has defined poetry in these words ?

• 1. Shelley
• 2. Wordsworth
• 3. Coleridge
• 4. Matthew Arnold

Question: Which of the following is a critical work of Ben Jonson ?

• 1. Discourse of English Poetry
• 2. Discoveries
• 3. Arte of English Poesie
• 4. An Apologie for Poetrie

Question: A critic examining John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and me

• 1. Reader Response
• 2. Feminist
• 3. Mimetic
• 4. Formalist

Question: One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obvious

• 1. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
• 2. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
• 3. To enable to form judgments about literature.
• 4. All of the above answers are correct.

Question: One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and

• 1. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
• 2. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
• 3. To enable to form judgments about literature.
• 4. All of the above answers are correct.