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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 51. |
O f the following |
| A. | in defence of lost causes |
| B. | the fragile absolute |
| C. | the ticklish subject |
| D. | the cultural turn |
| Answer» B. the fragile absolute | |
| 52. |
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» A. why is the christian legacy worth fighting for? | |
| 53. |
Zizek’s favourite philosopher who influences his works most is |
| A. | jacques lacan |
| B. | lyotard |
| C. | foucault |
| D. | habermas |
| Answer» A. jacques lacan | |
| 54. |
Who is called “the French Freud”? |
| A. | c j yung |
| B. | jacques lacan. |
| C. | lyotard |
| D. | foucault |
| Answer» B. jacques lacan. | |
| 55. |
Jacques lacan’s formulation of the concept of psycho‐sexual development has the following three stages of symbolic, imagination and the |
| A. | object |
| B. | subject |
| C. | self |
| D. | mirror stage |
| Answer» D. mirror stage | |
| 56. |
“The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious” is a celebrated essay by |
| A. | jacques lacan |
| B. | bakhtin |
| C. | derrida |
| D. | foucault |
| Answer» A. jacques lacan | |
| 57. |
Ferdinand de Saussure who played an important part in the development of structuralism is a _ linguist. |
| A. | german |
| B. | italian |
| C. | british |
| D. | swiss |
| Answer» D. swiss | |
| 58. |
Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by |
| A. | barthes |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | lacan |
| Answer» C. saussure | |
| 59. |
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» D. synecdoche | |
| 60. |
“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» C. jacques derrida | |
| 61. |
Which of the following books is not of Jacques Derrida? |
| A. | of grammatology |
| B. | dissemination |
| C. | writing and dif erence |
| D. | waste land |
| Answer» D. waste land | |
| 62. |
Who coined the new word “difference” to mean “to differ” and “to defer” at the same time? |
| A. | lacan |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | barthes |
| D. | tudor |
| Answer» B. derrida | |
| 63. |
Who is the proponent of affective stylistics? |
| A. | harold bloom |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | lacan |
| D. | stanley fish |
| Answer» D. stanley fish | |
| 64. |
Who says that all “reading is …….misreading”? |
| A. | harold bloom |
| B. | foucault |
| C. | m h abrams |
| D. | todorov |
| Answer» A. harold bloom | |
| 65. |
Which critical school has its ideal the establishment of an authentic text? |
| A. | new criticism |
| B. | aesthetic criticism |
| C. | textual criticism |
| D. | structuralism |
| Answer» C. textual criticism | |
| 66. |
wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism . |
| A. | james thorpe |
| B. | vladimir propp |
| C. | eliot |
| D. | eagleton |
| Answer» A. james thorpe | |
| 67. |
Who wrote the famous essay “The Death of the Author”? |
| A. | roland barthes |
| B. | lacan |
| C. | foucault |
| D. | derrida |
| Answer» A. roland barthes | |
| 68. |
Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis? |
| A. | jacques lacan |
| B. | siigmund freud |
| C. | earnest jones |
| D. | jung |
| Answer» A. jacques lacan | |
| 69. |
“The Philosophy of Composition” is by |
| A. | keats |
| B. | edgar allan poe |
| C. | coleridge |
| D. | tennison |
| Answer» B. edgar allan poe | |
| 70. |
Which critic made a revaluation of Metaphysical poets and praised them for blending states of mind and feeling |
| A. | t s eliot |
| B. | f r leavis |
| C. | samuel jonson |
| D. | shelley |
| Answer» A. t s eliot | |
| 71. |
wrote After the New Criticism(1980) |
| A. | f r leavis |
| B. | samuel jonson |
| C. | frank lentricchia |
| D. | shelley |
| Answer» C. frank lentricchia | |
| 72. |
wrote Defence of poetry |
| A. | shelley |
| B. | keats |
| C. | longinus |
| D. | shakespeare |
| Answer» A. shelley | |
| 73. |
The title of the book The Well Wrought Urn (1947) by Cleanth Brooks is taken from the poem by John Donne. |
| A. | the flee |
| B. | valediction |
| C. | the canonization |
| D. | the anniversary |
| Answer» C. the canonization | |
| 74. |
The term is suggestive of carefully worked out images that were elaborated over a number of lines. |
| A. | well wrought |
| B. | simile |
| C. | humour |
| D. | zeitgeist |
| Answer» A. well wrought | |
| 75. |
According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy. |
| A. | libido |
| B. | thanatos |
| C. | eros |
| D. | oedipus complex |
| Answer» A. libido | |
| 76. |
Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by |
| A. | adler |
| B. | freud |
| C. | jung |
| D. | piaget |
| Answer» B. freud | |
| 77. |
Ernest Jones Hamlet and Oedipus originally published in 1910in the first full scale study of major work |
| A. | formalist |
| B. | psychoanalytic |
| C. | structuralist |
| D. | textual |
| Answer» B. psychoanalytic | |
| 78. |
Hamlet is a |
| A. | tragedy |
| B. | comedy |
| C. | farce |
| D. | novel |
| Answer» A. tragedy | |
| 79. |
Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning? |
| A. | ia richards |
| B. | t.s.eliot |
| C. | f rleavis |
| D. | coleridge freud |
| Answer» A. ia richards | |
| 80. |
Who defined a good work as one which successfully communicates a valuable experience? |
| A. | coleridge |
| B. | t.s.eliot |
| C. | f.r.leavis |
| D. | ia richards |
| Answer» D. ia richards | |
| 81. |
Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic |
| A. | hazlitt |
| B. | coleridge |
| C. | wordsworth |
| D. | f.r.leavis |
| Answer» A. hazlitt | |
| 82. |
“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» A. hans robert gauss | |
| 83. |
Ecriture the French word is used for |
| A. | speaking |
| B. | reading |
| C. | writing |
| D. | note making |
| Answer» C. writing | |
| 84. |
Writing Degree Zero is a book written by |
| A. | geoffrey hartman |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | derrida |
| D. | barthes |
| Answer» B. roland barthes | |
| 85. |
“Writerly books” and “Readerly books” are a distinction made by |
| A. | samuel johnson |
| B. | umberto eco |
| C. | derrida |
| D. | roland barthes |
| Answer» B. umberto eco | |
| 86. |
The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by |
| A. | john crowe ranson |
| B. | ia richards |
| C. | t.s.eliot |
| D. | milton |
| Answer» A. john crowe ranson | |
| 87. |
Which group of critics relied on “explication” or “close reading”? |
| A. | structuralist |
| B. | new critics |
| C. | romantics |
| D. | neo classical critics |
| Answer» A. structuralist | |
| 88. |
Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)? |
| A. | ts eliot |
| B. | william empson |
| C. | fr leavis |
| D. | ia richards |
| Answer» B. william empson | |
| 89. |
According to Allan Tate the meaning of good poetry is its _ |
| A. | tension |
| B. | irony |
| C. | paradox |
| D. | extension |
| Answer» A. tension | |
| 90. |
Rene Wellek, American critic and Austin warren coauthored the book_ in 1949 |
| A. | principles of literary criticism |
| B. | theory of literature |
| C. | language of fiction |
| D. | on the sublime |
| Answer» B. theory of literature | |
| 91. |
Who used the phrase “the heresy of paraphrase”? |
| A. | cleanth brooks |
| B. | austin warren |
| C. | rene wellek |
| D. | william empson |
| Answer» A. cleanth brooks | |
| 92. |
Who wrote the works Practical criticism (1929) and Principles of Literacy Criticism (1924) |
| A. | ia richards |
| B. | austin warren |
| C. | rene wellek |
| D. | william empson |
| Answer» A. ia richards | |
| 93. |
Which important writer other than George Eliot and Henry James according to FR Leavis formed The Great Tradition in English novel? |
| A. | d h lawrence |
| B. | emilebronte |
| C. | joseph conrad |
| D. | golding |
| Answer» C. joseph conrad | |
| 94. |
Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for the word |
| A. | ambiguity |
| B. | paradox |
| C. | simile |
| D. | metaphor |
| Answer» A. ambiguity | |
| 95. |
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus is an important work on |
| A. | expressionism |
| B. | impressionism |
| C. | ambiguity |
| D. | existentialism |
| Answer» D. existentialism | |
| 96. |
Who criticizes William Empson’s theory of ambiguity in “William Empson, Contemporary criticism and poetic diction”? |
| A. | ezra pound |
| B. | elder olson |
| C. | allan tate |
| D. | r s crane |
| Answer» B. elder olson | |
| 97. |
The idea of “depth psychology” an important antecedent of archetypal criticism is of |
| A. | freud |
| B. | adler |
| C. | cg jung |
| D. | piaget |
| Answer» C. cg jung | |
| 98. |
Allan Tate’s “Tension in poetry” appears in the book |
| A. | one the limits of poetry |
| B. | tensions in poetry |
| C. | the limits of poetry |
| D. | poetry |
| Answer» A. one the limits of poetry | |
| 99. |
denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action, character types, themes and images which are identifiable in literature, myths, dreams and even social rituals. |
| A. | image |
| B. | motif |
| C. | archetype |
| D. | mythology |
| Answer» C. archetype | |
| 100. |
The slogan of the cultural movement launched by clack students in Paris in 1932 is |
| A. | negritude |
| B. | black art movement |
| C. | black aesthetics |
| D. | black movement |
| Answer» A. negritude | |
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