McqMate
1. |
The study of signs is called_ |
A. | linguistics |
B. | semiotics |
C. | scientology |
D. | stylistics |
Answer» B. semiotics |
2. |
Who coined the word netspeak to denote the language used in internet communication? |
A. | roland bartthes |
B. | michel foucault |
C. | david crystal |
D. | david lodge |
Answer» C. david crystal |
3. |
Who is the author of A House for Mr. Biswas? |
A. | shiv naipaul |
B. | kushwant singh |
C. | dom moraes |
D. | vs naipaul |
Answer» D. vs naipaul |
4. |
Who wrote Things fall Apart? |
A. | chinua achebe |
B. | wole soyinka |
C. | ismuth chugthai |
D. | yeats |
Answer» A. chinua achebe |
5. |
Train to Pakistan is a famous novel by Kushwant Singh based on |
A. | partition |
B. | untouchables |
C. | prostitution |
D. | famine |
Answer» A. partition |
6. |
Who wrote Summer in Calcutta ? |
A. | kamla das |
B. | mahasweta devi |
C. | mihir sen |
D. | satyajit ray |
Answer» A. kamla das |
7. |
Which of the following is not a novel by Chinua Achebe? |
A. | no longer at ease |
B. | arrow of god |
C. | a man of people |
D. | shame |
Answer» D. shame |
8. |
Achebe belongs to_ |
A. | nigeria |
B. | sudan |
C. | south africa |
D. | ethiopia |
Answer» A. nigeria |
9. |
The poem which lends the title of Things fall Apart by Achebe is |
A. | easter 1916 |
B. | byzantium |
C. | second coming |
D. | daffodils |
Answer» C. second coming |
10. |
An Area of Darkness by VS Naipaul is a |
A. | travelogue |
B. | novel |
C. | shortstory |
D. | drama |
Answer» A. travelogue |
11. |
is a novel by Patrick White, the Australian novelist. |
A. | snake |
B. | voss |
C. | cosmos |
D. | raj quartet |
Answer» B. voss |
12. |
The Stone Angel is a novel written by Margaret Lawrence, a native Neepawa in |
A. | africa |
B. | england |
C. | australia |
D. | u s a |
Answer» A. africa |
13. |
The Guide is a novel written by |
A. | rk narayan |
B. | kr narayanan |
C. | anita desai |
D. | kirandesai |
Answer» A. rk narayan |
14. |
Mukta Dhara is a play by |
A. | tagore |
B. | r k narayanan |
C. | anita desai |
D. | manjula padmanaban |
Answer» A. tagore |
15. |
The term “Gitanjali” of the poem of the same name by Tagore means |
A. | god songs |
B. | good songs |
C. | verses |
D. | song offerings |
Answer» D. song offerings |
16. |
Who wrote the introduction to Gitanjali? |
A. | wb yeats |
B. | tagore |
C. | eliot |
D. | louis fischer |
Answer» A. wb yeats |
17. |
Douglas Steward who wrote many verse plays like Kelly, Shipwreck, The Golden Lover and Fischer’s Ghost originally belonged to |
A. | australia |
B. | new zealand |
C. | trinidad |
D. | china |
Answer» B. new zealand |
18. |
Who wrote the book The Western Canon? |
A. | harold bloom |
B. | david lodge |
C. | william wordsworth |
D. | f r leavis |
Answer» A. harold bloom |
19. |
Literary Theory: An Introduction is a book written by |
A. | harold bloom |
B. | terry eagleton |
C. | f.r.leavis |
D. | northrop frye |
Answer» B. terry eagleton |
20. |
Who wrote the book The Common Pursuit? |
A. | harold bloom |
B. | terry eagleton |
C. | f.r leavis |
D. | coleridge |
Answer» C. f.r leavis |
21. |
“Of the standard of Taste” is an essay by |
A. | david hume |
B. | harold bloom |
C. | david lodge |
D. | plato |
Answer» A. david hume |
22. |
The term canon originaly meanin g a measuring rod, is of |
A. | hebrew |
B. | arab |
C. | chinese |
D. | greek |
Answer» D. greek |
23. |
The famous book on culture wars in USA, Illiberal Education : The politics of Sex and Race on Campus is written by |
A. | dinesh d’souza |
B. | amartya sen |
C. | arundhadi roy |
D. | noam chomsky |
Answer» A. dinesh d’souza |
24. |
Macaulay’s “Minutes on Indian Education” dates back to |
A. | 1835 |
B. | 1935 |
C. | 1845 |
D. | 1925 |
Answer» A. 1835 |
25. |
What does the acronym DWEM stands for ? |
A. | dear white european males |
B. | dead white english man |
C. | dead white european male |
D. | dear white english man |
Answer» C. dead white european male |
26. |
Who made a distinction between implied reader and actual reader? |
A. | wolf gang iser |
B. | kamla das |
C. | mahasweta devi |
D. | terry eagleton |
Answer» A. wolf gang iser |
27. |
Who translated Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam into English? |
A. | homer |
B. | edward fitzgerald |
C. | harold bloom |
D. | terry eagleton |
Answer» B. edward fitzgerald |
28. |
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» A. henry louis gates |
29. |
Who spoke about the concept of value in literature? |
A. | t s eliot |
B. | coleridge |
C. | frank kermode |
D. | wordsworth |
Answer» C. frank kermode |
30. |
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 |
Answer» A. plagiarism |
31. |
“Piers Plowman” is a poem by |
A. | cervantes, |
B. | wycliffe |
C. | william langland |
D. | tyndale |
Answer» C. william langland |
32. |
means intended to give instruction, is applied to a work with an educational value |
A. | didacticism |
B. | structure |
C. | textual criticism |
D. | sensualism |
Answer» A. didacticism |
33. |
Aestheticism means intended for_ |
A. | learning |
B. | pleasure |
C. | teaching |
D. | spirituality |
Answer» B. pleasure |
34. |
My story is a fictional autobiography of |
A. | kamala das |
B. | a k ramanujam |
C. | indira nooyi |
D. | nissim ezikial |
Answer» A. kamala das |
35. |
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is of |
A. | nirad chaudhri |
B. | kamaladas |
C. | kushwant singh |
D. | dom moraes |
Answer» A. nirad chaudhri |
36. |
Who wrote the famous essay “What is an Author?” 1969? |
A. | roland bartthes |
B. | michel foucault |
C. | david crystal |
D. | david lodge |
Answer» B. michel foucault |
37. |
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 |
Answer» B. untouchables |
38. |
Who wrote Poetics? |
A. | plato |
B. | aristotle |
C. | longinus |
D. | horace |
Answer» B. aristotle |
39. |
What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean? |
A. | emotion |
B. | fear |
C. | pity |
D. | purgation of pity and fear |
Answer» D. purgation of pity and fear |
40. |
In which century did Shakespeare live? |
A. | eighteenth |
B. | nineteenth |
C. | twentieth |
D. | sixteenth |
Answer» D. sixteenth |
41. |
Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”? |
A. | roman jakobson |
B. | roland barthes |
C. | todorov |
D. | david cristal |
Answer» B. roland barthes |
42. |
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 |
Answer» B. simile |
43. |
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 |
Answer» A. metaphor |
44. |
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 |
Answer» B. peter berger& tomas luckman |
45. |
A brand of criticism that argues that writing in English continues colonialism is called |
A. | neocolonialism |
B. | nativism |
C. | regionalism |
D. | practicalism |
Answer» B. nativism |
46. |
Whose book is Imaginary Home lands? |
A. | salman rushdie |
B. | naipaul |
C. | vikram seth |
D. | bilkram chandra |
Answer» A. salman rushdie |
47. |
Who is considered as the father of sociology? |
A. | bipin chandra |
B. | romila thapar |
C. | emile durkheim |
D. | d d kosambi |
Answer» C. emile durkheim |
48. |
A book of synonyms is called |
A. | dictionary |
B. | reverse dictionary |
C. | thesaurus |
D. | oxymoron |
Answer» C. thesaurus |
49. |
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» A. rushdie |
50. |
Slavoj Zizek is a native of |
A. | iran |
B. | america |
C. | slovenia |
D. | italy |
Answer» C. slovenia |
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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