English Literature Mcqs

A. Aristotle’s Poetics
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
D. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

A. They accept ideology as an essential, although sometimes problematic, part of society.
B. They subject all ideologies to critique in order to expose biased interests.
C. They reject the idea that ideology has real effects on social progress.
D. They promote ideology because it helps to create a dominant social order

A. Cleanth Brooks
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Karl Marx
D. Sigmund Freud

A. Psychoanalysis
B. Marxism
C. Feminism
D. Deconstruction

A. Critics should examine historical information surrounding a literary work.
B. Critics should develop universal readings of texts.
C. Critics should consider evolving notions of a text over time.
D. Critics should attempt to paraphrase texts in order to find out what they mean

A. How women really feel about male writers
B. The inscription of womanhood and femininity in texts
C. Second-wave feminism
D. Psychological studies of women

A. Trauma theory
B. Ecotheory
C. Chaos theory
D. Formalism

A. Feminist theory
B. Ethnic criticism
C. Postcolonial theory
D. All of the above.