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What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?

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What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?

A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
C. Formalism
D. Psychological Approach

Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ?

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Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ?

A. Ethics
B. Metaphysics
C. Rhetoric
D. Ars Poetica

In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?

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In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?

A. Female symbols
B. Phallic symbols
C. Male symbols
D. Evidence of an Oedipus complex

This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage ?

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This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage ?

A. Virginia Woolf
B. Elaine Showalter
C. Mary Wolstencraft
D. Ellen Mores

Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?

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Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?

A. Hélène Cixous
B. Judith Butler
C. Lucy Irigaray
D. Mary Wollstonecraft

Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in______________?

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Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in______________?

A. The Elizabethan Age
B. The Neo-Classical Age
C. The Romantic Age
D. The Victorian Age

What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama ?

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What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama ?

A. They must be observed
B. It is not necessary to observe them
C. He favours the observance of the Unity of Action only
D. Their observance depends upon the nature of the theme of the play

Who said “theatre is not a hospital” ?

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Who said “theatre is not a hospital” ?

A. F.L. Lucas
B. J K Atkins
C. Derrida
D. Hillis Miller

Arnold’s views on poetry and criticism are discussed in ?

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Arnold’s views on poetry and criticism are discussed in ?

A. Preface to the Poems
B. On translating Homer
C. “Scholar Gypsy”
D. Culture and Anarchy

This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have “high seriousness.” ?

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This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have “high seriousness.” ?

A. T.S. Eliot
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Elizabeth Browning
D. Virginia Woolf