A. the psychologies of individual authors.
B. the typographical structures of literary texts.
C. translation issues.
D. how children relate to their parents in terms of literary texts.
A. Hamlet is placed in a position that can be conceptualized as feminine.
B. Hamlet despises his mother and suspects she has killed his father.
C. Hamlet is entirely masculinized throughout the play, and thus, is ultimately unlike his mother in terms of his position in the play.
D. Hamlet has a personality disorder.
A. a line.
B. a foot.
C. a measure.
D. a meter.
A. Hamlet is deeply disturbed by his father’s death.
B. It is never proven within the play that Claudius murdered King Hamlet.
C. Hamlet doubts the proper course of action to take.
D. Ophelia dies by drowning.
A. Formalism focuses on examining how a text exemplifies its writer’s psychology.
B. Formalism focuses on examining the structural dynamics of poems.
C. Formalism focuses on examining the use of literary devices within a literary text.
D. Formalism focuses on examining the historical contexts and backgrounds of literary texts.
A. “Into my head there will come / a beach of cotton, a dock where from.”
B. “To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to live forever.”
C. “I heard a car crash / just as I died.”
D. “Death comes for all of us / even you.”
A. New Historicism was a reaction against New Criticism, which was seen as too narrowly focused on text rather than context.
B. Both fields of literary study are American in origin.
C. New Historicism is simply an early form of Cultural Materialism.
D. Both fields of study are strictly focused on how readers interpret and invent meanings for literary texts.
A. A poem that has no rhyme scheme
B. A poem that eulogizes the dead
C. A poem that carries a pattern on two rhymes and offers an alternating refrain
D. A poem that celebrates the life of a cruel person
A. Fate and free will
B. The corruptive force of technology
C. The power of religious faith
D. Disobedient children
A. The conflict between marriages based on love and those based on money
B. The ways in which appearances don’t always match realities
C. The danger in not recognizing the difference between reality and fiction
D. All of these