A. begins at the apparent end of the story.
B. introduces the characters of the play one by one.
C. opens by plunging the viewer into a crucial series of events.
D. begins with a preview of the play’s conclusion.
Related Mcqs:
- One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - The title page which play of Christopher Marlow attributes the play to Marlowe and Thomas Nashe ?
A. Doctor Faustus
B. Dido, Queen of Carthage
C. Edward the Second
D. Tamburlaine the Great - Which of Shakespeare’s play is his only play that has never been adopted for film or Television ?
A. Taming of the Shrew
B. The two Noble Kinsmen
C. Troilus and Cressida
D. Cymbeline - In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play ?
A. Peter Quince
B. Francis Flute
C. Nick Bottom
D. Tom Snout - A critic of Thomas Otway’s “Venice Preserv’d” wishes to know why the play’s conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, are portrayed in a sympathetic light. She examines the author’s life and times and discovers that there are obvious similarities between the conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot. She is most likely a critic ?
A. Historical
B. Feminist
C. Tory
D. Psychological - The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Analyze a Play”. Which comes in as second thing to do before writing a critical essay of a play ?
A. Identify External Factors Related to the Work
B. Interpret the Play
C. Analyze the Staging
D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the Play - “The Second Shepherds’ Play” is part of which play cycle ?
A. Cornish cycle
B. York cycle
C. Roman cycle
D. Wakefield cycle - The first stanza of John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” begins with what topic(s) ?
A. A brief summary of “Paradise Lost”
B. A detailed description of Satan
C. A detailed description of Milton himself
D. A and B - Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..” ?
A. Chastelard
B. A Song of Italy
C. Atalanta in Calydon
D. Songs before Sunrise - What mock epic begins: “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things” ?
A. Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
B. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”
C. Pope’s “The Dunciad”
D. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”
