A. passive readers and critics of literary texts.
B. involved in critical conversations about literary texts.
C. capable of realizing that the viewpoints of some critics are more important than others.
D. aware that Hamlet is a remarkable work of literature.
Related Mcqs:
- I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be–while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess - In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis ?
A. it is represented in a way that implies collective activity is needed
B. it reveals the sense of imprisonment that comes from routine
C. it reveals characters’ literal inability to move away from Ireland
D. All of the Above - How do historians say Joyce’s exile manifest itself in Finnegans Wake ?
A. it led to the combination of multiple languages to form new words
B. it led to the inclusion of dream scenarios
C. it led to the lack of allusions to other cultures’ stories and myths
D. it led to the focus on the family as a functional institution - To Whom does Franklin say he is addressing his autobiography part 1 ?
A. Himself
B. Indians
C. His son, john
D. His son, William - In which essay did Arnold say that for good literature to flourish two powers are necessary – creative and the critical ?
A. The Function of Criticism
B. The Study of Poetry
C. Preface to Eighteen Fifty Three poems
D. Essay on Wordsworth - What has Dryden to say about the observance of the three Classical Dramatic Unities ?
A. He advocates their strict observance
B. He does not advocate their strict observance
C. He says that every dramatist should decide it for himself
D. He is silent about this issue - 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 - Pride in one’s accomplishments was important to the Anglo-Saxon thegn. If so, why does Hrothgar say in Beowulf: do not give way to pride ?
A. Hrothgar believes it is important to stay focused on revenge.
B. Pride is one of the deadly sins.
C. Pride causes one to appear immodest.
D. Extreme pride can cause one to be overly secure and make mistakes. - In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on the Dump,” one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?
A. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context
B. The broken dreams of the American émigré community in Paris
C. Old poetry
D. The failed attempt of modern poetry - In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?
A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.
B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.
C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.
D. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this
