A. The reader fills in the gaps imposed by an author’s intention.
B. The reader is sublimated beneath the author.
C. The reader is less important than the author’s context.
D. The reader is totally subject to the author’s intention.
Related Mcqs:
- In his essay, “The Significance of Fictionalizing”, Wolfgang Iser argues which of the following points ?
A. Historically, writers have been considered liars or at the very least irrelevant.
B. Fictionalizing reality is a basic human need.
C. Every text includes traces from the outside world, including social, historical, and literary remnants.
D. All of these. - The Canterbury Tales is an unfinished work, wherein each pilgrim was supposed to tell more than one tale. How many tales did Chaucer originally envision each pilgrim telling ?
A. four
B. six
C. two
D. one - How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?
A. It focuses on a royal hero.
B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
C. It focuses on adventures.
D. It connects to poetry. - In her essay “The Poem as Event,” Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function ?
A. The reader is acted upon by the text.
B. The reader acts upon the text.
C. The reader brings individual knowledge to his or her reading of the text.
D. All of the above. - With which theorist is the term implied reader associated ?
A. Wolfgang Iser
B. William Wimsatt
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. Harold Bloom - According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
A. Entering the author’s mind through his or her literary works
B. Understanding the author’s consciousness
C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a critical context
D. All of the above. - Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?
A. How readers learn to read
B. How readers imagine visual images in a text
C. How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text
D. How readers regard critics - According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
A. Entering the author’s mind through his or her literary works
B. Understanding the author’s consciousness
C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a critical context
D. All of the above. - Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?
A. How readers learn to read
B. How readers imagine visual images in a text
C. How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text
D. How readers regard critics - Who wrote: “Reader, I married him.” ?
A. Jane Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Edith Wharton
D. Emily Bronte
