A. The idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.
B. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
C. The author may not always exist.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Related Mcqs:
- In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
A. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
B. The author is not a source of infinite meaning.
C. The author may not always exist.
D. All of the above. - According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans. - In his essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
A. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.
B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
C. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the author’s politics.
D. Literature is inextricably connected to its creator. - The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ?
A. Begin your paper with an introduction that identifies the purpose of the paper and the text you are addressing.
B. Compose topic sentences (four or five, perhaps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis.
C. Select specific passages in the text of the story that help you to develop each topic sentence.
D. Build your paper to a climax; save your most engaging or important topic sentence for discussion last. - The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?
A. Identify the Mode of Development
B. Analysis of the Author
C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
D. Identify External Factors Related to the Work - The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?
A. Identify the Mode of Development
B. Analysis of the Author
C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
D. All of the above answers are correct. - In his essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
A. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.
B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
C. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the author’s politics.
D. Authorial intent must be considered when evaluating literature. - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?
A. Thomas More.
B. Francis Bacon.
C. Earl of Oxford.
D. John Shakespeare. - What is the authorship controversy as it relates to Heloise and Abelard ?
A. the critical debate about the verification of events in the letters
B. the idea that Abelard wrote all of the letters
C. the issue of whether there is a “female voice” in the letters
D. All of the Above
