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.
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
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. - Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?
A. Archbishop Cranmer
B. Catherine of Aragon
C. Elizabeth I
D. Mary Tudor - What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees” ?
A. They both address the theme of death.
B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.
C. They are both set in rural New England.
D. All of these answers - Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies ?
A. Marxism
B. Fascism
C. Democracy
D. Libertarianism - 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 - What is the significance of the “bloody bedchamber” in Gothic fiction ?
A. It represents male sexuality.
B. It suggests female complicity in sexual deviance.
C. It refers to the location of murder in Gothic novels.
D. It symbolizes the forced sequestration of women both before and after marriage. - Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play ?
A. Twelfth Night
B. Hamlet
C. The Tempest
D. Henry IV,Pt I - What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?
A. It functions as a metaphor for the women’s rights movement.
B. It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.
C. It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.
D. It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period. - 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
