Postmodern writing often uses and as literary devices ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?

   A. The leading characteristic of the age
   B. Monarchs or political events
   C. The primary author of the age
   D. The language of the age

2. Which of the following statements best describes the worldview represented by postmodern theater ?

   A. The world is a bright and interesting place.
   B. Universal truth doesn’t exist, and audience members must discover truth for themselves.
   C. The world is so complex that it does not require literature or theater.
   D. Mainstream audiences are so shallow that it is not worth writing plays for them.

3. A postmodern play would most likely not make use of which of the following theatrical traditions ?

   A. A minimalist stage and strict adherence to the script
   B. Video clips and the use of popular music
   C. Nonlinear storytelling and the embracement of popular culture
   D. A pastiche of different literary and historical sources

4. Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein’s poem “New” ?

   A. Assonance and word repetition
   B. Simile
   C. Metaphor and allusion
   D. Circumlocution

5. Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?

   A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
   B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
   C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare
   D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

6. Which of the following literary devices are present in Langston Hughes’s poem “Ku Klux” ?

   A. Irony
   B. Allegory
   C. Oxymoron
   D. Alliteration

7. Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory ?

   A. Literary criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work.
   B. Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text.
   C. Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

8. As a mode of literary criticism or theory, formalism attempted to bring which of the following to literary studies ?

   A. An awareness of the historical circumstances surrounding a text’s production
   B. A set of objective criteria for critical analysis
   C. An awareness of the economic circumstances surrounding a literary text
   D. Strict criteria for evaluating the quality of a literary text

9. As a mode of literary criticism or theory, gender theory attempts to bring which of the following to literary texts ?

   A. An understanding of the various conceptions and understandings of gender that have carried throughout various cultures
   B. An understanding of gender as a human construct
   C. An understanding of how standard histories of western societies are presented in terms of heterosexual identity
   D. All of these.

10. A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

    A. Marxist criticism
    B. Reader-response criticism
    C. Psychoanalytic criticism
    D. New Criticism