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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Reader-response theory focuses on considering how ?
A. readers choose their favorite works of literature.
B. readers experience a literary work.
C. readers decide which works of literature to read.
D. readers develop their own unique and personal critical discourses. - Beowulf introduces the reader to the life of a thegn. Which of the following best describes the role of the thegn ?
A. The thegn is a warrior who has sworn his loyalty to an Anglo-Saxon lord.
B. The thegn is a class of protocapitalism opposed to the guild system.
C. The thegn is a warrior who pays money in exchange for exemption from military service.
D. The thegn is an Anglo-Saxon lord who partakes in the comitatus ethic. - The Gothic novel was intended to have which of the following effects on the reader ?
A. To create a sense of mystery, gloom, and suspense
B. To make the reader dislike modern society
C. To make the reader feel distaste for supernatural themes
D. To generate feelings of intense pleasure - What approach is described by the paragraph? This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader ?
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Reader Response Approach
C. Formalism
D. Mimetic Approach - According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
A. Understanding the author’s ideas in the context of the real world
B. Entering the author’s mind through his or her literary works
C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a critical context
D. All of the above answers are correct. - With which theorist is the term implied reader associated ?
A. Wolfgang Iser
B. William Wimsatt
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. Harold Bloom - In her essay “The Poem as Event,” Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function ?
A. The reader participates in a transaction with the text.
B. The reader is acted upon by the text.
C. The reader acts upon the text.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - How does Wolfgang Iser envision the reader ?
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. - 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.