Sublimity has_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus ?

   A. Three
   B. Four
   C. Five
   D. Six

2. By sublimity Longiuns means a certain distinction and excellence in ____________?

   A. Imitation
   B. Pleasure
   C. Composition
   D. Puerility

   Submitted by: Shah Jahan

3. What is defamiliarization ?

   A. A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality
   B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
   C. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

4. ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’ was published in______________?

   A. 1798
   B. 1800
   C. 1802
   D. 1815

5. Who is the author of Ars Poetica ?

   A. Plato
   B. Aristotle
   C. Horace
   D. Longinus

6. In her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women ?

   A. Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.
   B. Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.
   C. Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying women’s literature from the past.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

7. Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism ?

   A. Aristotle
   B. Viktor Shklovsky
   C. Stanley Fish
   D. Toni Morrison

8. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Explicate Poetry”. Which comes in as second to the last thing to do before writing a critical essay of a poem ?

   A. Interpret the Poem.
   B. Introduce External Support.
   C. Analyze the Elements of the Poem
   D. Evaluate the Poem.

9. This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have “high seriousness.” ?

   A. T.S. Eliot
   B. Matthew Arnold
   C. Elizabeth Browning
   D. Virginia Woolf

10. What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?

    A. To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
    B. To draw attention to the positive effects of colonization on literature
    C. To explain why there are few examples of successful non-Western literature
    D. To show the ways in which most Western literature is superior