What is mimesis ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning ?

   A. Copying
   B. Criticism of life
   C. Representation
   D. Interpretation

2. What is mimesis ?

   A. A reversal
   B. An imitation
   C. A satire
   D. A poetic metaphor

3. What is “Mimesis” ?

   A. It is a philosophical term which means “imitation” or “mimicry.”
   B. It is a philosophical and critical term meaning “otherness.”
   C. It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach.
   D. A and C only

4. Who made a distinction between Fancy and Imagination ?

   A. Wordsworth
   B. Coleridge
   C. Southey
   D. Hazlitt

5. “Of all philosopher’s Plato is the most poetic.” Who said this______________?

   A. Philiph Sidney
   B. Shelley
   C. Aristlotle
   D. Keats

6. Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?

   A. The Moscow School
   B. The Chicago School
   C. The Frankfurt School
   D. The Geneva School

7. Who is the writer of ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ (1949) ?

   A. Carl Jung
   B. Harold Bloom
   C. Ernest Jones
   D. Erik Erikson

8. What is humanism ?

   A. An idea traditionally associated with the Renaissance
   B. A humanity-centered view of the universe
   C. A theory that values restraint, form, and imitation
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

9. What does Ben Jonson mean by a ‘Humorous Character’ ?

   A. A character who is always cheerful and gay
   B. A character who is by nature melancholy
   C. A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body
   D. An eccentric person

10. How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?

    A. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
    B. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
    C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
    D. All of the above answers are correct.