Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?

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1. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?

   A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
   B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
   C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
   D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

2. Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?

   A. An approach that emphasizes literary devices in a text
   B. An approach that emphasizes the historical context of a text
   C. An approach that emphasizes the biographical intent of a text
   D. An approach that emphasizes racial issues in a text

3. Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?

   A. Calling into question the possibility of the coherence of discourse
   B. Suggesting that the study of literature is based on the breakdown of language into signs
   C. Arguing that language, and therefore literary texts, relies on the difference between terms and therefore constantly defers meaning.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

4. Which of the following statements best defines the poetic form of the villanelle ?

   A. A poem that has no rhyme scheme
   B. A poem that eulogizes the dead
   C. A poem that carries a pattern on two rhymes and offers an alternating refrain
   D. A poem that celebrates the life of a cruel person

5. Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?

   A. An approach that emphasizes literary devices in a text
   B. An approach that emphasizes the historical context of a text
   C. An approach that emphasizes the biographical intent of a text
   D. An approach that emphasizes racial issues in a text

6. Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?

   A. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved
   B. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
   C. The concluding lines of any poem
   D. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners

7. Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?

   A. A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity
   B. An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others’ pain and joy
   C. A sense of awe in the power of the natural world
   D. A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason

8. Which of the following best defines satire ?

   A. Literature that relies on devices like irony, sarcasm, and humor
   B. A work of literature that attempts to improve society
   C. A text that exposes serious flaws under the veil of comedy
   D. All of these answers

9. Which of the following best defines caesura ?

   A. A pause or break in a line of poetry
   B. Giving inanimate objects human qualities
   C. A metaphorical compound
   D. The image used to share qualities in a metaphor or simile

10. Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

    A. An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons
    B. A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence
    C. A unique form of English spoken in Germany
    D. A form brought to England by the Scandinavians