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Methodology of Literature | Set 1

1. The study of signs is called_

Correct : B. semiotics

2. Who coined the word netspeak to denote the language used in internet communication?

Correct : C. david crystal

3. Who is the author of A House for Mr. Biswas?

Correct : D. vs naipaul

4. Who wrote Things fall Apart?

Correct : A. chinua achebe

5. Train to Pakistan is a famous novel by Kushwant Singh based on

Correct : A. partition

6. Who wrote Summer in Calcutta ?

Correct : A. kamla das

7. Which of the following is not a novel by Chinua Achebe?

Correct : D. shame

8. Achebe belongs to_

Correct : A. nigeria

9. The poem which lends the title of Things fall Apart by Achebe is

Correct : C. second coming

10. An Area of Darkness by VS Naipaul is a

Correct : A. travelogue

11. is a novel by Patrick White, the Australian novelist.

Correct : B. voss

12. The Stone Angel is a novel written by Margaret Lawrence, a native Neepawa in

Correct : A. africa

13. The Guide is a novel written by

Correct : A. rk narayan

14. Mukta Dhara is a play by

Correct : A. tagore

15. The term “Gitanjali” of the poem of the same name by Tagore means

Correct : D. song offerings

16. Who wrote the introduction to Gitanjali?

Correct : A. wb yeats

17. Douglas Steward who wrote many verse plays like Kelly, Shipwreck, The Golden Lover and Fischer’s Ghost originally belonged to

Correct : B. new zealand

18. Who wrote the book The Western Canon?

Correct : A. harold bloom

19. Literary Theory: An Introduction is a book written by

Correct : B. terry eagleton

20. Who wrote the book The Common Pursuit?

Correct : C. f.r leavis

21. “Of the standard of Taste” is an essay by

Correct : A. david hume

22. The term canon originaly meanin g a measuring rod, is of

Correct : D. greek

23. The famous book on culture wars in USA, Illiberal Education : The politics of Sex and Race on Campus is written by

Correct : A. dinesh d’souza

24. Macaulay’s “Minutes on Indian Education” dates back to

Correct : A. 1835

25. What does the acronym DWEM stands for ?

Correct : C. dead white european male

26. Who made a distinction between implied reader and actual reader?

Correct : A. wolf gang iser

27. Who translated Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam into English?

Correct : B. edward fitzgerald

28. Who wrote the book Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992)?

Correct : A. henry louis gates

29. Who spoke about the concept of value in literature?

Correct : C. frank kermode

30. The word for copying another person’s ideas, words, or work and using as if they are yours is called

Correct : A. plagiarism

31. “Piers Plowman” is a poem by

Correct : C. william langland

32. means intended to give instruction, is applied to a work with an educational value

Correct : A. didacticism

33. Aestheticism means intended for_

Correct : B. pleasure

34. My story is a fictional autobiography of

Correct : A. kamala das

35. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is of

Correct : A. nirad chaudhri

36. Who wrote the famous essay “What is an Author?” 1969?

Correct : B. michel foucault

37. Which of the following is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand?

Correct : B. untouchables

38. Who wrote Poetics?

Correct : B. aristotle

39. What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean?

Correct : D. purgation of pity and fear

40. In which century did Shakespeare live?

Correct : D. sixteenth

41. Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”?

Correct : B. roland barthes

42. The comparison between two different things by using like or as as in “O my love’s like a red red rose” is called a

Correct : B. simile

43. The comparison between two different things by not using like or as as in “O my love’s a red red rose” is called a_

Correct : A. metaphor

44. Who used the word social construction for the first time in the book The Social Construction of Reality ?

Correct : B. peter berger& tomas luckman

45. A brand of criticism that argues that writing in English continues colonialism is called

Correct : B. nativism

46. Whose book is Imaginary Home lands?

Correct : A. salman rushdie

47. Who is considered as the father of sociology?

Correct : C. emile durkheim

48. A book of synonyms is called

Correct : C. thesaurus

49. Who is the only writer who has won the Booker of Booker prize?

Correct : A. rushdie

50. Slavoj Zizek is a native of

Correct : C. slovenia

51. O f the following

Correct : B. the fragile absolute

52. What is the subtitle of The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek?.

Correct : A. why is the christian legacy worth fighting for?

53. Zizek’s favourite philosopher who influences his works most is

Correct : A. jacques lacan

54. Who is called “the French Freud”?

Correct : B. jacques lacan.

55. Jacques lacan’s formulation of the concept of psycho‐sexual development has the following three stages of symbolic, imagination and the

Correct : D. mirror stage

56. “The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious” is a celebrated essay by

Correct : A. jacques lacan

57. Ferdinand de Saussure who played an important part in the development of structuralism is a _ linguist.

Correct : D. swiss

58. Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by

Correct : C. saussure

59. The figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole as in “ten hands” for “ten workers” is called

Correct : D. synecdoche

60. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human sciences” is an essay by

Correct : C. jacques derrida

61. Which of the following books is not of Jacques Derrida?

Correct : D. waste land

62. Who coined the new word “difference” to mean “to differ” and “to defer” at the same time?

Correct : B. derrida

63. Who is the proponent of affective stylistics?

Correct : D. stanley fish

64. Who says that all “reading is …….misreading”?

Correct : A. harold bloom

65. Which critical school has its ideal the establishment of an authentic text?

Correct : C. textual criticism

66. wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism .

Correct : A. james thorpe

67. Who wrote the famous essay “The Death of the Author”?

Correct : A. roland barthes

68. Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis?

Correct : A. jacques lacan

69. “The Philosophy of Composition” is by

Correct : B. edgar allan poe

70. Which critic made a revaluation of Metaphysical poets and praised them for blending states of mind and feeling

Correct : A. t s eliot

71. wrote After the New Criticism(1980)

Correct : C. frank lentricchia

72. wrote Defence of poetry

Correct : A. shelley

73. The title of the book The Well Wrought Urn (1947) by Cleanth Brooks is taken from the poem by John Donne.

Correct : C. the canonization

74. The term is suggestive of carefully worked out images that were elaborated over a number of lines.

Correct : A. well wrought

75. According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy.

Correct : A. libido

76. Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by

Correct : B. freud

77. Ernest Jones Hamlet and Oedipus originally published in 1910in the first full scale study of major work

Correct : B. psychoanalytic

78. Hamlet is a

Correct : A. tragedy

79. Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning?

Correct : A. ia richards

80. Who defined a good work as one which successfully communicates a valuable experience?

Correct : D. ia richards

81. Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic

Correct : A. hazlitt

82. “Horizon of expectation “ is a term used in the reception theory of

Correct : A. hans robert gauss

83. Ecriture the French word is used for

Correct : C. writing

84. Writing Degree Zero is a book written by

Correct : B. roland barthes

85. “Writerly books” and “Readerly books” are a distinction made by

Correct : B. umberto eco

86. The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by

Correct : A. john crowe ranson

87. Which group of critics relied on “explication” or “close reading”?

Correct : A. structuralist

88. Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)?

Correct : B. william empson

89. According to Allan Tate the meaning of good poetry is its _

Correct : A. tension

90. Rene Wellek, American critic and Austin warren coauthored the book_ in 1949

Correct : B. theory of literature

91. Who used the phrase “the heresy of paraphrase”?

Correct : A. cleanth brooks

92. Who wrote the works Practical criticism (1929) and Principles of Literacy Criticism (1924)

Correct : A. ia richards

93. Which important writer other than George Eliot and Henry James according to FR Leavis formed The Great Tradition in English novel?

Correct : C. joseph conrad

94. Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for the word

Correct : A. ambiguity

95. The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus is an important work on

Correct : D. existentialism

96. Who criticizes William Empson’s theory of ambiguity in “William Empson, Contemporary criticism and poetic diction”?

Correct : B. elder olson

97. The idea of “depth psychology” an important antecedent of archetypal criticism is of

Correct : C. cg jung

98. Allan Tate’s “Tension in poetry” appears in the book

Correct : A. one the limits of poetry

99. denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action, character types, themes and images which are identifiable in literature, myths, dreams and even social rituals.

Correct : C. archetype

100. The slogan of the cultural movement launched by clack students in Paris in 1932 is

Correct : A. negritude