A. Interpretation became significantly important in the field of
religion.
B. Invention of literary forms gave rise to the science of
interpretation is secular texts
C. Meaning became
D. Philosophical ideas were so abstract that people had to invent
the science of interpretation.
ANS: A. Interpretation
became significantly important in the field of religion.
- Hermeneutics started in the sphere of religion because religion
condemned the reading of non-sacred texts. Hermeneutics in religion provided a
guide interpreting sacred texts aligned with the scriptural of the bible.
Then said Almitra, speak to us of Love.
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell stillness
upon them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckon to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you
And when he speaks to you believed in him
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays
waste he garden
For even as love crowns you shall he crucify you. Even as he is
for your growth so is he for you pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses you tenderest
branches that quiver in the sun,
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked
He sifts you to free you from your husk
He grinds you whiteness
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you become sacred
bread for God’s sacred
2. Which of the following
is a potential meaning from a feminist literary critic as he/she reads the
poem?
A. A woman has selfless dreams o humanity
B. The poem justifies the patriarchal idea that a woman is the
symbol of love and affection and the laws of nature.
C. The poems presents a universal truth and symbol that a woman
must learn how to respect her husband
D. The poem presents a woman as the object of love, a martyr for
the cause of love presented as man
ANS: D. The poem presents a woman as the object of
love, a martyr for the cause of love presented as man
-Feminism looks with a critical eye how literature, dominate by
men represents a woman and her role reduce something inferior
3. The following are post-colonial critical approach EXCEPT
________________.
A. it analyze how a superior cultures influence an inferior
community
B. it pushes for the appreciation of the literary creativity of
the post-modern era
C. it recognize how history shaped the lives and belief of people
of a former colony
D. it studies the impact of colonial culture through literature
ANS: B. it pushes for the
appreciation of the literary creativity of the post-modern era
-Post colonialism doe not primarily deal with literary artistry
and style. Post colonialism allows intertextuall criticism
4. Which of the following is NOT a process or principle of
formalist criticism?
A. Close reading non-intertextual interpretation are approaches in
the study of literary texts.
B. Defamiliarization creates the literary experience
C. Meaning is the essence of literature
D. The dominant quality and literary device shape the nature and
from of literature.
ANS: C. Meaning is the
essence of literature
-Meaning and its relevance to life not the primary consideration
of a formalism critical theory. Meaning is a part of the form and literariness
of literary work.
5. Intertexuality believes that _________________.
A. accurate meaning can be achieved through close reading of the
text itself
B. heteroglossia or multiple meanings exist, nor can accurate or
valid interpretation be possible
C. heteroglossia or multiple meanings exist
D. meaning is the sole responsibility of the author; therefore,
interpretation shows be aligned with what the author meant the author meant in
the text
ANS: C. heteroglossia or
multiple meanings exist
-Intertextuality affirms that
multiple meanings can exist; therefore the text can be regarded as a
text informed and influenced by other texts. In literature, intertextuality is
when a literary selection refers to a literary or social text, including
cultural history (http://humanities.wise.edu/assests/misc/What_Is_Intertextuality.pdf.)
6. Which of the following is NOT true about signs?
A. Iconic signs-the significance resembles the signified
B. Indexes-signifier indicates the signified
C. Signs-signifier as the concept is represented by the sound
image or signified
D. True symbol-signifier is a arbitrarily assigned to refer to
signified
ANS: C. Signs-signifier as
the concept is represented by the sound image or signified
-In semiontics, a sign comprises the signifier the sound image or
word we percieve the signified and the signified or the object or idea
represented by the signifier.
7. How does a Maxist Literary critic view literature?
A. A product of class struggles and economic history
B. A product of author’s view of society and the world
C. A receptable of symbol
D. An art which exist for its own sake
ANS: A. A product of class
struggles and economic history
-Marxism utilize literature in order to analyze the economic
conditions and the problems of the working class as it struggles to surive in
society dominated by capitalism and its philosphy.
8. Which of the following represents the philosophical belief of
a New Historicism scholar?
A. History exist as the only accurate text of the
post-structuralism
B. It does not allow internal reading
C. It examines how readers are influence by their prejudice or
personal view of the world.
D. There is no history, but a version of the authors view of the
historical facts
ANS: D. There is no
history, but a version of the authors view of the historical facts
-New historian presents who a literary selection is influenced by
the writer’s milieu. The Online Library of Purdue University reports: “New
historics do not believe that we can look at history objectively, but rather
that we interpret events as products of our timeand culture and that “…we don’t
have clear access to any but themost basic facts of history… our understanding
of what such facts means….is….strictly a matter of interpretation, not facts’ (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/09/)
9. Which of the following relates Psychoanalytic theory in
literary criticism?
A. Art is decadent, and self-indulging
B. Literary criticism is giving judgment of the behavior and
prejudice of readers during the reading
act.
C. The literary text is the product of the author’s repressed
dreams and fantasies, and literary interpretation or psychoanalysis.
D. The text is a rich symbol of the author’s personal, and
psychological view of the world and its people.
ANS: C. The literary text
is the product of the author’s repressed dreams and fantasies, and literary
interpretation or psychoanalysis.
-Psychoanalytic theory views literature as a form of manifesting the repressed whishes
and fantasies of the author. “It argues that literary texts like dreams express
the secret unconscious desire and anxieties of the author. That a literary work
is a manifestation of the author own neuroses.” (https://public.wsu.edu/-delahoyd/psycho.crit.html).
10. Which approach to literary criticism highlights how many
meaning, interpretations, frameworks, systems and structural belief break
apart?
A. Hermeneutics
B. Post-structuralism
C. Semiotics
D. Structuralism
ANS: B. Post-structuralism
-Post –structure maintains that framework and systems for example
the structuralist systems explained in the Structuralist area, are merely
fictitious constructs and that they cannot be trusted to develop meaning or to
give order. “http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/08/
11. The idea of the “death of the author” by M. Bakhtin can be
associated with which principle of reader-reception theory?
A. Reading is a process of dialogue between the read and the
author mediated by the text.
B. The reader is the author of the text
C. There cannot be only one interpretation; However, there can be
many valid and competent interpretations
D. There is no accurate and meaningful interpretation in a text
that can be ascertained by the reader
ANS: B. The reader is the
author of the text
-Because the author cannot be questioned during the act of reading
the reader assumes the responsibility of creating and reconstructing the
meaning of the text
12. Even before the intention of the printed page in the middle
of the 15th century oral literature oral literature had been in
circulation by world-of-mouth for centuries. Epics myths, legends and fables
which were told hundreds of years ago may be said to fall under what literary
genre?
A. Essay
B. Drama
C. Poetry
D. fiction
ANS: D. Fiction
-Fiction contains the elements of oral storytelling which became
the bases for all later narratives.
Read the
poem, then answer questions no 153.
Fog
The fog
comes
On little
cat feet
Its sits
looking
Over harbor
and city
On silent
haunches
And then
moves on.
Carl
Sanburg
13. Among the “sense of mind,” which one is predicted in the poem
above?
A. Sense of touch
B. Sense of smell
C. Motion sense
D. Thermal sense
ANS: C. Motion sense
-The comparison of the fog to the cats appeals to the reader’s
motion sense because the poem shows the movement /coming of the fog as though
it were the almost unnoticeable little cat feet moving
14. The image projected in ”Frog”
is _______.
A. the silent, graceful, hardly noticeable and nonchalant coming
of the fog
B. the fogs quit lifting off towards some known direction as it
gets dispersed
C. the fog’s obvious lifting
off towards some known direction as it gets dispersed
D. both A and B
ANS: D. both A and B
-First lines speak of the coming of the fog; the next four lines
speak of its slow departure as it scatters.
15. The figure of speech found in the same poem is
______________.
A. personification
B. simile
C. metonymy
D. hyperbole
ANS: A. personification
-The human attributes of coming, sitting looking being quiet and
having haunches were given to inanimate the “fog”
16. Which character or force in conflict with conflict with a
main character, e.g the extreme cold in Jack London’s “To build a fire”
A. Protagonist
B. Antagonist
C. Hero/heroine
D. supernatural power
ANS: B. Antagonist
-In many stories, the conflict between the protagonist and the
antagonist is the basis for the plot. The antagonist, in this case is neither a
person nor an animal but the extreme cold goes against the protagonist the main
character.
17. Which is a body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs,
riddle, sayings and other works arising out of the oral traditions of people
around the world?
A. Folk literature
B. Pop culture
C. Epics
D. Folk pop
ANS: A. Folk literature
-Oral tradition is the passing of poems stories and songs from
generation to generation to generation by word of mouth and collectively known
as folk literature.
18. What tone is exemplified by the underlined words in the
following lines taken from “The Raven”?
“Once upon
a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
Over a
many quaint and curious volume forgotten lore
While a
nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of
someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. . .”
A. rhyme
B. consonance
C. assonance
D. alliteration
ANS: D. alliteration
-Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sound (w,
q, n) in a line of verse. Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound, e.g.
race make. Consonance is the repetition of consonance sound at the ends of the
words, e.g. dreary, weary.
19. Which is an all-knowing point of view in which author tells
of the thoughts and feeling of each character in the story?
A. Third person omniscient POV
B. Third person limited
C. First person POV
D. Third person central character POV
ANS: A. Third person
omniscient POV
-all knowing is omniscient.
20. The expression, “and they lives happily ever after” is
included as a segment of the ___________ .
A. resolution
B. setting
C. theme
D. plot
ANS: D. plot
-The expression is usually the ending of a story which is still a
part of the plot.
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