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1. Which characterized hermeneutics during the middle ages?

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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