A. Every individual’s preconception and prejudice is destructive
and unproductive in the reading and analysis of texts.
B. A person cannot factor out of his prejudice but he can
compromise and find a common ground between his prejudices and the author’s
historical horizon
C. Prejudice are productive because they allow rich and valid
interpretations of the significance of literary texts
D. Truth is always what readers thinks, and not what the author
attempts to convey in the text.
ANS: B. A person cannot
factor out of his prejudice but he can compromise and find a common ground between
his prejudices and the author’s historical horizon
- Scholars of hermeneutics agree that every person has his own
historical horizon which might affect his interpretation and bring about
prejudice. However, a reader can compromise through horizon merging or finding
the common ground.
2. Which of the following may be accepted by Reader-Reception
critic?
A. All interpretations and meanings are correct
B. Interpretations should ultimately be aligned with the author’s intention,
not the reader’s perception.
C. No interpretations can be objective, truth and accurate
D. Interpretations are governed by the language and convention of
the text and literary competence of the reader
ANS: D. Interpretations are
governed by the language and convention of the text and literary competence of
the reader
-Not all interpretations can be considered correct or accurate but
at least interpretations may considered competent if the reader is aware of the
conventions of the text.
3. What is common among the following literary criticism
theories: Marxism, Post-Colonial, Gender and Feminism, New Historicism?
A. Literature is a product of an ideology or social constructs
B. Literature affects human behavior in a given society
C. Literature is independent from other texts and factors external
to the text
D. Literature is a creative
ANS: A. Literature is a product of an ideology or social constructs
-All the literary theories in the item suggested that literature
is a product of social ideology and construct
4. Which of the following can be the subject matter of humanism
literature?
A. Faith
B. Poverty
C. Sacred
D. Salvation
AN: B. Poverty
- The orientation of this period was this period was a shift from
a broadly “other-worldly” disposition to a this worldly” attitude (Habib, 20…).
5. Which is characterized by a re-examination and imitation of
the classical models, literary styles and values of the ancient Greek and Roman
authors?
A. Neoclassicism
B. Neo-Platonism
C. Renaissance
D. Romanticism
ANS: A. Neoclassicism
- Neoclassicism is a
movement which promotes the reading and the appreciation of literary classics
and masterpieces during the classical era.
6. Which movement reacted against the stylistic excess and
superfluous artistry and ornament of Renaissance writers?
A. Neoclassicism
B. Realism
C. Aestheticism
D. Romanticism
ANS: A. Neoclassicism
- Neoclassicism advocates
control and conformity according to the qualities of literary classics.
7. Which literary movement is characterized by logical thinking
and freedom which are vital in making choices?
A. Enlightenment
B. Neoclassicism
C. Renaissance
D. Romanticism
ANS: A. Enlightenment
-The period of enlightenment is a movement that advocates logical
and rational thinking of the human person as he interacts in the society.
8. Which was characterized by two broad events: French
Revolution and the Industrial revolution?
A. Humanism
B. Modern period
C. Post-Modernism
D. Renaissance period
ANS: Modern period
-It is the period of European history from 1760 to 1860, which was
dominate by the two broad events (Habib,20…)
9. In which literary period was poem analysis done within the
framework of human subjectivity and its expression of nature?
A. Naturalism
B. Neoclassicism
C. Realism
D. Romanticism
ANS: D. Romanticism
- It is a broad intellectual and artistic frame of thinking that
arose toward the end of the eighteenth century and reached its zenith during
the early decades of the nineteenth century (Habib, 20…).
10. “Shall I compare thee to summer’s day?” This sonnet from
William Shakespeare may be interpreted may be interpreted in terms of its
allusion to the beauty of nature, its metaphor, and the feelings that and human
nature and human nature evoke upon the reader. Which literary movement advocates this critical approach?
A. Empiricism
B. Neoclassicism
C. Realism
D. Romanticism
ANS: C. Romanticism
-This literary movement advocates spontaneity human emotions and
imaginations over reason and logical thinking (Habib, 20…).
11. Which literary movement is characterized by the avoidance of
what fantastical, imaginary, and mythical or supernatural?
A. Naturalism
B. Neoclassicism
C. Realism
D. Romanticism
ANS: C. Realism
- Is a literary movement whose philosophy is anchored on reality
of the present of the human society and is state of affairs that affect the people.
12. This movement adheres to the requirements of probability and
shuns impossible or improbable literary subjects and themes, with characters
and incidents from all social strata, included. Which of the following literary
selection can be studied using this critical theory of Realism?
A. Animal Farm by George Orwell
B. The Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
C. The House of spirits by Isabel Allende
D. The hunger games by Suzanne Collins
ANS: B. The Grapes of wrath
by John Steinbeck
- The grapes of wrath are
the only novel in the list which includes characters from the social strata
during the period of the Great Depression in the US. All the other novels use
magic realism or fantasy or imaginary characters and events which do not
necessarily represents real characters form a given context.
13. The following characterize realism EXCEPT __________.
A. it considered the human experiences of the present time, and
the topics from contemporary life rather than longing for some idealize past
B. it emphasize the social rather than the individual or seeing
the individual as a social being
C. it emphasized logical reason, and empiricism in the
presentation of events and characters
D. it is focused on contemporary life, and not about some
classical events in the past
ANS: C. it emphasized
logical reason, and empiricism in the presentation of events and characters
-Naturalism is a extreme form of realism; it emphasize logical
explanation of things.
14. Which emphasizes the hereditary psychological components of
characters and experimenting the connections between human psychology and
external environment?
A. Naturalism
B. Neoclassicism
C. Realism
D. Romanticism
ANS: A. Naturalism
-Indeed, Naturalism views literature to include scientific
presentation of characters including their psychological motivation and how
their disposition are affected by nature and events in the society
15. As an extreme form of Realism, which literary movement
emphasizes the use of the methods of the physical science and principles of
causality, using highly detailed methods of description to present the natural
occurrence of things in the literary text?
A. Enlightenment
B. Magic Realism
C. Naturalism
D. Romanticism
ANS: A. Naturalism
- Naturalism attempts to give a scientific description of the
motivation of characters and causes of the events.
16. Known as the era of “decadence,” which literary movement was
a reaction against realism and naturalism, and highly structured poetry?
A. Aestheticism
B. Classicism
C. Enlightenment
D. Symbolism
ANS: D. Symbolism
- Symbolism is a reaction against the notion that language and art
should be structured and scientific and that meaning in literature should be
definite and pre-given based on language
17. Which literary movement rejected the idea that language was
referential, or the signifiers automatically refer to their accurate signified?
A. Naturalism
B. Post-Modernism
C. Realism
D. Symbolism
ANS: D. Symbolism
- Symbolism is a reaction against the notion that language and art
should be structured and scientific and that meaning in literature should be
definite and pre-given based on language
18. Which literary movement emphasizes a more suggestive allusive
and connotative language that would enrich and evoke feelings of awareness and
aesthetic experience?
A. Naturalism
B. Post-Modernism
C. Realism
D. Symbolism
ANS: D. Symbolism
-is a reaction against the notion that language and art should be
structured and scientific and that meaning in literature should be definite and
pre-given based on language in addition. It was reacting against not only the
reduction of the world to a material dimension but also the correlative
reduction of language to a literalness
which enshrines the possibility of absolute clarity (Habib, 20…)
19. Which literary movement states that art exist for its own sake,
or for the sake of beauty, disregarding moral or political consideration and
advocating the freedom of art didactic educational and moralistic functions?
A. Aestheticism
B. Humanism
C. Renaissance
D. Structuralism
ANS: A. Aestheticism
- Aestheticism advocates the independence of art from social moral
education or spiritual context. Art is for the sake of its beauty and aesthetic
appeal.
20. Which literary movement would give productive interpretations
and criticism of Jose Garcia Villa’s comma or punctuations poems?
“In,
my, undream, of death,
I, unspoken, the, Word.
Since, nobody has dared
With, my, own, breath,
I, broke, the, chord,
A. Aesthetic
B. Realism
C. Structuralism
D. Symbolism
ANS: A. Aestheticism
-- Aestheticism advocates the independence of art from social
moral education or spiritual context. Art is for the sake of its beauty and
aesthetic appeal. The poem of Jose Garcia Villa can be meaningfully analyzed
and studied in terms of how the form language sound appearance of the poem contribute
to its own identity as a work of art.
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