Which of the following represents a stage of development in the poetic form of the elegy ?

A. Lamentation, in which the speaker demonstrates grief
B. Praise and admiration for the dead
C. Consolation and solace
D. All of these

Feminist criticism focuses on exploring which of the following aspects of literary texts ?

A. How women are portrayed in literary texts
B. The psychologies of female writers
C. How women have been socially oppressed in literary texts
D. All of these

In Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”, which of the following statements best describes the play’s setting ?

A. Stark and sterile
B. Flowery and ornate
C. Futuristic and technologically advanced
D. Ancient and sophisticated

Gerald Graff’s “They Say, I Say” encourages students to become______________?

A. Passive readers and critics of literary texts.
B. Involved in critical conversations about literary texts.
C. Capable of realizing that the viewpoints of some critics are more important than others.
D. Aware that hamlet is a remarkable work of literature.

Which of the following are common literary elements used to analyze novels ?

A. Character
B. Setting
C. Plot
D. All of these

A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

A. Marxist criticism
B. Reader-response criticism
C. Psychoanalytic criticism
D. New criticism

Which of the following statements best describes Catherine Moreland in “Northanger Abbey” ?

A. She is mature and realistic.
B. She is immature and has difficulty recognizing the difference between fact and fiction.
C. She is a matchmaker trying to set up romances between her friends, all the while unable to find true love herself.
D. B and c

Psychoanalytic criticism during its earliest stages tended to focus on_____________?

A. The psychologies of individual authors.
B. The typographical structures of literary texts.
C. Translation issues.
D. How children relate to their parents in terms of literary texts.

Which of the following lines of poetry is written in iambic pentameter ?

A. “to be or not to be, that is the question.”
B. “and the world didn’t even think of stopping for me.”
C. “i played about the front gate, pulling flowers.”
D. “i wandered lonely as a cloud.”

In his introductory lecture, how does Paul Fry define literary theory ?

A. A hypothesis about how literary texts can be understood
B. A methodology for applying ideas to literary texts
C. The practice of interpreting literary texts
D. A trend in university english departments