Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ?

A. Longinus
B. Aristotle
C. Plato
D. Horace

The probable date of composition of Ars Poetica is_______________?

A. 100 bc
B. 12 to 8 bc
C. 15 ad
D. 20 ad

What is double consciousness _______________?

A. An early aspect of ethnic criticism
B. An understanding of how double experiences create identity
C. A concept developed by w.e.b du bosi
D. All of the above answers are correct.

Aristotle’s critical work is entitled_______________?

A. Ars poetica
B. Poetics
C. De arte poetica
D. Art poetique

One of the potential disadvantages of this approach to literature is that it can reduce meaning to a certain time frame, rather than making it universal throughout the ages ?

A. Formalist
B. Historical
C. Feminist
D. Mimetic

What approach is described by the paragraph? This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader ?

A. Historical/biographical approach
B. Reader response approach
C. Formalism
D. Mimetic approach

Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this ?

A. An essay
B. A drama
C. A poetical work
D. An interlocution

Who called Aristotle “the very Alexander of criticism” ?

A. Saintsbury
B. Murray
C. Atkins
D. Tyllard

Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in _______________?

A. Art poetique
B. Poetics
C. Rhetoric
D. Ars poetica

Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others ?

A. Judith butler’s gender trouble
B. W.e.b. du bosi’s the souls of black folk
C. Roland barthes’s “the death of the author”
D. Jacques lacan’s “the mirror stage . . . “