Test – 1 (Unit -10)

1. Who defined a work of art as the ‘sum total of all the stylistic devices employed in it”?

a) Saussure b) T.S. Eliot c) Victor Shklovsky d) Derrida

2. The term ‘close reading’ is associated with

a) structuralism b) new criticism c) Russian Formalism d) Historical criticism

3. The relationship between the ‘signifier’ and ‘signified’ is

a) concrete b) ambiguious c) arbitrary d) misleading

4. The study of language over the span of time is called

a) Synchronic study b) diachronic study c) intrinsic study d) extrinsic study

5. Judging the merit of a work through the intent and purpose of the author who created it is called

a) intentional fallacy b) affective fallacy c) rhetoric fallacy d) authorial fallacy

6. Which one of the following is a not a new critic?

a) T.S. Eliot b) I.A. Richards c) Jacobson d) Allen Tate

7. The phrase ‘objective correlative’ was coined and detailed by

a) Dryden b) Mathew Arnold c) Keats d) T.S. Eliot

8. In the field of structuralism the sound image of a word is called

a) sign b) signifier c) signified d) phonetics

9. Who coined the critical phrase ‘negative capability’

a) Mathew Arnold b) T.S. Eliot b) John Dryden d) John Keats

10. The emergence of the school of New Criticism is a strong reaction to

a) Structuralism b) Formalism c) Historical Criticism d) Eco Criticism

11. The term defamiliarisation is associated with

a) Russian Formalism b) New criticism c) Structuralism d) Post structuralism

12. I.A. Richards’ ‘The Principals of Literary Criticism’ was published in the year

a) 1920 b) 1924 c) 1929 d) 1941

13. Who classified the uses of language as ‘emotive’ and ‘referential’?

a) Brooks b) Allen Tate c) I.A. Richards d) William Empson

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 14. Which among the following is not an American critic?

a) Lionel Trilling b) Allen Tate c) Cleanth Brooks d) I. A. Richards

15. Who propagated the theory of the ‘poetry of synthesis’ in his critical theories?

a) Allen Tate b) William Empson c) Cleanth Brooks d) I. A. Richards

16. Who made a dichotomy between langue and parole?

a) Richards b) T.S. Eliot c) Saussure d) Roman Jacobson

17. Who said “English has no clear form for the Oratio Oblique?

a) I. A. Richards b) Allen Tate c) William Empson d) Cleanth Brooks

18. Connotative meaning is also called

a) literary meaning b) scientific meaning c) literal meaning d) referential meaning

19. Who said, “Poetry is not turning loose of emotions, but an escape from emotion”?

a) T. S. Eliot b) I. A. Richards c) Allen Tate d) William Empson

20. The Seven Types of Ambiguity was first published in a) 1924 b) 1930 c) 1940 d) 1941

21. According to William Empson, which is ‘the most ambiguious type that can be conceived’?

a) first b) fourth c) seventh d) third

22. Being a poet, Empson was greatly influenced by a) Shakespeare b) Milton c) Donne d) Keats

23. The terms ‘ambiguity’, ‘irony’ and ‘tension’ laid the foundation for

a) Ancient criticism b) Neo classical criticism c) Romantic criticism d) New Criticism

24. According to Empson, the seventh type of ambiguity is traced in a work when ‘two words that are opposite in a

context shows a fundamental ________ in authors mind’. a) harmony b) ecstasy c) division d) peace

25. The Hopkins poem chosen for analysis of ambiguity by Empson is a a) lyric b) sonnet c) ode d) ballad

26. The opposites found in the “The Windhover” are

a) mortal vs immortal b) human vs inhuman c) love vs hatred d) physical vs spiritual

27. Who is the speaker of the poem “The Windhover”?

a) Lord Jesus b) Hopkins c) the bird d) none of the above

28. According to Empson what is possible at the end of every conflict or ambiguity we locate in a text?

a) reconciliation b) climax c) betrayal d) disagreement

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 29. “The Windhover” is a more evident example of the use of poetry to convey ______

a) the personality of the author b) the beauty of the bird c) an indecision d) the power of Jesus

30. To whom does Empson offer his gratitude before analyzing the text of “The Windhover”?

a) Dr. Richards b) the bird c) Hopkins d) Lord Jesus

31. The ideas are no longer thought as contradictory by the author, or if so, only from a _______ point of view.

a) textual b) ironical c) stylistic d) aesthetic

32. According to Empson the ‘fire’ image in the poem might refer

a) the fire set by the hunters to trap the bird d) the end of the world

c) the hell d) Hopkins burning his early poems

33. Who is the chevalier in the Hopkins’ poem, “The Windhover”?

a) Hopkins himself b) Lord Jesus c) the hunter d) the critic

34. Who is ‘billion times told lovelier’ in the poem by Hopkins?

a) Lord Jesus b) the bird c) the poet d) the nature

35. How many poems does Empson analyse in his essay The Seventh Type of Ambiguity? a) 3 b) 2 c) 4 d) 7

36. The ‘gold-vermilion’ in the last line of the poem of Hopkins symbolizes

a) the sunset b) the fire c) the crucifixion d) the cruelty of Jews

37. The Sacrifice exhibits the sacrifice related to the religion

a) Hinduism b) Christianity c) Moslem d) Buddhism

38. In which poem does Empson find the ‘fireworks of contradiction’

a) The Windhover b) The Sacrifice c) The Vine d) Hymn: to Light

39. The refrain “Was ever grief like mine?” used in The Sacrifice is taken from

a) Song of Solomon b) a sonnet of Shakespeare c) Jeremiah d) Greek mythology

40. According to Empson, George Herbert is a ___________ in sunshine.

a) parrot b) cuckoo c) nightingale d) cricket

41. The conflict traced in the Herbert poem is

a) Love of Christ vs Terrors of sacrifice b) Christians vs the Jews c) Sin vs Virtue d) Both A & C

42. “Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree” is a line from

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 a) The Windhover b) The Vine c) The sacrifice d) Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

43. In the beginning of the essay, I.A. Richards alludes to

a) Poetics b) The Republic c) Leviathan d) Defense of Poetry

44. How many difficulties of reading poetry does I.A.Richards list out in his Practical Criticism?

a) 10 b) 7 c) 8 d)4

45. The difficulties pointed out by Richards are related to one another like

a) the flowers are a plant b) the thorns of a plant c) the diseases of a man d) the cluster of monkeys

46. According to IA. Richards, the original difficulty of all reading is the problem of making out the

a) theme b) meaning c) irony d) tension

47. Richards mocking reference to the phrase ‘Open sesame’ is to attack the _________ understanding of the meaning

of the passages by readers. a) intuitive b) clear c) superfluous d) sophisticated

48. In making out the several kinds of meaning I.A. Richards refers to the game of

a) cricket b) football c) tennis d) billiards

49. According to Richards we are all _______ when we converse

a) jugglers b) spectators c) students d) servants

50. Which one of the following is not a kind of meaning Richards classifies?

a) sense b) tone c) context d) feeling

51. The speaker’s attitude to the subject he is talking about is called a) intention b) feeling c) tone a) sense

52. We use words to direct our hearers’ attention upon some state of affairs. It is called

a) tone b) intention c) feeling d) sense

53. The exclamatory terms such ‘Hurrah’ and ‘Damn’ come under Richards classification

a) Feeling b) Tone c) sense d) intention

54. Which according to Richards is the exceptional case where no feelings enter?

a) philosophy b) mathematics c) engineering d) prose

55. When the speaker chooses or arranges his words considering the different audience, it is called

a) sense b) tone c) intention d) feeling

56. The aim and the effect the speaker is endeavoring to promote through his speech is called

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 a) intention b) tone c) sense d) feeling

57. Which is of special importance in dramatic and semi-dramatic literature?

a) sense b) feeling c) tone d) intention

58. Which of the following plays a predominant role in scientific treatises?

a) sense b) feeling c)tone d) intention

59. Which according to Richards is the subjective counterpart of tone?

a) tact b) feeling c) intention d) opinion

60. According to Richards feeling (and sometimes tone) may take charge of and operate through

a) context b) intention c)tact d) sense

61. In which type of poetry according to Richards occurs a great danger of confusion while making out the meaning?

a) narrative poetry b) dramatic poetry c) historical poetry d) meditative poetry

62. The statements which appear in poetry are there for the sake of their effects upon_______not for their own sake.

a) tone b)feelings c) theme d) readers

63. The subjugation of statement to emotive purpose is often found in

a) poetry b) prose c) drama d) music

64. Who said “Poetry is a spirit”? a) Richards b) Empson c) Dr. Bradley d) Dr. Mackail

65. According to Tate “good poetry is unity of all the meanings from furthest extremes of _______ and _______”

a) context, theme b) intension, extension c) history, biography d) feeling, tone Allan

66. Tate is from the school of

a) New Historicism b) Post Structuralism c) Architypal Criticism d) New Criticism

67. Tension is the resultant word from

a) intension , intervention b) intension , contention c) intension , extension d) narration and passion

68. Allan Tate’s Tension means a simultaneity of ______ and ______ meaning

a) internal and external b) scientific and emotive c) literal and contextual d) literal and figurative

69. According to Tate, Cowley’s “Hymn to Light” is a failure in

a) denotation b) poetic quality c) connotation d) intension

70. Which of Donne’s poems is taken for analysis of Tension by Tate?

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 a) Canonization b) To His Coy Mistress c) To Destiny d) Valediction

71. According to Tate, Metaphysical poets begin at

a) intension b) tension c) extension d) narration

72. Tate’s Tension in Poetry is taken from

a) The Man of Letters in the Modern World b) Fearful Symmetry c) Practical Criticism

73. According to Tate, the literary quality of a poem is its….

a) tension b) intension c) extension d) context

74. In tune with Tension, James Thomson’s “The Vine” is a failure in

a) denotation b) connotation c) context d) theme

75. In his analysis, Miss Millay’s “Justice Denied in Massachusetts” uses

a) poetic language b) allusive language c) metaphorical language d) mass language

76. The nineteenth century English verse, according to Tate, is a poetry of_________

a) feelings b)communication c) love d) nature

77. Mass language of Miss Millay in her poems produces

a) affective state b) sentimentality c) aesthetic state d) both a & b

78. Which of the following poems of Donne is superior to Miss Millay’s Justice

a) Canonization b) Valediction c) Second Anniversarie d) None of these

79. Allen Tate is attacking the fallacy of _________ in poetry

a) intention b) affection c) tension d) communication

80. According to Tate, James Thomson’s The Vine is a failure in

a) denotation b) connotation c) tension d) intension

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