Literary Criticism

JKPSC Assistant Professor (English Literature) · English Literature · 85 practice questions with answers and explanations: 9 Easy, 76 Medium, 0 Hard.

Sample questions

Sample Easy question 1

'The Death of the Author' is an essay by:

  1. Paul de Man
  2. Michel Foucault
  3. Jacques Lacan
  4. Roland Barthes
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Answer: D. Published in 1967.

Sample Easy question 2

'Orientalism' (1978) was written by:

  1. Edward Said
  2. Homi Bhabha
  3. Gayatri Spivak
  4. Frantz Fanon
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Answer: A. It analysed Western representations of the East.

Sample Easy question 3

'A Room of One's Own' is by:

  1. Virginia Woolf
  2. Mary Wollstonecraft
  3. Simone de Beauvoir
  4. Kate Millett
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Answer: A. Woolf argued that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write.

Sample Medium question 4

'The Affective Fallacy' refers to judging a poem by its:

  1. Form
  2. History
  3. Emotional effects on the reader
  4. Author
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Answer: C. It was identified by Wimsatt and Beardsley.

Sample Medium question 5

'The Heresy of Paraphrase' is a concept of:

  1. Empson
  2. Cleanth Brooks
  3. Richards
  4. Eliot
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Answer: B. He held that a poem cannot be paraphrased.

Sample Medium question 6

The New Critics advocated:

  1. Historical study
  2. Close reading of the text
  3. Biographical study
  4. Social study
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Answer: B. The text is an autonomous object.

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