EASY 10qS FOEM ENG1102
Humanities
Which critical approach does this thesis statement suggest?
In open double quoteThe
Death of the Ball Turret
Gunner,close double quote
the soldier falls from one womb, his mothers, into the uncaring one of the State; Jarrells poem functions as a short but damning criticism of the way the government treats its armed
forceslong dashas
expendable, faceless, and barely human.
A.
historicist
B.
biographical
C.
archetypal
D.
Marxist
2.Which of the following two critical approaches does this thesis statement suggest? Choose the best answer.
In each of these sonnets, the four seasons and these seasons associations with various Greek gods are used to symbolize the life cycle of a love affair.
A.
post-structuralist
and new historicist
B.
deconstructionist and psychoanalytical
C.
structuralist and mythological/archetypal
D.
cultural and reader-response
3.Which of the following approaches is closely related to the work of Carl Jung?
A.
post-structuralism
B.
gender studies
C.
multicultural studies
D.
mythological/archetypal criticism
4.Which of the following critical approaches does this thesis statement suggest? Choose the best answer.
In open double quoteThe
Author to Her
Book,close double quote
Anne Bradstreets sharp criticisms of her
open double quotechild,close double quote
her book, point to an unconscious yet powerful sense of
inadequacylong dashbut
is this the speakers insecurity or the authors?
A.
formalist
B.
feminist
C.
biographical
D.
psychoanalytical
5.Which of the following critical approaches is suggested by this thesis statement?
In open double quoteI,
Too,close double quote
Langston Hughes captures the journey toward civil rights with the smallest of word changes from the first and last line: sing (I, too, sing America) becomes am (I, too, am
America).
However, published in 1945, a decade before the advent of the
civil
rights
mov
ement,
this poem is an argument for, not a celebration of, equality.
A.
cultural studies
B.
structuralist criticism
C.
biographical criticism
D.
deconstructionist criticism
6.Choose the pair of words that best completes the following sentence:
Cultural studies is often concerned with how ____________ voices and texts negotiate the ___________ culture.
A.
marginalized / dominant
B.
gendered / larger
C.
dominant / marginalized
D.
normal / open double quoteotherclose double quote
7.Which of the following critical approaches does this thesis statement most strongly suggest?
In open double quoteDiving
Into the
Wreck,close double quote
Richs speaker longs to discover what really happened in
historylong dashopen double quotethe
wreck and not the story of the
wreckclose double quote
as told by male historians to male scholars.
A.
Marxist criticism
B.
cultural studies
C.
feminist criticism
D.
multicultural criticism
8.Which type of criticism analyzes the way literature may try to challenge the dominant power structure of a society?
A.
psychoanalytical criticism
B.
structuralist criticism
C.
Marxist criticism
D.
literary criticism
9.Choose the best option to complete the following sentence:
A _______________ approach often argues that a new literary language and theory must be developed in order to discuss literary works by authors outside the dominant ethnic culture.
A.
multicultural
B.
formalist
C.
historicist
D.
structuralist
10.Which of the following definitions best describes open double quotepsychoanalytical
criticismclose double quote?
A.
adhering closely to either a Freudian or Jungian reading of the text
B.
researching the authors psychological state and judging the works merits by an assessment of his or her relative sanity
C.
examining the role of either an authors or characters unconscious to interpret a text
D.
examining the conscious desires of the author or character(s)