What are the basic questions literary theory asks ?
A. What is literature?
B. Why do people write literature?
C. What are the effects of literature?
D. All of these.
A. Marxist theory
B. psychoanalytic theory
C. postcolonial theory
D. deconstruction
A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.
Which of the following offers the best definition of the theatrical concept of a chorus ?
A. Members of the audience who comment on the play’s actions
B. Characters who remind the audience that the play is fictional
C. A group of characters who comment on the actions of the play while participating in them
D. A group of characters who comment on the actions of the play while not participating in them
Which of the following poems can be described as a haiku ?
A. Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”
B. Bishop’s “One Art”
C. Auden’s “Paysage Moralisé”
D. William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”
Which of the following are examples of poetic structures ?
A. Lines of text with words that rhyme at the end
B. A continuous block of text
C. Unrhymed lines
D. All of these