English Literature One-liner PDF
Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
Answer: Lockhart
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Answer: Tanka
The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by _________________?
Answer: John Ruskin
Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to _______________?
Answer: Thomas Chatterton
Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
Answer: Clara Dawes
Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?
Answer: All of the above (Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure)
How many languages did Chaucer know?
Answer: 4
In which language the stories of Canterbury tale are written?
Answer: Middle english
Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’?
Answer: Kipling
Why did ’Poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in 1953?
Answer: Owner convicted of fraud
In what form did Dylan Thomas’s ’Under Milk Wood’ first become known?
Answer: A radio play
Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
Answer: Sylvia Plath
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Answer: War poems
What is a funny poem of five lines called _________________?
Answer: Limerick
What is the title of the poem that begins thus – ’What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare’?
Answer: Leisure
Complete this Shakespearan line – Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring________________?
Answer: Impediments
What figure of speech is used in “Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington” couplet?
Answer: Synecdoche
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called?
Answer: Prosody
Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages?
Answer: Dylan Thomas
Which is an example of a proverb?
Answer: You can’t have your cake and eat it, too
The theme is_____________?
Answer: the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
What is the word for a “play on words”?
Answer: pun
Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale?’
Answer: William Shakespeare
Q25. William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
Answer: 1564
Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
’The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who emerged when?
Answer: The 1960’s
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Answer: Acrostic
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
Answer: The 14th
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
Answer: William Carlos Williams
What is the study of poetry’s meter and form called?
Answer: Prosody
In his poem Kipling said ’If you can meet with triumph and _____________’?
Answer: Disaster
Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
Answer: Walt Whitman
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Answer: Hughes
Which American writer published ’A brave and startling truth’ in 1996?
Answer: Maya Angelou
Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
Answer: First World War
Who was described as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’?
Answer: T. S. Elliot
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Answer: Nonsense
Which poem ends ’I shall but love thee better after death’?
Answer: How do I love thee
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
Answer: The Homeric epic
Where did Chaucer bury?
Answer: westminster abbey
Which of the following is not an English poet?
Answer: Victor Hugo
Which of the following is not a poet?
Answer: Terry Saylor
Who wrote the poems, “On death” and “Women, Wine, and Snuff?”
Answer: John Keats
A poem with no meter or rhyme______________?
Answer: free verse
A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters_______________?
Answer: narrative
Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________?
Answer: onomatopoeia
Comparison of unlike things without using like or as______________?
Answer: metaphor
Applying human qualities to non-human things?
Answer: personification
A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry?
Answer: meter
From which language the name ”chaucer” has been driven?
Answer: french
Chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which sin?
Answer: Gluttony
Which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Answer: The canterbury tales
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
Answer: Novelist
The magazine ’Contemporary Poetry and Prose’ was inspired by?
Answer: The Surrealist Exhibition
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
Answer: 28
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Answer: St Louis
How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
Answer: A game of knowledge
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet?
Answer: William Wordsworth
Which is an exaggeration?
Answer: Hyperbole
Which culture is known for long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Answer: Arabic
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated?
Answer: Hyperbole
What is a sonnet?
Answer: A poem of fourteen lines
Which is not a poetry form?
Answer: tale
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Answer: Onomatopoeia
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Answer: A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn’t.
“Of Man’s first disobedience…” is an extract from?
Answer: Paradise Lost
Who wrote “Ten Little Niggers?”
Answer: Agatha Christie
____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Answer: Top Girls
Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles?”
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk Wood?“
Answer: Dylan Thomas
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Answer: Ottowa
How has Stephen Dunn been described?
Answer: A poet of middleness
From which play: ’Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight’?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Who wrote: ’Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’?
Answer: Shakespeare
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Answer: Iambic pentameter
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
Answer: The Occult
’The Colossus’ was the first book of poems by which poetess?
Answer: Sylvia Plath
Carl Sandburg ’Planked whitefish’ contains what kind of imagery?
Answer: Sea scenes
Who wrote about the idyllic ’Isle of Innisfree’?
Answer: Yeats
Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
Answer: Betjeman
What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
Answer: She rarely left home
In Ancient Mariner, where were the three gallants going?
Answer: A wedding
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
Answer: Lord Byron
Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem?
Answer: theme, purpose, form, and mood.
Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?
Answer: Robert Burns
Chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?
Answer: hundred years’ war
Where were the pilgrims going in the Canterbury tales?
Answer: To the shrine of saint thomas becket at canterbury cathedral
Which represents an example of alliteration?
Answer: Peter Piper Picked Peppers
A poem that generally has meter and rhyme______________?
Answer: lyric
A description that appeals to one of the five senses____________?
Answer: imagery
Comparison of unlike things using like or as_____________?
Answer: simile
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds_____________?
Answer: alliteration
The repetition of similar ending sounds_______________?
Answer: rhyme
Which is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect?
Answer: Grammar
What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet’s father?
Answer: Hebenon
Q. Who wrote the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex?
Answer: Sophocles
Q. In which century was Don Quixote published?
Answer: 17th century
Q. What is the first name of Dr. Jekyll in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Answer: Henry
Q. Which Charles Dickens novel begins with the line: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?
Answer: A Tale of Two Cities
Q. Who is the narrator of Moby-Dick?
Answer: Ishmael
Q. Which novel features the character Heathcliff?
Answer: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Q. What is the name of the epic poem written by John Milton?
Answer: Paradise Lost
Q. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
Answer: The Modern Prometheus
Q. Who wrote the play A Streetcar Named Desire?
Answer: Tennessee Williams
Q. In what language was Don Quixote originally written?
Answer: Spanish
Q. In Jane Eyre, who is the mysterious employer of Jane?
Answer: Mr. Rochester
Q. What is the full title of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Q. Who wrote the Divine Comedy?
Answer: Dante Alighieri
Q. In which novel does Elizabeth Bennet appear?
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
Q. What is the title of the second novel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Answer: The Two Towers
Q. Who is the author of The Scarlet Letter?
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Q. Who is the author of the 18th-century satirical work Candide?
Answer: Voltaire
Q. What is the setting for Wuthering Heights?
Answer: The Yorkshire moors
Q. Which Russian novel begins with the line: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”?
Answer: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Q. In Dante’s Divine Comedy, what is the name of the guide who leads Dante through Hell?
Answer: Virgil
Q. What is the name of the ship in Treasure Island?
Answer: The Hispaniola
Q. What is the central conflict in The Iliad?
Answer: The Trojan War
Q. What animal is central to Orwell’s allegorical novella Animal Farm?
Answer: Pigs
Q. Which novel tells the story of Jean Valjean?
Answer: Les Misérables
Q. What is the real name of the author known as Mark Twain?
Answer: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Q. Who is the author of The Odyssey?
Answer: Homer
Q. In The Scarlet Letter, what does the letter “A” on Hester Prynne’s dress symbolize?
Answer: Adultery
Q. Who is the tragic hero in Oedipus Rex?
Answer: Oedipus
Q. What is the genre of Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
Answer: Gothic fiction
Q. Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
Answer: A Christmas Carol
Q. Which book begins with “Call me Ishmael”?
Answer: Moby-Dick
Q. Who wrote Anna Karenina?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Q. What is the primary setting of Great Expectations?
Answer: England
Q. Who is the author of Madame Bovary?
Answer: Gustave Flaubert
Q. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
Q. In which play does the line “To be, or not to be” appear?
Answer: Hamlet
Q. Who is the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Q. What is the name of the monster in Beowulf?
Answer: Grendel
Q. Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans, set during the French and Indian War?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper
Q. What is the theme of A Tale of Two Cities?
Answer: Sacrifice and resurrection
Q. Who is the author of Gulliver’s Travels?
Answer: Jonathan Swift
Q. Which novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars?
Answer: War and Peace
Q. Who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas
Q. Which Shakespearean play features the character Shylock?
Answer: The Merchant of Venice
Q. What is the setting of The Grapes of Wrath?
Answer: Dust Bowl-era America
Q. Which American poet wrote Leaves of Grass?
Answer: Walt Whitman
Q. Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
Answer: Joseph Conrad
Q. What is the central theme of The Old Man and the Sea?
Answer: Struggle and perseverance
Q. Who is the protagonist in Dracula?
Answer: Jonathan Harker
Q. What is the main conflict in Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Feuding families
What is the name of the literary award given annually by the Swedish Academy?
Answer: The Nobel Prize in Literature
Which prestigious award is given for fiction, drama, and poetry in the United States?
Answer: The Pulitzer Prize
Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901?
Answer: Sully Prudhomme
Which British literary award is given annually for the best original novel written in English?
Answer: The Booker Prize
Who won the Booker Prize in 2022 for the novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”?
Answer: Shehan Karunatilaka
What is the name of the American award for science fiction and fantasy works?
Answer: The Hugo Award
Which poet won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for their collection “The Tradition”?
Answer: Jericho Brown
Which award is given to the best original French-language novel of the year?
Answer: Prix Goncourt
Who was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: Toni Morrison
Which novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2023?
Answer: Demon Copperhead and Trust (Joint winners)
What is the name of the award given by the British Crime Writers’ Association?
Answer: The Gold Dagger Award
Which author won the Booker Prize twice, for “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies”?
Answer: Hilary Mantel
What is the name of the literary award given for children’s books in the United States?
Answer: The Newbery Medal
Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021?
Answer: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Which award is presented annually by PEN America for literary excellence?
Answer: The PEN/Faulkner Award
Which author won the 2020 Booker Prize for the novel “Shuggie Bain”?
Answer: Douglas Stuart
What is the name of the literary prize awarded to works written in Spanish?
Answer: The Miguel de Cervantes Prize
Which award is given annually for the best debut novel by a British, Irish, or Commonwealth author?
Answer: The Dylan Thomas Prize
Who won the Hugo Award in 2019 for “The Calculating Stars”?
Answer: Mary Robinette Kowal
Which American literary prize is awarded for achievements in literature for young adults?
Answer: The Printz Award
Who was the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970?
Answer: Bernice Rubens
Which Japanese author has been nominated multiple times but has not won the Nobel Prize yet?
Answer: Haruki Murakami
What is the name of the literary award for excellence in Canadian literature?
Answer: The Governor General’s Literary Awards
Which writer won the Nobel Prize in 2016 for contributions to music and songwriting?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Who won the International Booker Prize in 2023 for the novel “Time Shelter”?
Answer: Georgi Gospodinov
Who is the author of “The Midnight Library”?
Answer: Matt Haig
Which author wrote the “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series?
Answer: Sarah J. Maas
Who is the author of the novel “It Ends With Us”?
Answer: Colleen Hoover
Which bestselling thriller author wrote “The Silent Patient”?
Answer: Alex Michaelides
Which famous author wrote “Les Misérables”?
Answer: Victor Hugo
Which Japanese author is known for “Norwegian Wood”?
Answer: Haruki Murakami
Who is the author of the “Bridgerton” series?
Answer: Julia Quinn
Who is the author of “The Chronicles of Narnia”?
Answer: C.S. Lewis
Who wrote “Lessons in Chemistry”?
Answer: Bonnie Garmus
Which author created the world of Middle-earth in “The Lord of the Rings”?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
Who is the author of the “Shadow and Bone” trilogy?
Answer: Leigh Bardugo
Which author wrote “Daisy Jones & The Six”?
Answer: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Who is the author of “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”?
Answer: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Which thriller author wrote the “Jack Reacher” series?
Answer: Lee Child
Who wrote “Shatter Me”, a bestselling YA dystopian series?
Answer: Tahereh Mafi
Which American author wrote “The Great Gatsby”?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Which author wrote “Verity”, a dark thriller novel?
Answer: Colleen Hoover
Who is the author of “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”?
Answer: Gabrielle Zevin
Which South Korean author wrote “The Vegetarian”?
Answer: Han Kang
Which author wrote the “Song of Achilles”?
Answer: Madeline Miller
Who is the author of “The Paris Library”?
Answer: Janet Skeslien Charles
Who wrote “Crime and Punishment”?
Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who wrote “A Man Called Ove”?
Answer: Fredrik Backman
Which American author is known for “The Color Purple”?
Answer: Alice Walker
Who wrote Charlotte’s Web, the story of a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte?
Answer: E.B. White
What type of animal is Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia?
Answer: A lion
Who is the author of Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Answer: Roald Dahl
What is the name of the hobbit who goes on an adventure in The Hobbit?
Answer: Bilbo Baggins
Who wrote Anne of Green Gables, the story of a spirited orphan girl?
Answer: L.M. Montgomery
What is the title of the first book in the Harry Potter series?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
In Peter Pan, what is the name of the Darling family’s dog?
Answer: Nana
Who wrote the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series?
Answer: Rick Riordan
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, what color is the Queen of Hearts associated with?
Answer: Red
What are the names of the four Pevensie siblings in The Chronicles of Narnia?
Answer: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy
Who is the author of Pride and Prejudice?
Answer: Jane Austen
Which Shakespearean play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Answer: Hamlet
What is the name of the monster in Frankenstein?
Answer: The creature
Who wrote the epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is the name of the heroine in Far from the Madding Crowd?
Answer: Bathsheba Everdene
In which English novel does the character Pip appear?
Answer: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Which Romantic poet wrote the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?
Answer: William Wordsworth
Who wrote the Gothic novel Wuthering Heights?
Answer: Emily Brontë
Which novel by George Orwell explores themes of totalitarianism and surveillance?
Answer: 1984
Who wrote the satirical play The Importance of Being Earnest?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
What is the setting for Lord of the Flies?
Answer: A deserted island
Which Elizabethan poet and dramatist wrote Doctor Faustus?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
What is the title of the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
Answer: Through the Looking-Glass
Who wrote the dystopian novel Brave New World?
Answer: Aldous Huxley
Which famous English poet is buried in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner and wrote Paradise Lost?
Answer: John Milton
In which Shakespearean tragedy does the character Iago appear?
Answer: Othello
Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What is the name of the family estate in Sense and Sensibility?
Answer: Norland Park
Who wrote the play Waiting for Godot?
Answer: Samuel Beckett
What is the subtitle of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
Answer: A Shilling Shock
Who wrote War and Peace?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
What is the name of the protagonist in Crime and Punishment?
Answer: Rodion Raskolnikov
Which Russian author wrote The Master and Margarita?
Answer: Mikhail Bulgakov
In Anna Karenina, what is the name of Anna’s lover?
Answer: Count Alexei Vronsky
What is the title of Nikolai Gogol’s famous short story about a stolen piece of clothing?
Answer: The Overcoat
Who is the author of the play The Cherry Orchard?
Answer: Anton Chekhov
What is the central theme of The Brothers Karamazov?
Answer: Faith, morality, and free will
Which 19th-century poet wrote Eugene Onegin?
Answer: Alexander Pushkin
Who wrote Dead Souls?
Answer: Nikolai Gogol
Which Russian author is known for his science fiction works such as We?
Answer: Yevgeny Zamyatin
Who is the author of A Hero of Our Time?
Answer: Mikhail Lermontov
What is the title of Leo Tolstoy’s novella that explores existential themes of death?
Answer: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Which character in Crime and Punishment represents Raskolnikov’s moral conscience?
Answer: Sonia (Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov)
What is the title of the dystopian novel written by Andrei Platonov?
Answer: The Foundation Pit
Who wrote the novel Doctor Zhivago?
Answer: Boris Pasternak
What is the setting of Three Sisters?
Answer: A provincial Russian town
Which Russian author wrote the poem The Bronze Horseman?
Answer: Alexander Pushkin
In The Master and Margarita, who is the devilish character that visits Moscow?
Answer: Woland
What is the name of the character in The Nose, whose nose takes on a life of its own?
Answer: Major Kovalyov
Which Russian author wrote One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Who is the author of “Pride and Prejudice”?
Answer: Jane Austen
Which novel by Margaret Atwood is often studied for its feminist themes?
Answer: “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Which of the following is a key work in feminist literary criticism, written by Virginia Woolf?
Answer: “A Room of One’s Own”
Who wrote “The Second Sex,” a foundational text in feminist theory?
Answer: Simone de Beauvoir
What is the main focus of Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique”?
Answer: The role of women in post-WWII American society
Which 19th-century novel is known for its portrayal of the struggles of a governess?
Answer: “Jane Eyre”
Which feminist author wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”?
Answer: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What is a common theme in feminist literature?
Answer: Exploration of women’s independence and identity
Who wrote “The Color Purple,” a novel that addresses issues of race and gender?
Answer: Alice Walker
In feminist literary theory, what does “patriarchy” refer to?
Answer: A societal system where men hold primary power
Who wrote “Romeo and Juliet”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Which novel by George Orwell depicts a dystopian future under a totalitarian regime?
Answer: “1984”
Who is the author of “Pride and Prejudice,” exploring themes of love and society?
Answer: Jane Austen
Which epic poem by John Milton tells the story of the fall of man?
Answer: “Paradise Lost”
Who wrote “Great Expectations,” featuring an orphan named Pip?
Answer: Charles Dickens
In which play does the character Lady Macbeth appear?
Answer: “Macbeth”
Which 20th-century British author wrote “The Chronicles of Narnia” series?
Answer: C.S. Lewis
What is the title of the first novel in J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series?
Answer: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
Who wrote “Wuthering Heights,” set on the Yorkshire moors?
Answer: Emily Brontë
Which poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge features an albatross?
Answer: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Who is the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel “Midnight’s Children”?
Answer: Salman Rushdie
Which novel by Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997?
Answer: “The God of Small Things”
Who wrote “A Suitable Boy,” one of the longest novels in English?
Answer: Vikram Seth
Which Indian author wrote “The White Tiger” (Booker Prize 2008)?
Answer: Aravind Adiga
Which novel by Jhumpa Lahiri was adapted into a film by Mira Nair?
Answer: “The Namesake”
Who is the author of “The Inheritance of Loss” (Booker Prize 2006)?
Answer: Kiran Desai
Which author wrote “Train to Pakistan”?
Answer: Khushwant Singh
Which Indian author is known for “The Great Indian Novel”?
Answer: Shashi Tharoor
Who wrote “Sea of Poppies,” the first book in the Ibis Trilogy?
Answer: Amitav Ghosh
Which author created the fictional town of Malgudi?
Answer: R.K. Narayan
What does the acronym TESOL stand for?
Answer: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Which approach emphasizes language use in real-life situations?
Answer: Communicative Language Teaching
In language teaching, what is “TPR” an acronym for?
Answer: Total Physical Response
Which method focuses on repetitive drills and practice?
Answer: Audio-Lingual Method
What is a key characteristic of the Direct Method?
Answer: Emphasis on speaking and listening without translation
Which theory suggests learners benefit from “comprehensible input”?
Answer: Krashen’s Input Hypothesis
What is the primary goal of formative assessment?
Answer: To provide ongoing feedback to improve learning
What does “scaffolding” refer to in teaching?
Answer: Providing temporary support to help students achieve understanding
Which approach integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing?
Answer: Content-Based Instruction
What is “task-based language teaching” (TBLT)?
Answer: A method focusing on completing meaningful tasks
Who is known as the father of modern literary criticism?
Answer: Aristotle
Which term describes interpreting a text based on the author’s intentions?
Answer: Intentional Fallacy
What does the term “New Criticism” refer to?
Answer: An approach emphasizing close reading of the text itself
Who wrote “The Death of the Author”?
Answer: Roland Barthes
Which critical approach emphasizes the reader’s role in creating meaning?
Answer: Reader-Response Criticism
What is the primary focus of feminist literary criticism?
Answer: Exploring representation of gender and equality
Who is the author of “Orientalism”?
Answer: Edward Said
What does Marxist literary criticism primarily focus on?
Answer: The class struggle and socioeconomic factors
Which theory emphasizes the instability of language and deferral of meaning?
Answer: Deconstruction
What is the focus of psychoanalytic literary criticism?
Answer: The unconscious motivations of characters and authors
