1. To whom 'poetry is the spontaneous over-flow of powerful passion.'

2. What is New Historicism?

3. Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle?

4. Who used the words 'romanticism' and 'romantic' first?

5. Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization?

6. According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art?

7. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below:
A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the 'bestial' side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the 'bestial' side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the 'grownup' world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to?

8. Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic?

9. How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus?

10. Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that:

11. Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in:

12. Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others?

13. Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection of the real world because

14. How does Virginia Woolf's essay 'A Room of One's Own' contribute to feminist theory?

15. Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy?

16. What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama?

17. Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory?

18. Who contributed the term 'to see the object as in itself it really is'?

19. Which literary theorist argues that 'there is nothing outside the text'?

20. On the Sublime is written in

21. Who coined the term New Historicism?

22. Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school?

23. Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism?

24. In general, what is Judith Butler's concept of gender?

25. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria appeared in the year_______?.