Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. The title alludes to Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey. Name the author of Ulysses.
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Kenneth Grahame
C. Laurence Strene
D. James Joyce
E. Jonathan Swift
D. James Joyce
He is an essayist who wrote against the rigidity of Puritanism.
A. Soren Kierkegard
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Jonathan Edwards
E. Daniel Defoe
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”, what does the sea associate?
A. long life, freedom and rebirth
B. strong reflection, life and rebirth
C. searching, vision and rebirth
D. spiritual mystery, death and rebirth
E. life, death and rebirth
D. spiritual mystery, death and rebirth
Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt?
A. The Sergeant /Man of Law
B. The Wife of Bath
C. The Reeve
D. The Pardoner
E. The Knight
D. The Pardoner
Who is presented as the most honest and moral of Chaucer’s pilgrims?
A. The Knight
B. The Parson
C. The Reeve
D. The Wife of Bath
E. The King
B. The Parson
When is a poem good according to Longinus?
A. If it is beautifully crafted.
B. If it elevates the reader to greater heights of feelings.
C. If the poem can easily understand to the readers.
D. If it affects the reader through nobility of diction and thought.
E. If the message of the poem can be stated to the readers.
D. If it affects the reader through nobility of diction and thought.
Which among the following does not belong to Aristotle’s view on plot?
A. The plot should be single.
B. The plot should have a twist at the end.
C. The plot should be complete.
D. The plot should show sudden change in the hero’s fortune.
E. The plot must have the beginning, middle and end.
B. The plot should have a twist at the end.
It is the consequence of a mistake in judgment.
A. discovery
B. suffering
C. periptery
D. existence
E. tragedy
B. suffering
It is the consequence of pity and fear among the spectators.
A. hamartia
B. repentance
C. discovery
D. suffering
E. catharsis
E. catharsis
It is a criticism that uses personal judgement.
A. New Criticism
B. Formalism
C. Reader’s Response
D. Psychoanalytic Poetry
E. Binary Opposition
C. Reader’s Response
