List of top English Questions on Literary Criticism and Theory

In T.S. Eliot’s seminal poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, in the line “I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas”, identify the figures of speech
1.Metonymy
2.Paradox
3.Synecdoche
4. Alliteration
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Who out of the following are the seminal thinkers of the ‘Enlightenment Age’?
1.Julia Kristeva
2.Michel Foucault
3.Immanuel Kant
4.Rene Descartes
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Match the Concept (List-I) to its Originator (List-II):

List I	Concept	List II: Originator
A	Dissociation of Sensibility	(I) Wimsatt & Beardsley
B	Negative Capability	(II) Aristotle
C	Intentional Fallacy	(III) T.S. Eliot
D	Mimesis	(IV) John Keats

What is parapraxis also known as?

Identify the thinker who is not associated with the Frankfurt School of Marxist Aesthetics established in 1923:

Then, looking about her with eyes that would not fail, a Circe with its hair in the coil, spoke: ‘You are taking what I would not give.
This is an excerpt from “The Lament of the Median.” Identify the statement that corresponds to the lines:

Identify the correct chronological order of the following theoretical movements
1. Structuralism
2. New Criticism
3. Poststructuralism
4. Feminist Criticism

Arrange the following ideas in the order that reflects Freud’s argument about the unconscious
1. Manifest representations of repressed dual experiences.
2. Recognition of symbols arising from feelings of repression.
3. Distinguishing the symbolic functions of dreams.
4. Manifest representations of surface fears and losses.

Identify the early feminist work that discusses male writers like Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth:
(A) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
(B) Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(C) Kate Millett, Sexual Politics
(D) Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

In which Absurdist play, written in French as Fin de Partie, would you find the characters Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell?

Identify the author of the anthropological text, The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism (2003):

Arrange the following works in the order of their publication, from the earliest to the latest:
(A) The Well Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks
(B) Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
(C) The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
(D) Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida