Literary Studies Uni Jena -Volume 1

Question 1

codes refers to the rules, context and aesthetic conventions of language and narrative

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

what is incorrect: Litotes

Accepted Answer

She is bittersweet

Question 3

new criticism: (MC)

Accepted Answer

developed before/ during WW2

Question 4

context refers to cultural circumstances, historical period, political climat etc.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

" She broke his car and his heart" is a Zeugma

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

"The muck of the duck in the crock" is a consonance

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

"And soon it lightly dipped,and rose,and sank, and dipped again" belongs to Polysyndenton

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Horace defined literature as boredom and poorness

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

find the incorrect example : Simile

Accepted Answer

She is an angel

Question 10

Literary criticism analyzes and interprets literary texts

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

What rhyme is "tan/van"

Accepted Answer

masculine rhyme

Question 12

What rhyme is "laughter/slaughter"?

Accepted Answer

eye-rhyme

Question 13

"I came. I saw. I conquered" belongs to chiasm

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

what is incorrect: Oxymoron

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red white

Question 15

medium = everything that transports sounds

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" follows which rhyme scheme

Accepted Answer

end-stopped line

Question 17

Literary history (MC)

Accepted Answer

deals with laws concerning censorship, deals with production of texts in particular histor. situations, looks at the reception of literature at the audience

Question 18

"We wanted to cook and to eat" belongs to Parallelism

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

We distinguish btw. 2 types of verses- blank and free

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

What is literature? (MC)

Accepted Answer

reader makes the text-something new out of it, text are made of other texts (=intertextuality)

Question 21

"Rarely have I eaten better food" belongs to inversion

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

the hermeneutuc circle moves btw. readers expectations and conjectures and texts that affirms these expectations.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

"feverish, go and ask" follows which metrical pattern?

Accepted Answer

dactyl

Question 24

find the incorrect example: Metaphor

Accepted Answer

The subject is like another

Question 25

Canon is...?

Accepted Answer

body of literature

Question 26

What rhyme is "would/flood" ?

Accepted Answer

imperfect rhyme

Question 27

"tyger tyger burning bright" follows which metrcial pattern?

Accepted Answer

trochee

Question 28

" He will help and she will" is an ellipsis

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

find the incorrect example: Metonymy

Accepted Answer

Lisa ate the whole plate of food

Question 30

genres: (MC)

Accepted Answer

defined by sets of conventions, guide both writing abd reading of texts, often distinguished by many attributes, form a system of group/ families of texts

Question 31

"I am, said I" belongs to Asyndenton

Accepted Answer

False

Question 32

Literary theory defines what is literature

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

Aristotle sees literature as something that transforms conceptions of reality by aesthetic means.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

"I wandered lonley as a cloud" has which metrical pattern?

Accepted Answer

iamb

Question 35

Which one is not a concept of defining literature?

Accepted Answer

brave and tolerate

Question 36

what is incorrect: Meiosis

Accepted Answer

He is no Einstein

Question 37

"Peter Piper pciked a pack of pickled peppers" is an alliteration

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Which 2 sonnets are known to you?

Accepted Answer

englisch and italian

Question 39

Which rhyme schemes are correct?

Accepted Answer

aabb (couplet), abba (enclosing), abab (alternate)

Question 40

what is incorrect: Hyperbole

Accepted Answer

She was very tiny

Question 41

"as a rule" follows which metrical pattern

Accepted Answer

anapaest

Question 42

Metafiction: (MC)

Accepted Answer

Author reflects on fact that he is wrting a text, text shows awarness thta it is a literary text

Question 43

Onomatopoeia is the imitation of movements

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

what is incorrect: Personification

Accepted Answer

the alien traveled through time and space

Question 45

close reading was established as a technique to study textes in isolation and regardless of their context

Accepted Answer

True

Question 46

"baseball" follows which metrical pattern?

Accepted Answer

spondee

Question 47

what is incorrect: Synecdoche

Accepted Answer

There are a lot of good heads in the university

Question 48

"to be or not to be - that is the question" follows which rhyme scheme?

Accepted Answer

Caesura

Question 49

for Plato literature/ poetry is a waste of time

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

What rhyme is "tricky /picky"?

Accepted Answer

feminine rhyme

Question 51

" He looked at the small scale" is an Assonance.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 52

"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing " follows which rhyme scheme

Accepted Answer

enjambment

Question 53

Interpretation/ Hermeneutics...? (MC)

Accepted Answer

interpretation is situational, conclude from analysis, interpretation depends on always on writing and future aspects

Question 54

Canon wars deal with the rejection of canon based of literature of dead white men.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 55

Poetry is something completty strict without any rythm or musical mode

Accepted Answer

False

Question 56

the 2 basic modes of arrangements as poetic functions are selection and combination

Accepted Answer

True

Literary Studies Uni Jena -Volume 1

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Literary Studies Uni Jena -Volume 1

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