Wordsworth and the Romantics valued:

Emotion, imagination, and nature

According to the introduction, literature supports:

Critical thinking, language awareness, and personal engagement

Literary criticism primarily aims to:

Analyse, interpret, and evaluate literary texts

What did Matthew Arnold argue about literature?

It represents “the best that is known and thought in the world”

The novel is characterised by:

Extended prose narrative with complex plot and development

What practical classroom activity supports exploration of literary genres?

Rewriting a short story scene as a dramatic dialogue

Russian Formalists described literary language as:

“Making the familiar strange” (ostranenie)

According to CEFR B2 level, learners should be able to:

Comment on characterisation, theme, and stylistic effects

According to Aristotle, tragedy serves what purpose?

Catharsis (emotional purification)

What characterises poetry as a genre?

Rhythm, sound, imagery, and compact expression

In prose fiction, narrative voice may include:

First-person, omniscient, or unreliable narrators

What does deconstruction (Derrida) argue about meaning?

Meanings are multiple and unstable

Tragedy typically deals with:

Serious themes and often fatalistic outcomes

What does foregrounding involve in literary language?

Deviating from linguistic norms to create emphasis

Feminist literary criticism examines:

Gender, representation, and authorship

What distinguishes literary language from ordinary language?

It emphasises form, rhythm, imagery, and symbolic meaning

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1
Which of the following is NOT an example of foregrounding?
Metaphor
Rhyme
Technical definitions
Inversion
2
Wordsworth and the Romantics valued:
Emotion, imagination, and nature
Logical argument over feeling
Formal speech and rhetoric
Strict adherence to classical rules
3
Tragicomedy blends:
Poetry and prose
Serious and comic elements
Scientific and poetic language
Drama and non-fiction
4
According to the introduction, literature supports:
Only vocabulary expansion
Oral fluency exclusively
Technical writing skills
Critical thinking, language awareness, and personal engagement
5
Lyric poetry mainly focuses on:
Heroic adventures
Stage performance
Logical argumentation
Subjective emotion and thought
6
Marxist criticism focuses on:
Class struggle and ideology
Aesthetic pleasure only
Psychological motivations
Stylistic deviations
7
Literary criticism primarily aims to:
Analyse, interpret, and evaluate literary texts
Classify grammatical structures
Summarise historical events
Promote political ideas
8
What did Matthew Arnold argue about literature?
It must be didactic above all
It distracts from scientific progress
It represents “the best that is known and thought in the world”
It is mainly for entertainment
9
The novel is characterised by:
Extended prose narrative with complex plot and development
Fixed poetic metre
Performance scripts
Dramatic monologues only
10
What practical classroom activity supports exploration of literary genres?
Rewriting a short story scene as a dramatic dialogue
Practising grammar drills on stories
Translating poems literally
Memorising poems word-for-word
11
Russian Formalists described literary language as:
“Making the familiar strange” (ostranenie)
“A vehicle for political agendas”
“A logical development of syntax”
“A mirror of society”
12
Which school of criticism emphasises "close reading" and textual autonomy?
Marxist Criticism
New Criticism
Postcolonial Criticism
Structuralism
13
According to CEFR B2 level, learners should be able to:
Identify only plot events
Comment on characterisation, theme, and stylistic effects
Copy quotations exactly
Memorise literary dates
14
According to Aristotle, tragedy serves what purpose?
Religious instruction
Logical persuasion
Intellectual debate
Catharsis (emotional purification)
15
What characterises poetry as a genre?
Rhythm, sound, imagery, and compact expression
Extensive prose description
Dialogue-driven plots
Realistic narration only
16
What three major genres were proposed by classical genre theory?
Epic, lyric, and drama
Novel, poetry, and biography
Fable, myth, and epic
Satire, comedy, and tragedy
17
In prose fiction, narrative voice may include:
First-person, omniscient, or unreliable narrators
Choral commentary
Only external narration
Strict adherence to facts
18
Which genre is primarily intended for performance?
Epic poetry
Prose fiction
Drama
Short story
19
What does deconstruction (Derrida) argue about meaning?
Texts are only historical documents
Meanings are fixed and singular
Authors control all meaning
Meanings are multiple and unstable
20
Horace’s Ars Poetica argued that literature should:
Instruct and delight
Criticise political leaders
Avoid imaginative expression
Follow strict religious codes
21
Tragedy typically deals with:
Instructional material
Light-hearted humour
Serious themes and often fatalistic outcomes
Abstract philosophical ideas
22
What does foregrounding involve in literary language?
Removing ambiguity from texts
Following strict syntax rules
Deviating from linguistic norms to create emphasis
Using only literal meanings
23
Feminist literary criticism examines:
Syntax variation in novels
Poetic metre exclusively
Religious symbolism
Gender, representation, and authorship
24
What distinguishes literary language from ordinary language?
It emphasises form, rhythm, imagery, and symbolic meaning
It follows rigid grammatical norms
It focuses on everyday communication
It avoids emotional expression

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