New Criticism

Question 1

What do the following have in common: the use of exclamation marks, the poem's rhyme scheme; its semicolons?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 2

"But in vain thou madest me to vain things spire." In this line "vain" is _________ because it means both _____ and ___.

Accepted Answer

Polysemous; "without success" and "superficial"

Question 3

The erroneous belief that we can definitively know a speaker or author's intended feelings (The best we get is an ____.)

Accepted Answer

Intentional Fallacy; inference

Question 4

In "Thou Blind Man's Mark," the best words to capture the speaker's tone towards Desire.

Accepted Answer

caustic and acerbic

Question 5

In "Thou Blind Man's Mark," capitalizing "Desire" and taking to it use these two figurative devices.

Accepted Answer

personification, apostrophe

Question 6

Mr. B. noted in people's DTPs the irony that despite blaming Desire, line ___admits (early on) the speaker's own fault.

Accepted Answer

1

Question 7

In "Thou Blind Man's Mark," the speaker "spires" to kill Desire. What word does "spire" most closely mean?

Accepted Answer

aspire

Question 8

The sonnet form and time period place Sidney's poem in what era?

Accepted Answer

Renaissance/Elizabethan

Question 9

It is ironic that the poem, a 14 line ABABCDCDEFEFGG poem, is a _____ because it is certainly not about _____.

Accepted Answer

sonnet; love

Question 10

Unique personal association with a word or topic (e.g. if you were ever terrified by a black cat) are a word's ________.

Accepted Answer

idiolectal load

Question 11

A word's _____ is its literal, objective, dictionary definition; ____ is its "feel," tone, or figurative associations

Accepted Answer

denotation, connotation

Question 12

A New Critic is interested in the author's ____ or intended feeling towards a subject, not ____, a text's emotional feel

Accepted Answer

tone; mood

Question 13

A logocentric literary theory that seeks to make meaning from a single text and only text to come to definitive answers

Accepted Answer

New Criticism

Question 14

Which of these lines does the speaker admonish him/herself, that his/her mind should be less "lowly" or "base" (96).

Accepted Answer

9-10

Question 15

A diverse, yet overlapping group of “lenses” through which to systematically view, analyze, and interpret literature

Accepted Answer

Literary theory

Question 16

When the speaker accuses Desire of "scattered" thought, "scattered" here . . .

Accepted Answer

Figuratively means "unfocused" as in "unfocused thoughts."

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