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(#) Say whether the following sentences are Correct by

choosing "A" or Wrong by choosing "B" :


A B
1 – Modernism started in the late 19th. Century in Europe and America. l O
2 – Modernism was a break from the traditional styles of poetry and l O
prose.
3 – The horrors of the First World War and the new ideas of Darwin, l O
Freud and Marx played a vital role in modernism.
4 – The popular literary techniques of modernism were irony and l O
satire.
5 – Alienation, loss and despair were the common themes of l O
modernism.
6 – Modernists believe that reality is created in the act of perceiving it. l O
7 – Modernists believe that the world is what we say it is. l O
8 – Postmodernism was a reaction against modernism. l O
9 – Postmodernism can be seen as a radical break from modernism. l O
10 – Postmodernism has no specific artistic style or theory. l O
11 – Postmodernism works are characterized by the use of satire and l O
irony.
12 – New criticism is originated as a reaction to traditional criticism. l O
13 – New criticism was concerned with the biography or psychology of O l
the author or the work's relationship to literary history.
14 – Formalist criticism stresses that nothing exists outside the text. l O
15 – New criticism encourages that a work can be read subjectively by O l
examining its structure and form.
16 – New critics regarded art as autonomous. l O
17 – For new critics, art should be judged by reference beyond itself. O l
18 – New criticism is considered a school of the formalist movement. l O
19 – New critics focused strongly on "the words on the page". l O

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20 – New critics want to know how the work speaks itself through l O
figure of speech and symbols.
21 – New critics are interested in how the parts of the text relate to l O
create harmony, order, tension and paradox.
22 – New critics are primarily concerned with verbal meaning and the l O
overall structure of a text.
23 – In their work, new critics focused on poetry, drama and fiction. O l
24 – New criticism dealt with how a work can be read objectively by l O
examining its structure and form.
25 – New critics conclude that there is no one correct meaning of a O l
text.
26 – "Biography of the author", "Historical context", and "Social O l
conditions" are the three main pillars of new criticism.
27 – Effects on the readers are of minimal interest in new criticism. l O
28 – For Eliot, the best work done by a poet is the one in which the l O
ancestors assert their immortality.
29 – Eliot encouraged following the ways of the previous generations O l
with complete adherence.
30 – For Eliot, novelty is better than repetition. l O
31 – For Eliot, tradition can be inherited from one generation to O l
another.
32 – For Eliot, the historical sense involves a perception of the pastness. O l
33 – For Eliot, every poet has his own complete meaning alone. O l
34 –For Eliot, the significance and appreciation of a poet that of his l O
relation to the dead poets and artists.
35 – For Eliot, a poet is judged by the standards of the past through l O
comparing and contrasting him with the dead.
36 – For Eliot, a poet can choose whether to write the same as his O l
former generation or to ignore it completely.
37 – For Eliot, the more subjective the work of art is, the more it will O l

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be successful.
38 – Archetypal criticism based largely on the works of C.G.Jung. l O
39 – Archetypal critics view the genres of art as recurrences of certain l O
archetypes and essential mythic formulas.
40 – Archetypes are repeated types of experiences inherited in the O l
collective consciousness of the human race.
41 – Archetypes are expressed in myths, religion, dreams, and private l O
fantasies, as well as in the works of literature.
42 – In terms of archetypal criticism, the color white might be l O
associated with innocence or could signify death or the supernatural.
43 – Jung views archetypes as recurring patterns in literature. O l
44 – Frye sees archetypes as "primordial images" inherited in all O l
humans.
45 – Archetypal critics interpret texts by focusing on recurring myths l O
and archetypes in the narrative.
46 – Archetypal critics interpret a text by focusing on recurring l O
symbols, images, and character types in a literary work.
47 – Jung's work speculates about myths and archetypes in relation to l O
the unconscious.
48 – For Jung, myths are culturally elaborated representations of the l O
deepest recess of the human psyche.
49 – For Jung, the collective unconscious is a number of innate l O
thoughts, feelings and memories that reside in the unconsciousness of
the people.
50 – For Jung, collective unconscious is shaped by the force of heredity. l O
51 – For Jung, the unconscious is revealed through primordial images. l O
52 – Frye places the structures of myths at the heart of literary genres. l O
53 – Frye was against the principles of new criticism. l O
54 – For Frye, the whole body of literary works of any society l O
constitutes a self – contained, autonomous universe.

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55 – Frye's view of life and literature are one and the same. l O
56 – For Frye, myths are the units which form the organizing principles l O
of any literary work.
57 – The aim of archetypal criticism is in line with the methodology of l O
formalist schools.
58 – Archetypal critics delve beneath the surface of literary texts in l O
their search for recurrent deep structures.
59 – The cycle of the four seasons, the cycle of birth, death, and l O
rebirth, and the journey motif are examples of recurrent archetypes in
literature.
60 – Feminism is largely concerned with oppression faced by women. l O
61 – Feminism concerns itself with only social oppression of women. O l
62 – Feminist critics try to present the aspect of social, political, l O
economic and psychological dependent of women.
63 – Feminist critics stress that the aspects of our culture are inherently O l
matriarchal.
64 – Feminism aims to expose misogyny in writing about women, l O
which can take explicit and implicit forms.
65 – Feminist critics saw the exclusion of women writers from the l O
traditional literary as a form of marginalization.
66 – Feminist critics see patriarchal ideology as the primary means by l O
which women are oppressed.
67 – Feminist critics see that woman is other. l O
68 – Feminist critics see that woman is marginalized. l O
69 – Feminist critics see that woman is defined only by her difference l O
from male norms and values.
70 – The Biblical portrayal of Eve as the origin of sin and death in the O l
world is an example of the matriarchal ideology.

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