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English 1302
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following broad categories are critical approaches generally sorted into? | Text, source, and receiver |
| Which critical approach focuses entirely on the qualities of a literary text as being a unified, coherent, and self-contained work? | New Criticism |
| Which critical approach focuses on researching the author’s life to better understand the text? | Biographical Criticism |
| Which critical approach suggests that literature is a representation of shared irrational structures within all psyches or selves? | Psychoanalytic Criticism |
| What two critical approaches posit that there are shared universal or collective unconscious archetypes that provide insight into human experiences? | Jungian Criticism and Myth Criticism |
| Which critical approach considers what a literary work does to and through a reader? | Reader-Response Criticism |
| Which critical approach suggests that texts reflect the state of the struggle between classes in a particular place and time? | Marxist Criticism |
| Which critical approach considers the history of oppression, especially regarding women’s inequality? | Feminist Criticism |
| Which critical approach seeks to offer a multilayered impression of a culture at one moment in time by considering both popular and elite forms of expression? | New Historicism |
| Which critical approach emphasizes the recovery of neglected works, to address systemic denials of rights, and to realize the dualisms of opposing groups? | Postcolonial Criticism |
| Which author wrote “Goblin Market”? | Christina Rosetti |
| Which author wrote “Witch Burning”, “Doom Of Exiles”, and “Lady Lazarus”? | Sylvia Plath |
| Which author wrote “The Birth-Mark”? | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Which author wrote “The Call of Cthulhu” and “The Rats in the Walls”? | H. P. Lovecraft |
| Which author wrote A Streetcar Named Desire? | Tennessee Williams |
| Of the answers below, which provides three themes that were used to frame three weeks during the Poetry Module? | Monsters, doom, and death |
| We discussed four texts that exist in the genre of ‘southern gothic’. What were those four texts? | “A Rose for Emily”, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, “Good Country People”, and A Streetcar Named Desire |
| When we discussed the theme of classic monsters during the Poetry Module, we discussed four different kinds of monsters. What were those four monsters? | Vampires, ghosts, witches, and werewolves |
| What poem did we read that was technically never completed by the author? | “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Which two short stories focus on children growing up and dealing with the unknown? | “The Thing in the Forest” and “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” |
| “Turning and turning in the widening gyre” is the first line of which poem? | “The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats |
| “We passed the School, where Children strove” is a line from which poem? | “Because I could not stop for Death–“ by Emily Dickinson |
| “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” is the first line of which poem? | “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe |
| “So, till the judgment that yourself arise, / You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.” are the last two lines of which poem? | “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments” by William Shakespeare |
| “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / and I eat men like air” are the last lines of which poem? | “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath |
| Penny and Primrose were the main characters in which short story? | “The Thing in the Forest” by A. S. Byatt |
| Which of the following short stories deals with the existential nature of cosmic horror, especially as it relates to the philosophical position of cosmicism? | “The Call of Cthulhu” by H. P. Lovecraft |
| ARNOLD FRIEND is the antagonist in which short story? | “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates |
| The theme of the ‘grotesque’ was central to which two short stories? | “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Manley Pointer was the antagonist in which short story? | “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor |
| What of the following was not in the hollow Bible in “Good Country People”? | A pack of cigarettes |
| In “The Call of Cthulhu”, George Gammell Angell was the Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at what university | Brown University |
| The themes of animals, transformations, and religion are explored in which two texts? | “The Werewolves” by William Wilfred Campbell and “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” |
| In “Good Country People”, Joy/Hulga is noted as having a doctorate in what field? | Philosophy |
| In A Streetcar Named Desire, what is the name of the street where Stanley and Stella live? | Elysian Fields |
| In A Streetcar Named Desire, what is the name of the code that Stanley speaks of? | The Napoleonic Code |
| In A Streetcar Named Desire, what character is Blanche referring to when she says that “there’s something downright – bestial – about him!”? | Stanley |
| In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche tells Mitch that she caught her late husband– | In a room with another man |
| In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche tells Mitch that she used to stay at what hotel? | The Tarantula |
| In A Streetcar Named Desire, what does Blanche use to defend herself against Stanley? | A broken bottle |