Literary Criticism and Theory [GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) English (XH-C2)]: Questions 117 - 119 of 263

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Question 117

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

  1. Jean Baudrillard tells us that postmodern societies are marked by simulacra.
  2. By simulacra he means non-representations of reality.
  3. Simulacra artificially produce a mediated world masquerading as authenticity.
  4. It was not Jean Baudrillard but his interpreters who coined the term “simulacra” .

Which of the above statements are true? (December Paper III)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

(3) and (4)

b.

(1) and (3)

c.

(2) , (3) and (4)

d.

(2) and (3)

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Question 118

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

Who among the following critics discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs “of adolescence” ? (December Paper III)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Cleanth Brooks

b.

F. R. Leavis

c.

T. S. Eliot

d.

I. A. Richards

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Question 119

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

How their plays are neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters ″ . What term does Philip Sidney use to characterize such plays and which of the unities of Aristotle do they violate? (December Paper III)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Multi-plot drama; unity of time

b.

Mongrel tragicomedy; unity of action

c.

Mingled yarn; unity of place

d.

Mixed tragedies; unity of action

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