BA English Literature Literary Theory — practice questions
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Practice BA English Literature Literary Theory in the app →Postmodernism in literature is typically distinguished from High Modernism by:Aristotle defines tragedy as an imitation of an action that is:Aristotle says tragedy uses language 'embellished with each kind of':In Aristotle, tragedy effects 'the proper purgation of':Aristotle's six parts of tragedy are:In Aristotle's hierarchy, the FIRST and most important element of tragedy is:Aristotle ranks Character in Aristotle's six parts as:Aristotle's term for the tragic hero's error or frailty is:Aristotle's ideal tragic protagonist is a man who is:Aristotle's principle that a plot 'must imitate one action and that a whole' names which classical 'unity'?Aristotle's test for unity of action — that no element be removable without damage — implies organic structureAristotle defines 'Reversal of the Situation' (peripeteia) as:'Recognition' (anagnorisis), per Aristotle, is:Aristotle says the BEST form of Recognition occurs:Aristotle treats Plot's role in tragedy by analogy as:Aristotle's emotions of catharsis (pity and fear) are aroused by:Unity of action, in Aristotle, concerns:Russian Formalism, listed in the brief, foregrounds in literature:New Criticism advocates close reading focused on:Structuralism analyses literary works as systems of:Postcolonialism, named in the brief, reads literature through:Feminist criticism, listed in the brief, characteristically asks:Reader-Response criticism, listed in the brief, locates literary meaning in:Aristotle's six parts of tragedy include Diction, Thought, Spectacle, and which other paired components?Aristotle's distinction between vice/depravity and hamartia matters because:Aristotle's 'Poetics' defines which genre?Tragedy effects the purgation of pity and:'Hamartia' means:'Peripeteia' means:'Anagnorisis' means:Aristotle's six parts of tragedy include all EXCEPT:Russian Formalism is associated with the concept of:Edward Said's 'Orientalism' belongs to which school?New Criticism advocates:Reader-Response criticism locates meaning in the act of: