Major Works (Poetry & Criticism) (Practice Test)

1. What distinguishes metaphysical poetry?
(A) Strict adherence to sonnet form
(B) Intellectual exploration through conceits
(C) Exclusive focus on nature
(D) Use of colloquial language only

2. Which critic pioneered the “intentional fallacy” concept?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Northrop Frye
(C) William Empson
(D) W.K. Wimsatt & Monroe Beardsley

3. What characterizes New Criticism?
(A) Biographical analysis
(B) Close reading of textual elements
(C) Marxist interpretations
(D) Psychoanalytic approaches

4. Which work exemplifies postcolonial criticism?
(A) The Waste Land
(B) Orientalism
(C) Biographia Literaria
(D) The Mirror and the Lamp

5. What defines Romantic poetry?
(A) Neoclassical restraint
(B) Celebration of emotion and individualism
(C) Urban industrialization themes
(D) Political satire

6. Which critic developed archetypal criticism?
(A) I.A. Richards
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Northrop Frye
(D) Harold Bloom

7. What’s central to feminist literary criticism?
(A) Meter analysis
(B) Gender power dynamics
(C) Authorial biography
(D) Textual ambiguity

8. Which poet pioneered free verse?
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) John Donne
(D) William Wordsworth

9. What’s key to deconstructionist criticism?
(A) Resolving textual contradictions
(B) Binary oppositions and instability
(C) Author’s intended meaning
(D) Historical context

10. Which work exemplifies modernist fragmentation?
(A) Paradise Lost
(B) The Prelude
(C) The Cantos
(D) Lyrical Ballads