Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which critical practice is most closely associated with New Criticism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• New Criticism emphasizes close reading of diction, imagery, rhythm, irony, paradox and structural relationships.
• The literary work is treated primarily as a verbal object whose meanings emerge from its internal organization.
• Biography, authorial intention and audience response are not accepted as final standards of interpretation.
• The literary work is treated primarily as a verbal object whose meanings emerge from its internal organization.
• Biography, authorial intention and audience response are not accepted as final standards of interpretation.
వివరణ:
Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
The New Critical idea of the autonomous text means that a literary work should be treated primarily as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The autonomous text is regarded as a self-contained structure of words, images, patterns and tensions.
• Interpretation should begin with evidence found within the work itself.
• New Critics do not claim that authors and history never existed; they deny that external information should replace textual analysis.
• Interpretation should begin with evidence found within the work itself.
• New Critics do not claim that authors and history never existed; they deny that external information should replace textual analysis.
వివరణ:
Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Who gave the movement its widely adopted name through a book titled The New Criticism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• John Crowe Ransom published The New Criticism in 1941.
• The title helped establish New Criticism as the standard name for the emerging text-centred movement.
• Ransom also argued for professional and systematic literary analysis in his essay Criticism, Inc.
• The title helped establish New Criticism as the standard name for the emerging text-centred movement.
• Ransom also argued for professional and systematic literary analysis in his essay Criticism, Inc.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which work by Cleanth Brooks is a major statement of New Critical practice?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Cleanth Brooks published The Well Wrought Urn in 1947.
• The book demonstrates close reading through analyses of poems by writers from Shakespeare to Yeats.
• It develops Brooks's ideas about paradox, organic unity and the resistance of poetry to reductive paraphrase.
• The book demonstrates close reading through analyses of poems by writers from Shakespeare to Yeats.
• It develops Brooks's ideas about paradox, organic unity and the resistance of poetry to reductive paraphrase.
వివరణ:
Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
According to Cleanth Brooks, the language of poetry is fundamentally the language of:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Brooks argues that paradox is central to poetic language because poems unite apparently conflicting meanings and attitudes.
• Poetic truth often depends on qualifications, reversals and tensions that ordinary paraphrase cannot preserve.
• Paradox is therefore structural rather than merely decorative.
• Poetic truth often depends on qualifications, reversals and tensions that ordinary paraphrase cannot preserve.
• Paradox is therefore structural rather than merely decorative.
వివరణ:
Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
What does Brooks mean by the heresy of paraphrase?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The heresy of paraphrase is the mistaken belief that a poem's meaning can be separated from its form and restated without loss.
• For Brooks, meaning is created by the poem's total organization of image, rhythm, tone, irony and paradox.
• A summary may assist discussion, but it cannot substitute for the poem.
• For Brooks, meaning is created by the poem's total organization of image, rhythm, tone, irony and paradox.
• A summary may assist discussion, but it cannot substitute for the poem.
వివరణ:
Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which critic is most directly associated with the essay Tension in Poetry?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Allen Tate wrote Tension in Poetry, first published in 1938.
• Tate derives tension from the interaction of a statement's extension and intension.
• The concept describes how a poem integrates literal reference with the full range of connotation and implication.
• Tate derives tension from the interaction of a statement's extension and intension.
• The concept describes how a poem integrates literal reference with the full range of connotation and implication.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
In Allen Tate's account, poetic tension results chiefly from the interaction between:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Tate uses extension for the denotative or referential range of a statement.
• Intension refers to its connotative, qualitative and associative force.
• Successful poetry holds these dimensions together in a complex verbal unity.
• Intension refers to its connotative, qualitative and associative force.
• Successful poetry holds these dimensions together in a complex verbal unity.
వివరణ:
Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
The intentional fallacy warns critics against judging a work chiefly by:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The intentional fallacy identifies the error of treating the author's private intention as the final standard of a work's meaning or value.
• The critic should examine the public evidence available in the text.
• An author's stated plan may be inaccessible, unreliable or inconsistent with the completed work.
• The critic should examine the public evidence available in the text.
• An author's stated plan may be inaccessible, unreliable or inconsistent with the completed work.
వివరణ:
Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Who jointly formulated the concept of the intentional fallacy?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley formulated the intentional fallacy in a jointly written essay.
• They argue that a poem belongs to the public realm of language once it is completed.
• Critical judgement should therefore rest on textual evidence rather than private authorial design.
• They argue that a poem belongs to the public realm of language once it is completed.
• Critical judgement should therefore rest on textual evidence rather than private authorial design.
వివరణ:
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
The affective fallacy identifies the error of confusing a poem with:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The affective fallacy occurs when the critic substitutes readers' emotional reactions for analysis of the work.
• Individual responses can vary widely and may encourage impressionistic judgement.
• Wimsatt and Beardsley insist that criticism should focus on the objective features of the text.
• Individual responses can vary widely and may encourage impressionistic judgement.
• Wimsatt and Beardsley insist that criticism should focus on the objective features of the text.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Assertion: New Critics distinguish between the literary work and its psychological effects on readers.
Reason: Treating variable audience reactions as the poem itself leads to the affective fallacy.
Reason: Treating variable audience reactions as the poem itself leads to the affective fallacy.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because New Criticism separates the textual object from subjective responses to it.
• The Reason is correct because the affective fallacy replaces textual analysis with reports of psychological effects.
• The Reason directly explains the distinction stated in the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the affective fallacy replaces textual analysis with reports of psychological effects.
• The Reason directly explains the distinction stated in the Assertion.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which book by W.K. Wimsatt collects several influential essays on the verbal and formal nature of literature?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Wimsatt published The Verbal Icon in 1954.
• It collects essays concerned with literary meaning, intention, affect and verbal structure.
• The title reflects the New Critical conception of the poem as an organized verbal object.
• It collects essays concerned with literary meaning, intention, affect and verbal structure.
• The title reflects the New Critical conception of the poem as an organized verbal object.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Match List I with List II.
List I:
1. John Crowe Ransom
2. Cleanth Brooks
3. Allen Tate
4. W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley
List II:
a. Tension in Poetry
b. Intentional fallacy
c. Criticism, Inc.
d. The language of paradox
List I:
1. John Crowe Ransom
2. Cleanth Brooks
3. Allen Tate
4. W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley
List II:
a. Tension in Poetry
b. Intentional fallacy
c. Criticism, Inc.
d. The language of paradox
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• John Crowe Ransom wrote Criticism, Inc. and advocated professional literary analysis.
• Cleanth Brooks is associated with the claim that poetic language is the language of paradox.
• Allen Tate wrote Tension in Poetry.
• Wimsatt and Beardsley formulated the intentional fallacy, so the correct code is 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b.
• Cleanth Brooks is associated with the claim that poetic language is the language of paradox.
• Allen Tate wrote Tension in Poetry.
• Wimsatt and Beardsley formulated the intentional fallacy, so the correct code is 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which statement best describes organic unity in New Criticism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Organic unity means that the poem's elements contribute to an integrated and interdependent whole.
• Imagery, rhythm, tone, paradox and structure modify one another within the total design.
• Irony and ambiguity may strengthen unity by reconciling or containing complex meanings.
• Imagery, rhythm, tone, paradox and structure modify one another within the total design.
• Irony and ambiguity may strengthen unity by reconciling or containing complex meanings.
వివరణ:
Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
How does irony commonly function in New Critical analysis?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Irony creates distance between literal expression and a fuller implied meaning.
• It can qualify assertions and expose conflicts among voices, attitudes or values.
• New Critics examine how such tensions contribute to the work's total organization.
• It can qualify assertions and expose conflicts among voices, attitudes or values.
• New Critics examine how such tensions contribute to the work's total organization.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• W.K. Wimsatt is a central New Critic rather than a founder of reader-response theory.
• His work warns against reducing literature to readers' psychological reactions.
• Brooks is associated with paradox, Tate with tension and Ransom with The New Criticism.
• His work warns against reducing literature to readers' psychological reactions.
• Brooks is associated with paradox, Tate with tension and Ransom with The New Criticism.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about New Critical formal analysis:
1. It examines imagery, syntax, rhythm and figurative language.
2. It studies how paradox and irony contribute to unity.
3. It treats authorial intention as the final authority.
4. It resists replacing the poem with a prose summary.
Which statements are correct?
1. It examines imagery, syntax, rhythm and figurative language.
2. It studies how paradox and irony contribute to unity.
3. It treats authorial intention as the final authority.
4. It resists replacing the poem with a prose summary.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because close reading examines the formal and verbal details of a work.
• Statement 2 is correct because paradox and irony may organize complex meanings into unity.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because reliance on authorial intention produces the intentional fallacy.
• Statement 4 is correct because Brooks rejects reductive paraphrase, so 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because paradox and irony may organize complex meanings into unity.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because reliance on authorial intention produces the intentional fallacy.
• Statement 4 is correct because Brooks rejects reductive paraphrase, so 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
A critic declares that a poem must mean whatever the poet later said it was intended to mean. Which New Critical objection applies?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The critic treats the poet's later statement of intention as decisive.
• Wimsatt and Beardsley call this procedure the intentional fallacy.
• The completed poem must be interpreted through publicly available textual evidence rather than private authorial claims.
• Wimsatt and Beardsley call this procedure the intentional fallacy.
• The completed poem must be interpreted through publicly available textual evidence rather than private authorial claims.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
A reviewer calls a poem great solely because it made the reviewer cry. Which error is most directly illustrated?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The reviewer's personal emotional effect becomes the sole measure of literary value.
• This illustrates the affective fallacy, which confuses the work with its psychological consequences.
• A New Critical evaluation would examine how the poem's language and structure produce meaning.
• This illustrates the affective fallacy, which confuses the work with its psychological consequences.
• A New Critical evaluation would examine how the poem's language and structure produce meaning.
వివరణ:
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of publication?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• John Crowe Ransom's The New Criticism was published in 1941.
• Cleanth Brooks's The Well Wrought Urn appeared in 1947.
• W.K. Wimsatt's The Verbal Icon was published in 1954.
• The correct sequence is therefore The New Criticism → The Well Wrought Urn → The Verbal Icon.
• Cleanth Brooks's The Well Wrought Urn appeared in 1947.
• W.K. Wimsatt's The Verbal Icon was published in 1954.
• The correct sequence is therefore The New Criticism → The Well Wrought Urn → The Verbal Icon.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Statement I: New Criticism rejects all forms of complexity in poetic meaning.
Statement II: It often treats paradox, irony and tension as means by which complexity is organized.
Statement II: It often treats paradox, irony and tension as means by which complexity is organized.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because New Critics repeatedly analyse complex and multiple meanings.
• Statement II is correct because paradox, irony and tension help organize apparently conflicting elements.
• Complexity is not rejected; it is examined as part of the poem's formal unity.
• Statement II is correct because paradox, irony and tension help organize apparently conflicting elements.
• Complexity is not rejected; it is examined as part of the poem's formal unity.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which contrast most accurately distinguishes intentional fallacy from affective fallacy?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The intentional fallacy concerns using the author's intended meaning as the final critical standard.
• The affective fallacy concerns using the emotional effects on readers as the work's meaning or value.
• Both concepts protect textual analysis from being displaced by external psychological evidence.
• The affective fallacy concerns using the emotional effects on readers as the work's meaning or value.
• Both concepts protect textual analysis from being displaced by external psychological evidence.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Assertion: New Critical close reading can examine contradiction without concluding that the poem is structurally defective.
Reason: Apparent contradictions may function as paradoxes or tensions that contribute to organic unity.
Reason: Apparent contradictions may function as paradoxes or tensions that contribute to organic unity.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because New Critics often treat contradiction as an artistically productive feature.
• The Reason is correct because paradox and tension can hold competing meanings within a coherent whole.
• The Reason directly explains why contradiction need not indicate formal failure.
• The Reason is correct because paradox and tension can hold competing meanings within a coherent whole.
• The Reason directly explains why contradiction need not indicate formal failure.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement best represents New Criticism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• New Criticism treats the poem as an autonomous verbal object.
• Close reading examines formal relationships among diction, imagery, rhythm, irony, paradox and tension.
• The intentional and affective fallacies resist external standards based solely on author or audience.
• Organic unity describes how complex elements function together within the complete work.
• Close reading examines formal relationships among diction, imagery, rhythm, irony, paradox and tension.
• The intentional and affective fallacies resist external standards based solely on author or audience.
• Organic unity describes how complex elements function together within the complete work.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Close reading of the text's formal and verbal structure సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. A self-contained verbal structure సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. John Crowe Ransom సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. The Well Wrought Urn సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Paradox సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. The error of reducing a poem to a detachable prose statement సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Allen Tate సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Extension and intension సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. The author's intended meaning or purpose సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Its effects upon readers సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: D. The Verbal Icon సమాధానం: D.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. The work's elements interact to form an integrated structure. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. It qualifies statements and reveals tensions among meanings or attitudes. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. W.K. Wimsatt — reader-response theory సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. Intentional fallacy సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. Affective fallacy సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. The New Criticism → The Well Wrought Urn → The Verbal Icon సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. The former concerns authorial intention, while the latter concerns readers' responses. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: B. A poem is an autonomous verbal structure whose paradoxes, ironies and tensions should be analysed through close reading as parts of an organic unity. సమాధానం: B.