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MCQs on Structuralism and poststructuralism

1.STRUCTURALISM WAS DEVELOPED IN

WHICH CENTURY?

a) 19TH

b) 20TH

c) 21ST

d) 18TH



2. WHO PROPOUNDED THE THEORY OF STRUCTURALISM?

a)CLAUDE LEVI STRAUSS

b)Michel Foucault

c)Ferdinand De Saussure

d)C.S Pierce


3. Structuralism was an extension of?

a)Russian Formalism

b)New Criticism

c) structural Anthropology

d)Psychoanalytic criticism




4. The model of communication was given by?

a) Shklovasky

b) Saussure

c) Roman Jakobson

d) Bakhtin



5. Following are the names of some Russian formalists. Pick the odd one out.

a) Roman Jakobson

b) Juri Tynyanov

c) Boris Eichenbaum

d) Roland Barthes




6. When the meaning produced by a word is not naturally related to the word itself, what

kind of relation do they form?

a) Symbol/symbolic

b) Index/indexical

c) Icon/ iconic

d) None of the above




7. The concept of langue and Parole was given by

a) Ferdinand de Saussure

b) C.S. Pierce

c) Roman Jakobson

d) Juri Tynyanov



8. The triadic model- representamen, interpretant and object was given by whom?

a) Saussure

b) Roland Barthes

c) C.S. Pierce

d) Derrida



9. Who adopted Saussure’s idea and formed the discipline of structural Anthropology

a) Roman Jakobson

b) Claude Levi-Strauss

c) Victor Shklovasy

d) Vladimir Propp



10. The famous work ‘ Practical Criticism’ is written by

a) I.A Richards

b) Wimsatt and Beardsley

c) Cleanth Brooks

d) William Empson



11. New critics proposed the autonomous existence and nature of literary text. What is it

termed?

a) Seven types of ambiguity

b) Autonomous text

c) Autotelic text

d) Autotold text



12. Match the following


I. Saussure a) The well wrought Urn

II. William Empson b) A Course in General Linguistics

III. I.A Richards c) Seven Types of Ambiguity

IV. Cleanth Brooks d) Principles of Literary Criticism


a )I d, II a, III c, IV b

b) I b, II c, III d, IV a

c) I b, II c, III a, IV d

d) I c, II a, III b, IV d



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