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1. Who coined the term 'Negative Capability'? 

A. T. S. Eliot

B. John Keats 

C. S. T. Coleridge

D. George and Tom

Ans. B

2. John Keats coined the term 'Negative Capability' in a letter to ___.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. John Keats 

C. S. T. Coleridge

D. George and Tom

Ans. D


3. Who coined the term 'Gyno Criticism' ?

A. Eline Showalter 

B. Charles Fourier

C. Alice Walker 

D. Verginia Woolf 

Ans. A

4. Who coined the term 'Theatre of the Absurd' ? 

A. Irving Wardle 

B. Sydney Grundy

C. Martin Esslin

D. Albert Camus

Ans. C

5. The term 'Deep Structure' is associated with whom among the following?

A. Noam Chomsky

B. Ferdinand De Saussure

C. William Epsom

D. John Crowe Ransome

Ans. A

6. Who coined the term 'Stream of Consciousness' ? 

A. T. S. Eliot 

B. Vergina Woolf 

C. William James 

D. Toni Morrison

Ans. C

7. Who is the propounder of English Sonnet ?

A. William Shakespeare

B. Spencer 

C. Thomas Wyatt 

D. Petrarch

Ans. C

8. Who coined the term 'Pathetic Fallacy' ?

A. Wimsatt 

B. John Ruskin 

C. Beardsley

D. Both A & C

Ans. B

9. The term 'Terza Rima' was invented by __. 

Thomas Wyatt

B.  John Milton

C. Lord Byron

D. Dante Alighieri

Ans. D


10. Who is the propounder of 'Blank Verse in English drama' ?

A. Thomas Norton

B. Thomas Sackville

C. Thomas Wyatt

D. Both A & B

Ans.  Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville in Gorboduc (1561).

11. Among the following who first used 5he term 'Rhyme Royal' 

A. Geoffrey Chaucer 

B. Surrey

C. Thomas Wyatt

D. Samuel Johnson

Ans. A

12. Who among the following is the only novelist of Temperance Novel ?

A. Walt Whitman 

B. D. H. Lawrence

C. E. M. Foster

D. Henry Fielding

Ans. A

13.  Who 8s the propounder of  the term New Criticism first ?

A. William Epsom

B. John Crowe Ransome

C. I.A. Richards:

D. J. E. Spingarn

Ans. D

14. Who coined the term 'Augustan Age'?

A. Coleridge

B. Wordsworth 

C. Oliver Goldsmith 

D. Samuel Johnson 

Ans. C

15. Who coined the term 'Irregular Ode' or 'Pindaric Ode' ?

A. Horace

B. Abraham Cowley 

C. John Keats 

D. P. B. Shelley

Ans. B

16. Who coined the term 'Jazz age'  (1918-1929) ?

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Gertrude Stein

C. E.E. Cummings

D. F. Scott Fitzgerald 

Ans. D

17. The term 'Heteroglossia' is associated with _.

A. George Gascoigne 

B.  Mikhail Bakhtin 

C. Derrida

D. Claude Levi Strauss

Ans. B

18. Who coined the term 'Chutnifiction' ?

A. E. M. Foster

B. Salman Rushdie 

C. R. K. Narayan

D. Shashi Tharoor

Ans. B


20. Who coined the term 'Hybridity' ?

A. Theodore Adorno 

B. Horkheimer

C. Homi Bhabha 

D. Charles Darwin

Ans. C


21. Who coined the term 'Aporia' which refers to “blind spots” of any metaphysical argument.”

A. Fardinand De Saussure

B.  Antonio Gramsci

C.  Jaques Derrida

D. Claude Levi Strauss

Ans. C

22. Who gave the term 'Deconstruction' ? 

A. Fardinand De Saussure

B. Jaques Derrida 

C. Antonio Gramsci 

D. Claude Levi Strauss

Ans. B

23. Who coined the term 'Objective Correlative' first ?

A. Washington Allston

B. T. S. Eliot 

C. John Keats

D. John Ruskin

Ans. A

24. Who gave the term 'Inter-texuality' ? 

A. Gayatri Spivak

B. Julia Kristeva 

C. Antonio Gramsci 

D. Claude Levi Strauss

Ans. B

25. Who among the following coined 5he term 'Feminism' ?

A. Eline Showalter 

B. Charles Fourier

C. Alice Walker 

D. Verginia Woolf 

Ans. B


26. Among the followings who coined the term 'Queer Theory' in  1991 ?

A. William Butler

B. Sedgwick

C. Michael Foucault

D. Teresa de Lauretic  

Ans. D

27. Who coined the term 'Lost Generation' that refers to a group of American writers and artists who came of age during World War I ?

A. Earnest Hemingway 

B. Gertrude Stein 

C. Archibald MacLeish

D. Hart Crane

Ans. B

28. Who coined the term 'Metaphysical Poetry'? 

A. George Herbert 

B. John Donne 

C. Dr. Samuel Johnson 

D. Henry Marvel

Ans. C

29. Who coined the term 'Oedipus Complex'?

A. Sigmund Freud 

B. Jaques Darida 

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Ferdinand De Saussure

Ans. A

30. Who coined the term 'Affective Fallacy & Intentional Fallacy' ?

A. John Crow Ransom

B. T. S. Eliot 

C. Wimsatt and Beardsley 

D. Munroe Beardsley

Ans. C

31. Who coined the term 'Subaltern'? 

A. Ranajit Guha

B. Antonio Gramsci 

C. Gayatri Ch. Spivak

D. Sigmund Freud 

Ans. C

32. Who coined the term 'Egotistical Sublime'? 

A. T.S. Eliot 

B. John Keats 

C. Mathew Arnold

D. George Orwell

Ans. B

33. Who coined the term 'Satanic School' ?

A. John Milton 

B. Robert Southy

C. Lord Byron 

D. P. B. Shelley

Ans. B

34. Who coined the term 'Post - Modernism' ?

A. Verginia Woolf

B. Arnold Toynbee 

C. John Watkins Chapman

D. Jean-François Lyotard

Ans. B


35. Who coined the term 'Womanism' ?

A. Eline Showalter 

B. Charles Fourier

C. Alice Walker 

D. Verginia Woolf 

Ans. C


36. Who coined the term 'Ecriture Feminine' ?

A. Eline Showalter 

B. Helene Cixious

C. Charles Fourier

D. Alice Walker 

Ans. B  (In The Laugh of Medusa)

37. The terms 'Competence and Performance' are coined by __. 

A. Noam Chomsky 

B. Sigmund Freud 

C. Fardinand De Saussure

D. Mathew Arnold

Ans. A

38. Who coined the term 'Bricolage' ?

A. Antonio Gramsci 

B. Claude Levi Strauss

C. Gayatri Ch. Spivak

D. Sigmund Freud 

Ans. B


39. Who coined 5he term 'Binary Opposition' ? 

A. Antonio Gramsci 

B. Claude Levi Strauss

C. Jaques Derrida

D. Saussure 

Ans. B


40. Who among the following coined the term 'Sweetness and Light'? 

A. Mathew Arnold

B. Jonathan Swift

C. Irving Wardle 

D. Samuel Johnson

Ans. B

👉 Jonathan Swift in The Battle of the Books and later by Mathew Arnold in Culture and Anarchy.

41. Who coined the term 'Defamiliarization'?

A. Jaques Derrida 

B. Fardinand De Saussure 

C. Viktor Shklovsky 

D. T. S. Eliot

Ans. C


42. Who coined the term 'Blue Comedy' ?

A. Erwin Piscator  

B. Irving Wardle 

C. Lionel Abel 

D. Max Miller  

Ans. D

43. Who coined the term 'Meta Theatre' ?

A. Erwin Piscator  

B. Irving Wardle 

C. Lionel Abel 

D. Max Miller  

Ans. C


44. Who coined the term 'Epic Theatre' ?

A. Erwin Piscator  

B. Irving Wardle 

C. Lionel Abel 

D. Max Miller  

Ans. A


45. The term 'Imagism' was coined by __. 

A. T. E. Hume

B. Ezra Pound 

C. W. B. Yeats

D. T. S Eliot

Ans. B

46. Who coined the term 'Collective Unconsciousness' ?

A. Sigmund  Freud

B. Carl Jung 

C. John Keats

D. Noam Chomsky

ans. B

47. The Archetypal Approach is associated with whom one of the following?

A. Jean Baudrillard

B. Antonio Gramsci 

C. Jaques Derrida

D. Northrop Frye 

Ans. D

48. Who coined the term 'Kinesthetic'?

A. Jean Baudrillard

B. Antonio Gramsci 

C. F. R. Leavis

D. William Empson

Ans. C

49. Who coined the term 'Scrutiny' ? 

A.  F.R. Leavis 

B. William Epsom

 C. John Crowe Ransome

D.  I.A. Richards

Ans. A

50. Who coined the term New Criticism first ?

A. William Epsom

B. John Crowe Ransom

C. I.A. Richards:

D. J. E. Spingarn

Ans. B

51. Who coined the term 'The Heresy of Paraphrase' ? 

A. F. R. Leavis

B. Cleanth Brooks 

C. Jaques Derrida

D. William Empson 

Ans. B

52. The term 'Ambiguity' is coined by ____.

A. F. R. Leavis

B. William Empson

C. Jaques Derrida

D.  Cleanth Brooks

Ans. B

53. Dissociation of Sensibility and Unification of Sensibility : 

A. T. S. Eliot 

B. John Donne

C. Ezra Pound

D. D. H. Lawrence

Ans. A


54. The terms 'Logocentrism' & 'Phonocentrism' are coined by which of the followings? 

A. Jean Baudrillard

B. Antonio Gramsci 

C. Jaques Derrida

D. William Empson

Ans. D


55. Concept of Hegemony is given by __.

A. Jean Baudrillard

B. Antonio Gramsci 

C. Jaques Derrida

D. William Empson

Ans. B

56. Who coined the term 'Simulacrum' ?

A. Antonio Gramsci 

B. Jaques Derrida

C. William Empson

D. Jean Baudrillard 

Ans. D


57. Who coined the term 'Chora' ?

A. Julia Kristeva 

B. Jaques Derrida

C. William Empson

D. Jaques Derrida

Ans. A

58. Who coined the term 'Meta History' ?

A. Erwin Piscator  

B. Irving Wardle 

C. Lionel Abel 

D. Hayden White

Ans. D

59. Who introduced the concept 'Strategic essentialism' ? 

A. Julia Kristeva

B. Antonio Gramsci 

C. Gayatri Ch. Spivak

D. Sigmund Freud 

Ans. C

60. In which work Geoffrey Chaucer first used the term "rhyme royal" ?

A. Troilus and Criseyde

B. The Parlement of Foules

C. Canterbury Tales

D. Both A & B

Ans. D






61. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

62. Inscape and Instress : by - G. M. Hopkins 

63. Science Fiction : by Forrest J. Ackerman

64. Hermeneutic Circle : by- Wilhelm Dilthey 

65. Ecological Imperialism : by - Alfred Crosby 

66. Horizon of Expectations by H R Jauss

67. Imagined Communities : by- Benedict Anderson 

68. Habitus :  By- Pierre Bourdieu 

69. Flaneur : by- Walter Benjamin 

70. American Renaissance : by - F. O. Matthiessen

71. Sensuous : by- John Milton

72. Medievalism : - John Ruskin

73. Interpretive Communities : - Stanley Fish 

74. Hyper Text : by - Ted Nelson 

75. Poetic Justice by -Thomas Rhymer

78. Bildingsroman by -Karl Morgenstern 

79. Double think : by - George Orwell 

80. Life Force by G B Shaw

81. Serendipity: by - Horace Walpole

82. New Historicism : by- Stephan Greenbalt

83. Negritude : - Aimee Cesaire and Leopald Senghor 

84. Surrealist : by - Guillaume Apollinaire 

85. Materialist Feminism : by - Monique Witting  

86. Comic Inferno : by- Kingsley Amis 

87. Epiphany : - James Joyce 

88. Problem Plays :  - Sydney Grundy 

89. Gilded Age : - Mark Twain  

90. Blank Verse in English poetry :  

- Surrey (In his translation Aenied) 

91. Beat Generation :  by- Jack Kerouac 

92. New Journalism : by- Matthew Arnold  

93. Cultural Industry : - Theodore Adorno & Horkheimer 

94. Communicative Competence : - Dell Hymes  

95. Darwinism : by - Thomas Henry Huxley 

96. School of Resentment : - Harold Bloom  

97. Holocaust : by - Winston Churchill 

98. Black Humour : - Andre Breton

99. Comedy of Menace : by-  Irving Wardle 



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MCQs on Literary Movements 

MCQs on Literary Criticism