Quiz 3: The Critical Essay

• The Rectangle is the sinful, fleshly section of the city.

  True or False?

  True
• Marsh was a very learned man.

  True or False?

  True
• Image and symbol are not the same.

  True or False?

  True
• Burns was the shabby stranger's name.

  True or False?

  False
• The novelist can deal with social or religious beliefs through his characters.

  True or False?

  True
• A flag is a symbol.

  True or False?

  True
• The novel followed the drama as a major form in England.

  True or False?

  True
• the information needed to understand a story =

  exposition
• artificial ordering of events =

  plot
• fictional person =


  character
• long prose narrative =

  novel
• the catalyst that begins the major conflict =

  complication
• partially established by the setting =

  mood
• the turning point in the story that occurs when characters try to resolve the complication =

  climax
• the set of events that bring the story to a close =

  resolution
• A book review is a form of ___________________.

  critical essay
• The book review evaluates a book and focuses on what question?


  Was what he said worthwhile?
• Rose was a _______________________.

  dependent person
• Norman was __________________________.


  generous and serving
• Burns was a ____________.

  drunk
• Chase was _____________.


  bitter
• An intentional departure from a normal meaning of words is a(n) ________________________.

  figure of speech
• The plot of a novel is a(n) ______________________________.

  artificial ordering of events
• A critique that centers on how the writer says what he says is an ______________.

  analysis
• The question "What does the writer say?" is a question of _______________________.

  interpretation
• The question "Was what the author said worthwhile?" is a question of __________________.

  evaluation
• The question "How does the author say what he says" is a question of __________________.

  analysis
• The type of criticism that deals directly with technique and style is __________________.

  analysis
• What literary tradition immediately preceded the novel tradition?

  romance
• What does the city represent in the novel?

  - place of change

  - place of decision

  - man's lowest state
• A literary or dramatic work that ridicules a subject either by presenting a solemn subject in an undignified style or an inconsequential subject in a dignified style is ________________.

  burlesque
• The first European novel is generally considered to be ___________________.

  Don Quixote