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Exploring New Criticism in Poetry

Dive into critical approaches in poetry, uncovering major categories, central oppositions in poems, and key principles of New Criticism. Test your knowledge and understanding of poetic analysis with this insightful quiz.

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Exploring New Criticism in Poetry

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  1. Quiz (1): New Critical Approaches to Poetry

  2. (1) • What of the following could be the two major categories to divide up the critical approaches? • 1. Surface and symbolic meanings; • 2. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Approaches; • 3. Sociological and Psychological Approaches.

  3. (2) • “This Is Just to Say”: What is/are the Central Opposition(s) in this poem? • 1. Breakfast v.s. Dessert; • 2. Plum v.s. Icebox; • 3. Sweet v.s. Delicious.

  4. (3) • “The poet wants to use this poem to get a divorce, so this poem is about divorce.” • This is an example of: • 1. Affective Fallacy; • 2. Intentional Fallacy; • 3. Faulty Deduction.

  5. (4) • What is the Central Opposition in “Stella’s Birthday”? • 1. Stella and the speaker; • 2. Body and Mind; • 3. Double and split.

  6. (5) • What in the following is not part of the major principles of New Criticism? • 1. Affective Fallacy; • 2. Orgasm; • 3. Organic Unity; • 4. Autonomy.

  7. (1) Answer • What of the following could be the two major categories to divide up the critical approaches? • 1. Surface and symbolic meanings; • 2. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Approaches; • 3. Sociological and Psychological Approaches.

  8. (2) Answer • “This Is Just to Say”: What is/are the Central Opposition(s) in this poem? • 1. Breakfast v.s. Dessert; • 2. Plum v.s. Icebox; (or Sweet v.s. Cold) • 3. Sweet v.s. Delicious.

  9. (3) Answer • “The poet wants to use this poem to get a divorce, so this poem is about divorce.” • This is an example of: • 1. Affective Fallacy; • 2. Intentional Fallacy; • 3. Faulty Deduction.

  10. (4) Answer • What is the Central Opposition in “Stella’s Birthday”? • 1. Stella and the speaker; • 2. Body and Mind; • 3. Double and split.

  11. (5) Answer • What in the following is not part of the major principles of New Criticism? • 1. Affective Fallacy; • 2. Orgasm; • 3. Organic Unity; • 4. Autonomy.

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