Third year
June Exam
Date 07 / 06 / 2010

I- Fill in the spaces with the appropriate word or words

1- The concept of ..........refers to the fitness and propriety of the form and style of a work ti its contents.

2- ...........is the explanation which, for whatever reasons, is the most acceptable or most useful to most people at any given time.

3- The consideration of literature in context of its author's life and career is known as ...........

4- The concept of .........refers to a man of some social standing and personal reputation, but sufficiently like ourselves in terms of weaknesses that we feel pity when a flaw, rather than vice, causes his downfall.

II- Indicate whether the following statements are true or false

1- The two primary questions of literary criticism- what is the value of literature? and how does it work? are completely separable questions

2- in the Republic, mimesis is used both in the sense of "impersonation" and in that of imitation

3- Unlike Plato, Aristotle is more concerned with the form of literature than he is with the content

4- In Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Neander, Dryden's speaker, defends the French dramatists because they followed the classical rules of the ancient models

III- Answer Two of the following question ( your answer should be in paragraph form and should not exceed 10 lines )

1- what is the sublime in literature? And what are its sources?

2- How does Sir Philip Sidney defend poetry ?

3- What are the defects Samuel Johnson saw in Shakespeare's plays ?

4- What are the main features of the Romantic Movement in William Wordsworth's poetry ?