Directions: Passage for Question 1 to 9
Jane Austen's novels were published between 1811 and 1818, a time when English literature was not included in academic curricula, and fiction was under attack. Certain religious and political groups believed that novels could make immoral characters appealing to young readers and considered them to be of little practical use. Due to these attitudes and Austen's anonymity as a novelist, she received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. However, the critics who did engage with her work provided insightful and incisive evaluations, similar to twentieth-century criticism.
One such critic was Scott, who praised Austen's novels for their accurate depiction of ordinary people and places, likening them to seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While he did not use the term "realism," he acknowledged the merits of Austen's fiction in presenting recognizable human characters and suggested the potential for moral instruction through her realistic method. Another critic, Whitely, commended Austen's ability to create characters who embody a mixture of goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, similar to real life. Whitely compared Austen's art of characterization to Dickens', expressing a preference for Austen's approach.
Not all responses to Austen's work were uniformly positive. In 1859, Lewes praised her verisimilitude but criticized the narrow focus on unlofty and commonplace subjects and characters. Twentieth-century Marxists also found fault with Austen, claiming an exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class. Nevertheless, Austen gradually gained recognition and appreciation from literary critics, reaching a point where she was considered controversial by the mid-nineteenth century.
Q. The primary purpose of the passage is to
Directions: Passage for Question 1 to 9
Jane Austen's novels were published between 1811 and 1818, a time when English literature was not included in academic curricula, and fiction was under attack. Certain religious and political groups believed that novels could make immoral characters appealing to young readers and considered them to be of little practical use. Due to these attitudes and Austen's anonymity as a novelist, she received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. However, the critics who did engage with her work provided insightful and incisive evaluations, similar to twentieth-century criticism.
One such critic was Scott, who praised Austen's novels for their accurate depiction of ordinary people and places, likening them to seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While he did not use the term "realism," he acknowledged the merits of Austen's fiction in presenting recognizable human characters and suggested the potential for moral instruction through her realistic method. Another critic, Whitely, commended Austen's ability to create characters who embody a mixture of goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, similar to real life. Whitely compared Austen's art of characterization to Dickens', expressing a preference for Austen's approach.
Not all responses to Austen's work were uniformly positive. In 1859, Lewes praised her verisimilitude but criticized the narrow focus on unlofty and commonplace subjects and characters. Twentieth-century Marxists also found fault with Austen, claiming an exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class. Nevertheless, Austen gradually gained recognition and appreciation from literary critics, reaching a point where she was considered controversial by the mid-nineteenth century.
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Directions: Passage for Question 1 to 9
Jane Austen's novels were published between 1811 and 1818, a time when English literature was not included in academic curricula, and fiction was under attack. Certain religious and political groups believed that novels could make immoral characters appealing to young readers and considered them to be of little practical use. Due to these attitudes and Austen's anonymity as a novelist, she received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. However, the critics who did engage with her work provided insightful and incisive evaluations, similar to twentieth-century criticism.
One such critic was Scott, who praised Austen's novels for their accurate depiction of ordinary people and places, likening them to seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While he did not use the term "realism," he acknowledged the merits of Austen's fiction in presenting recognizable human characters and suggested the potential for moral instruction through her realistic method. Another critic, Whitely, commended Austen's ability to create characters who embody a mixture of goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, similar to real life. Whitely compared Austen's art of characterization to Dickens', expressing a preference for Austen's approach.
Not all responses to Austen's work were uniformly positive. In 1859, Lewes praised her verisimilitude but criticized the narrow focus on unlofty and commonplace subjects and characters. Twentieth-century Marxists also found fault with Austen, claiming an exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class. Nevertheless, Austen gradually gained recognition and appreciation from literary critics, reaching a point where she was considered controversial by the mid-nineteenth century.
Q. The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions?
Directions: Passage for Question 1 to 9
Jane Austen's novels were published between 1811 and 1818, a time when English literature was not included in academic curricula, and fiction was under attack. Certain religious and political groups believed that novels could make immoral characters appealing to young readers and considered them to be of little practical use. Due to these attitudes and Austen's anonymity as a novelist, she received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. However, the critics who did engage with her work provided insightful and incisive evaluations, similar to twentieth-century criticism.
One such critic was Scott, who praised Austen's novels for their accurate depiction of ordinary people and places, likening them to seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While he did not use the term "realism," he acknowledged the merits of Austen's fiction in presenting recognizable human characters and suggested the potential for moral instruction through her realistic method. Another critic, Whitely, commended Austen's ability to create characters who embody a mixture of goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, similar to real life. Whitely compared Austen's art of characterization to Dickens', expressing a preference for Austen's approach.
Not all responses to Austen's work were uniformly positive. In 1859, Lewes praised her verisimilitude but criticized the narrow focus on unlofty and commonplace subjects and characters. Twentieth-century Marxists also found fault with Austen, claiming an exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class. Nevertheless, Austen gradually gained recognition and appreciation from literary critics, reaching a point where she was considered controversial by the mid-nineteenth century.
Q. According to the passage, the lack of critical attention paid to Jane Austen can be explained by all ofthe following nineteenth-century attitudes towards the novel EXCEPT the
Directions: Passage for Question 1 to 9
Jane Austen's novels were published between 1811 and 1818, a time when English literature was not included in academic curricula, and fiction was under attack. Certain religious and political groups believed that novels could make immoral characters appealing to young readers and considered them to be of little practical use. Due to these attitudes and Austen's anonymity as a novelist, she received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. However, the critics who did engage with her work provided insightful and incisive evaluations, similar to twentieth-century criticism.
One such critic was Scott, who praised Austen's novels for their accurate depiction of ordinary people and places, likening them to seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While he did not use the term "realism," he acknowledged the merits of Austen's fiction in presenting recognizable human characters and suggested the potential for moral instruction through her realistic method. Another critic, Whitely, commended Austen's ability to create characters who embody a mixture of goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, similar to real life. Whitely compared Austen's art of characterization to Dickens', expressing a preference for Austen's approach.
Not all responses to Austen's work were uniformly positive. In 1859, Lewes praised her verisimilitude but criticized the narrow focus on unlofty and commonplace subjects and characters. Twentieth-century Marxists also found fault with Austen, claiming an exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class. Nevertheless, Austen gradually gained recognition and appreciation from literary critics, reaching a point where she was considered controversial by the mid-nineteenth century.
Q. The authors mentions that English literature "was not part of any academic curriculum " in the earlynineteenth century in order to
Directions: Passage for Question 1 to 9
Jane Austen's novels were published between 1811 and 1818, a time when English literature was not included in academic curricula, and fiction was under attack. Certain religious and political groups believed that novels could make immoral characters appealing to young readers and considered them to be of little practical use. Due to these attitudes and Austen's anonymity as a novelist, she received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. However, the critics who did engage with her work provided insightful and incisive evaluations, similar to twentieth-century criticism.
One such critic was Scott, who praised Austen's novels for their accurate depiction of ordinary people and places, likening them to seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While he did not use the term "realism," he acknowledged the merits of Austen's fiction in presenting recognizable human characters and suggested the potential for moral instruction through her realistic method. Another critic, Whitely, commended Austen's ability to create characters who embody a mixture of goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, similar to real life. Whitely compared Austen's art of characterization to Dickens', expressing a preference for Austen's approach.
Not all responses to Austen's work were uniformly positive. In 1859, Lewes praised her verisimilitude but criticized the narrow focus on unlofty and commonplace subjects and characters. Twentieth-century Marxists also found fault with Austen, claiming an exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class. Nevertheless, Austen gradually gained recognition and appreciation from literary critics, reaching a point where she was considered controversial by the mid-nineteenth century.
Q. It can be inferred from the passage that Whately found Dickens character to be
Directions: Passage for Question 1 to 9
Jane Austen's novels were published between 1811 and 1818, a time when English literature was not included in academic curricula, and fiction was under attack. Certain religious and political groups believed that novels could make immoral characters appealing to young readers and considered them to be of little practical use. Due to these attitudes and Austen's anonymity as a novelist, she received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. However, the critics who did engage with her work provided insightful and incisive evaluations, similar to twentieth-century criticism.
One such critic was Scott, who praised Austen's novels for their accurate depiction of ordinary people and places, likening them to seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While he did not use the term "realism," he acknowledged the merits of Austen's fiction in presenting recognizable human characters and suggested the potential for moral instruction through her realistic method. Another critic, Whitely, commended Austen's ability to create characters who embody a mixture of goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, similar to real life. Whitely compared Austen's art of characterization to Dickens', expressing a preference for Austen's approach.
Not all responses to Austen's work were uniformly positive. In 1859, Lewes praised her verisimilitude but criticized the narrow focus on unlofty and commonplace subjects and characters. Twentieth-century Marxists also found fault with Austen, claiming an exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class. Nevertheless, Austen gradually gained recognition and appreciation from literary critics, reaching a point where she was considered controversial by the mid-nineteenth century.
Q. The passage supplies information to suggest that the religious and political groups mentioned andWhately might have agreed that a novel
Directions: Passage for Question 1 to 9
Jane Austen's novels were published between 1811 and 1818, a time when English literature was not included in academic curricula, and fiction was under attack. Certain religious and political groups believed that novels could make immoral characters appealing to young readers and considered them to be of little practical use. Due to these attitudes and Austen's anonymity as a novelist, she received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. However, the critics who did engage with her work provided insightful and incisive evaluations, similar to twentieth-century criticism.
One such critic was Scott, who praised Austen's novels for their accurate depiction of ordinary people and places, likening them to seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While he did not use the term "realism," he acknowledged the merits of Austen's fiction in presenting recognizable human characters and suggested the potential for moral instruction through her realistic method. Another critic, Whitely, commended Austen's ability to create characters who embody a mixture of goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, similar to real life. Whitely compared Austen's art of characterization to Dickens', expressing a preference for Austen's approach.
Not all responses to Austen's work were uniformly positive. In 1859, Lewes praised her verisimilitude but criticized the narrow focus on unlofty and commonplace subjects and characters. Twentieth-century Marxists also found fault with Austen, claiming an exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class. Nevertheless, Austen gradually gained recognition and appreciation from literary critics, reaching a point where she was considered controversial by the mid-nineteenth century.
Q. The passage suggests that twentieth century Marxists would have admired Jane Austen's noels moreif the novels, a he Marxists understood them, had
Directions: Passage for Question 1 to 9
Jane Austen's novels were published between 1811 and 1818, a time when English literature was not included in academic curricula, and fiction was under attack. Certain religious and political groups believed that novels could make immoral characters appealing to young readers and considered them to be of little practical use. Due to these attitudes and Austen's anonymity as a novelist, she received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. However, the critics who did engage with her work provided insightful and incisive evaluations, similar to twentieth-century criticism.
One such critic was Scott, who praised Austen's novels for their accurate depiction of ordinary people and places, likening them to seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While he did not use the term "realism," he acknowledged the merits of Austen's fiction in presenting recognizable human characters and suggested the potential for moral instruction through her realistic method. Another critic, Whitely, commended Austen's ability to create characters who embody a mixture of goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, similar to real life. Whitely compared Austen's art of characterization to Dickens', expressing a preference for Austen's approach.
Not all responses to Austen's work were uniformly positive. In 1859, Lewes praised her verisimilitude but criticized the narrow focus on unlofty and commonplace subjects and characters. Twentieth-century Marxists also found fault with Austen, claiming an exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class. Nevertheless, Austen gradually gained recognition and appreciation from literary critics, reaching a point where she was considered controversial by the mid-nineteenth century.
Q. The author quotes Coleridge in order to
Directions: Passage for Question 10 to 15
The author discusses the beliefs of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, focusing on their humanistic perspective. These writers share the belief that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that understanding the nature, history, and cosmos depends on understanding humanity itself. They reject the exclusive principles of a deity or brute matter and prefer to explain the world in terms of human experience. The Transcendentalist principle asserts that the structure of the universe mirrors the structure of the individual self, emphasizing that all knowledge begins with self-knowledge.
This humanistic perspective is universalized, emphasizing the universal nature of humanity rather than specific cultural identities. It transcends time, space, birth, and talent. The writers envision the individual as part of a greater whole. They believe that individual virtue and happiness depend on the self-realization achieved through the harmonious reconciliation of two psychological tendencies: the self-asserting impulse to remain unique and separate, and the self-transcending impulse to embrace the world and become one with it.
These conflicting impulses can be observed in the democratic ethic, where the democratic self faces the tension between individual liberty and the duty to society. Another shared belief among these writers is the conviction that intuition and imagination provide a more reliable path to truth than abstract logic or scientific methods. They emphasize introspection and view experience as symbolic, considering the inner world of individual psychology as the key to understanding external nature.
The writers have faith in the power of imagination and see themselves as practitioners of imagination. They perceive the writer as a seer and have unwavering confidence in their own moral and metaphysical insights.
Q. The author discuses "the democratic ethic in order to
Directions: Passage for Question 10 to 15
The author discusses the beliefs of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, focusing on their humanistic perspective. These writers share the belief that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that understanding the nature, history, and cosmos depends on understanding humanity itself. They reject the exclusive principles of a deity or brute matter and prefer to explain the world in terms of human experience. The Transcendentalist principle asserts that the structure of the universe mirrors the structure of the individual self, emphasizing that all knowledge begins with self-knowledge.
This humanistic perspective is universalized, emphasizing the universal nature of humanity rather than specific cultural identities. It transcends time, space, birth, and talent. The writers envision the individual as part of a greater whole. They believe that individual virtue and happiness depend on the self-realization achieved through the harmonious reconciliation of two psychological tendencies: the self-asserting impulse to remain unique and separate, and the self-transcending impulse to embrace the world and become one with it.
These conflicting impulses can be observed in the democratic ethic, where the democratic self faces the tension between individual liberty and the duty to society. Another shared belief among these writers is the conviction that intuition and imagination provide a more reliable path to truth than abstract logic or scientific methods. They emphasize introspection and view experience as symbolic, considering the inner world of individual psychology as the key to understanding external nature.
The writers have faith in the power of imagination and see themselves as practitioners of imagination. They perceive the writer as a seer and have unwavering confidence in their own moral and metaphysical insights.
Q. It can be inferred that intuition is important to the five writers primarily because it provides themwith
Directions: Passage for Question 10 to 15
The author discusses the beliefs of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, focusing on their humanistic perspective. These writers share the belief that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that understanding the nature, history, and cosmos depends on understanding humanity itself. They reject the exclusive principles of a deity or brute matter and prefer to explain the world in terms of human experience. The Transcendentalist principle asserts that the structure of the universe mirrors the structure of the individual self, emphasizing that all knowledge begins with self-knowledge.
This humanistic perspective is universalized, emphasizing the universal nature of humanity rather than specific cultural identities. It transcends time, space, birth, and talent. The writers envision the individual as part of a greater whole. They believe that individual virtue and happiness depend on the self-realization achieved through the harmonious reconciliation of two psychological tendencies: the self-asserting impulse to remain unique and separate, and the self-transcending impulse to embrace the world and become one with it.
These conflicting impulses can be observed in the democratic ethic, where the democratic self faces the tension between individual liberty and the duty to society. Another shared belief among these writers is the conviction that intuition and imagination provide a more reliable path to truth than abstract logic or scientific methods. They emphasize introspection and view experience as symbolic, considering the inner world of individual psychology as the key to understanding external nature.
The writers have faith in the power of imagination and see themselves as practitioners of imagination. They perceive the writer as a seer and have unwavering confidence in their own moral and metaphysical insights.
Q. According to the passage, the five writers objects to the scientific method primarily because theythink it
Directions: Passage for Question 10 to 15
The author discusses the beliefs of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, focusing on their humanistic perspective. These writers share the belief that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that understanding the nature, history, and cosmos depends on understanding humanity itself. They reject the exclusive principles of a deity or brute matter and prefer to explain the world in terms of human experience. The Transcendentalist principle asserts that the structure of the universe mirrors the structure of the individual self, emphasizing that all knowledge begins with self-knowledge.
This humanistic perspective is universalized, emphasizing the universal nature of humanity rather than specific cultural identities. It transcends time, space, birth, and talent. The writers envision the individual as part of a greater whole. They believe that individual virtue and happiness depend on the self-realization achieved through the harmonious reconciliation of two psychological tendencies: the self-asserting impulse to remain unique and separate, and the self-transcending impulse to embrace the world and become one with it.
These conflicting impulses can be observed in the democratic ethic, where the democratic self faces the tension between individual liberty and the duty to society. Another shared belief among these writers is the conviction that intuition and imagination provide a more reliable path to truth than abstract logic or scientific methods. They emphasize introspection and view experience as symbolic, considering the inner world of individual psychology as the key to understanding external nature.
The writers have faith in the power of imagination and see themselves as practitioners of imagination. They perceive the writer as a seer and have unwavering confidence in their own moral and metaphysical insights.
Q. The authors quotes Whiteman primarily in order to
Directions: Passage for Question 10 to 15
The author discusses the beliefs of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, focusing on their humanistic perspective. These writers share the belief that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that understanding the nature, history, and cosmos depends on understanding humanity itself. They reject the exclusive principles of a deity or brute matter and prefer to explain the world in terms of human experience. The Transcendentalist principle asserts that the structure of the universe mirrors the structure of the individual self, emphasizing that all knowledge begins with self-knowledge.
This humanistic perspective is universalized, emphasizing the universal nature of humanity rather than specific cultural identities. It transcends time, space, birth, and talent. The writers envision the individual as part of a greater whole. They believe that individual virtue and happiness depend on the self-realization achieved through the harmonious reconciliation of two psychological tendencies: the self-asserting impulse to remain unique and separate, and the self-transcending impulse to embrace the world and become one with it.
These conflicting impulses can be observed in the democratic ethic, where the democratic self faces the tension between individual liberty and the duty to society. Another shared belief among these writers is the conviction that intuition and imagination provide a more reliable path to truth than abstract logic or scientific methods. They emphasize introspection and view experience as symbolic, considering the inner world of individual psychology as the key to understanding external nature.
The writers have faith in the power of imagination and see themselves as practitioners of imagination. They perceive the writer as a seer and have unwavering confidence in their own moral and metaphysical insights.
Q. According to the passage, the humanistic perspective of the five writers presupposes which of the
following?
I)The structures of the universe can be discovered through self-knowledge.
II)The world can be explained in terms of humanity
III)The spiritual and the material worlds are incompatible
Directions: Passage for Question 10 to 15
The author discusses the beliefs of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, focusing on their humanistic perspective. These writers share the belief that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that understanding the nature, history, and cosmos depends on understanding humanity itself. They reject the exclusive principles of a deity or brute matter and prefer to explain the world in terms of human experience. The Transcendentalist principle asserts that the structure of the universe mirrors the structure of the individual self, emphasizing that all knowledge begins with self-knowledge.
This humanistic perspective is universalized, emphasizing the universal nature of humanity rather than specific cultural identities. It transcends time, space, birth, and talent. The writers envision the individual as part of a greater whole. They believe that individual virtue and happiness depend on the self-realization achieved through the harmonious reconciliation of two psychological tendencies: the self-asserting impulse to remain unique and separate, and the self-transcending impulse to embrace the world and become one with it.
These conflicting impulses can be observed in the democratic ethic, where the democratic self faces the tension between individual liberty and the duty to society. Another shared belief among these writers is the conviction that intuition and imagination provide a more reliable path to truth than abstract logic or scientific methods. They emphasize introspection and view experience as symbolic, considering the inner world of individual psychology as the key to understanding external nature.
The writers have faith in the power of imagination and see themselves as practitioners of imagination. They perceive the writer as a seer and have unwavering confidence in their own moral and metaphysical insights.
Q. The author's discussion of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman is primarilyconcerned with explaining.