2023-05-24
2022 - 2023 EĞİTİM-ÖĞRETİM YILI DEVLET SINAV SORULARI
KYRGYZSTAN-TURKEY MANAS UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF HUMANITY
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOLOGY
(ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
STATE EXAM QUESTIONS
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
- What is Rhetorical Criticism? (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures,
benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- Four Theories of Literary Criticism. M.H. Abrams’ classification: Universe (Mimetic); Audience (Pragmatic); Poet (Expressive); Poem (Objective).
- Major Movements (Schools / Approaches) of Literary Criticism. (Include key terms and theories with short description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- Categories of Literary Criticism: Expository Approaches and Interpretive and Ideological
Approaches to Literature.
- Extrinsic and Intrinsic Categories of Literary Theory and Criticism.
- What is New Criticism? (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- What is Archetypal Criticism? (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- What is Feminist Criticism? Three Waves of Feminism; Traditional Gender Roles; (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- What is Structuralism? (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- What is Formalism? (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- What is New – Historical Approach to Literature? Explain the concept of First World, Second
- World, Third World, and Fourth World. (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- What is Reader Response Criticism? (Include key terms and theories with description, major
figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- Peter Newmark’s book “A Textbook of Translation”. Procedures of translation, methods,
transformations, and contribution.
- What is Ecocriticism? (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- What is Semiotics? Structural Linguistics (Ferdinand De Saussure, C. S. Peirce); Structural
Anthropology (Claude Levi-Strauss); Barthes’ Semiotic Analysis; Sign vs. Symbol.
- Mythological Criticism. Explain Northrop Frye’s Theory of Myths;
- J.C. Catford’s book “A Linguistic Theory of Translation”. Shift translation.
- Explain Reader-Response Theory and Its Strategies: Textual, Experiential, Psychological, Social, and Cultural. (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- Define Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School (1915–1929). ((Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits, limitations and critical questions).
- Marxist Theories / Approach to Literary Criticism: Karl Marx (1818–1883); the Role of Ideology; Class System; the ‘Superstructure’ (Ideology, Politics) and the ‘Base’ (Socio-Economic Relations).
- What is Psychoanalytic Approach to Literature? Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): Unconscious
Repressed Desire. (Include key terms and theories with description, major figures, benefits,
limitations and critical questions).
- Explain Psychoanalytic Approach: Carl Jung (1875–1961): the Archetypal Collective
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- Development of the English Prose: the Chronological Overview of the Periods of English Novel including Famous English Writers.
- Character in Prose: Explicit and Implicit Characterization.
- Character in Novel: Techniques of Characterization.
- Narrators and Narrative Situation, Narrative Voices. Structure of the Narrative.
- Types of Prose Fiction; Epistolary Novel, Picaresque Novel, Historical Novel, Gothic Novel, Social Novel, Bildungsroman, Science Fiction, Graphic Novel.
- Elements of Novel: Plot, Character, Setting, Theme, Mood, Tone, Point of View.
- Main Characteristics of Short Story: Literary Elements of Short Story.
- Literary Devices and Figurative Language in Novel.
- Development of the English Poetry: The Chronological Overview of the Periods of English Poetry including Famous English Poets.
- Forma of Poetry (Types of Poetry): Ballad, Ode, Sonnet, Haiku, Limerick, Acrostic, Free Verse.
- Poetry and Poem. Elements of Poetry: Form, Sound, Imagery, Figurative Language
- Rhythm: Five Kinds of Rhythm, Five Basic Feet.
Poetic Structure (Poetic Line, Stanza, Verse, Enjambment Verse)
- Sound Patterns (Rhyme, Rhythm, Meter, Foot, Word Sounds (Alliteration)
- Genres of Poems: Lyric Poetry, Narrative Poetry, Descriptive Poetry.
- Poetic Language: Word Choice / Diction Used in Creating Feeling or Mood
- Meaning in Poetry: Denotation, Connotation, Images, Figurative Meaning
- Imagery in Poetry. Five Types of Imagery
- Classification of Dramatic Plays: Tragedy and Comedy.
- Development of the English Drama: the Chronological Overview of the Periods of English Drama Including Famous Playwrights;
- Types of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, Problem Play, Farce, Comedy of Manners, Fantasy,
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- Aristotle's Six Elements of Drama / Modern Elements of Drama: Plot, Theme, Characters, Dialogue (Monologue, Soliloquy, Aside), Music / Rhythm, Spectacle (Special Effects), Script/Text, the Audience, the Playwright.
- History of Drama (Greek Tragedy and Greek Comedy). Drama in the Middle Age, Morality Plays and Interludes.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Elizabethan Drama. Three Main Genres of Shakespeare's
Dramatic Works: Comedy, History, and Tragedy.
- Literary Periods of British Literature. Romanticism, Victorian Period.
- Modernism in English and American Literature.
- The Iceberg Theory in Earnest Hemingway’s writings.
- Literary Periods of British Literature: Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- Language and Linguistics. Speech, Language, and Speaking.
- Classical and Medieval Linguistics. Linguistics as a Descriptive and a Prescriptive science.
- Language as a Communication Code. The Language Code: encoding and decoding.
- The Sign. Types of Signs. The Nature of Linguistic Sign: the signified and the signifier.
- Characteristics of the linguistic sign. Two aspects of linguistic sign.
- Features of Language: Arbitrariness; Variability; Double articulation, language economy, and productivity Language Universals.
- The Science of Linguistics. Branches of Linguistics.
- Levels of Linguistic Analysis: phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
- Phonetics/phonology: Pronunciation and Orthography. Articulatory phonetics; Auditory phonetics; Acoustic phonetics.
- Morphology: Free morphemes (lexical and functional), bound morphemes (derivational and inflectional). Allomorph. Zero morphemes.
- Typological Classifications of Languages Based on Morphology
- Syntax. Lexical (or syntactic) Categories of Speech (parts of speech);
- Synchronic and Diachronic study of Linguistics.
- The structuralist perspective to Linguistics. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic relations of Language System.
- The Chomskyan revolution: Generative grammar. The influence of Chomsky on English Language. The evolution of generative grammar.
- Semantics: The lexicon and lexemes. Semantic relativity. Semantic features.
- Pragmatics and its Basic Concepts (Utterance, Context, Entailment, Grice’s theory of implicature, Deixis and Presupposition). Politeness theory.
- Nature of Speech Act Theory (Performative Verbs; Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts)
- Sociolinguistics. Dialectology.
- Aspects of Semantic Change: Causes, Nature and Results of Semantic Change. The Semantic Field Theory
- Structural Approaches to the Study of Meaning: History of Componential Approach to Meaning. Geoffrey Leech’s Version of Representing these Components
- Types of Discourse. Tools used in Discourse Analysis.
- Basics of Minimalist Theory of Syntax as developed by Noam Chomsky
- Three Universal Principles of Syntax that Apply to all Languages
- Valency and Collocation in Linguistics
- Dimensions of Meaning (Reference, Denotation, Connotation, Lexical and Grammatical Meanings)
- Dimensions of Meaning (Homonymy, Polysemy, Context)
- Homonyms (Classification and Sources of Homonyms)
- Grammatical Categories of the Adjective and Adverb
- Word Formation Processes
- Definition of Discourse, its Origin, Earliest Studies of Discourse Analysis
- Major Concepts in Discourse Analysis (Text, Context, Speech and Writing)
- Cohesion and Coherence. Types of Lexical and Grammatical Cohesion
- Hyponymy. Hyponyms. Hypernyms
- Deixis. Referential Deixis. Spatial Deixis. Temporal Deixis
- Genetic Classifications of Languages
- The Roman Conquest of Britain and its Effect on the Linguistic Situation
- The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britain and its Effect on the Linguistic Situation
- The Dialects in Old English. Old English Written Records
- The Scandinavian Conquest of Britain and its Effect on the Linguistic Situation
- The Norman Conquest and its Effect on the Linguistic Situation.
- Middle English dialects. Middle English Written Records
- The Great Vowel Shift
- Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law
- Early Modern English Period. Shakespeare’s Contribution to the English Language
- Language I Acquisition Theories (Generativism, Functionalism and Behaviorism)
- Structuralism. Ferdinand de Saussure: “Course in General Linguistics”
- Contributions of the Prague School to the Study of Language
(R. Jakobson: functions of language, N. Trubetzkoy: Principles of Phonology)
- London School of Linguistics. Systemic Functional Linguistics by M. Halliday
- Semiotics: F. de Saussure and S. Pierce’s Theories of Signs
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