DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 23: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it Like many great and clear thinkers, Northrop Frye, the brillant iteray cic, was fond of walking ‘The thoughts travelled in two basic streams on his early walks - followed by a third in later ones. Fist, he engaged his intellect with the western tradition's most challenging canonical writers, especially those with a religious bent. His career teally began with the book that put him on the literary criticism map: Fearful Symmetry, an analysis of Wiliam Blake's difficult prophetic poems, published in 1947 by the Princeton University Press. The American publishing house’s acceptance was a coup for a then-obscure young academic from Canada. Books on Miton and Eliot would follow, and he'd produce dozens more in the course of his life. Essentially, Frye saw literature as soluble: with enough hard work, you could figure out what it meant, ‘Second, he ambitiously developed a system for categorizing every story ever written oF told, from cowboy westerns to \Whodunts, from futuristic sc-fi back tothe myths of primtive societies, from comedies of manners to the bloodiest war fiction, In the keynote address at Frye Festival in Moncton, Margaret Atwood adeptly, and somewhat jokingly, described the basic schema set out in Anatomy of Criticism: “There are four main types of story: the romance, in which the hero journeys on a quest, kils dragons and rescues maidens; the comedy, in which the hero and the maiden can't get together due to interference by censorious old fogies, but which, after complication, ends with marriage; the tragedy, in which the protagonist falls from a height and ends up dead or in exile; and the irony, in which old fogies sit round a Winter fre in a frozen world and tell tales.” Fiye’s schema and his discussion of Jungian archetypes bowled over the academic and general reading world upon ‘Anatomy’s release in 1957. Then in the 1980s, came the postmodern deluge - the first wave of deconstructionists, ‘semiotcians and post-structuralists. Frye’s structure was exaclly what they were seeking to put behind them. Frye’s carefully worked out categories. and subcategories. were increasingly derided as the ‘pigeonholes” of an overly precisionist mind; in the identity politics era, his engagement with the canon, the writings ofall those dead white males, ‘appeared retrograde. The miscellaneous thinkers lumped together under the banner of postmodernists dismissed Frye’s, belief that Iiterature's meaning could be ascertained with some certainty - to them, words on the page were blank ‘signifers” with absolutely no connection tothe “signified” (the meaning). ‘Although Frye made some salty comments in his ever-present notebooks about the onslaught of deconstructionists, he didn't express many public worries about his falling stock. Instead, he continued to shift gears, working on what would become his third intelectual contribution: showing how the Bible's stories underiay all of western Iiterature. He produced ‘The Great Code - which made an original contribution to both biblical and literary scholarship, This then was the third ‘and final stream of his thought. convincing power of logic, facts and the righteousness of its cause. More and more 21. The passage mentions which of the following as a feature of the 1980s postmodernist wave? (A) It resisted Frye's txing ot meaning with tne Contention thatthe text is fluid (B) It led the deconstruction of Anatomy of Deconstruction. (©) It condemned Fry's censure of the canonized literature of dead white males (0) Allof the above. 22. According to the passage; romance, comedy, tragedy and irony are. (A) common symbols that populate all of literature. {(B) the four essential moulds into which every story could be fit (©) Atwood's interpretation of ancient myths that ‘abound in contemporary novels. (0) Jungian archetypes that perpetuate themselves in canonical texts, 23. In the context of the passage, the word “soluble” means (A) decipherable (8) slippery (C) polysemic (0) interpretable DIRECTIONS for question 24: The following question thas a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. 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