9_ Whish of the following can be correct about Expressionism?
1-Expressionist drama almost exclusively focuses on one central protagonist reducing all the other figures to mere reflections of his central position.
2-The Expressionists used to try to obtain the most pure information, free from the bindings of rational thought by a technique called automatic writing.
3-The Expressionists tried to expand the mind's potential by reconciling the apparently contradictory states of dream and reality.
4-The strength of the expressionist movement can be attributed in large part to one man, Andre Breton.
8- Which of the following is the best description for the 'Sublime'?
1-Its effect is "transport" (ekstasis) - it is that quality of a passage which "shatters the hearer's composure," exercises irresistible "domination" over him, and "scatters the subjects like a bolt of lightning."
2-The word has been used for an unintentional descent in literature when, straining to be pathetic or passionate or elevated, the writer overshoots the mark and drops into the trivial or the ridiculous.
3-In Greek, it meant the passions, or suffering, or deep feeling generally. In modern criticism, however, it is applied in a much more limited way to a scene or passage that is designed to evoke the feelings of tenderness, pity, or sympathetic sorrow from the audience.
4-In his Rhetoric, Aristotle pointed out that an orator projects it in the course of his oration; that is, the sublime is a personal trait, which itself functions as a means of persuasion.
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4- Led by figures such as Georg Kaiser and Frank Wedekind, ...........was a response to increasing mechanization and urbanization and its members tried to distort the objective features of the sensory world.