MCQ on Literary Criticism

UNIT - I

1- Who was the teacher and most important literary critic before Aristotle?
A- Plato
B-Boileau
C-Horace
D-None

2-What type of men do tragedy and epic represents?

A-Normally good men
B- Villains
C-Santa
D-rich

3-What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in the Theory of Tragedy?
A-A weak trait in the character of the hero
B-The hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw
C-The hero’s recognition of his tragic end
D-None

4-The term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle means

A-The hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw
B-The hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw
C-The hero’s recognition of his tragic end
D-None

5-Who rejects the pathological theory of Catharsis that theatre is not a hospital?
A- F.L Lucas
B-I.A Richard
C-Humphrey House
D-None

6-Aristotle declared that the plot is the

A-Soul of the Tragedy
B-Not necessary
C-Most essential
D-Most useful

7-Who defines criticism as the play of mind on the aesthetic qualities of literature?
A-Atkins
B-Sainsbury
C-Victor Hugo
D-Edmund Gosse

8-What is the first and foremost function of a literary critic?

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A-To distinguish between a good book and a bad book
B-To satisfy the readers
C-To get full value out of literary quality
D-None

9-Sidney’s Apology for poetry is an example of

A-Theoretical Criticism
B-Comparative criticism
C- Historical Ciriticism
D-Evaluative Criticism

10-Who considered poetry to be the mother of lies?

A-Plato
B-Aristotle
C-Sidney
D-Longinus

11-How many chapters are there in ‘Poetics’?

A-26
B-24
C-28
D-29

12-Who commented that Even today the optics continues to be studied and prescribed as
textbooks in schools and colleges?
A-F.I Lucas
B-Dr. Johnson
C-Dryden
D-None

13-What term has Aristotle used for the weakness error or fault in the character of the tragic
hero?
A-Hamartia
B-Catharsis
C-Peripeteia
D-None

14-How many formative elements does Aristotle considered for the great tragedy?
A-6
B-5
C-3
D-8

15-Who considered Longinus as the first comparative critic o literature?

A-Abercrombie
B-Wimsatt

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C-Atoms
D-None

16-In whose opinion Longinus ‘classicism was touched with romance’?

A-Scott James
B-Wimsatt
C-Both
D-None

17-Longinus declares that sublime please all and

A-Pleases always
B-Please forever
C-Pleases everwhere
D-None

18-Longinus says that ‘Great literature springs from great and

A-Lofty souls
B-High Imagination
C-Immortals ideas
D-None

19-According to Longinus the chief function of literature is

A- Aesthetic
B-Compassion
C-DIdactic
D-None

20-Who has Longinus advised to imitate in poetry?

A-Rules and regulation
B-Great classical masters
C-Contemporary literature
D-Nature and art

21-On the sublime is a piece of

A-Poetic
B-Dramatic
C-Prose
D-Conversational

22- What does Longinus mean by ‘Puerility’?

A-Pedantic conceit
B-Rhythm
C-Dramatic
D-Hyperbole

23-Who is the friend of Longinus referred to at the beginning of the sublime?

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A-Terentianus
B-Caecilus
C-Postumus
D-None

24-The two types of sublime are

A- True and False
B-Epic and Tragedy
C-Harmoney and Rhythm
D-None

25-In which language has the sublime originally composed?

A-Greek
B-French
C-Latin
D-Roman

26-Longinus borrowed the concept of using a metaphor from

A-Aristotle
B-Homer
C-Plato
D-French

27-The great utterance is the echo of the greatness of

A-Soul
B-Mind
C-Heart
D-Language

28-In whose opinion has Longinus turned and tempered them with what is Sanest in Classism?
A-Scott James
B-Poetry
C-Style
D-None

29-Complete Longinus declaration that Sublimity is a certain loftiness and excellence in

A-Language
B-Poetry
C-Style
D-None

30-In which work of Sidney his theory of poetry has expressed

A-An Apologise for poetrie
B-Poetic
C-Essay on Dramatic Poesy
D-None

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31-In which year was an Apologies for Poetry written?
A-1585
B-1580
C-1596
D-1588

32-How was it printed?

A-Posthumously
B-In 1585
C-Before his death
D-None

33-What is the other title of An Apologie for poetrie given to it by another publisher?
A- The Defence of Poesie
B-Poetics
C-Essay on Criticism
D-None

34-How many versions of An Apology for poetrie were published?

A-Two
B-Three
C-Four
D-None

35-Who called the poet a Vates?

A-Romans
B-Squmards
C-Greeks
D-Italians

36-What is the meaning of Vates in Greek culture?

A-Maker
B-Imagination
C-Sidney
D-Prophet

37-What type of poetry does Sidney call the best and most accomplished kind of poetry?
A-Epic
B-Verse
C-Lyrics
D-Sterner

38-Who had objected to the greatness of poetry in days of Sidney?

A-Gosson
B-Malville

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C-Plato
D-Sterner

39-In whose opinion Sidney wrote not a pendants encyclopedia but a gentlemen’s essay?
A-Atkins
B-Prof. Sainsbury
C-Dr. Johnson
D-Dryden

40-What was the most powerful influence on Sidney?

A-Latin
B-Aristotle
C-Franch
D-Greek

41-Who has banished poetry from the ideal commonwealth?

A-Plato
B-Gosson
C-Horace
D-Wilson

42-Who is the composer of Arcadia?

A-Sidney
B-Wilson
C-Plato
D-None

43-What was the chief source of Sidney’s theory of theory?

A-Aristotle
B-Plato
C-Horace
D-None

44-Who has declared that the sources of Sidney’s defense were classical but the spirit was not
very sternly classical?
A-Atkins
B-Dr. Johnson
C-Wimsatt
D-None

45- Complete Sidne’s declaration that one ma be a poet without

A-Versing
B-Singing
C-Music
D-Knowledge

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46-Who said, ‘ the necessity is yet greater than mine?
A-Sidney
B-Queen
C-Spanish Soldier
D-None

47-How did Sidney die?

A-Wound of war
B-Poisoned
C-Suicide
D-None

48-What kind of poem is Arcadia?

A-A prose romance
B-Ballad
C-Elegy
D-None

49-What is the aim of poetry according to Sidney?

A-Delightful instruction
B-Instruction
C-Delight
D-None

50- Sidney has rejected English drama because of

A-Tragic- comedy
B-Play
C-Seriousness
D-None

51- The greatest weakness of English drama is its violation of

A-Real Character
B-Three Unities
C-Historical Truth
D-None

52-Who praised Dryden as the father of English criticism?

A-Dr. Johnson
B-T.S Eliot
C-Scott James
D-None

53-Which is the most popular critical work of Dryden?

A-Essay on Dramatic Poesy
B-Essay on fables
C-The Essay on satire

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D-Essay on historic tragedy

54-Who calls Essay on Fables the masterpiece in Judgement method and style?
A-Atkins
B-Dr. Johnson
C-Scott James
D-T.S Eliot

55-What is the form adopted in the Essay of dramatic poesy?

A-Four
B-Six
C- Three
D-None

56-Which character produces the vies of Dryden?

A-Neander
B-Lisideius
C-Crites
D-Eugenius

57-Which of the character favors the greatness of ancients?

A-Crites
B-Neander
C-Lisideius
D-Eugenius

58-In which work has Dryden made the masterly appreciation of Chaucer?
A-Preface of the Fables
B-The Essay on Satire
C-Essay on Dramatic Poesy
D-The Spanish Friar

59-Which is the perfect modern English play according to Dryden?

A-Silent Women
B-Macbeth
C-Duches of Malfi
D-Volpone

60-Who thinks that his reputation as a critic rests on a sure and lasting foundation?
A-T.S Eliot
B-F.RLeavis
C-Pope
D-Chaucer

61-According to Lisideius the French use rhyme in place of

A-Blank Verse

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B-Poetry
C-Prose
D-Dialogue

62-Which English poet has been most objected to by Lisideius?

A-Tragic-comedy
B-Comic
C-Tragic
D-Farce

63-What great achievement has been in the essay of Dramatic poetry?

A-Freedom for classical rules
B-Preference to imagination
C-Observaing romanticism
D-Teaching the people

64-The scene of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy has been laid on

A-Thames
B-Hudson
C-Nile
D-Dover

65-The age of Dryden is known as

A-Neo-classical
B-Jacobean
C-Romantic
D-Dover

66-What is the function of drama according to Dryden?

A-Delight and instruction
B-Purgation
C-Religious Teaching
D-Transport

67-Drama is a just and lively image of

A-Human Nature
B-Action of Man
C-Life
D-None

68-The Franch drama has been preferred by

A-Lisideius
B-Leader
C-Cities
D-Eugenius

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69-How long was the total literally period of Dryden
A-Forty years
B-Thirty years
C-Four Years
D-None

70-The central theme of the Essay of Dramatic Poesy is

A-Justification of English Drama
B-Rejection of French drama
C-Accept Ancient Drama
D-None

71-Dryden praises Chaucer as

A-God’s Plenty
B-The Greatest poet
C-A superman
D-None

72-Who has been symbolized through the character of Critics?

A-Sir Robert Howard
B-Charles Sedley
C-Both
D-None

73-If he had seen ours, might have changed his mind who is he in this remark?
A-Aristotle
B-Chaucer
C-Horace
D-None

74-About whom have Dryden remarked I admire him but I love Shakespeare
A-Ben Johnson
B-Chaucer
C-Homer
D-Shakespeare

75-ho os the following was Dryden’s contemporary?

A-Thomas Rhymer
B-Ben Johnson
C-Sir Philip Sydney
D-None

76-In whose opinion Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Fables is the best of the world?
A-Prof. Sainsbury
B-Atkins
C-Dr Johnson

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D-Scott James

77-Dryden declares that a bare—– will not serve the ends of poetry
A-Imitation
B-Singing
C-Dr. Johnson
D-None

78-In the opinion of Dryden, which works is the greatest noblest and most sublime
A-Paradise Lost
B-Canterbury Tales
C-Macbeth
D-Aneid

79-In his theory of criticism, Dryden is very near to

A-Longinus
B-Aristotle
C-Plato
D-Horace

80-Dryden is considered to be the first exponent of

A- Practical criticism
B-Classical criticism
C-Dramatic criticism
D-None

81-Who believes that Dryden freed to form superstitions regards for the ancients
A- Prof. Tillyard
B-Watson
C-Dr. Johson
D-Atkins

82-What was the immediate object of Wordsworth in writing a preface

A-Defend new poetry
B-Rejecting Plato
C-Both
D-None

83-Who first objected to Wordsworth’s theory of Language?

A-Coleridge
B-Keats
C-Atkins
D-None

84-Who thinks that the preface is aginst positive theory of poetic diction current through the 18th
century

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A-FW Bateson
B-DereckRoper
C-Coleridge
D-Atkins

85-Which edition of Lyrical Ballads is considered to be a standard critical document?

A-1815
B-1814
C-1844
D-1966

86-The preface to the lyrical ballads was attached to

A-1802
B-1800
C-1855
D-1899

87-Who assigns Wordsworth a place equal to Shakespeare and Milton?

A-Matthew Arnold
B-Eton
C-Atkins
D-Scott James

88-The Lyrical Ballad was first published in

A-1798
B-1815
C-1802
D-1820

89-Who says that for Wordsworth The plot or situation is not the first thing. It is feeling that
matters?
A-Arnold
B-CM Bowra
C-Scott James
D-None

90-Who ways that every great poet is a teacher?

A-Wordsworth
B-Keats
C-Pope
D-Coleridge

91- Who remarks that there abide these three.Aristotle Longinus and Coleridge?
A-Saintsbury
B-Classical
C-Figurative

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D-None

92-Wordsworth says that Poetry is the breath and of all knowledge

A-Spirit
B-Passion
C-Emotion
D-Soul

93-Who thinks that the preface is not tactful writing?

A-Dereck Roper
B-Feeling
C-Passion
D-None

94-For Wordsworth the chief object of poetry is not to instruct but to give
A-Pleasure
B-Keats
C-Dryden
D-None

96- Who has praised Eliot for his gift of phrasing?

A-Clive Bell
B-Sampson
C-Atkins
D-Garrod

97-Eliot says poetry is not a turning loose of emotions but an escape from
A- Emotion
B-Intellect
C-Imagination
D-None

98-Which classical critic, does Eliot resemble most of all?

A-Aristotle
B-Plato
C-Horace
D-None

99-What is the theme of poetry for Wordsworth?

A-Rustic Life
B-Town Life
C-Rich Life
D-None

100-In whose opinion the preface marks the begging of a new age?
A-Margret Drabble

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B-Scott James
C-Atkins
D-T.S Eliot

SECTION – B (2X5=10)
II Answer Any TWO of the following questions.

1. What is Formalism? Explain.

2. Russian Formalism – Examine.
3. Defamiliarization – Define.
4. Bring out the concept of Intentional Fallacy.
5. Bring out the concept of Affective Fallacy
6. Structuralism – Define.
7. Post-structuralism -Explain.
8. Trace out the three waves of feminism.
9. Schools of Eco-feminist Thought – Explain.
10. Write a Short note on Eco-criticism.
11. Gender Studies – explain.
12. Trace out the Common Space in Feminist Theories.
13. What is Psychoanalytic Criticism? Write a note.
SECTION – C (5x10=50)
III Answer the following questions.
1. Write an essay on Structuralism?
2. What is Deconstruction? – explain.
3. What are the characteristics of Feminism?
4. Write an Essay on Psychoanalytic Criticism?
5. Write an Essay on Post-modernism?
6. Write an Essay on Eco-feminism?
7. Write an Essay on Formalism?
8. Write an Essay on New Criticism?
9. Write an Essay on Structuralism?
10. Write an Essay on Post-structuralism?
11. Modernism – Explain.

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12. Write an Essay on Gender Studies?
13. Write an Essay on New Historicism?
14. Write an Essay on Eco-criticism?

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