Question Bank- Introduction to Literary Criticism (B. A. III Special English)
1. Aristotle and Plato belong to ____
phase of criticism.
(A) Hellenic
(B) Hellenistic
(C) Renaissance
(D) Graeco-Roman
2. Who was the first literary critic who
said that “Art is twice removed from reality”?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Longinus
(D) Horace
3. Who proposed that poets should be
banished from the ideal Republic?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Sir Philip Sidney
(D) Sir Thomas More
4. Who considers poetry ‘a mother of
lies’
(A) Aristotle
(B) Plato
(C) Pope
(D) Stephen Gosson
5. Aristotle’s critical work is
entitled:
(A) Ars Poetica
(B) Poetics
(C) De Arte Poetica
(D) Art Poetique
6. Who is the author of Symposium?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Dante
(C) Longinus
(D) Plato
7. To whom “poetry is the spontaneous
over-flow of powerful passion.”
(A) Keats
(B) Shelley
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Coleridge
8. Aristotle discusses the theory of
Tragedy in :
(A) Art Poetique
(B) Poetics
(C) Rhetoric
(D) Ars Poetica
9. What is the meaning of the term
Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
(A) Tragic end of the tragedy
(B) Working of fate against the hero
(C) A weak trait in the character of the
hero
(D) A strong quality in the character of
the hero
10. Who is the meaning of the term
Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
(A) Change in the fortune of the hero
from bad to good
(B) Change in the fortune of the hero
from good to bad
(C) Constancy in the fortune of the hero
(D) Fluctuations occurring in the fortune
of the hero
11. What is the meaning of the term
Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
(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
adversary
(D) The hero’s recognition of his tragic
end
12. What is denouement?
(A) The ending of a tragedy
(B) The ending of a comedy
(C) The climax in a tragedy
(D) The climax in a comedy
13. Who was the originator of the Theory
of Imitation in Literature?
(A) Longinus
(B) Aristotle
(C) Plato
(D) Horace
14. Who made a difference between
‘poetry’ and ‘poem’
(A) Coleridge
(B) Addison
(C) Arnold
(D) Eliot
15. Who was the most illustrious pupil
of Plato?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Longinus
(C) Aristophanes
(D) Socrates
16. Who was the most illustrious
disciple of Socrates?
(A) Sophocles
(B) Plautus
(C) Plato
(D) Critus
17. From where has the term Oedipus
Complex originated?
(A) Oedipus the Rex
(B) Oedipus at Colonus
(C) Antigone
(D) Jocasta, the Queen of Thebes
18. The term Electra Complex has
originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy?
(A) Aeschylus
(B) Sophocles
(C) Euripides
(D) Seneca
19. In which the following works Plato
discusses his Theory of Poetry?
(A) Apology
(B) Ion
(C) The Republic
(D) Phaedrus
20. Who is the author of the notorious
book entitled The School of Abuse?
(A) Roger Ascham
(B) Stephen Hawes
(C) John Skelton
(D) Stephen Gosson
21. An Elizabethan Puritan critic
denounced the poets as ‘fathers of lies’,’schools of abuse’ and’caterpillars of
a commonwealth’. Mark him out from the following crities:
(A) William Tyndale
(B) Roger Ascham
(C) Stephen Gosson
(D) Henry Howard
22. ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’ was
published in
(A) 1798
(B) 1800
(C) 1802
(D) 1815
23. Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie
is a defence of poetry against the charges brought against it by:
(A) Henry Howard
(B) Roger Ascham
(C) John Skelton
(D) Stephen Gosson
24. “It is not rhyming and versing that
maketh a poet no more than a long gown maketh an advocate”. Whose view is this?
(A) Shakespeare’s
(B) Marlowe’s
(C) Spenser’s
(D) Sidney’s
35. What does Sidney say about the
observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama?
(A) They must be observed
(B) It is not necessary to observe them
(C) He favours the observance of the
Unity of Action only
(D) Their observance depends upon the
nature of the theme of the play
26. Poetic Diction was taken to be the
standard language for poetry in:
(A) The Elizabethan Age
(B) The Neo-Classical Age
(C) The Romantic Age
(D) The Victorian Age
27. Plato equated poetry with painting,
and Aristotle equated it with
(A) drama
(B) music
(C) dance
(D) none
28. “Poetry is emotions recollected in
tranquility.” Who has defined poetry in these words?
(A) Shelley
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Coleridge
(D) Matthew Arnold
29. Which of the following is not a
literary tradition?
Platonic
Neo
Platonic
Aristotelian
Shakespearean
30. What according to Aristotle is the
soul of a tragedy?
Plot
Spectacle
Story
Characters
31. Which of the following is not a key
component of tragedy according to Aristotle?
Plot
Character
Costume
Spectacle
32. To what does Aristotle compare
tragedy?
Painting
Dance
Furniture
Black
Magic
33. Aristotle is the first critical thinker
to see the connection between the,
Audience
and the text
Writer
and the audience
Writer
and the text
Audience
and the stage
34. Which element of tragedy is the
least artistic and least connected with the art of poetry?
Story
Spectacle
Song
Diction
35. Which of the following elements are
important for the beauty of tragedy?
Magnitude
and order
Magnitude
and diction
Chronology
and Plot
Dance
and Spectacle
36. Which Greek play does Aristotle use
as an example while talking about the unity of plot?
Medea
Lysistrata
Odyssey
Agememnon
37. How does Aristotle define a Complex
Plot?
One
where there is no Reversal and Recognition
One
that has no beginning, middle and end
One
where there is both Reversal and Recognition
One
that has both Plot and Story
38. Which of the following is not part
of Tragedy according to Aristotle?
Prologue
Episode
Choric
Song
Soliloquy
39. Philip Sidney wrote An
Apology for Poetry in defense to,
Stephen
Gosson’s “School of Abuse”
Stephen
Bausson’s “School of Poetry”
Lodovico
Castelverto’s “The Poetics of Aristotle”
Aristotle’s
“Poetics”
40. How does Sidney translate the Greek
word poiein?
To
think
To
believe
To
make
To
write
41. How does Sidney define imagination?
A
combination of invention and wit
A
combination of invention and fancy
A
combination of wit and creativity
A
combination of creativity and skill
42. What are the three kinds of
frameworks that Sidney attributes to imitative poetry?
Religious,
Political, Historical
Divine,
Philosophical, Instructive
Creative,
Witty, Formalist
Empirical,
Philosophical, Political
43. How does Sidney depart from the
traditional and classical understanding of poetry?
He
calls it a mistress to amuses the readers
He
calls it a medium to teach and delight
He
calls it a prayer to God
He
calls it a commandment of God
44. To Sidney, why is it mistaken to say
poets can lead society astray?
No
one listens to them
Poets
have the backing of Elizabeth's court
They
cannot literally lie, because they actually affirm nothing
Poets
work with historians and philosophers to say only true things.
45. To Sidney, what is the primary
reason poetry is the most important discipline?
Poetry
makes women fall in love with you
Poetry
possesses a beauty not found in other studies
Poets
have a unique power to create and drive men to virtue
Poetry
requires the most skill to make
46. Which of the following is a false
statement?
Poetry
deals with the universal
Poetry
deals with the particular
History
deals with the particular
The
aim of poetry is to teach and delight
47. What metaphor is Sidney
reintroducing when he writes that poetry must be “gently led, or rather it must
lead”?
Poetry
as compared to horsemanship
Poetry
as a vehicle for self-understanding
Poetry
as a woman or mother
Poetry
as a rope
48. Which is the correct definition of a
poet?
Imitate
to teach and delight
Imagine
to teach and delight
Imitate
to teach only
Imagine
and Imitate to teach
49. Why does Coleridge not agree with
the ideas presented by Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads?
He
does not agree with the idea of ‘language of the rustics’ and selection
He
does not agree with the content of Wordsworth’s poems and his form
He
did not like that he had only 4 poems in the collection
He
did not like Wordsworth’s credit hogging ideas
50. Which of the following statements of
Coleridge is not true?
Rhyme
is the soul of poetry
Meter
is the basic difference between prose and poetry
Content
is superficial, what matters is form
Language
has no role to play in poetry
51. While Wordsworth gave the theory of
poetic diction in Lyrical Ballads, which theory does Coleridge put
forth in Biographia Literaria.
Theory
of Creative Imagination
Theory
of Creativity
Theory
of Imagination
Theory
of Suspension of Disbelief
52. What is the basic premise of
Coleridge in his work Biographia Literaria?
Defines
objective and subjective as nature and self
Denouncing
Wordsworth
Defines
poetry as golden and world as brazen
Wants
poetry to lead society
53. Which of the following is not true
about Coleridge’s idea of fancy?
Fancy
is a pejorative term for him
Fancy
is of a lower faculty than imagination
Fancy
developed from the eighteenth century idea of the mechanical
Fancy
is of a higher faculty than imagination
54. What does Shelley in his essay A
Defence of Poetry call “the highest political hope that it can enter
into the mind of man to conceive”?
The
universal suffragette movement
Abolition
of personal slavery
The
worker’s revolution
The
colonial expansion of Great Britain
55. According to Shelley, Chaucer was
writing when the English language was in its:
Infancy
Adolescence
Adulthood
Old
age
56. The chief reason that Romantic poets
could harbour revolutionary sentiments, and state pleasure as the supreme
function of poetry is because:
Art
was starting to be consumed only for leisure
There
was a clear split in the fields of culture and politics
They
didn’t require patronage from the court and the church
The
poets were all outlawed from contemporary society
57. According to Shelley, “Tragedy
delights by affording a”:
Isolating
pangs of pain from delights of pleasure
Shadow
of the pleasure which exists in pain
View
of pleasure as composed of pain
View
of the world that is independent of pain and pleasure
58. Which of the following events does
Shelley think would have exacerbated if not for poetry?
A
mindless pursuit of life filled with hedonism
An
extremely Epicurean way of life filled with unlimited cons umption
Implementation
of severe austerity measures in society
More
nonsense being spoken, and more women and children burnt as heretics
59. According to Matthew Arnold, which
of the following is the most important quality that a literary critic must
possess?
Passion
discernment
disinterestedness
insightfulness
60. What does Matthew Arnold consider to
be the two most prevalent critical fallacies?
Personal
and political estimate
Historic
and social estimate
Biographical
and personal estimate
Personal
and historic estimate
61. Matthew Arnold contends that when it
comes to distinction, “Everything depends on the reality of a poet’s ……….”
Moral
character
Classic
character
Social
character
Inherent
character
62. Which of the following preachers
does Matthew Arnold quote as saying “To make reason and the will of God
prevail!”?
Bishop
Wilson
Bishop
Temple
Bishop
Benson
Bishop
Davidson
63. Arnold perceives his contemporary
culture, in comparison to that of the classical age, as being more:
spiritual
and internal
utilitarian
and moral
mechanical
and external
aesthetic
and utilitarian
64. What makes Eliot’s work “Tradition
and Individual Talent” so different from the others?
Combination
of literary modernism and political conservatism
Combination
of modernistic style and classical language
Combination
of criticism and theory
Combination
of personal experience and literariness.
65. What makes tradition more agreeable
and modern?
Science
Archeology
Anthropology
Literature
66. Which of the following is not true
with respect to tradition?
Tradition
cannot be blindly imitated
Tradition
cannot be inherited
Tradition
is obtained by great labour
Tradtion
is intrinsic to the author
67. Eliot compares a poet to which of
the following?
Catalyst
Chemical
Buffer
Inert
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