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(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
(C) T. S. ELiot
4. Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(A) Aristotle
(B) Plato
(C) Pope
(D) Stephen Gosson
(B) Poetics
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Horace
(D) Longinus
(A) Aristotle
(B) Dante
(C) Longinus
(D) Plato
(A) Keats
(B) Shelley
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Coleridge
(B) Poetics
(C) Rhetoric
12. How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus?
(A) Three
(B) Four
(C) Five
(D) Six
13. What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
14. Who is the meaning of the term Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
15. What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
(A) Longinus
(B) Aristotle
(C) Plato
(D) Horace
(A) Coleridge
(B) Addison
(C) Arnold
(D) Eliot
(A) Aristotle
(B) Longinus
(C) Aristophanes
(D) Socrates
(A) Sophocles
(B) Plautus
(C) Plato
(D) Critus
(C) Antigone
22. 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
(A) Pope
(B) Arnold
24. In which the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry?
(A) Apology
(B) Ion
(D) Phaedrus
25. Who is the author of the notorious book entitled The School of Abuse?
26. 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) 1798
(B) 1800
(C) 1802
(D) 1815
28. Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie is a defence of poetry against the charges brought against it by:
(A) Henry Howard
29. “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
30. What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama?
(C) A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the
human body
(B) Discoveries
33. How many poets were included in Jhonson’s ‘The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets’?
(A) 48
(B) 50
(C) 52
(D) 54
(A) An Essay
(B) A Drama
(D) An Interlocution
35. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different
ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Eugenius
(C) Neander
(D) Crites
36. What has Dryden to say about the observance of the three Classical Dramatic Unities?
(C) Coleridge
40. Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in:
41. “The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one the most monstrous inventions
that ever entered into a poet’s thought.” Whose view is this?
(A) Dryden
(B) Pope
43. Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s Comedies to his Tragedies?
(A) Dryden
(B) Pope
(D) Addison
45. Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In
which year was it published?
(A) 1798
(B) 1800
(C) 1801
(D) 1802
46. “The end of writing is to instruct, the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.” Whose view is this?
(A) Wordsworth’s
(B) Coleridge’s
47. Regarding the observance of the three Classical Unities in a play, Dr. Johnson’s view is that:
48. Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with
(A) drama
(B) music
(C) dance
(D) none
49. “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility.” Who has defined poetry in these words?
(A) Shelley
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Coleridge
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