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This set of Literary Criticism Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Literary Criticism Set 1

Q1 | Identify the state festival held every year in honour of the God Dionysus in Greece.
  • great dionysia
  • dionysia
  • phaedrus
  • athenia
Q2 | Choose the work from the choices below that is in the form of scholarly exchanges betweenPlato and his teacher Socrates.
  • protogoras
  • gorgias
  • symposium
  • dialogues
Q3 | In which work did Aristotle firmly refute Plato’s pronouncements deriding art, artists andpoetry?
  • de anima
  • poetics
  • metaphysics
  • physics
Q4 | The pivotal speaker in Republic, Socrates recalls the visit to Piraeus, the port of Athens totake part in the festivities to honour which deity?
  • bendis
  • apollo
  • dionysus
  • cupid
Q5 | Who is the young half-brother of Plato whose name means “owl” or “gleaming eyes”?
  • cephalus
  • aristotle
  • glaucon
  • thrasymachus
Q6 | Which book in the Republic ends with the Phoenician myth, which Socrates feels would serveas the effective mythical explanation for their State/
  • first
  • fourth
  • second
  • third
Q7 | Who attempts to define a philosopher and introduces the Theory of Forms?
  • plato
  • socrates
  • aristotle
  • longinus
Q8 | Which form of government is based primarily on wealth?
  • timocracy
  • oligarchy
  • democracy
  • tyranny
Q9 | The Republic concludes with Socrates’ vibrant description of the tale of which hero?
  • er
  • ulysses
  • telemachus
  • achilles
Q10 | Who mentions: “God is not the author of all things, but of good only”
  • plato
  • glaucon
  • socrates
  • adeimantus
Q11 | Whose verses does Socrates criticise because of the uneven blend of narrative, especially thespeeches of the characters in Iliad that also employ mimesis or imitation?
  • hesiod
  • homer
  • aeschylus
  • sophocles
Q12 | Which genre, according to Aristotle is divided into the epic and the dramatic according to themanner of its imitation?
  • poetry
  • drama
  • prose
  • fiction
Q13 | Which type of drama, according to Aristotle is considered a representation of characters of abase type, which means ridiculous?
  • farce
  • tragicomedy
  • satire
  • comedy
Q14 | Which chapter of Aristotle’s Poetics discusses the construction of an ideal plot, which isfundamental to tragedy?
  • sixth
  • seventh
  • eighth
  • ninth
Q15 | What is the Greek term for “resolution of complication”?
  • perepeteia
  • anagnorisis
  • denouement
  • catharsis
Q16 | Which is the entire part of a tragedy placed between the complete choric songs, in thedivisions of a tragedy when staged?
  • parode
  • episode
  • exode
  • stasimon
Q17 | Whose misfortunes should an ideal plot depict?
  • hero
  • antagonist
  • chorus
  • family
Q18 | Which unity has not been mentioned by Aristotle?
  • time
  • action
  • place
  • all these
Q19 | Whose plays are considered the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction andthe author’s role in the epic by Aristotle?
  • aristophanes
  • virgil
  • sophocles
  • homer
Q20 | Which kind of poetry has been ignored because Aristotle considers it more suited to musicthan poetry?
  • ode
  • lyric
  • sonnet
  • dramatic monologue
Q21 | What is the structure of Longinus’ “On the Sublime”?
  • epistolary
  • narrative
  • discussion
  • discursive
Q22 | What is the excessive use of verbal ornamentation that obstructs the natural use of languageand hence it should be avoided?
  • grandiloquence
  • puerility
  • elaboration
  • exaggeration
Q23 | How many sources of sublimity are mentioned by Longinus?
  • four
  • three
  • five
  • two
Q24 | Which figure of speech is useful in heightening expression, in the opinion of Longinus?
  • hyperbation
  • periphrasis
  • asyndeton
  • none of these
Q25 | When was the pastoral romance Arcadia was published?
  • 1579
  • 1576
  • 1575
  • 1580