Literary Criticism Set 2
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This set of Literary Criticism Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Literary Criticism Set 2
Q1 | What does the word vates mean?
- building
- a seer
- coward
- disciple
Q2 | Who mentions “as is painting so is poetry”?
- virgil
- homer
- dante
- horace
Q3 | Which edition of the Preface is considered important because of the explanation of the natureand characteristics of the poet, and his superiority over the man of science?
- 1802
- 1800
- 1815
- none of these
Q4 | Who is the author of Defence of Poetry?
- coleridge
- keats
- shelley
- mathew arnold
Q5 | Who mentions: “Every great poet is a teacher; I wish either to be considered as a teacher or as anothing”.
- william wordsworth
- lord byron
- edmund spenser
- robert herrick
Q6 | Which critic published his classroom lectures and his ideas along with the dictums of the other critics regularly in Scrutiny?
- raman selden
- f.r.leavis
- henry james
- joseph conrad
Q7 | Who among the following is recognised one of “the great English novelists”?
- charlotte bronte
- emily bronte
- jane austen
- henry fielding
Q8 | Which critic is of the opinion that though Charles Dickens possesses the vitality and vision ofart as Conrad does, he cannot be included “in the line of great novelists”?
- george santayana
- t.s.eliot
- d.h. lawrence
- f.r.leavis
Q9 | Whose first book of poems Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917?
- robert browning
- t.s.eliot
- alfred tennyson
- john keats
Q10 | Locate T.S. Eliot’s full length book of essays on poetry and criticism.
- the sacred wood: essays on poetry and criticism
- the egoist
- tradition and the individual talent
- the art of t.s.eliot
Q11 | Identify the author of The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)/
- william k. wimsatt
- cleanth brooks
- joel e.spingarn
- yvor winters
Q12 | What is referred as the analysis of the figurative elements such as images, similes, metaphors,symbols, and myth that unify a work?
- contrapuntal reading
- imagery
- close reading
- fallacy
Q13 | Who wrote the essay “The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks”?
- r.s.crane
- elder olson
- robert penn warren
- richard mckeon
Q14 | Under which method of analysis, does the critic proceed to ascertain the meaning of a workfrom the general truth to the particular one?
- deductive
- inductive
- formalist
- archetypal
Q15 | What is referred as the proper knowledge of language that helps to satisfy desires?
- rasa
- natyashastra
- kamadhenu
- dhwani
Q16 | Which is the earliest systematic work on Indian dramaturgy?
- kavyalankara
- natyashastra
- kavyadarsha
- nirupana
Q17 | Who critiqued the sphota doctrine of the grammarians and the Buddhist linguistic doctrine ofapoha?
- dandin
- abhinavagupta
- udbhata
- bhamaha
Q18 | Which critic gave great importance to the gunas and doshas (merits and defects) in poetry?
- kalidasa
- anandavardhana
- dandin
- rajashekhara
Q19 | Who is the most authoritative exponent of Pratyabhijna philosophy that is centered on KashmiriShaivism?
- abhinavagupta
- anandavardhana
- kshemendra
- bhoja
Q20 | Who is the Kashmiri scholar whose Vakroktijivita is famous for the discussion of vakrata(indirection or obliqueness) in expression in poetry?
- anandavardhana
- rajashekhara
- abhinavagupta
- kuntaka
Q21 | Which tailanga scholar who was a prominent poet in the court of the Mughal emperor ShahJahan, was conferred the title Panditaraja?
- jagannatha
- mahimabhatta
- kshemendra
- bhoja
Q22 | In which work by Vamana was the word sahrudaya used first in the technical sense of acompetent reader of poetry?
- agnipurana
- dwanyaloka
- kavyaloka
- kavyalamkara
Q23 | Which category of prathibha refers to the creative ability of the poet?
- karayitri
- bhavayitri
- abida
- anumana
Q24 | Who mentions “vakyam rasatmakam kavyam”, which means any composition which givestasteful pleasure is poetry?
- kshemendra
- bhattalolatta
- mammata
- jagannatha
Q25 | Which Indian critical theory concentrates on emotive expression?
- rasa
- abida
- anumana
- kavya