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1- Who was the first literary critic who said that ”Art is twice removed from reality”?

A-Plato

B- Aristotle

C-Longinus

D-Horace

2-Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic?

A- Plato

B- Aristotle

C- Longinus

D-Horace

3-Aristotle’s critical work is entitled

A- Poetics

B-D Arte Poetica

C- Art Poetique
D-Ars Poetica

4-ho is the author of Ars Poetica?

A- Horace

B-Plato

C-Aristotle

D-Dante

5-Who is the author of the Symposium?

A- Plato

B-Longinus

C-Dante

D-Aristotle

6-Horace was a

A- Roman Critic

B- French Critic

C- Greek Critic

D-German Critic

7-Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in

B- Rhetoric

C-Ars Poetica

D-Art Poetique

8-How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus?

A-Five

B-SIX

C-Four

D-None

9-What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?

A- A weak trait in the character of the hero

B- Working of fate against the hero

C-Tragic end of the tragedy

D-None

10-What is the meaning of the term Peripeteia are used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?

A- Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad

B- Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good

C- Constancy 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 denouncement?

A-The ending of a comedy

B- The ending of a tragedy

C- The climax in a tragedy

D- The climax in a comedy

13- Who is the originator of the Theory of Imitation in literature?

A-Plato

B-Longinus

C-Aristotle

D-None

14-Who was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates?

B-Plautus

C-Sophocles

D-Citrus

15- From where has the term Oedipus Complex Originated?

A- Oedipus the Rex

B-Antigone

C-Oedipus at Cons

D-None

16-The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. ho is the author of
this tragedy

A- Sophocles

B-Euripides

C-Seneca

D-Aeschylus

17-In which of the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry?

A- The Republic

B-Ion
C-Apology

D-None

18-Who is the author of a notorious book entitled The School of Abuse?

A-Stephen Gosson

B-John Skelton

C-Stephen Hawes

D-Roger Ascham

19-Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry is a defense of poetry against the charges bought against
it by

A- Stephen Gosson

B- John Skelton

C-Roger Ascham

D-Henry Howard

20-It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long worn maketh an
advocate whose view is this?

A- Sidney

B-Marlow

C-Spenser

D-Shakespeare
 

21-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 observation

D-None

22-What does Ben Jonson mean by a Humorous Character?

A-A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four
fluids in the human body

B- A character who is always cheerful and gay

C-None

23-Which of the following is a critical work of Ben Jonson?

A- Discoveries

B- Discourse of English poetry

C-Arte of English Poesie

D-None

24-Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy is this?

A- An Interlocution
B- A poetical Work

C-A drama

D-An Essay

25-In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there is four interlocutors representing four different
ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views?

A- Neander

B-Lisideius

C-Eugenius

D-Crites

26- Is Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of

A- Comparative Criticism

B- Interpretative Criticism

C-Legislative Criticism

D-Textual Criticism

27-Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism?

A- Dr. Johnson

B-Coleridge

C-Matthew Arnold
D-Joseph Addison

28-Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in

A-The Neo-classical Age

B-The Victorian Age

C-The Elizabethan Age

D-The Romantic Age

29-”The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one of the most monstrous
inventions that ever entered into a poet’s thought” Whose view is this?

A- Joseph Addisons

B- Dr.Johnson’s

C-John Dryden’s

D-Alexander Pope’s

30- ”Be Homer’s works your study and delight. Read them by day and meditate by night” by

A- Pope

B-Dryden

C-Dr.Johnson

D-Addison

 
31-Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s Comedies to his Tragedies?

A- Dr.Johnson

B-Pope

C-Dryden

D-None

32-Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic

A-1800

B-1789

C-1879

D-1875

33-Who is the author of The Four Ages of Poetry?

A- Thomas Love Peacock

B-Samuel Rogers

C-De Quincey

D-Thomas Campbell

34-Who is the author of Biographia Literaria?

A-S.T Coleridge
B- William Hazlitt

C-P.B Shelley

D-Dr.Johnson

35-In the Life of which poet did Dr. Johnson apply the term Metaphysical Schol of Poetry

A-Cowley

B-Donne

C-Milton

D-None

36-”I write in meter because I am about to use a language different from that of prose” Who
says this

A-Keats

B-Coleridge

C-Byron

D-None

37-Which of the following critics has most elaborately discussed the concept of Imagination?

A- S.T Coleridge

B-Freud

C- Walter Pater
D-Ruskin

38-Who says that ”Poets are the unacknowledged legislator of the world?

A- Shelley

B-Walter Peter

C-Matthew Arnold

D-T.S Eliot

39-Who has divided literature into two broad divisions- the literature of power and literature of
knowedge

A- De Quincey

B- Matthew Arnold

C- F.R Leavis

D- T.S Eliot

40- Who gave the concept of ‘Art for Art’s Sake?

A-Walter Pater

B- F.R Leavis

C-T.S Eliot

D- John Keats

 
41-Who gave the concept of Art of Life Sake?

A-Matthew Arnold

B- Tennyson

C-T.S Eliot

D-None

42-Who said, ”For art’s see alone I would not face the toil fo writing a single sentence?

A- G.B Shaw

B- John Galsworthy

C-John Masefield

D-T.S Eliot

43-In whose opinion ”Poetry is the most highly organized form of intellectual activity?

A-T.S Eliot

B-D.H Lawerence

C- G.B Shaw

D-W.B Yeats

44-A critic says that Pope’s Essay on Criticism is all stolen which of the following critics says this?

A- Lady M.W Montague

B- Addison
C-Robert Southey

D-None

45-Shelley’s Defence of Poetry was a rejoinder to

A-Thomas Love Peacock’s The Four Ages of Poetry

B-Sidney’s An Apology for Poetry

C- Dryden’s Essay f Dramatic Poetry

D-Stephen Gosson’s The Schol fo Abuse

46-Dryden found English poetry brick and left it marble” Who said this

A- Dr. Johnson

B-Pope

C-Matthew Arnold

D-Coleridge

47-Who is the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity

A- William Empson

B- Stephen Spender

C- Walter Pater

D-Coleridge

 
48-Who is the author of New Bearings in English Poetry?

A-F.R Leavis

B- Walter Pater

C- Matthew Arnold

D- T.S Eliot

49-Who is the author of The Sacred Wood?

A- T.S Eliot

B- I. A Richards

C- Walter Pater

D-Matthew Arnold

50-Who called Shakespeare’s Hamlet an artistic failure?

A- T.S Eliot

B-I.A Richard

C-F.R Leavis

D-Aldous Huxley

51- Who is the author of Conversations with Drummond?

A- Ben Jonson

B-George Puttenham
C-Thomas Lodge

D-John Dryden

52-Who is the author of Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays?

A-Hazlitt

B-Coleridge

C- Addison

D-Charles Lamb

53-Matthew Arnold is the author of one of the following works. Which of the following?

A- Essays in Criticism

B-What is a classic

C-Appreciations

D-The English Comic Writers

54-Who is the author of The Meaning of Meaning?

A-I.A Richard

B-F.R Leavis

C-David Daiches

D-None

 
56-Who is the author of the Principle of Literary Criticism?

A-I.A Richard

B-William Empson

C-F.R Leavis

D- Daivid Daiches

57-Who has written Shakespeare’s Sonnets Reconsidered?

A- Samuel butler

B- Walter Pater

C- F.R Leavis

D-None

58- Who is the author of New Criticism?

A- David Daiches

B-I.A Richards

C- F.R Leavis

D-None

59-Who is the author of Poetry Since?

A- Stephen Spender

B- Northrop Frye
C-I.A Richard

D-None

60-Who is the author of The Foundation of Esthetics?

A- I.A Richards

B- Walter Pater

C-Stephen Spender

D-None

61-Who called poets ”Semi-barbarians in a civilized community?

A-Love Peacock

B-T.S Eliot

C-Walter Pater

D-None