Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 7 (20 MCQs)

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1. Arnold's views on poetry and criticism are discussed in .....?

Correct Answer: D) Culture and Anarchy.

2. What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author's life and times?

Correct Answer: A) Historical.

3. In which book of the Republic did Plato ban poets from his ideal world?

Correct Answer: B) Book 10.

4. 'Gynocriticism' is associated with

Correct Answer: A) Elaine Showalter.

5. In which chapter of Biographia Literaria Coleridge criticize the theory of language of Wordsworth?

Correct Answer: C) 14.

6. This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have "high seriousness."

Correct Answer: B) Matthew Arnold.

7. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as:

Correct Answer: A) Female symbols.

8. Who accused Aristotle of social snobbishness and arrogance?

Correct Answer: B) Arthur Miller.

9. Identify the bust of Plato

Correct Answer: A) .

10. Who is this very famous English Romantic Poet?

Correct Answer: B) John Keats.

11. Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this?

Correct Answer: D) An Interlocution.

12. The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct.

13. Plato's Republic is written in the form of

Correct Answer: D) Dialogue.

14. Sublimity has

Correct Answer: D) 5 sources.

15. Regarding the observance of the three Classical Unities in a play, Dr. Johnson's view is that:

Correct Answer: C) Only the Unity of Action should be observed.

16. The name "Ars Poetica" (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace's Epistle to the Pisos by

Correct Answer: B) Quintillion.

17. Who coined the term 'esemplastic'?

Correct Answer: C) Coleridge.

18. The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy?

Correct Answer: B) Sophocles.

19. Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with

Correct Answer: B) Music.

20. Who contributed the term "to see the object as in itself it really is" ?

Correct Answer: C) Arnold.