History of literary Criticism

Who wrote Poetics?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Horace

• Ovid

What is catharsis?

• sorrow and worry

• to cough

• to be afraid

• to cleanse

The title of Philip Sidney's work is ------------------------------------.

• Defense of Poetry

• Four Kinds of Meaning

• An Apology for Poetry

• Poetics

Docero delictendo means ---------------------------------------.

• delighting and entertaining

• poetic justice

• pity and fear

• three unities

Who is the first literary critical theorist in English?

• Francis Bacon

• Charles Lamb

• Sir Philip Sidney

• Edmund Spenser

Who condemned literature?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Horace

• Ovid

Whose work was The Republic?

• Aristotle

• Horace

• Rousseau

• Plato

Plato condemned all literature because --------------------------.

• it makes men lazy

• it stirs up the passions—lust, desire, pain, anger—rather than nurtures the intellect.

• it makes one imagine things.

• it entertains

Which one of the following is not one of the three unities mentioned by Aristotle?

• time

• place

• action

• character

------------------------ is a term which is linked to Aristotle, meaning a tragic flaw or error.

• Inertia

• Hamartia

• Dike

• nemesis