Literary Criticism and Theory

Who propounded the dialectical method of pursuing truth?

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Heraclitus

Who coined the term dissociation of sensibility?

• John Donne

• T S Eliot

• Grierson

• Virginia Woolf

“A thought to ...was an experience; it modified his sensibility”

• Marvel

• Donne

• Herbert

• Cowley

Who said that in the poems of the metaphysical poets “the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together”?

• Dr. Johnson

• Dryden

• Grierson

• T S Eliot

According Plato reality exists in ......

• The External world

• The Realm of pure forms

• The world of reason

• World of Imagination

Plato is the disciple of.....

• Crito

• Heraclitus

• Socrates

• Democritus

Which of the following pre-Socratic philosopher influenced Plato?

• Heraclitus

• Democritus

• Protagoras

• Crito

In which form did Plato present his philosophy?

• Written

• Oral

• Dialogue

• Pictorial

Who among the following is not a metaphysical poet?

• John Donne

• Cleveland

• Cowley

• Thomas Grey

Who according to Eliot are the poets who think but “do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose”?

• Wordsworth and Coleridge

• Keats and Shelley

• Tennyson and Browning

• Arnold and Housman