UGC NET - TEST - 2

In On the Sublime addressed to Posthumius Terentianus, the first of the five sources of elevation is:

• Noble diction
• Grandeur of thought
• Figures of speech
• Dignified composition

In On the Sublime, the author contrasts true sublimity with “tumidity” and calls the coldness bred by misplaced passion:

• Solecism
• Frigidity
• Bathos
• Puerility

Cited in On the Sublime as the supreme shorthand for fervor, the lyric illustrating unified passion is by:

• Sappho
• Pindar
• Anacreon
• Alcman

In On the Sublime, the orator praised for vehemence rather than amplification is:

• Cicero
• Lysias
• Demosthenes
• Isocrates

While discussing “amplification” in On the Sublime, the model named most directly with that quality is:

• Demosthenes
• Cicero
• Thucydides
• Herodotus

The key Greek keyword for “sublime” in On the Sublime is:

• Ethos
• Hypsos
• Mimesis
• Kairos

On the Sublime insists that the true effect is not persuasion but:

• Pleasure
• Transport
• Probability
• Decorum

The five sources in On the Sublime include thought, passion, figures, diction, and:

• Rhythm
• Composition
• Ornament
• Harmony

On the Sublime cites the “lawgiver of the Jews” to exemplify vastness; the figure implied is:

• Isaiah
• Moses
• Ezra
• David

The treatise On the Sublime is now generally attributed to an unknown critic and therefore styled:

• Proto-Longinus
• Neo-Longinus
• Pseudo-Longinus
• Para-Longinus