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Literary criticism

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Plato is the disciple of…..

a)

A. Crito

b)

B. Heraclitus

c)

c.Socrates

d)

D. Democritus

2.

In which form did Plato present his philosophy?

a)

A. Written

b)

B. Oral

c)

C. Dialogue

d)

D. Pictorial

3.

Which among the following is Not a dialogue by Plato?

a)

A. Ion

b)

B. Apology

c)

C. Symposium

d)

D. Poetics

4.

In which book does Plato banish the poets?

a)

A. Ion

b)

B. Symposium

c)

C. Apology

d)

D. The Republic

5.

Who advocates an open and strict censorship of poetry?

a)

A. Plato

b)

B. Socrates

c)

C. Aristotle

d)

D. Heraclitus

6.

To which discipline does Plato associate poetry?

a)

A. Philosophy

b)

B. Logic

c)

C. Democracy

d)

D. Art

7.

According to Plato poetry is ….

a)

A. Imitation of an imitation

b)

B. Imitation of reality

c)

C. Imitation of the world

d)

D. Imitation of the Divine

8.

19. Who is regarded as the most brilliant student of Plato?

a)

A. Democritus

b)

B. Protagoras

c)

C. Aristotle

d)

D. Crito

9.

Which is Aristotle’s theoretical treatise on the nature and functions of poetry?

a)

A. Metaphysics

b)

B. Topics

c)

C. Categories

d)

D. Poetics

10.

The two notions which form the core of Aristotle’s Poetics are….. and …..

a)

A. Imitation and action

b)

B. Imitation and Imagination

c)

C. Reason and action

d)

D. Logic and action

11.

Where does Aristotle define tragedy?

a)

A. Poetics

b)

B. Metaphysics

c)

C. Topics

d)

D. Politics

12.

What is the effect of tragedy on the audience?

a)

A. Anagnorisis

b)

B. Peripeteia

c)

C. Hamartia

d)

D. Katharsis

13.

According Aristotle ….is the soul of tragedy?

a)

A. Character

b)

B. Plot

c)

C. Diction

d)

D. Spectacle

14.

Which play is the example of complex plot According Aristotle?

a)

A. Antigone

b)

B. Agamemnon

c)

C. Oedipus Rex

d)

D. Frogs

15.

Who is the author of On the Sublime?

a)

A. Longinus

b)

B. Horace

c)

C. Plato

d)

D. Demosthenes

16.

Who is known as the father of English criticism?

a)

A. Sydney

b)

B. Dr. Johnson

c)

C. Pope

d)

D. Dryden

17.

Who called John Dryden the father of English Criticism?

a)

A. Arnold

b)

B. Dr. Johnson

c)

C. Coleridge

d)

D. T S Eliot

18.

Who is the author of An Essay on Dramatic Poesy?

a)

A. Sydney

b)

B. Dr. Johnson

c)

C. Dryden

d)

D. Addison

19.

Maximum time frame allowed according to the unity of time is….

a)

A. 24 hours

b)

B. 3 hours

c)

C. 5 Hours

d)

D.12 Hours

20.

The Romantic Movement was initiated by the publication of….

a)

A. Songs of Experience

b)

B. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

c)

C. Songs of Innocence

d)

D. Lyrical Ballads

21.

Lyrical Ballads was published in the year…

a)

A. 1800

b)

B. 1802

c)

C.1798

d)

D.1799

22.

For his poems in the Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth chose incidents and situations from….

a)

A. Imagination

b)

B. Common life

c)

C. City life

d)

D. Life of the nobility

23.

Who defined poetry as ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’?

a)

A. Keats

b)

B. Byron

c)

C. Wordsworth

d)

D. Coleridge

24.

Which of the following is the earliest text of Indian aesthetics?

a)

A. Natyasastra

b)

B. Kavyalamkara

c)

C. Rasagangadhara

d)

D. Kavyadarsa

25.

Bharatamuni’sNatyasastrais first and foremost a work on ------

a)

A. Poetics

b)

B. Dance

c)

C. Philosophy

d)

D. Dramaturgy

26.

Who said that ‘Rasa is produced by the combination of vibhavas, anubhavas and vybhicaribhavas’?

a)

A. Bharatamuni

b)

B. Bhamaha

c)

C. Anandavardhana

d)

D. Abhinavagupta

27.

What is the Sanskrit term for realism used in the Natyasastra?

a)

A. Natyadharmi

b)

B. Lokadharmi

c)

C. Karana

d)

D. Bhava

28.

How many rasas did Bahratamuni enlist?

a)

A. Seven

b)

B. ten

c)

C. nine

d)

D. eight

29.

The transitory moods that depend on and reinforce the sthayins are called -------

a)

A. vibhava

b)

B. vyabhicaribhava

c)

C. Anubhava

d)

D. alambanavibhava

30.

The signs of emotions visible on the characters are known as------

a)

A. Vibhava

b)

B. Anuhbava

c)

C. Bhava

d)

D. Vyabhicaribhava

31.

In which form did Plato present his philosophy?

a)

A. Written

b)

B. Oral

c)

C. Dialogue

d)

D. Pictorial