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Literary Criticism — Previous Year Questions (201–300)
1. Peripeteia, according to Aristotle, stands for:
2. “It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to create………” — In the above statement ‘It’ refers to:
3. Which one of the following is the fourth source of sublime as defined by Longinus?
4. What was called as ‘Organon’ by Aristotle’s followers Peripatetics?
5. Which character takes the side of Modern English dramatists by criticizing the faults of the classical playwrights who did not themselves observe the Unity of Place in the Essay on Dramatic Poesy?
6. The concept of objective correlative appears in which of Eliot’s works?
7. According to Coleridge, what is it that dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate and to unify?
8. Odes and Epodes was written by:
9. Who said, “The effect of elevated language upon audience is not persuasion but transport.”?
10. Shakespeare, according to Johnson offers:
11. Wordsworth writes, “Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of heart ___.”
12. As propounded by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria, match the qualities of poetic genius:
Column A:
(i) Good Sense (ii) Fancy (iii) Motion (iv) Imagination
Column B:
(a) Life (b) Soul (c) Drapery (d) Body
13. In which of the following essays did Arnold put forward the ‘Touchstone Theory’?
14. “Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” These lines are from which essay of T. S. Eliot?
15. Alexander Pope in the Essay on Criticism deals with:
16. The Essay in which Dryden has compared Horace, Juvenal and Persius is:
17. Who of the following translated Homer’s Iliad?
18. Who distinguished between the primary and secondary imagination?
19. Who is the author of Biographia Literaria?
20. Arrange the following in the right chronological order: Lyrical Ballads, Biographia Literaria, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Adonais.
21. Who defined poetry as a “criticism of life”?
22. Defence of Poesie belongs to the genre of:
23. Biographia Literaria was published in:
24. The phrase ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ is associated with: [Note: The correct answer is S.T. Coleridge — who is NOT listed among the options. This question has an error in its option set.]
25. Plato wanted to judge poetry from the tool of:
26. The function of tragedy, according to Aristotle, is to offer:
27. “The poet is a man speaking to men.” Who wrote this?
28. Peripeteia, according to Aristotle, stands for:
29. Neander in Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesie speaks for:
30. “It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to create………” — In the above statement ‘It’ refers to:
31. The term ‘Tension’ is associated with:
32. Who made the following statement: “The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients”?
33. Philip Sydney’s Defense of Poesy was written in response to:
34. Coleridge’s statement that imagination “dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate” relates to:
35. Ars Poetica is the most important critical work of:
36. How many principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus?
37. What is the meaning of the term ‘Peripeteia’ as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
38. Some Elizabethan Puritan critics denounced poets as ‘fathers of lies’ and ‘caterpillars of a commonwealth’. Who used these offensive terms?
39. What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama?
40. What does Ben Jonson mean by a ‘Humorous’ character?
41. Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this:
42. Who called Dryden the father of English criticism?
43. Poetry was generally written in ‘Poetic diction’ by:
44. “The tragi-comedy, which is the product of the English theatre, is one of the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poet’s thoughts.” Whose view is this?
45. “Be Homer’s works your study and delight. / Read them by day, and meditate by night.” — Who gives this advice to the poets?
46. Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s Comedies to his Tragedies?
47. Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it first published?
48. “The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.” Whose view is this?
49. Regarding the observance of the three Classical Unities in a play, Dr. Johnson’s view is that:
50. “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquillity.” Who has defined Poetry in these words?
51. “There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.” Who holds this view?
52. “I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose.” Who says this?
53. Which of the following critics has most elaborately discussed the Concept of Imagination?
54. Who defines poetry “as a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty”?
55. Who says that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”?
56. Who has divided Literature into two broad divisions — Literature of Power and Literature of Knowledge?
57. Who gave the concept of ‘Art for Art’s sake’?
58. What is common amongst these three critical expressions — ‘Objective correlative’, ‘Dissociation of sensibilities’, ‘Unification of sensibilities’?
59. Who gave the concept of ‘Art for life’s sake’?
60. Who said, “For art’s sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”?
61. In whose opinion “Poetry is the most highly organised form of intellectual activity”?
62. Is Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of:
63. Who proposed the ‘Touchstone’ method for literary evaluation?
64. By the term ‘dissociation of sensibility’ Eliot meant the separation of thought and feeling in post-17th-century poetry. The UNIFIED state (before dissociation) that he admired involved:
65. A Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy was written by:
66. To Aristotle ‘catharsis’ means:
67. The hamartia, the anagnorisis and the peripeteia are the three key elements in:
68. The two great romantic poets behind the creation of Lyrical Ballads are:
69. Who defines criticism as the play of mind on the aesthetic qualities of literature?
70. Who commented that ‘Even today the Poetics continues to be studied and prescribed as textbooks in schools and colleges’?
71. Longinus says that ‘Great literature springs from great and ___.’
72. ‘On the Sublime’ is a piece of:
73. Who called the poet a Vates (prophet/seer)?
74. In whose opinion ‘Sidney wrote not a pedant’s encyclopaedia but a gentleman’s essay’?
75. What was the chief source of Sidney’s theory?
76. In whose opinion has Longinus ‘turned and tempered them with what is Sanest in Classicism’?
77. Complete Longinus’ declaration that, ‘sublimity is a certain loftiness and excellence in ___.’
78. Who had banished poetry from his ideal commonwealth?
79. Sidney has rejected English drama because of:
80. Who praised Dryden as the father of English criticism?
81. Which of the characters in Essay of Dramatic Poesy favours the greatness of the ancients?
82. Which is the perfect modern English play according to Dryden?
83. In whose opinion is Dryden ‘the first Englishman to attempt any extended descriptive criticism’?
84. What great achievement is reflected in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy?
85. The central theme of the Essay of Dramatic Poesy is:
86. Which edition of Lyrical Ballads is considered to be a standard critical document?
87. The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was first attached to:
88. Who says that ‘every great poet is a teacher’?
89. Wordsworth says, ‘Poetry is born not in the mind but in the heart overflowing with ___.’
90. Who has criticised most of Eliot’s theory of objective correlative?
91. In classical Greek, catharsis meant:
92. According to Longinus, the sublime has the following features EXCEPT:
93. Match the statements on imagination with the poets/critics who made them:
List I (Statements):
I. “One power alone makes a poet – The Imagination, The Divine Vision”
II. “…what the imagination seizes on beauty must be the truth”
III. “The great instrument of moral good is the imagination”
IV. “Works of imagination should be written in a very plain language”
List II (Poets/Critics): 1. Shelley 2. Coleridge 3. Blake 4. Keats
94. What is denouement?
95. Who is the originator of the Theory of Imitation in literature?
96. From where has the term Oedipus Complex originated?
97. In which of the following works does Plato discuss his Theory of Poetry?
98. Who is the author of the notorious book entitled The School of Abuse?
99. Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry is a defence of poetry against the charges brought against it by:
100. “It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet, no more than a long gown maketh an advocate.” Whose view is this?
