LITERARY CRITICISM QUIZ 4

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LITERARY CRITICISM QUIZ 4

1) According to a critic function of poetry is, 'to instruct and to delight', who is he? 
A) Aristotle
B) Plato 
C) Horace 

2) Who first of all propounded the theory of imitation in art and literature and said that "the tragic poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all other imitators he is twice Removed from reality" ?
A) Plato
B) Aristotle 
C) John Dryden 

3) Who among the following critics classified imitation according to its medium, its object and its manner ?
A) John Dryden 
B) Aristotle 
C) Samuel Johnson 

4) "The Sublime consists in a certain loftiness and consumateness of language and its by this only that that greatest poets and prose writers have won pre - eminence and lasting fame" who expressed this opinion?
A) Horace 
B) Longinus 
C) Homer 

5) Who enunciated the theory the illustrious Vernacular?
A) Homer 
B) Dante 
C) John Dryden 

6) Who is the Pioneer of New Criticism ?
A) I. A. Richards 
B) F. R. Leavis 
C) Elaine Showalter 

7) Who calls F. R. Leavis 'a practical Critic' ?
A) Lawrence Lerner 
B) Virginia Woolf 
C) None 

8) A famous critic pleaded for "Nothing too much" and admired Shakespeare 'on this side of idolatry, but he was not blind to his short comings, Name the critic : 
A) William Hazlitt 
B) Samuel Johnson 
C) Ben Jonson 

9) Who wrote the Critique of judgement ?
A) T. S. Eliot 
B) Kant
C) None 

10) Who defined poetry as "The art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help to the reason" in the life of milton?
A) T. S. Eliot 
B) Mathew Arnold 
C) Coleridge 

11) Who considered Dryden as "father of English Criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition" ?
A) Dr. Johnson 
B) Ben Jonson 
C) John Milton 

12) "Custom is the most certain mistress of language" Who declares this ?
A) Ben Jonson 
B) Mathew Arnold 
C) John Keats 

13) A critic observes 'The great of Dryden's Criticism is that at the right movement he became conscious of the necessity of affirming the native element in literature' Name the critic ?
A) T. S. Eliot 
B) Mathew Arnold 
C) William Hazlitt 

14) Who said that "Criticism as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well" ?
A) John Donne 
B) John Dryden
C) John Milton 

15) "We hate poetry that has a parable design upon us," who has been quoted here ?
A) John Keats 
B) Percy Bysshe Shelley 
C) John Milton 

16) Who held that "Form is everything: it is the secret of life" ?
A) Oscar wilde 
B) Edger Allan Poe 
C) Walt Whitman 

17) He was 'a Classicist in taste, a romanticist in temper and an idealist at heart' who was he? 
A) Longinus 
B) Homer 
C) Aristotle 

18) Who are the two great "Classics of our prose" according to Arnold?
A) Dryden and Pope 
B) Pope and Swift
C) Dryden and Swift

19) Who said that poetry is feigning 'notable images of virtues vices or what with.... '?
A) Philip Sidney 
B) Ben Jonson 
C) Alexander Pope 

20) Who said "I hold that long poem does not exis. I maintain that the phrase 'a long poem' is simply a flat contradiction in terms" ?
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson 
B) Walt Whitman 
C) Edger Allan Poe 

21) Who among following wrote "The appropriate business of poetry....and her duty is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear" ?
A) Wordsworth 
B) Coleridge 
C) William Hazlitt 

22) Whose philosophic career can be traced from French naturalism and necessitarianism through a Platonic or ontologic idealism to the Psychologic or epistemologic idealism in the poem of 1822 ?
A) John Keats
B) Mathew Arnold 
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley 

23) "For a literary masterpiece two powers must concord the power of the man and the power of the moment and the man is not enough without the moment" who has been quoted in these lines ?
A) John Keats 
B) John Milton 
C) Mathew Arnold 

24) Who according to Arnold was an imperfect disciple of Shakespeare for he had an excess of natural magic not enough moral profoundly while Shakespeare had both qualities to the full ?
A) Lord Byron 
B) Percy Bysshe Shelley 
C) John  Keats 

25) What was the lacuna in chaucer's poetry According to Arnold?
A) Stream of Consciousness 
B) High seriousness 
C) None 

26) Who said that "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound Philosopher" ?
A) Wordsworth 
B) Coleridge 
C) Arnold 

27) Who in a late polemical statement aimed against the French Romantics said, 'I call classic healthy, the Romantic sickly" ? 
A) Thomas Sackville 
B) Dante
C) John Gower 

28) Who opined that "it is exactly wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover mendel's discoveries" ?
A) Philip Sidney 
B) T. S. Eliot 
C) William Hazlitt 

29) Who among the following opined that 'a poet should take particular care to guard himself against idiomatic ways of speaking' ?
A) Jonathan swift 
B) Joseph Addison 
C) Steele 

30) 'The task of an author is either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adoring them' who has been quoted here ?
A) Dr. Johnson 
B) Ben Jonson 
C) John Dryden 



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