Literary Theory and Criticism 2

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 LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM 2


1) Who remarked "To judge Shakespeare by Aristotle's rules is like trying a man by the laws of one country who acted under those of another" ?

A) Aristotle 

B) Plato 

C) Alexander Pope 

2) Who says that Coleridge is a link "between German Transcendentalism and English romanticism" ?

A) Longinus 

B) Rene Wellek 

C) Stephen Gosson 

3) Who thought of Shelley as "The Friend of the unfriended poor" ?

A) William Wordsworth 

B) Mathew Arnold 

C) John Keats 

4) Who among the following the translated Ars Poetica in verse ?

A) Homer 

B) Ben Jonson

C) Samuel Johnson  

5) Who called the poets "the caterpillers of the commonwealth" ?

A) Mathew Arnold

B) Stephen Gosson 

C) I. A. Richards 

6) Who says "I admire him (Ben Jonson) but i love Shakespeare ?

A) Samuel Johnson 

B) John Dryden 

C) John Milton 

7) Who called the poets "pipers and jesters and enemies to virtue"?

A) Stephen Gosson

B) Mathew Arnold

C) John Milton 

8) "Tradition and Individual Talent" was published in ?

A) 1917

B) 1918

C) 1919

9) The author of Principles of Literary criticism is ?

A) I. A. Richards

B) William Empson

C) Irving 

10) About whom Dryden says, "He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul" ?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer 

B) William Shakespeare

C) Ben Johnson 

11) Who founded his Academy in 387 BC?

A) Plato

B) Aristotle 

C) Socrates 

12) In Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poesy Who defends rhyme ?

A) Neander

B) Longinus 

C) Homer 

13) The above definition was given in the life of ?

A) John Dryden

B) John Milton 

C) Samuel Johnson 

14) Who examined Ben Jonson's play The Silent Woman in his Critical essay ?

A) Mathew Arnold 

B) John Dryden 

C) William Hazlitt 

15) Whose book is Oxford Lectures on Poetry? 

A) A. C. Bradley 

B) I. A. Richards 

C) F. R. leavis 

16) The History Women's writing is divided into "Feminine", "Feminist" "Female", Phases by ?

A) Elaine Showalter 

B) Julia Kristeva 

C) Virginia Woolf 

17) According to Arnold,  Who is next to Shakespeare and Milton ?

A) Wordsworth 

B) John Dryden 

C) John Keats 

18) The author of What Happens in Hamlet ?

A) I. A. Richards 

B) Dover Wilson

C) A. C. Bradley 

19) Who first offered the term "New Criticism" ?

A) J. L. Austin

B) Stephen Greenblatt

C) Julia Kristeva 

20) The Term "Intellectuality" is coined by ?

A) Julia Kristeva 

B) Edward said 

C) Elaine Showalter 

21) Sexual Politics, one of the most Widely read works of feminist Criticism, was written by ?

A) Frédéric Jameson

B) Kate Millett 

C) Frank Kermode 

22) The author of The Rhetoric fiction is ?

A) Micheal Bakhtin

B) Cleanth Brooks 

C) Wayne Booth 

23) Speech act theory was formulated by

A) Stephen Greenblatt 

B) J. L. Austin 

C) Stephen Gosson 

24) Who has stated that the woman is constructed differently by men ?

A) Virginia Woolf 

B) Simon de Beauvoir 

C) Julia Kristeva 

25) Who does not belong to the Yale School of Deconstruction?

A) Frédéric Jameson 

B) Kate Millett 

C) Stephen Gosson 

26) Who said 'Keats' Love - letter is the Love - letter of Surgeon's apprentice?

A) Percy Bysshe Shelley 

B) Mathew Arnold 

C) Lord Byron 

27) Who is not a Chicago Critic ?

A) Vladimir Propp

B) William Hazlitt 

C) Philip Sidney 

28) The author of Practical Criticism is ?

A) I. A. Richards 

B) Elaine Showalter 

C) Cleanth Brooks 

29) Primary Imagination and Secondary Imagination were distinguished by ?

A) William Shakespeare 

B) Samuel Johnson

C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

30) Horace's Arc Poetica is divided into ?

A) 3

B) 5

C) 4 


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