LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

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Literary Theory and Criticism:

1) Who said that"Art is twice Removed from reality" ? 
A) Plato
B) Aristotle 
C) Socrates 
2) Arc Poetic is the most important Critical work of ? 
A) Plato
B) Horace
C) Longinus 
3) Who is the author of the Notorious book entitled? 
A) Stephen Gosson
B) Horace
C) Philip Sidney 
4) "it is not rhyming and versing that maketh the a poet no more than a long gown maketh and advocate", Whose opinion is this ? 
A) Philip Sidney 
B) Mathew Arnold 
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
5) Who Called Dryden "the father of English Criticism" ? 
A) John Donne 
B) Samuel Johnson 
C) John Milton 
6) 'The tragic- Comedy, which is the product of the English theatre is one of the most monstrous inventions that ever enteredinto a poet's thoughts', whose view is this ? 
A) William Shakespeare 
B) Joseph Addison 
C) Ben Jonson 
7) Who Preferred Shakespeare's Comedies to his tragedies? 
A) Geoffrey Chaucer 
B) Ben Jonson 
C) Samuel Johnson 
8) Who gave the concept of "Art for Art's Sake?
A) Plato
B) Aristotle 
C) Walter Pater
9) In Whose Opinion "Poetry is the most highly organized form of intellectual activity" ?
A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
B) T. S. Eliot 
C) John Dryden 
10) Who said that "to set up as a critic is to set up as a judge of value" ? 
A) I. A. Richards 
B) Irving Babbitt 
C) William Empson 
11) Who gave the concept "Art for life sake" ?
A) Mathew Arnold 
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
C) F. R. Leavis 
12) Who is believed to be the pioneer of the so- called New Criticism? 
A) F. R.  Leavis 
B) William Empson 
C) I. A.  Richards 
13) Who said "For Art's Sake alone I would not face toil of writing a single sentences" ?
A) C. K. Often
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) John Dryden 
14) According to Aristotle, What are the formative elements of a Tragedy?
A) Plot, Diction
B) Character and Thought 
C) Spectacle and Song
D) All of these 
15) Who considers Poetry 'a mother of lies' ?
A) Samuel Johnson 
B) Plato 
C) Aristotle 
16) Who moves from particular to general and uses inductive method?
A) Plato
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
C) Aristotle 
17) About Whom Atkins says that "In his works appears for the first time the conception of nemesis of limitation as the essential characteristics of all art" ?
A) Plato 
B) Aristotle 
C) Socrates 
18) Who accuses Arnold of "high Pamphleteering" ? 
A) Mathew Arnold 
B) William Empson 
C) William Hazlitt 
19) Who Called the Neo- Classic age an "admirable and indispensable age" ?
A) Mathew Arnold 
B) Samuel Johnson 
C) William Hazlitt 
20) According to Arnold who is "the pageant of his bleeding heart" ? 
A) John Keats
B) Lord Byron
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley 
21) First follow nature and your judgment frame/ by her just standard, which is still the same/ unerring 'Nature', still divinely bright/ one clear unchange' d and universal light ', whose lines are these ?
A) Plato
B) Aristotle 
C) Alexander Pope 
22) Who compared Shakespeare's love of quibbles to 'Fatal Cleopatra',? 
A) John Dryden
B) Samuel Johnson 
C) John Donne 
23) Whose Criticism is known as doctrinal Criticism? 
A) Dr. Johnson 
B) Ben Jonson 
C) William Empson 
24) Who said "A Tragedy is impossible without plot but there may be one without character" ?
A) Socrates 
B) Plato
C) Aristotle 
25) In Whose Opinion a poet is a man who possess more than usual organic sensibility?
A) Wordsworth 
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
C) John Milton 




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