Top 150+ Solved Literary Criticism and Theory MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who is the author of “The Prelude”?
a. coleridge
b. william wordsworth
c. t. s. eliot
d. aristotle
Q. Who defined poetry as spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings whichtakes its origin from emotions recollected in tranquility?
a. coleridge
b. william wordsworth
c. t. s. eliot
d. aristotle
Q. Who is the author of “BiographiaLiteraria”?
a. coleridge
b. william wordsworth
c. t. s. eliot
d. aristotle
Q. Who is the author of “Tradition and Individual Talent”?
a. coleridge
b. william wordsworth coleridge
c. william wordsworth
d. t. s. eliot
Q. Wordsworth’s special object of “Lyrical Ballads” was to:
a. choose incidents and situations from common life
b. to relate and describe them in a selection of language really used by men
c. treat the subject imaginatively so that ordinary things would appear unusual
d. all the above
Q. Who said: “Poetry shed no tears such as angels weep”
a. coleridge
b. william wordsworth
c. t. s. eliot
d. aristotle
Q. Who said: “A poet is a man speaking to men”
a. coleridge
b. william wordsworth
c. t. s. eliot
d. aristotle
Q. Who said: “Poetry is the breath and the finer spirit that is in thecountenance of all science”?
a. coleridge
b. william wordsworth
c. t. s. eliot
d. aristotle
Q. Wordsworth affixes an appendix to his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads toexpress his view on-----
a. poetic diction
b. poetic process
c. impersonal theory of poetry
d. poet
Q. Which among the following is the manifesto of Romantic Criticism?
a. preface to the lyrical ballads
b. preface to the fables
c. preface to shakespeare
d. tradition and individual talent
Q. Which among the following is the manifesto of Eliot’s Criticism?
a. preface to the lyrical ballads
b. preface to the fables
c. preface to shakespeare
d. tradition and individual talent
Q. Tradition in Eliot’s view means:
a. imitating the poets of the past
b. heredity
c. handling down of the past
d. historic sense
Q. Historic sense involves a perception of -----
a. history
b. the pastness of the past and also its presentness
c. a sense of the historical incidents
d. the past
Q. Tradition implies-------
a. a recognition of the continuity of literature
b. a critical judgment as to which of the writers of the past continue to be significant in the present
c. a knowledge of these significant writers obtained through great labour
d. all the above.
Q. “The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, whichis modified by the introduction of the new work or art among them” whose pronouncement is this?
a. coleridge
b. william wordsworth
c. t. s. eliot
d. aristotle