Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Wordsworth justifies the use of metre and denounces the ____________ of the NeoClassical poets for their artificiality.
a. verse
b. rhyme
c. poetic diction
d. tradition
Q. Wordsworth quoted ____________ who said, “Poetry is the most philosophical of allwritings”.
a. Aristotle
b. Horace
c. Homer
d. Virgil
Q. An Appendix on Poetic Diction was added to the Preface to the Lyrical Balladsin_____.
a. 1800
b. 1798
c. 1805
d. 1802
Q. According to Wordsworth the understanding of the reader must necessarily be in somedegree…
a. Enlightened
b. Disheartened
c. Motivated
d. Contentment
Q. Wordsworth said that Poetry is the image of
a. Man and Science
b. Man and Society
c. Man and Nature
d. Nature and Science
Q. According to Wordsworth Poetry is the first and last of all…
a. Wisdom
b. Truth
c. Inspiration
d. Knowledge
Q. Wordsworth gives much importance to the ________ of poetry
a. Fancy
b. Language
c. Feelings
d. Imagination
Q. Who comments, “the end of writing is to instruct, The end of poetry is to instruct bypleasing”
a. Shakespeare
b. Arnold
c. Dr. Johnson
d. None of the above
Q. The only difference between the language of Prose and the language of Poetryis_________
a. Use of Rhythm
b. Use of Words
c. Use of feelings
d. Use of Metre
Q. According to Wordsworth ____________ is not essential to poetry
a. Metre
b. Imagination
c. Talent
d. Rhyme
Q. A primary function of poetry according to Wordsworth is to give ___________ for hisreaders
a. Knowledge
b. Pleasure
c. Idea
d. Truth
Q. Poetry is “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” according to
a. Arnold
b. T. S Eliot
c. Johnson
d. Wordsworth
Q. Wordsworth chosen the various aspects of __________
a. Royal and rich life
b. War and peace life
c. Humble and Rustic life
d. Nature and poets life
Q. “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility”. Who has defined poetry in thesewords?
a. Shelley
b. Matthew Arnold
c. S. T. Coleridge
d. Wordsworth