Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which is the entire part of a tragedy placed between the complete choric songs, in thedivisions of a tragedy when staged?
a. parode
b. episode
c. exode
d. stasimon
Q. Whose plays are considered the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction andthe author’s role in the epic by Aristotle?
a. aristophanes
b. virgil
c. sophocles
d. homer
Q. Which kind of poetry has been ignored because Aristotle considers it more suited to musicthan poetry?
a. ode
b. lyric
c. sonnet
d. dramatic monologue
Q. What is the structure of Longinus’ “On the Sublime”?
a. epistolary
b. narrative
c. discussion
d. discursive
Q. What is the excessive use of verbal ornamentation that obstructs the natural use of languageand hence it should be avoided?
a. grandiloquence
b. puerility
c. elaboration
d. exaggeration
Q. Which figure of speech is useful in heightening expression, in the opinion of Longinus?
a. hyperbation
b. periphrasis
c. asyndeton
d. none of these
Q. Eliot states, “A common inheritance and a common cause unite artists
a. consciously or unconsciously”
b. interactively”
c. by unseen thread”
d. subconsciously”
Q. Eliot believes that between the true artists of any time there is
a. an unconscious community
b. a mutual understanding
c. a vast difference
d. an unbound thread
Q. Eliot feels that the second-rate artist cannot afford to surrender himself to any
a. concrete idea
b. common action
c. universal detail
d. philosophical idea
Q. To Eliot, the chief tools of the critic are,
a. reading and composition
b. reading and comprehension
c. composition and analysis
d. comparison and analysis
Q. Eliot states. “The critical activity finds its highest, its true fulfillment in a kind of union with creation in the
a. labour of the artist”
b. composition of the poet”
c. works of poets and prose writers”
d. creation of the artist”