Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who mentions: “Every great poet is a teacher; I wish either to be considered as a teacher or as anothing”.
a. william wordsworth
b. lord byron
c. edmund spenser
d. robert herrick
Q. Which critic published his classroom lectures and his ideas along with the dictums of the other critics regularly in Scrutiny?
a. raman selden
b. f.r.leavis
c. henry james
d. joseph conrad
Q. Who among the following is recognised one of “the great English novelists”?
a. charlotte bronte
b. emily bronte
c. jane austen
d. henry fielding
Q. Which critic is of the opinion that though Charles Dickens possesses the vitality and vision ofart as Conrad does, he cannot be included “in the line of great novelists”?
a. george santayana
b. t.s.eliot
c. d.h. lawrence
d. f.r.leavis
Q. Whose first book of poems Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917?
a. robert browning
b. t.s.eliot
c. alfred tennyson
d. john keats
Q. Locate T.S. Eliot’s full length book of essays on poetry and criticism.
a. the sacred wood: essays on poetry and criticism
b. the egoist
c. tradition and the individual talent
d. the art of t.s.eliot
Q. Identify the author of The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)/
a. william k. wimsatt
b. cleanth brooks
c. joel e.spingarn
d. yvor winters
Q. What is referred as the analysis of the figurative elements such as images, similes, metaphors,symbols, and myth that unify a work?
a. contrapuntal reading
b. imagery
c. close reading
d. fallacy
Q. Who wrote the essay “The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks”?
a. r.s.crane
b. elder olson
c. robert penn warren
d. richard mckeon
Q. Under which method of analysis, does the critic proceed to ascertain the meaning of a workfrom the general truth to the particular one?
a. deductive
b. inductive
c. formalist
d. archetypal
Q. What is referred as the proper knowledge of language that helps to satisfy desires?
a. rasa
b. natyashastra
c. kamadhenu
d. dhwani
Q. Which is the earliest systematic work on Indian dramaturgy?
a. kavyalankara
b. natyashastra
c. kavyadarsha
d. nirupana