Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. What is considered superior to the epic since it contains all the elements that give pleasurealong with music and spectacle?
a. comedy
b. tragedy
c. tragicomedy
d. none of these
Q. To whom does Longinus write “On the Sublime”, which is in the form of letters?
a. aristotle
b. cecilius
c. postumius terentianus
d. plato
Q. Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first moderntreatise on English composition?
a. thomas wilson
b. thomas hardy
c. f.r.leavis
d. t.s.eliot
Q. According to Sir Philip Sidney, which kind of poetry evokes pity because it deals with theweakness of mankind and the desolation of the world.
a. lyric
b. elegiac poetry
c. tragedy
d. dramatic monologue
Q. Who considers Hard Times “a moral fable” with a definite intention that exhibits satiric ironyin the first two chapters of his book The Great Tradition?
a. thomas hardy
b. t.s.eliot
c. f.r.leavis
d. charles dickens
Q. Which play of Shakespeare does Northrop Frye use to explicate the inductive method ofanalysis?
a. othello
b. king lear
c. hamlet
d. macbeth
Q. The object of all criticism according to Johnson is to make the obscure and theconfused
a. clear and understood
b. focused and precise
c. unobscured
d. orderly
Q. Johnson tries Shakespeare by the test of
a. Coherence and cogence
b. relevance and contemporariness
c. relativity, clarity and imaginativity
d. time, Nature and Universality
Q. Who is the 'father of English poetry', the well of English undefiled according toArnold?
a. Milton
b. Dante
c. Shakespeare
d. Chaucer
Q. Samuel Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of the
a. comedy
b. tragedy
c. tragi-comedy
d. none of the above
Q. The defect or fault in Shakespeare according to Johnson is that
a. He sacrifices virtue to convenience
b. He is so much more careful to please than to instruct
c. He seems to write without any moral purpose.
d. All of the above
Q. Johnson said that Shakespeare showed no regard to
a. The unity of time and place
b. The unity of action
c. Characterization
d. Poetic language
Q. According to Johnson what type of drama did Shakespeare write with much labour?
a. Comedy
b. Tragedy
c. Tragi-comedy
d. None of the above