1. |
About whom Atkins says that “In his works, appears for the first time the conception of memesis or imitation as the essential characteristic of all art”. |
A. | Plato |
B. | Longinus |
C. | Aristotle |
D. | Horace |
Answer» A. Plato |
2. |
In the poetics, the change in the fortunes of the hero is known as... |
A. | Periphery |
B. | Discovery |
C. | Catharsis |
D. | None |
Answer» A. Periphery |
3. |
According to Aristotle, the objects of Imitation are… |
A. | Natural defects |
B. | Moral values |
C. | Feeling of love |
D. | Men in action |
Answer» D. Men in action |
4. |
Who said “Tragedy imitates men as better, and comedy as worse than they really are.” |
A. | A.C. Bradley |
B. | John Dryden |
C. | Aristotle |
D. | Plato |
Answer» C. Aristotle |
5. |
Plato equated poetry with painting and Aristotle equated it with… |
A. | Drama |
B. | Dance |
C. | Music |
D. | None |
Answer» C. Music |
6. |
Who is known as the first scientific critic? |
A. | Longinus |
B. | Aristotle |
C. | Horace |
D. | Plato |
Answer» B. Aristotle |
7. |
Who said, “A tragedy is impossible without plot, but there may be one without character” |
A. | Aristotle |
B. | Socrates |
C. | Cicero |
D. | Arnold |
Answer» A. Aristotle |
8. |
Who says that Coleridge is a link “between German transcendentalism and English romanticism”. |
A. | Arthur Symons |
B. | Stephen Gosson |
C. | John Lock |
D. | Rene Wellek |
Answer» D. Rene Wellek |
9. |
What was the name of Aristotle's school? |
A. | Oxford |
B. | Cambridge |
C. | Lyceum |
D. | Temple |
Answer» C. Lyceum |
10. |
Which classical writer expresses, “Epic poetry and tragedy, comedy also dithyrambic poetry… are all in their general conception modes of imitation”? |
A. | Aristotle |
B. | Plato |
C. | Horace |
D. | Homer |
Answer» A. Aristotle |
11. |
What is meant by “Catastrophe”? |
A. | The ending of a Comedy |
B. | The ending of tragedy |
C. | The ending of a historical play |
D. | The ending of tragi-comedy |
Answer» B. The ending of tragedy |
12. |
What is Denouement? |
A. | The ending of a Tragedy |
B. | The ending of Comedy |
C. | The Climax in a Tragedy |
D. | The Climax in a comedy |
Answer» B. The ending of Comedy |
13. |
Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in: |
A. | Art Poetique |
B. | Poetics |
C. | Rhetoric |
D. | Ars Poetica |
Answer» B. Poetics |
14. |
What is the meaning of the Term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy? |
A. | Tragic end of the Tragedy |
B. | Working of Fate againts the hero |
C. | A Weak trait in the character of the Hero |
D. | A strong quality in the character of the hero |
Answer» C. A Weak trait in the character of the Hero |
15. |
What is the meaning of the Term Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy? |
A. | Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good |
B. | Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad |
C. | Constancy in the fortune of the hero |
D. | Fluctuations occurring in the fortune of the hero |
Answer» B. Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad |
16. |
What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy? |
A. | The hero's recognition of his tragic flaw |
B. | The hero's ignorance about his tragic flaw |
C. | The hero's recognition of his adversary |
D. | The hero's recognition of his tragic end |
Answer» A. The hero's recognition of his tragic flaw |
17. |
Who argued against Plato’s theory of forms for the first time? |
A. | Aristotle |
B. | Socrates |
C. | Hegel |
D. | Kant |
Answer» A. Aristotle |
18. |
According to Aristotle what is the source of knowledge? |
A. | Mind |
B. | Senses |
C. | Thought |
D. | Dream |
Answer» C. Thought |
19. |
The two notions which form the core of Aristotle’s Poetics are….. and ….. |
A. | Imitation and action |
B. | Imitation and Imagination |
C. | Reason and action |
D. | Logic and action |
Answer» A. Imitation and action |
20. |
According Aristotle ….is the soul of tragedy? |
A. | Character |
B. | Plot |
C. | Diction |
D. | Spectacle |
Answer» B. Plot |
21. |
Which school of critics rekindled an interest in Aristotle in the 20th century? |
A. | Yale schoo |
B. | Chicago school |
C. | Frankfurt school |
D. | Annals school |
Answer» B. Chicago school |
22. |
The term hamartia is taken from… |
A. | Smithy |
B. | Hunting |
C. | Swimming |
D. | Archery |
Answer» D. Archery |
23. |
Some believe literature should be judged primarily on its artistic merits. What approach possess this disadvantage? |
A. | Formalism/New Criticism |
B. | Psychological |
C. | Moral/Philosophical |
D. | Historical/Biographical |
Answer» C. Moral/Philosophical |
24. |
“Comparative Literature is the study of the literature beyond the confines of one particular country” – whose definition of comparative literature is this? |
A. | Ulrich Weisstein |
B. | H.H. Remak |
C. | Rene Wellek |
D. | Anna Balakian |
Answer» B. H.H. Remak |
25. |
Attempt at historical reconstruction has led to a great stress on the intention of the author. Identify the author of the statement: |
A. | Wellek and Warren |
B. | Schlegel - Tieck |
C. | Carre - Guyard |
D. | Hassan - Guillen |
Answer» A. Wellek and Warren |
26. |
In the study of literary History, Holinshed’s Chronicles would constitute |
A. | An affinity |
B. | A source |
C. | An influence |
D. | An imitation |
Answer» B. A source |
27. |
Wellek and Warren’s Theory of Literature does not contain a chapter on |
A. | Literary Genres |
B. | Thematology |
C. | Literary History |
D. | Literature and the other Arts. |
Answer» B. Thematology |
28. |
The author of the essay “The Tradition of Traditions” is |
A. | T.E. Hume |
B. | T.S. Eliot |
C. | Rene Wellek |
D. | Harry Levin |
Answer» C. Rene Wellek |
29. |
“What is world literature?” is written by |
A. | Rene Wellek |
B. | David Damrosch |
C. | Dorothy Figuera |
D. | Gayatri Chakraborti Spivak |
Answer» B. David Damrosch |
30. |
The phrase “leaves dancing” is an example of ________. |
A. | pathetic fallacy |
B. | hyperbole |
C. | pun |
D. | conceit |
Answer» A. pathetic fallacy |
31. |
Who wrote “Theory of Literature”? |
A. | R A Scott James |
B. | R J Rees |
C. | Rene Wellek &Austin Warren |
D. | David Daiches |
Answer» C. Rene Wellek &Austin Warren |
32. |
Literature is a ________ of life. |
A. | Mirror |
B. | Reflection |
C. | Presentation |
D. | All of the above |
Answer» D. All of the above |
33. |
The five traits of a tragic hero do NOT include: |
A. | decency/nobility |
B. | hamartia (fatal flaw) |
C. | anagnorisis (tragic insight) |
D. | denoument (resolution |
Answer» A. decency/nobility |
34. |
What is a chorus in Greek theater? |
A. | People that sing stuff. |
B. | People that inform the audience. |
C. | People that wear long socks. |
D. | People that inform the protagonist. |
Answer» B. People that inform the audience. |
35. |
What is a tragic hero? |
A. | A character who makes a error that leads to his destruction. |
B. | character who makes a great life for themselves. |
C. | A hero that is tragic. |
D. | A girl that is really whiny and just wants more jewelry. |
Answer» A. A character who makes a error that leads to his destruction. |
36. |
What emotions are tragic heroes supposed to elicit in an audience? |
A. | Jealousy & anger |
B. | Fear & jealousy |
C. | Pity & fear |
D. | a. Anger & pity |
Answer» C. Pity & fear |
37. |
‘Authority forgets a dying king’ is an example of |
A. | Personification |
B. | Apostrophe |
C. | Hyperbole |
D. | Metaphor |
Answer» A. Personification |
38. |
The term ‘Onomatopoeia ‘ and ‘Oxymoron’ came from |
A. | French |
B. | Latin |
C. | Roman |
D. | Greek |
Answer» D. Greek |
39. |
”A lovelier flower on Earth was never sown” has the figure of speech called |
A. | Metaphor |
B. | Oxymoron |
C. | Hyperbole |
D. | Implied Simile |
Answer» C. Hyperbole |
40. |
Which of the following is a direct address either to an absent person or to an abstract or inanimate entity? |
A. | Apostrophe |
B. | Ode |
C. | Epode |
D. | Hyperbole |
Answer» A. Apostrophe |
41. |
Pun is a play on words that are similar |
A. | In meaning but diverse in sound |
B. | In sound but diverse in meaning |
C. | Both in sound and meaning but with different sound |
D. | None |
Answer» B. In sound but diverse in meaning |
42. |
Which of the following words show oxymoron? |
A. | Chatter Chatter |
B. | O Death |
C. | Rivers of Blood |
D. | Sweet Pain |
Answer» D. Sweet Pain |
43. |
Which figures of speech are employed in this line? ” O Wild west wind, thou breathe of Autumn’s being” |
A. | Oxymoron |
B. | Personification |
C. | Apostrophe |
D. | Metaphor |
Answer» B. Personification |
44. |
which figures of speech are used ” His honor rooted in dishonor stood. And faithful unfaithful kept him falsely true” |
A. | Oxymoron |
B. | Personification |
C. | Apostrophe |
D. | Metaphor |
Answer» A. Oxymoron |
45. |
Which of the following sentences has figures of speech called ‘Apostrophe? |
A. | O Death! here is thy sting |
B. | The more haste, the less speed |
C. | Death lays his icy hands on kings |
D. | Life is but a walking shadow |
Answer» A. O Death! here is thy sting |
46. |
”Life is but a walking shadow” is an example of |
A. | Apostrophe |
B. | Metaphor |
C. | Simile |
D. | Hyperbole |
Answer» B. Metaphor |
47. |
Onomatopoeia means |
A. | Echoing of the same sense or meaning in different words |
B. | Echoing the same sound repeatedly |
C. | Echoing of the sense by the sound, shape, size o movement |
D. | None |
Answer» C. Echoing of the sense by the sound, shape, size o movement |
48. |
How happy is he here! |
A. | Simile |
B. | Antithesis |
C. | Personification |
D. | Alliteration |
Answer» D. Alliteration |
49. |
The night is dark as a black stone. |
A. | Metaphor |
B. | Simile |
C. | Onomatopoeia |
D. | Alliteration |
Answer» B. Simile |
50. |
What is meant by Synecdoche? |
A. | The hole of something used to signify a part |
B. | An inanimate object endowed with human feeling |
C. | The terms with a pronunciation similar to their meaning |
D. | A part of something used to signify the whole |
Answer» D. A part of something used to signify the whole |