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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts (BA) .
| 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 | |
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