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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Master of Arts in English (MA English) , English (CBCS) .
Chapters
| 51. |
Which theory in Indian aesthetics theory connotes indirect or suggestive expression? |
| A. | alamkara |
| B. | dhwani |
| C. | kavya |
| D. | aswad |
| Answer» B. dhwani | |
| 52. |
Who was the first dramatist to recognise the importance of rasa in aesthetics? |
| A. | kalidasa |
| B. | jagannatha |
| C. | bharatamuni |
| D. | purandaradasa |
| Answer» C. bharatamuni | |
| 53. |
Which term in Indian aesthetics refers to the objective conditions or reasons for producing or exciting an emotion, which is also the main stimulating cause or the object of the emotion? |
| A. | bhava |
| B. | samyoga |
| C. | anubhava |
| D. | vibhava |
| Answer» D. vibhava | |
| 54. |
Who pointed out the major drawbacks in Bhattalolatta’s theory in relation to vibhava and rasa? |
| A. | mammata |
| B. | shankuka |
| C. | kalidasa |
| D. | bharata |
| Answer» A. mammata | |
| 55. |
Identify the theory by Bhattanayaka that projects the experiential aspect related to emotions, which is also known as the enjoyment theory? |
| A. | rasa |
| B. | bhuthivada |
| C. | anumitivada |
| D. | pracya nyaya |
| Answer» B. bhuthivada | |
| 56. |
Which term in Indian aesthetics refers to the process of Generalisation? |
| A. | bhavakatva |
| B. | tamas |
| C. | sattva |
| D. | sadharanikarana |
| Answer» D. sadharanikarana | |
| 57. |
Which aspect helps the sahrdaya or the aesthetically sensible person to see the characters presented in a literary work in a generalised manner? |
| A. | denotation |
| B. | imagination |
| C. | inference |
| D. | connotation |
| Answer» B. imagination | |
| 58. |
Who among the following validates how the poetic language triggers the aesthetic process through its suggestiveness? |
| A. | mammata |
| B. | bhattanayaka |
| C. | anandavardhana |
| D. | abhinavagupta |
| Answer» D. abhinavagupta | |
| 59. |
Which term is used by Abhinavagupta to denote “relating”, “narrating” or “describing” emotive conditions. |
| A. | bhavanukirtanam |
| B. | anumana |
| C. | bhavaktwa |
| D. | bhojakatwa |
| Answer» A. bhavanukirtanam | |
| 60. |
Which word is used to denote not only the special aesthetic pleasure and the outward manifestation of artistic experience but also the mental faculty which makes aesthetic experience possible. |
| A. | rasavaga |
| B. | alaukika |
| C. | chamatkara |
| D. | charvana |
| Answer» C. chamatkara | |
| 61. |
Which term used by Bharata means a spectator? |
| A. | rupaka |
| B. | prekshaka |
| C. | sahrudaya |
| D. | bhavana |
| Answer» B. prekshaka | |
| 62. |
Which term refers to any hindrance to aesthetic relish, the impediment that could be effected by poetry, the actor, or the reader. |
| A. | rasa |
| B. | bhayanaka |
| C. | rasavighna |
| D. | hasya |
| Answer» C. rasavighna | |
| 63. |
What is the literal meaning of the word dhwani? |
| A. | sound |
| B. | explosion |
| C. | phonetics |
| D. | phonology |
| Answer» A. sound | |
| 64. |
What is the source of dhwani theory? |
| A. | sphota theory |
| B. | theory of rasa |
| C. | rasadhwani |
| D. | lochana |
| Answer» A. sphota theory | |
| 65. |
Which Indian grammarian discussed the concept of dhwani in a systematic manner? |
| A. | mammata |
| B. | shankuka |
| C. | patanjali |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. patanjali | |
| 66. |
Who opposed the theory of dhwani on the ground there was no meaning in inventing a new power for words since dhwani was subordinate to anumana? |
| A. | bhattanayaka |
| B. | mahimabhatta |
| C. | jagannatha |
| D. | abhinavagupta |
| Answer» B. mahimabhatta | |
| 67. |
What is the term used to refer to pictorial poetry? |
| A. | chitrakavya |
| B. | chitra |
| C. | shloka |
| D. | kavya |
| Answer» A. chitrakavya | |
| 68. |
Which word refers to the primary power of signification existing in words that is capable of providing the literal or lexical meaning? |
| A. | lochana |
| B. | anugraha |
| C. | abida |
| D. | pada |
| Answer» C. abida | |
| 69. |
Which term by Kuntaka is used to include dhwani as a mode of varkroti ? |
| A. | upacharavakrata |
| B. | vakrata |
| C. | nirupana |
| D. | lakshana |
| Answer» A. upacharavakrata | |
| 70. |
Which is the variety of dhwani accepted by Kuntaka that includes the employment of words of double meaning |
| A. | artha |
| B. | shabda |
| C. | shabdashaktimoola |
| D. | rupa |
| Answer» C. shabdashaktimoola | |
| 71. |
In the opinion of Aristotle, whose plays are the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction? |
| A. | homer |
| B. | virgil |
| C. | sophocles |
| D. | dante |
| Answer» A. homer | |
| 72. |
What is considered superior to the epic since it contains all the elements that give pleasure along with music and spectacle? |
| A. | comedy |
| B. | tragedy |
| C. | tragicomedy |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. tragedy | |
| 73. |
To whom does Longinus write “On the Sublime”, which is in the form of letters? |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | cecilius |
| C. | postumius terentianus |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» C. postumius terentianus | |
| 74. |
Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first modern treatise on English composition? |
| A. | thomas wilson |
| B. | thomas hardy |
| C. | f.r.leavis |
| D. | t.s.eliot |
| Answer» A. thomas wilson | |
| 75. |
According to Sir Philip Sidney, which kind of poetry evokes pity because it deals with the weakness of mankind and the desolation of the world. |
| A. | lyric |
| B. | elegiac poetry |
| C. | tragedy |
| D. | dramatic monologue |
| Answer» B. elegiac poetry | |
| 76. |
Who considers Hard Times “a moral fable” with a definite intention that exhibits satiric irony in the first two chapters of his book The Great Tradition? |
| A. | thomas hardy |
| B. | t.s.eliot |
| C. | f.r.leavis |
| D. | charles dickens |
| Answer» C. f.r.leavis | |
| 77. |
Which play of Shakespeare does Northrop Frye use to explicate the inductive method of analysis? |
| A. | othello |
| B. | king lear |
| C. | hamlet |
| D. | macbeth |
| Answer» C. hamlet | |
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