Q. Which play of Shakespeare does Northrop Frye use to explicate the inductive method of analysis?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
hamlet
Literary Criticism MCQs and Notes
Q. 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?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
f.r.leavis
Q. 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.
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
elegiac poetry
Q. Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first modern treatise on English composition?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
thomas wilson
Q. To whom does Longinus write “On the Sublime”, which is in the form of letters?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
postumius terentianus
Q. What is considered superior to the epic since it contains all the elements that give pleasure along with music and spectacle?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
tragedy
Q. In the opinion of Aristotle, whose plays are the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
homer
Q. Which is the variety of dhwani accepted by Kuntaka that includes the employment of words of double meaning
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
shabdashaktimoola
Q. Which term by Kuntaka is used to include dhwani as a mode of varkroti ?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
upacharavakrata
Q. Which word refers to the primary power of signification existing in words that is capable of providing the literal or lexical meaning?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
abida