Q. In which work by Vamana was the word sahrudaya used first in the technical sense of a competent reader of poetry?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
kavyalamkara
Literary Criticism MCQs and Notes
Q. Which tailanga scholar who was a prominent poet in the court of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, was conferred the title Panditaraja?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
jagannatha
Q. Who is the Kashmiri scholar whose Vakroktijivita is famous for the discussion of vakrata (indirection or obliqueness) in expression in poetry?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
kuntaka
Q. Who is the most authoritative exponent of Pratyabhijna philosophy that is centered on Kashmiri Shaivism?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
abhinavagupta
Q. Which critic gave great importance to the gunas and doshas (merits and defects) in poetry?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
dandin
Q. Who critiqued the sphota doctrine of the grammarians and the Buddhist linguistic doctrine of apoha?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
bhamaha
Q. Which is the earliest systematic work on Indian dramaturgy?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
natyashastra
Q. What is referred as the proper knowledge of language that helps to satisfy desires?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
kamadhenu
Q. Under which method of analysis, does the critic proceed to ascertain the meaning of a work from the general truth to the particular one?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
deductive
Q. Who wrote the essay “The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks”?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
r.s.crane