Q. What is referred as the analysis of the figurative elements such as images, similes, metaphors, symbols, and myth that unify a work?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
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Literary Criticism MCQs and Notes
Q. Identify the author of The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)/
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
cleanth brooks
Q. Locate T.S. Eliot’s full length book of essays on poetry and criticism.
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
the sacred wood: essays on poetry and criticism
Q. Whose first book of poems Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
t.s.eliot
Q. Which critic is of the opinion that though Charles Dickens possesses the vitality and vision of art as Conrad does, he cannot be included “in the line of great novelists”?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
f.r.leavis
Q. Who among the following is recognised one of “the great English novelists”?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
jane austen
Q. Which critic published his classroom lectures and his ideas along with the dictums of the other critics regularly in Scrutiny?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
f.r.leavis
Q. Who mentions: “Every great poet is a teacher; I wish either to be considered as a teacher or as a nothing”.
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
william wordsworth
Q. Who is the author of Defence of Poetry?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
shelley
Q. Which edition of the Preface is considered important because of the explanation of the nature and characteristics of the poet, and his superiority over the man of science?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
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