Q. Who mentions “as is painting so is poetry”?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
horace
Literary Criticism MCQs and Notes
Q. When was the pastoral romance Arcadia was published?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
1579
Q. Which figure of speech is useful in heightening expression, in the opinion of Longinus?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
asyndeton
Q. How many sources of sublimity are mentioned by Longinus?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
five
Q. What is the excessive use of verbal ornamentation that obstructs the natural use of language and hence it should be avoided?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
grandiloquence
Q. What is the structure of Longinus’ “On the Sublime”?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
epistolary
Q. Which kind of poetry has been ignored because Aristotle considers it more suited to music than poetry?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
lyric
Q. Whose plays are considered the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction and the author’s role in the epic by Aristotle?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
homer
Q. Which unity has not been mentioned by Aristotle?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
place