Literary Criticism MCQs
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Q 1. Which play of Shakespeare does Northrop Frye use to explicate the inductive method of analysis?
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Q 2. 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?
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Q 3. 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.
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Q 4. Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first modern treatise on English composition?
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Q 5. To whom does Longinus write “On the Sublime”, which is in the form of letters?
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Q 6. What is considered superior to the epic since it contains all the elements that give pleasure along with music and spectacle?
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Q 7. In the opinion of Aristotle, whose plays are the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction?
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Q 8. Which is the variety of dhwani accepted by Kuntaka that includes the employment of words of double meaning
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Q 9. Which term by Kuntaka is used to include dhwani as a mode of varkroti ?
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