A. william k. wimsatt
B. cleanth brooks
C. joel e.spingarn
D. yvor winters
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8425. What is referred as the analysis of the figurative elements such as images, similes, metaphors, symbols, and myth that unify a work?
A. contrapuntal reading
B. imagery
C. close reading
D. fallacy
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8387. Who wrote the essay “The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks”?
A. r.s.crane
B. elder olson
C. robert penn warren
D. richard mckeon
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8384. Under which method of analysis, does the critic proceed to ascertain the meaning of a work from the general truth to the particular one?
A. deductive
B. inductive
C. formalist
D. archetypal
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8381. What is referred as the proper knowledge of language that helps to satisfy desires?
A. rasa
B. natyashastra
C. kamadhenu
D. dhwani
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8418. Which is the earliest systematic work on Indian dramaturgy?
A. kavyalankara
B. natyashastra
C. kavyadarsha
D. nirupana
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8415. Who critiqued the sphota doctrine of the grammarians and the Buddhist linguistic doctrine of apoha?
A. dandin
B. abhinavagupta
C. udbhata
D. bhamaha
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8412. Which critic gave great importance to the gunas and doshas (merits and defects) in poetry?
A. kalidasa
B. anandavardhana
C. dandin
D. rajashekhara
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8409. Who is the most authoritative exponent of Pratyabhijna philosophy that is centered on Kashmiri Shaivism?
A. abhinavagupta
B. anandavardhana
C. kshemendra
D. bhoja
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8406. Who is the Kashmiri scholar whose Vakroktijivita is famous for the discussion of vakrata (indirection or obliqueness) in expression in poetry?
A. anandavardhana
B. rajashekhara
C. abhinavagupta
D. kuntaka
✅ The correct answer is option D.