A. aristophanes
B. virgil
C. sophocles
D. homer
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8429. Which kind of poetry has been ignored because Aristotle considers it more suited to music than poetry?
A. ode
B. lyric
C. sonnet
D. dramatic monologue
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8426. What is the structure of Longinus’ “On the Sublime”?
A. epistolary
B. narrative
C. discussion
D. discursive
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8423. What is the excessive use of verbal ornamentation that obstructs the natural use of language and hence it should be avoided?
A. grandiloquence
B. puerility
C. elaboration
D. exaggeration
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8421. How many sources of sublimity are mentioned by Longinus?
A. four
B. three
C. five
D. two
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8419. Which figure of speech is useful in heightening expression, in the opinion of Longinus?
A. hyperbation
B. periphrasis
C. asyndeton
D. none of these
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8457. When was the pastoral romance Arcadia was published?
A. 1579
B. 1576
C. 1575
D. 1580
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8455. What does the word vates mean?
A. building
B. a seer
C. coward
D. disciple
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8453. Who mentions “as is painting so is poetry”?
A. virgil
B. homer
C. dante
D. horace
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8451. 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?
A. 1802
B. 1800
C. 1815
D. none of these
✅ The correct answer is option A.