8511. To Eliot, the chief tools of the critic are,
A. reading and composition
B. reading and comprehension
C. composition and analysis
D. comparison and analysis
✅ The correct answer is option D.
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8512. What, according to T.S. Eliot are the chief tools of the critic?
A. Comparison and analysis
B. Analysis and exposition
C. Exposition and comparison
D. None of the above
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8513. Which poet does Arnold say lack ‘the high seriousness of the great classics’?
A. Chaucer
B. Dryden
C. Pope
D. Burns
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8514. Eliot feels that the second-rate artist cannot afford to surrender himself to any
A. concrete idea
B. common action
C. universal detail
D. philosophical idea
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8515. Eliot says that inner voice is _________.
A. hoarse
B. Whiggery
C. artificial
D. raspy
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8516. The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of
A. Disinterestedness or detachment
B. Response to rhythm and metre
C. Speculation and theorisation
D. Measurement of knowledge
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8517. Eliot believes that between the true artists of any time there is
A. an unconscious community
B. a mutual understanding
C. a vast difference
D. an unbound thread
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8518. Eliot states that to be an ideal critic, one has to develop an extraordinary sense of _____.
A. imagination
B. taste
C. fact
D. vision
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8519. Arnold defines poetry as
A. ‘The criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty’.
B. ‘The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge’.
C. ‘Not an expression of emotion, but as escape from emotion’.
D. ‘A speaking picture with its end, to teach and delight’.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8520. Eliot states, “A common inheritance and a common cause unite artists
A. consciously or unconsciously”
B. interactively”
C. by unseen thread”
D. subconsciously”
✅ The correct answer is option A.