A. truth and seriousness
B. truth and ideas
C. seriousness and knowledge
D. knowledge and truth
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Literary Criticism MCQs
‘The function of criticism is to promote the understanding and enjoyment of literature’. Who said this?
A. Matthew Arnold
B. T. S Eliot
C. Dr. Johnson
D. John Keats
✅ The correct answer is option B.
According to Eliot the most important qualification that a critic must have is
A. a highly developed sense of understanding
B. a highly developed sense of fact
C. a highly developed sense of meaning
D. a highly developed sense of intuition
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Arnold feels the historic estimate and the personal estimate often supersedes the
A. ideal estimate
B. principal estimate
C. critical estimate
D. real estimate
✅ The correct answer is option D.
A critic’s constant concern is never to lose his ________________
A. Completeness of possession
B. Value Judgment
C. Completeness of response
D. Irrelevant generalizing
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Leavis is of the opinion that reading demanded by poetry is different from that demanded by
A. science
B. law
C. history
D. philosophy
✅ The correct answer is option D.
The reading demanded by poetry is different from that demanded by
A. Philosophy
B. History
C. Science
D. Law
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands________________ responsiveness.
A. Total
B. Absolute
C. Complex
D. Complete
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Leavis literary Criticism and Philosophy is a reaction to __________ essay
A. T.S Eliot’s
B. I.A Richard’s
C. R.N Wellek’s
D. K. Wimsatt
✅ The correct answer is option C.
According to Leavis, philosophic training would benefit the critic by making clear that
A. The two are vastly similar
B. The two are vastly different
C. Philosophy is needed to be a critic
D. The two are complementary
✅ The correct answer is option B.