A. poetry
B. drama
C. prose
D. fiction
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Literary Criticism MCQs
Who mentions “as is painting so is poetry”?
A. virgil
B. homer
C. dante
D. horace
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Whose verses does Socrates criticise because of the uneven blend of narrative, especially the speeches of the characters in Iliad that also employ mimesis or imitation?
A. hesiod
B. homer
C. aeschylus
D. sophocles
✅ The correct answer is option B.
What does the word vates mean?
A. building
B. a seer
C. coward
D. disciple
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Who mentions: “God is not the author of all things, but of good only”
A. plato
B. glaucon
C. socrates
D. adeimantus
✅ The correct answer is option C.
When was the pastoral romance Arcadia was published?
A. 1579
B. 1576
C. 1575
D. 1580
✅ The correct answer is option A.
The Republic concludes with Socrates’ vibrant description of the tale of which hero?
A. er
B. ulysses
C. telemachus
D. achilles
✅ The correct answer is option A.
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.
Which form of government is based primarily on wealth?
A. timocracy
B. oligarchy
C. democracy
D. tyranny
✅ The correct answer is option B.
How many sources of sublimity are mentioned by Longinus?
A. four
B. three
C. five
D. two
✅ The correct answer is option C.