A. plato
B. socrates
C. aristotle
D. longinus
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Literary Criticism MCQs
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.
Which book in the Republic ends with the Phoenician myth, which Socrates feels would serve as the effective mythical explanation for their State/
A. first
B. fourth
C. second
D. third
✅ The correct answer is option D.
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.
What is the structure of Longinus’ “On the Sublime”?
A. epistolary
B. narrative
C. discussion
D. discursive
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Who is the young half-brother of Plato whose name means “owl” or “gleaming eyes”?
A. cephalus
B. aristotle
C. glaucon
D. thrasymachus
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Identify the author of The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)/
A. william k. wimsatt
B. cleanth brooks
C. joel e.spingarn
D. yvor winters
✅ The correct answer is option B.
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.
The pivotal speaker in Republic, Socrates recalls the visit to Piraeus, the port of Athens to take part in the festivities to honour which deity?
A. bendis
B. apollo
C. dionysus
D. cupid
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Locate T.S. Eliot’s full length book of essays on poetry and criticism.
A. the sacred wood: essays on poetry and criticism
B. the egoist
C. tradition and the individual talent
D. the art of t.s.eliot
✅ The correct answer is option A.