A. aristophanes
B. virgil
C. sophocles
D. homer
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Literary Criticism MCQs
In which work did Aristotle firmly refute Plato’s pronouncements deriding art, artists and poetry?
A. de anima
B. poetics
C. metaphysics
D. physics
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Whose first book of poems Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917?
A. robert browning
B. t.s.eliot
C. alfred tennyson
D. john keats
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Which unity has not been mentioned by Aristotle?
A. time
B. action
C. place
D. all these
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Choose the work from the choices below that is in the form of scholarly exchanges between Plato and his teacher Socrates.
A. protogoras
B. gorgias
C. symposium
D. dialogues
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Which critic is of the opinion that though Charles Dickens possesses the vitality and vision of art as Conrad does, he cannot be included “in the line of great novelists”?
A. george santayana
B. t.s.eliot
C. d.h. lawrence
D. f.r.leavis
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Whose misfortunes should an ideal plot depict?
A. hero
B. antagonist
C. chorus
D. family
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Identify the state festival held every year in honour of the God Dionysus in Greece.
A. great dionysia
B. dionysia
C. phaedrus
D. athenia
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Who among the following is recognised one of “the great English novelists”?
A. charlotte bronte
B. emily bronte
C. jane austen
D. henry fielding
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Which is the entire part of a tragedy placed between the complete choric songs, in the divisions of a tragedy when staged?
A. parode
B. episode
C. exode
D. stasimon
✅ The correct answer is option B.