A. rasavaga
B. alaukika
C. chamatkara
D. charvana
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Literary Criticism MCQs
Who is the most authoritative exponent of Pratyabhijna philosophy that is centered on Kashmiri Shaivism?
A. abhinavagupta
B. anandavardhana
C. kshemendra
D. bhoja
✅ The correct answer is option A.
According to Sir Philip Sidney, which kind of poetry evokes pity because it deals with the weakness of mankind and the desolation of the world.
A. lyric
B. elegiac poetry
C. tragedy
D. dramatic monologue
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Which term is used by Abhinavagupta to denote “relating”, “narrating” or “describing” emotive conditions.
A. bhavanukirtanam
B. anumana
C. bhavaktwa
D. bhojakatwa
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Which critic gave great importance to the gunas and doshas (merits and defects) in poetry?
A. kalidasa
B. anandavardhana
C. dandin
D. rajashekhara
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first modern treatise on English composition?
A. thomas wilson
B. thomas hardy
C. f.r.leavis
D. t.s.eliot
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Who among the following validates how the poetic language triggers the aesthetic process through its suggestiveness?
A. mammata
B. bhattanayaka
C. anandavardhana
D. abhinavagupta
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Who critiqued the sphota doctrine of the grammarians and the Buddhist linguistic doctrine of apoha?
A. dandin
B. abhinavagupta
C. udbhata
D. bhamaha
✅ The correct answer is option D.
To whom does Longinus write “On the Sublime”, which is in the form of letters?
A. aristotle
B. cecilius
C. postumius terentianus
D. plato
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Which aspect helps the sahrdaya or the aesthetically sensible person to see the characters presented in a literary work in a generalised manner?
A. denotation
B. imagination
C. inference
D. connotation
✅ The correct answer is option B.