A. upacharavakrata
B. vakrata
C. nirupana
D. lakshana
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Literary Criticism MCQs
Which term in Indian aesthetics refers to the objective conditions or reasons for producing or exciting an emotion, which is also the main stimulating cause or the object of the emotion?
A. bhava
B. samyoga
C. anubhava
D. vibhava
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Which word refers to the primary power of signification existing in words that is capable of providing the literal or lexical meaning?
A. lochana
B. anugraha
C. abida
D. pada
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Who was the first dramatist to recognise the importance of rasa in aesthetics?
A. kalidasa
B. jagannatha
C. bharatamuni
D. purandaradasa
✅ The correct answer is option C.
What is the term used to refer to pictorial poetry?
A. chitrakavya
B. chitra
C. shloka
D. kavya
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Which theory in Indian aesthetics theory connotes indirect or suggestive expression?
A. alamkara
B. dhwani
C. kavya
D. aswad
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Who opposed the theory of dhwani on the ground there was no meaning in inventing a new power for words since dhwani was subordinate to anumana?
A. bhattanayaka
B. mahimabhatta
C. jagannatha
D. abhinavagupta
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Which Indian critical theory concentrates on emotive expression?
A. rasa
B. abida
C. anumana
D. kavya
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Which Indian grammarian discussed the concept of dhwani in a systematic manner?
A. mammata
B. shankuka
C. patanjali
D. none of these
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Who mentions “vakyam rasatmakam kavyam”, which means any composition which gives tasteful pleasure is poetry?
A. kshemendra
B. bhattalolatta
C. mammata
D. jagannatha
✅ The correct answer is option D.