A. Criticizes Shakespeare
B. Praises Shakespeare
C. Follows Shakespeare
D. Defends Shakespeare
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Literary Criticism MCQs
Who is the ‘father of English poetry’, the well of English undefiled according to Arnold?
A. Milton
B. Dante
C. Shakespeare
D. Chaucer
✅ The correct answer is option D.
According to Johnson, the plays of Shakespeare were originally classified into
A. Comedies and tragedies
B. Comedies, tragedies and histories
C. Comedies, tragedies and love stories
D. None of the above
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Shakespeare’s characters portrays
A. humanity
B. nature
C. art
D. truth
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Wordsworth chosen the various aspects of __________
A. Royal and rich life
B. War and peace life
C. Humble and Rustic life
D. Nature and poets life
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Poems of value are produced by a man who possess more than usual organic sensibility and had also thought
A. in tranquility
B. long and deep
C. passionately
D. calmly
✅ The correct answer is option B.
This, therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the __ of life.
A. Reflection
B. Contemplation
C. Mirror
D. Study
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Poetry is “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” according to
A. Arnold
B. T. S Eliot
C. Johnson
D. Wordsworth
✅ The correct answer is option D.
The Principal object in the Lyrical Ballads was to choose incidents and situations from
A. urban life
B. agrarian life
C. common life
D. genteel life
✅ The correct answer is option C.
A primary function of poetry according to Wordsworth is to give ___________ for his readers
A. Knowledge
B. Pleasure
C. Idea
D. Truth
✅ The correct answer is option B.