A. Aristotle
B. Horace
C. Homer
D. Virgil
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Literary Criticism MCQs
According to Dr. Johnson, authors are rated by their best when they are _____.
A. In their prime
B. Matured
C. Old
D. Dead
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Wordsworth remarks that Poetry and Painting are
A. Sisters
B. Siblings
C. Brother
D. Children
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Wordsworth justifies the use of metre and denounces the ____________ of the NeoClassical poets for their artificiality.
A. verse
B. rhyme
C. poetic diction
D. tradition
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than __.
A. History
B. Tragi-comedy
C. Comedy
D. Drama
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Rustic life is more noble and permanent because they are connected with the objects of_______
A. Real life
B. Truth
C. Nature
D. Fancy
✅ The correct answer is option C.
In what ways is the Lyrical Ballads different from much of the poetry that was popular when it was published?
A. It features poems that focus on nature and rural community
B. It calls for rigid poetic forms
C. It sought for poems that are more complicated
D. It sought to stimulate the reasoning mind rather than produce an emotional response
✅ The correct answer is option A.
An action which ended happily to the principal persons is a __.
A. Comedy
B. Tragedy
C. History
D. Tragi- comedy
✅ The correct answer is option A.
“Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility”. Who has defined poetry in these words?
A. Shelley
B. Matthew Arnold
C. S. T. Coleridge
D. Wordsworth
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Which of the following is not true?
A. Lyrical Ballads marked the beginning of the Romantic Age
B. Wordsworth believed that simple language creates better poems than complicated language
C. Nature is a savage force that needs to be conquered by technology
D. Lyrical Ballads received mixed reviews when it was originally published in1798
✅ The correct answer is option C.