Unit-VI Part-VII

1.      Which of the following is not true about Aristotle’s ideas in Poetics?

a. Imitation can be presented in two ways : narration and dramatic presentation.

b. Actions that are imitated in poetry cannot be base.

c. Imitation has a moral purpose.

d. Reality and truth are dependent upon prevailing opinions and upon human nature.

2.      What is described in Poetics as the “end of a tragedy”?
                        a.  catharsis  
                        b. plot    
                        c. recognition  
                        d. none of these

3.      Who introduced the idea “Heresy of Paraphrase”?
                        a.  Cleanth Brooks  
                        b. J.C.Ransom    
                        c. Allen Tate    
                        d. R.P.Warren

4.      Who coined the term “New Criticism” in a lecture delivered in 1910?
                        a.  J.C.Ransom    
                        b. Joel Spingarn    
                        c. Benedetto Croce
                        d. Henri Bergson

5.      Who of the following was New Criticism against?
                        a.  Matthew Arnold 
                        b. Walter Pater 
                        c. R.P.Blackmur   
                        d. Rene Wellek

6.      Which of the following is NOT true about Aristotle’s conception of tragedy?

a. A perfect tragedy should have a complex plot.

b. The change of fortune (catastrophe) should not be from bad to good.

c. The change of fortune may come about as the result of some vice or great error in character.

d. Pity and fear may be aroused by spectacular means.

7.      Who wrote the essay, “Keat’s Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes”, which is a perfect example for the New Critical practice?
                        a. Cleanth Brooks    
                        b. R.P.Warren    
                        c. Both a and b 
                        d. Neither a nor b

8.      Towards the end of Oedipus Rex, the messenger brings Oedipus news of his parentage, which is cited by Aristotle as an example of ……….
                        a.  Peripety
                        b. Anagnorsis
                        c. Peripety leading to Anagnorsis 
                        d. Anagnorsis leading to Peripety

9.      Which critical movement focused on “the words on the page”?
                        a.  New Critics  
                        b. Russian Formalists 
                        c. Structuralists
                        d. Neo-Aristotelians

10.   Who wrote the book “The Meaning of Meaning”?
                        a.  C. K. Ogden     
                        b. I. A. Richards       
                        c. Rene Wellek    
                        d. Both a and b

11.   Who wrote the 1933 New Critical essay “The Waste Land” in effect first teaching the English readers how to read T.S.Eliot’s poem?
                        a.  F. R. Leavis     
                        b. I. A. Richards  
                        c. Cleanth Brooks      
                        d. R. P. Warren

12.   Who called Shelley “A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”?
                        a.  Charles Lamb    
                        b. Lockhart    
                        c. Matthew Arnold      
                        d. T.S.Eliot

13.   Shelley defined poetry as ………….
                        a.  the agent of change 
                        b. the trumpet of revolution  
                        c. the expression of the imagination      
                        d. the melody of language

14.   Formalists contest the traditional subordination of formal devices to …………
                        a.  content 
                        b. ideology   
                        c. context  
                        d. plot

15.   “Objective correlative” signifies the writer’s ability to …………..
                        a.  relatively delineate his objectives    
                        b. elate different objects 
                        c. correlate objects and events     
                        d. objectify particular states of mind

16.   Negative capability is ………….
                        a.  the ability to overcome unpleasant experience 
                        b. a passive subordination to experience       
                        c. a subjective response to experience        
                        d. depersonalized empathy with experience

17.   Ezra Pound’s essay “The Spirit of Romance” anticipates ……………
                        a.  The Waste Land    
                        b. Eliot’s “The Function of Criticism”   
                        c. F.R.Leavis’s “The Great Tradition”   
                        d. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

18.   Which novel by Virginia Woolf has been called a “prose poem”?
                        a.  To the Lighthouse    
                        b. Jacob’s Room            
                        c. The Years    
                        d. The Waves

19.   Who praised Dryden for being the first critic to affirm the native element in literature?
                        a.  Dr. Johnson   
                        b. Matthew Arnold  
                        c. I. A. Richards     
                        d. T. S. Eliot

20.   The term “ekstasis” or transport is associated with …………….
                        a.  Horace         
                        b. Cicero    
                        c. Longinus    
                        d. Plotinus

21.   Match the following

                 i.          Aphorism       -            (a)a word or text that shares certain features with another word or text

                ii.          Analogue       -            (b)a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished

               iii.          Apologue       -            (c)an original pattern from which copies are made

               iv.          Aposiopesis   -            (d)a terse formulation of a truth

                v.          Archetype      -            (e)a brief fable or allegorical story with exaggerated details

                  a. i – b, ii – a, iii – d, iv – c, v – e     

                  b. i – d, ii – a, iii – b, iv – e, v- c

                  c. i – d, ii – a, iii – e, iv – b, v – c    

                  d. i – c, ii – d, iii – a, iv – e, v - b

22.   Who said, “Criticism is the art of interpreting art”?
                        a.  Oscar Wilde     
                        b. Walter Pater 
                        c. G. B. Shaw      
                        d. I. A. Richards

23.   Which of the following ideas was upheld by Dr.Johnson?
                        a.  Only the unity of time should be observed     
                        b. Only the unity of place should be observed     
                        c. Only the unity of action should be observed         
                        d. None of these

24.   The major contributor of periodical essays to ‘The Idler’ and ‘The Adventurer’ was ………..
                        a.  Daniel Defoe  
                        b. Samuel Richardson
                        c. Samuel Johnson  
                        d. Jonathan Swift

25.   The prose essays of Milton were called ……………..
                        a.  pamphlets   
                        b. tracts      
                        c. apologies   
                        d. discourses

26.   What does Pope call in ‘Essay on Criticism’ “the never-failing Vice of Fools”?
                        a.  blasphemy    
                        b. avarice    
                        c. ignorance     
                        d. pride

27.   Who, in ‘Of Dramatick Poesie’, argues that the ancients were “faithful imitators and wise observers of that Nature which is so torn and ill-represented in our plays”?
                        a.  Eugenius      
                        b. Crites    
                        c. Liseidius     
                        d. Neander

28.   In which class of the society does Arnold place himself in ‘Culture and Anarchy’?
                        a.  Barbarians    
                        b. Philistines
                        c. Populace   
                        d. None of these

29.   Which of the following is written by T.S.Eliot?
                        a.  What I Believe
                        b. What is a Classic
                        c. What is an Author?     
                        d. The Modern Essay

30.   For Plato, poetry is like …………
                        a.  painting 
                        b. music        
                        c. mirroring    
                        d. pretension

31.   An important element of tragedy, according to Aristotle, is praxis, translated as …………
                        a.  plot  
                        b. character  
                        c. thought    
                        d. action

32.   Neoplatonism was founded by :
                        a.  Zeno of Citium  
                        b. Tacitus     
                        c. Scaliger       
                        d. Plotinus

33.   Which of the following is a basic concern of Plato’s Republic?
                        a.  Truth    
                        b. Divinity   
                        c. Poetry     
                        d. Justice

34.   Syllogism, which typically consists of a major premise, a minor premise and an inferred conclusion, was originally developed by :
                        a.  Socrates       
                        b. Plato    
                        c. Aristotle  
                        d. The Greeks

35.   Which of the following poems did Cleanth Brooks not use in his essay on paradox?
                        a.  Wordsworth’s ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ 
                        b. Pope’s ‘Essay on Criticism’
                        c. Donne’s ‘The Canonization’
                        d. None of these

36.   Myth Criticism focuses on ………….
                        a.  a study of myths and mythology 
                        b. archetypes of spiritual experience   
                        c. recurrence of archetypal patterns
                        d. the confluence of different traditions

37.   Foucault’ idea of genealogy was greatly influenced by the work of ………….
                        a.  Karl Marx       
                        b. Edmund Husserl    
                        c. Fredrich Nietzsche
                        d. Immanuel Kant

38.   ‘The neoclassical tragedy’ is written by :
                        a.  Alexander Pope    
                        b. Samuel Johnson     
                        c. Joseph Addison   
                        d. Henry Fielding

39.   Which of the following is NOT true about the sublime?
                        a.  It is not pleasurable     
                        b. It implies an emotional effect    
                        c. It denotes a failure of imagination       
                        d. It is the property of objects in nature

40.   Which of the following is true?

a. Unlike Plato, Aristotle did not believe that the poet is divinely possessed.

b. Aristotle contrasts poetry with ethics.

c. Aristotle held that the poet’s vision lacks unity, unlike a historian’s.

d. Aristotle asserts that poet imitates not actions as they actually occur; but rather actions as they should occur.

41.   Understanding Poetry and Understanding Fiction, edited by …………. were seminal college textbooks which established New Criticism as an academic discipline.
                        a.  Cleanth Brooks    
                        b. R. P. Warren     
                        c. Both a and b   
                        d. Neither a nor b

42.   Aristotle defines Anagnorisis as a change from ………….. to ……………..
                        a.  vice to virtue   
                        b. ignorance to knowledge 
                        c. sin to punishment    
                        d. life to death

43.   In “The Language of Paradox”, Brooks maintains that the true function of literary criticism is first to understand and then to analyze “the ………….. nature of poetry.”
                        a.  organic      
                        b. formal    
                        c. autotelic     
                        d. internal

44.   I. A. Richards held that criticism should emulate the precision of ……………..
                        a.  science      
                        b. linguistics  
                        c. close reading      
                        d. form

45.   Critics and Criticism : Ancient and Modern was an important anthology of the ……..
                        a.  New Critics    
                        b. Russian Formalists    
                        c. Chicago School   
                        d. Structuralists

46.   Who wrote Milton’s God, a defense of Milton’s attempt to “justify the ways of God to man” in Paradise Lost?
                        a.  I. A. Richards     
                        b. William Empson  
                        c. F. R. Leavis  
                        d. Cleanth Brooks

47.   Which ambiguity reveals “ a fundamental division in the writer’s mind”?
                        a.  first   
                        b. sixth 
                        c. seventh    
                        d. fourth

48.   The Formalists challenged the …………… idea that art should conceal its own processes.
                        a.  Classical   
                        b. Romantic   
                        c. Humanist    
                        d. Enlightment

49.   Which is the “novel-essay” by Virginia Woolf that is the sequel to A Room of One’s Own?
                        a.  Three Guineas    
                        b. Three Shillings        
                        c. Three pounds      
                        d. Three Pence

50.   Which philosopher talked of ten Categories, the first of which is Substance (or essence), which forms the core of his Metaphysics?
                        a.  Socrates      
                        b. Plato  
                        c. Aristotle  
                        d. Plotinus

51.   When did Johnson’s ‘A Dictionary of English Language’ first published?
                        a.  1798 
                        b. 1831       
                        c. 1755     
                        d. 1730

52.   ‘The Man With the Golden Arm’ is a book written by :
                        a.  Mary Wollstonecraft
                        b. Virginia Woolf     
                        c. Simone de Beauvoir     
                        d. Betty Friedan

53.   Match the following :

                           i.          The New Criticism                                                        -              (a)T.S.Eliot

                          ii.          The Meaning of Meaning                                            -              (b)John Crowe Ransom

                         iii.          Tradition and the Individual Talent                            -              (c)William Empson

                         iv.          Some Versions of Pastoral                                          -              (d)I.A.Richards

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c      

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b    

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c           

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

54.   Which among the following are the novels of Namdeo Dhasal?
                        a. 'Khel'  & 'Priya Darshini'    
                        b. 'Andhale Shatak' & 'Ambedkari Chalwal'   
                        c. 'Mi Marale Suryachya Rathache Sat Ghode' & 'Tujhe Boat Dharoon Mi Chalalo' Ahe         
                        d. 'Tujhi Iyatta Kanchi?' & 'Khel'

55.   Match the following :

(i)                Kavyamimamsa                                -              (a) Kuntaka

(ii)              Natya Shastra                                   -              (b) Anandavardhana

(iii)             Dhvanyāloka                                     -              (c) Rajashekhara

(iv)             Vakroktijīvitam                                 -              (d) Bharata Muni

      a.   (i)-b,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-c 

       b. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-b   

       c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a    

       d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

56.   Who introduced the terms ‘langue and parole’ in linguistics?
                        a.  Levi Strauss 
                        b. Ferdinand Saussure    
                        c. Jürgen Habermas       
                        d. Michel Foucault

57.   “There is no out-of-context” is a statement associated with :
                        a.  Roland Barthes     
                        b. Michel Foucault    
                        c. Jacques Derrida   
                        d. Jurgen Habermas

58.   Which among the following is NOT a work of Dr. B. R. Ambedkhar?
                        a.  Waiting for a Visa     
                        b. The Annihilation of Caste    
                        c. Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development   
                        d. Priya Darshini

59.   ‘Peri Bathos’ a work which satirized inappropriate poetic diction was written by :
                           a.  Joseph Addison  
                           b. Richard Steele     
                           c. Alexander Pope    
                           d. Ezra Pound

60.   Which one of the following is true?

a. The alliance theory is a structuralist method of studying kinship relations.

b. A mytheme is a fundamental generic unit of narrative structure from which myths are thought to be constructed.

c. The culinary triangle is a concept involving three types of cooking-boiling, roasting, and smoking.

d. All of them

61.   Which among the following is NOT a work of Jurgen Habermas?
                        a.  The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere     
                        b. Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe    
                        c. Legitimation Crisis   
                        d. The Meaning of Meaning

62.   Match the following :

                 i.          Ambivalence              -              (a) the emergence of new cultural forms from multiculturalism

                ii.          Mimicry                      -              (b) an ambiguous area that develops when two or more individuals/cultures interact

               iii.          Third Space               -              (c) culture consisting of opposing perceptions and dimensions

               iv.          Hybridity                    -             (d) members of a colonized society imitate and take on the culture of the colonizers

                    a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c   

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a    

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c       

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

63.   Match the following :

(i)                On the Principles of Genial Criticism                          -              (a)Matthew Arnold

(ii)              Letters to Benjamin Bailey                                           -              (b)Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(iii)             Symbols                                                                         -              (c)John Keats

(iv)             The Function of Criticism at the Present Time           -              (d)Thomas Carlyle

      a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c       

       b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b     

       c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-b        

       d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

64.   Which of one of the following is NOT a work of I. A. Richards?
                        a. Principles of Literary Criticism   
                        b. Practical Criticism 
                        c. The Philosophy of Rhetoric        
                        d. Essay on Criticism

65.   'The Theory of Communicative Action' is the magnum opus of :
                        a.  Jurgen Habermas     
                        b. Erich Fromm     
                        c. Samuel Beckett      
                        d. Alfred Schmidt

66.   ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ is the work written by :
                        a.  Jacques Derrida    
                        b. Homi K. Bhabha        
                        c. Gayatri Spivak        
                        d. Edward Said

67.   Which of the following is true?

a. Coleridge divided the "mind" into two distinct faculties – Fancy and Imagination.

b. Coleridge regards fancy to be the inferior to imagination.

c. According to him the primary imagination is “the living power and prime agent of all human perception”.

d. According to him the secondary imagination is the poetic vision, the faculty that a poet has “to idealize and unify”.

e. All of them.

68.   Which one of the following is true about Russian Formalism?

a. Story, fabula, is a chronological sequence of events.

b. Plot, sjuzhet, can unfold in non-chronological order.

c. Art is a sum of literary and artistic devices that the artist manipulates to craft his work.

d. All of them

69.   Which of the following is NOT a work of Sigmund Freud?
                        a. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious   
                        b. Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood
                        c. Moses and Monotheism        
                        d. Madness and Civilization

70.   Which among the following is NOT a work by Edwaid Said?
                        a. Culture and Imperialism
                                       b. On Late Style 
                        c. Beginnings: Intention and Method  
                        d. Culture and Society

71.   "Among [Shakespeare's] other excellences it ought to be remarked, because it has hitherto been unnoticed, that his heroes are men, that the love and hatred, the hopes and fears, of his chief personages are such as common to other human beings... Shakespeare's excellence is not the fiction of a tale, but the representation of life: and his reputation is therefore safe, till human nature shall be changed.” Who wrote this?
                        a.  Samuel Johnson 
                        b. Longinus
                        c. Stephen Gosson    
                        d. Philip Sydney

72.   'Tristes Tropiques' is a famous book of :
                        a.  Levi Strauss   
                        b. Ferdinand Saussure     
                        c. Jürgen Habermas    
                        d. Michel Foucault

73.   Who among the following is considered as a pioneer  in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device?
                        a.  Mary Wollstonecraft
                        b. Virginia Woolf 
                        c. Simone de Beauvoir  
                        d. Betty Friedan

74.   Discourse analysis, focusing on power relationships in society as expressed through language and practices is associated with :
                        a.  Jacques Derrida    
                        b. Homi K Bhabha     
                        c. Michael Foucault
                        d. Edward Said

75.   ‘A rejection of set philosophies and preconceived systems of nature’ is :
                        a.  Ambiguity      
                        b. Deconstruction   
                        c. Catharsis 
                        d. Negative Capability

76.   Aristotle describes three parts of a plot : reversal, recognition and ………
                           a.  suffering    
                           b. resolution 
                           c. catharsis   
                           d. death

77.   Which English critic followed the Aristotelian concept of mimesis and argued that the poet creates “another nature,” making things better that they are in nature?
                           a.  Philip Sidney     
                           b. John Dryden       
                           c. William Wordsworth    
                           d. Matthew Arnold

78.   Which of Plato’s dialogues is premised on the “ancient quarrel” between philosophy and poetry?
                           a.  Ion   
                           b. Gorgias    
                           c. Republic     
                           d. Parmenides

79.   According to Aristotle, …………. Can differ according to (i) the means used, (ii) the kind of objects represented, and (iii) the manner of presentation.
                           a.  imitation     
                           b. action 
                           c. tragedy   
                           d. none of these

80.   Who made the following New Critical statement: “Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry”?
                          a. J.C.Ransom   
                          b. I.A.Richards    
                          c. Wimsatt and Beardsley     
                          d. T.S.Eliot

81.   Cleanth Brooks shows that some ideas can be expressed only through paradox, to illustrate which he quotes the following definition of ……… : “Reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete.”
                           a.  decorum      
                           b. imitation 
                           c. imagination 
                           d. poetic justice

82.   The University of Vanderbilt was associated with the …………
                           a.  British New Critics  
                           b. American New Critics
                           c. Russian Formalists    
                           d. Moscow Linguistic Society

83.   Wimsatt and Beardsley criticized …………… as the most recent spokesman of “intentionalism” in criticism.
                           a.  Walter Pater 
                           b. I.A.Richards    
                           c. Matthew Arnold    
                           d. T.S.Eliot

84.   The New Critical concept of ‘poeticity’ is closest to the Russian Formalist concept of ……….
                           a.  ostranenie  
                           b. literaturnost
                           c. fabula   
                           d. syuzet

85.   Aristotle asserted that organic unity of the plot can be achieved if events are connected by …………
                           a.  probability   
                           b. necessity  
                           c. importance 
                           d. both a and b

86.   What according to Aristotle is the proper order of the constituent element of a tragedy?

a. Plot – Character – Diction – Thought – Spectacle

b. Plot – Spectacle – Diction – Character – Thought - Song

c. Plot – Character – Song – Diction – Thought – Spectacle

d. Plot – Character – Thought – Diction – Song – Spectacle

87.   Against Plato who accused poets of lying, which critic said, the poet “nothing affirms, and therefore never lieth”?
                           a.  Aristotle
                           b. Philip Sidney 
                           c. John Dryden     
                           d. Samuel Johnson

88.   In “The Language of Paradox,” Brooks refers to Wordsworth’s “It is a Beauteous Evening” where evening is compared to ……………
                           a.  the sun   
                           b. the moon    
                           c. a nun        
                          d. a reaper

89.   According to Aristotle, the finest form of Discovery in tragedy is one attended by …………..
                           a.  reversal 
                           b. suffering  
                           c. tragic flaw   
                           d. none of these

90.   I.A.Richards stated that in political speech, …………… is predominant.
                           a.  sense  
                           b. feeling  
                           c. tone      
                           d. intention

91.   F.R.Leavis’s ‘The Great Tradition’ was published in the year ……………
                           a.  1923     
                           b. 1935      
                           c. 1948       
                           d. 1956

92.   Which type of ambiguity, according to William Empson, is “the most ambiguous that can be conceived”?
                           a.  first
                           b. sixth 
                           c. seventh      
                           d. semantic

93.   Who among the Russian Formalists developed the basic literary idea of “foregrounding” by introducing two types of language : standard language and poetic language?
                           a.  Roman Jakobson    
                           b. Jan Mukarovsky  
                           c. Viktor Shklovsky 
                           d. Boris Eichenbaum

94.   According to the Russian Formalists, “literary language is distinguished from practical language by virtue of its ….
                           a.  artificiality   
                           b. constructedness
                           c. emotiveness      
                           d. referentiality

95.   Who marks The Waste Land’s moment in history as being significant precisely for its ahistoricism?
                           a.  Cleanth Brooks    
                           b. I.A.Richards      
                           c. Ezra Pound    
                           d. None of these

96.   The quintessential literary use of language, according to the Russian Formalists, is to be found in …………
                           a.  rhythm     
                           b. formal devices    
                           c. free verse    
                           d. poetry

97.   The “Bakhtin School” flourished in Russia in the ………..
                           a.  1920’s     
                           b. 1930’s      
                           c. 1940’s     
                           d. 1950’s

98.   The phrase “Collective Unconscious” is associated with ………..
                           a.  Freud 
                           b. Jung     
                           c. Lacan       
                           d. Both a and b

99.   Matthew Arnold was associated with the University of ………..
                           a.  Cambridge   
                           b. Oxford   
                           c. Wales    
                           d. Bristol

100.  Empedocles on Etna and Merope by Matthew Arnold are ……………
               a. epic poems
               b. poetic plays 
               c. narrative poems     
               d. dramatic monologues

101.  The first literary critical essay in the English language, Certain Notes(Of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Rhyme in English), was written in 1575 by ……….
               a. George Puttenham   
               b. George Gascoigne  
               c. Thomas Campion   
               d. Samuel Daniel

102.  The name ‘Neander’ means ………………
               a. the new man   
               b. the nice man
               c. the clever man    
               d. the right man

103.  “Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread” is a quotation from ………….
               a. Of Dramatick Poesie
               b. Preface to the Fables
               c. An Essay on Criticism  
               d. An Essay on Man

104.  The original Greek meaning of the word “poet” was ………..
               a. to make
               b. to interpret      
               c. to imitate     
               d. to please

105.  Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” was published in ……….
               a. 1790     
               b. 1791     
               c. 1792   
               d. 1793

106.  According to Coleridge, secondary imagination differs from the primary in ………….
               a. degree  
               b. mode of operation 
               c. agency    
               d. Both a and b

107.  Who said, “Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science”?
               a. William Wordsworth   
               b. S.T.Coleridge   
               c. P.B.Shelley     
               d. Matthew Arnold

108.  About whom did Dr. Johnson say that he “sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose”?
               a.  John Donne  
               b. John Milton  
               c. William Shakespeare     
               d. Richard Savage

109.  Who calls Shelley “a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”?
               a. Arnold    
               b. Hazlitt   
               c. Lockhart     
               d. Eliot

110.  Cleanth Brooks said that without ………….. “the matter of Donne’s poem unravels in to facts”.
               a. paradox      
               b. close reading  
               c. metaphysical conceits
               d. rugged language

111.  Who regarded “The Canonization” as an anti-political love poem?
               a. Marxist critics
               b. New Historicists
               c. Formalist critics  
               d. Postmodern critics

112.  Which critic said, “A poet is a man speaking to men”?
               a. Johnson    
               b. Wordsworth     
               c. Arnold     
               d. Eliot

113.  …………… an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, written by Virginia Woolf.
               a. Flush   
               b. Orlando 
               c. Melymbrosia  
               d. Night and Day

114.  “Mr.Bennett and Mrs.Brown” is a satirical essay which is one of the several accounts of Virginia Woolf about the state of ………..
               a. contemporary England  
               b. women’s education   
               c. women’s writing     
               d. modern fiction

115.  Who criticized Milton thus : “Of no other poet is it so difficult to consider the poetry simply as poetry, without our theological and political dispositions… making unlawful entry”?
               a. F.R.Leavis 
               b. T.S.Eliot  
               c. Wilson Knight      
               d. E.M.W.Tillyard

116.  Which philosopher rejected Plato’s Theory of Forms and argued that universals depend upon particular things for their existence?
               a. Aristotle 
               b. Plotinus 
               c. Horace      
               d. Longinus

117.  Which philosopher proposed the Allegory of the Divided Line that formed the cornerstone of his metaphysical framework?
               a. Socrates    
               b. Plato    
               c. Aristotle  
               d. Heraclitus

118.  I.A.Richards stated that in poetry, there is a manipulation and expression of ………….
               a. sense    
               b. feeling  
               c. tone     
               d. intention

119.  Who of the following does not fall into F.R.Leavis’s concept of the great tradition of English Novelists?
               a. Jane Austen  
               b. George Eliot 
               c. Charles Dickens 
               d. Henry James

120.  Who of the following talked about the “automatization” of human experience?
               a. Roman Jakobson  
               b. Jan Mukarovsky   
               c. Viktor Shklovsky 
               d. Boris Eichenbaum