Critical Theory

(i) The most important element in tragedy, according to Aristotle is ...

1. Plot
2. Characters
3. Spectacle
4. Thought

(ii) Which is the only unity Aristotle insists upon?

1. Time
2. Place
3. Action
4. Character

(iii) How many Chapters are there in Natyasastra?

1. Thirty
2. Thirty six
3. Thirty four
4. Thirty eight

(iv) On the Sublime was originally written in by Longinus.

1. Greek
2. Latin
3. French
4. English

(v) Sublimity comes from a ........

1. Great man
2. Great mind
3. Great effort
4. None of these

(vi) On the sublime is written in ........

1. Prose
2. Poetry
3. Narrative form
4. Epistolary form

(vii) Who called Dryden as father of literary criticism?

1. Samuel Butler
2. Pope
3. Dr. Johnson
4. Coleridge

(viii) In Essay on Dramatic Poetry whom does Neander represent?

1. French Dramatists
2. Greek dramatist
3. Modern English dramatists
4. Ancient Greek dramatists

(ix) What name is given to Dr. Richard Howard in Dryden's Essay on Dramatic poetry?

1. Crites
2. Eugenius
3. Lisadeus
4. Neander

(x) The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was published in ...

1. 1800
2. 1801
3. 1802
4. 1888

(xi) This Preface was appended to the .... edition of Lyrical Ballads.

1. First
2. Second
3. Third
4. None of these

(xii) In Biographia Literaria Chapter deals with ......

1. Difference between free and metered verse
2. Difference between prose and Poetry
3. Both of these
4. None of these

(xiii) Complete the definition of Poetry as enunciated by Mathew Arnold in 'The Study of Poetry'?

Poetry is ..

1. is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
2. is criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty
3. is just and lively image of human nature .... to delight and instruct mankind
4. is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of certian magnitude

(xiv) In which year was "Tradition and Individual talent" published?

1. 1919
2. 1929
3. 1899
4. 1919

(xv) In which work of Eliot was "Tradition and Individual Talent" first collected?

1. The Sacred Wood
2. Unnatural Essays
3. Tradition is Nothing
4. None of these

(a) What do you understand by mimesis?

OR

Define Rasa keeping in consideration the views of Bharata

(b) What is amplification in the view of Longinus.

OR

Discuss Sir Philip Sidney's views the qualities of a good critic.

(c) What was the purpose of writing dramatic poesy?

OR

Why is Johnson's Preface a milestone in Shakespearean criticism?

(d) What was the reason that Wordsworth had to write the "Preface"?

OR

What were Coleridge's views on Poetic diction?

(e) What did Arnold say about the social role of criticism?

OR

Why is TS Eliot regarded as a modern critic?

(a) Discuss at length the view of Aristotle about character in tragedy.

OR

Discuss the detail the various rases are mentioned in Kavyasastra.

(b) What is your opinion about Longinus as a critic - is he a romantic or Classical critic.

OR

What are Sidney's views about the nature of poetry.

(c) Dryden was the first to teach the English people to determine the merit of composition upon principles. Do you agree? Give a cogen answer.

OR

Discuss Dr. Johnson as a critic of Shakespeare.

(d) Discuss in detail Wordsworth's theory of poetry.

OR

What is the difference between Fancy and Imagination.

(e) Arnold as a critic sees two dangers in the way of the real estimate - the historical estimate and the personal estimate and warns critics to shun them. why?

OR

Write a note on Eliot's theory of impersonality of poetry.