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Literary Criticism | Set 1

1. Shakespeare’s drama reflects

Correct : A. life

2. The object of all criticism according to Johnson is to make the obscure and the confused

Correct : A. clear and understood

3. Johnson tries Shakespeare by the test of

Correct : D. time, Nature and Universality

4. Shakespeare’s characters portrays

Correct : A. humanity

5. Who is the 'father of English poetry', the well of English undefiled according to Arnold?

Correct : D. Chaucer

6. Samuel Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of the

Correct : C. tragi-comedy

7. The defect or fault in Shakespeare according to Johnson is that

Correct : A. He sacrifices virtue to convenience

8. Johnson said that Shakespeare showed no regard to

Correct : A. The unity of time and place

9. According to Johnson what type of drama did Shakespeare write with much labour?

Correct : B. Tragedy

10. Samuel Johnson was a writer of the

Correct : B. 18th Century

11. Johnson said that Shakespeare often surpassed expectation or desire when he wrote

Correct : A. Comedy

12. Samuel Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare was published in _________.

Correct : D. 1765

13. In Preface to Shakespeare, Johnson defended Shakespeare’s use of _________.

Correct : A. tragic-comedy

14. “Shakespeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul” was said by –

Correct : C. John Dryden

15. Johnson is of the opinion that Shakespeare writes without moral purpose and is more careful to please than to ___________.

Correct : B. instruct

16. Johnson praises Shakespeare and comments that his drama is the mirror of __________.

Correct : C. life

17. The two modes of imitation according to Dr. Johnson are

Correct : A. Tragedy and comedy

18. Johnson insists that Shakespeare’s mode of composition

Correct : C. Remained the same

19. Shakespeare’s first defect according to Johnson was that Shakespeare

Correct : A. Sacrifices virtue to convenience

20. According to Johnson, the plays of Shakespeare were originally classified into

Correct : B. Comedies, tragedies and histories

21. In the violation of Unities, Johnson

Correct : D. Defends Shakespeare

22. According to Johnson, Shakespeare presented nature

Correct : A. Faithfully

23. When we read a Shakespearean play, we are not bothered by consideration of

Correct : C. Time and Place

24. Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his tragedies?

Correct : C. Johnson

25. Regarding the observance of the three unities in a play, Dr. Johnson's view is that

Correct : B. Only the Unity of Action should be observed

26. The dialogue of Shakespeare are sometimes spoilt by:

Correct : C. Ruggedness

27. Poetic justice is:

Correct : D. Not always followed by Shakespeare

28. Shakespeare has no heroes, his scenes are occupied by

Correct : C. Men

29. Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the

Correct : B. Wonderful

30. Shakespeare’s drama is the mirror of

Correct : D. life

31. Dennis and Rymer think Shakespeare’s Romans are not sufficiently

Correct : B. Roman

32. A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to

Correct : D. Travellers

33. Shakespeare had no regard to the unities of

Correct : B. time and action

34. For Johnson, in Shakespeare’s works, even when the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with ___.

Correct : B. Life

35. This, therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the __ of life.

Correct : C. Mirror

36. Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one __.

Correct : B. Narration

37. The end of writing is to instruct, the end of poetry is to instruct by __.

Correct : C. Pleasing

38. An action which ended happily to the principal persons is a __.

Correct : A. Comedy

39. Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than __.

Correct : D. Drama

40. According to Dr. Johnson, authors are rated by their best when they are _____.

Correct : C. Old

41. For Wordsworth the function of poetry is to give

Correct : D. pleasure

42. To Wordsworth, poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, emotions recollected in

Correct : B. tranquility

43. Wordworth’s poet is a man speaking to

Correct : C. men

44. The function of poetry is both to instruct and delight, but for Wordsworth it is to give

Correct : B. pleasure

45. The dominant theme of Wordsworth’s preface is

Correct : A. poetic diction

46. Wordsworth’s preface declares the dawn of

Correct : A. English Romantic Movement

47. Wordsworth’s preface can be seen as a forceful plea for simplicity both in

Correct : D. theme and treatment

48. Wordsworth was primarily

Correct : B. a poet

49. The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was published in

Correct : D. 1801

50. The Principal object in the Lyrical Ballads was to choose incidents and situations from

Correct : C. common life

51. Poems of value are produced by a man who possess more than usual organic sensibility and had also thought

Correct : B. long and deep

52. In the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth's purpose was to imitate and adopt the very language of

Correct : C. men

53. Which of the following is not true?

Correct : C. Nature is a savage force that needs to be conquered by technology

54. In what ways is the Lyrical Ballads different from much of the poetry that was popular when it was published?

Correct : A. It features poems that focus on nature and rural community

55. Wordsworth justifies the use of metre and denounces the ____________ of the NeoClassical poets for their artificiality.

Correct : C. poetic diction

56. Wordsworth quoted ____________ who said, “Poetry is the most philosophical of all writings”.

Correct : A. Aristotle

57. An Appendix on Poetic Diction was added to the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads in_____.

Correct : D. 1802

58. According to Wordsworth the understanding of the reader must necessarily be in some degree…

Correct : A. Enlightened

59. Wordsworth said that Poetry is the image of

Correct : C. Man and Nature

60. According to Wordsworth Poetry is the first and last of all…

Correct : D. Knowledge

61. Wordsworth gives much importance to the ________ of poetry

Correct : B. Language

62. Who comments, “the end of writing is to instruct, The end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing”

Correct : C. Dr. Johnson

63. The only difference between the language of Prose and the language of Poetry is_________

Correct : D. Use of Metre

64. According to Wordsworth ____________ is not essential to poetry

Correct : A. Metre

65. A primary function of poetry according to Wordsworth is to give ___________ for his readers

Correct : B. Pleasure

66. Poetry is “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” according to

Correct : D. Wordsworth

67. Wordsworth chosen the various aspects of __________

Correct : C. Humble and Rustic life

68. The Poetic Composition take place in ______ stages

Correct : A. Four

69. “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility”. Who has defined poetry in these words?

Correct : D. Wordsworth

70. Rustic life is more noble and permanent because they are connected with the objects of_______

Correct : C. Nature

71. Wordsworth remarks that Poetry and Painting are

Correct : A. Sisters

72. Wordsworth states, “Poetry sheds no tears such as Angels weep, but natural and

Correct : C. human tears”

73. Wordsworth believes that a poet is,

Correct : B. “a man speaking to men”

74. Wordsworth feels that Poetry is the image of

Correct : D. man and nature

75. The language of every good poem can in no respect differ from that of good __.

Correct : B. Prose

76. Wordsworth said the poet should use the __ for removing what would otherwise be painful or disgusting in the passion.

Correct : A. Principal of selection

77. Who said that poetry is the most philosophic of all writing?

Correct : C. Aristotle

78. In what ways is Lyrical Ballads different from much of the poetry that was popular when it was published?

Correct : B. It features poems that focus on nature and rural communities

79. According to Wordsworth, poetic diction has

Correct : B. No rules

80. According to Wordsworth, prose and poetry differs by

Correct : D. Metre

81. only the best poetry according to Arnold is capable of performing its ___

Correct : C. task

82. according to Arnold, poetry interprets life in ____ ways.

Correct : B. two

83. the first great principle of criticism emancipated by Arnold is __________

Correct : A. Disinterestedness

84. Poetry according to Arnold, attaches its emotion to the

Correct : D. diction

85. According to Arnold, the scantiest and frailest of classics in English poetry is

Correct : A. Gray

86. Whom did Arnold regard as the high priest of prose and reason

Correct : D. Pope

87. In the study of poetry Arnold writes that we have to turn to poetry to

Correct : C. interpret life and to console and sustain us

88. What confuses the distinctions between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound, true and untrue or only half-true in poetry?

Correct : A. Charlatanism

89. The definition of poetry as enunciated by Matthew Arnold in 'The Study of Poetry" is

Correct : B. A criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty

90. What has the power of forming, sustaining and delighting us as nothing else can?

Correct : C. The best poetry

91. According to Matthew Arnold, Chaucer is not one of the great classics because

Correct : D. None of the above

92. According to Matthew Arnold, poetry is –

Correct : A. a criticism of life

93. Who, according to Arnold is the father of English poetry?

Correct : B. Wordsworth

94. In The Study of Poetry, Arnold puts stress on _______________ in poetry.

Correct : B. high seriousness

95. The ‘touchstone method’ was propagated by –

Correct : A. Matthew Arnold

96. Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English __________.

Correct : C. prose

97. “The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can” was said by –

Correct : B. Matthew Arnold

98. Middleton Murry had criticized the critical work of –

Correct : C. T.S. Eliot

99. What attaches its emotion to facts according to Arnold?

Correct : C. Religion

100. How should we conceive poetry as advocated by Arnold?

Correct : A. Worthily and Highly