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This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have “high seriousness.” ?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Elizabeth Browning
D. Virginia Woolf
Who is the author of the notorious book entitled The School of Abuse ?
A. Roger Ascham
B. Stephen Hawes
C. John Skelton
D. Stephen Gosson
In which the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry ?
A. Apology
B. Ion
C. The Republic
D. Phaedrus
What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?
A. Tragic end of the tragedy
B. Working of fate against the hero
C. A weak trait in the character of the hero
D. A strong quality in the character of the hero
Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?
A. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.
B. All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.
C. All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Which of the following theorists is associated with formalism ?
A. Viktor Shklovsky
B. Cleanth Brooks
C. Judith Butler
D. Mikhail Bakhtin
An Elizabethan Puritan critic denounced the poets as ‘fathers of lies’,’schools of abuse’ and’caterpillars of a commonwealth’. Mark him out from the following crities________________?
A. William Tyndale
B. Roger Ascham
C. Stephen Gosson
D. Henry Howard
To whom “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful passion.” ?
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Coleridge
What does Ben Jonson mean by a ‘Humorous Character’ ?
A. A character who is always cheerful and gay
B. A character who is by nature melancholy
C. A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body
D. An eccentric person
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