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101.	Wordsworth said that Poetry is the image of
A.	Man and Science
B.	Man and Society
C.	Man and Nature
D.	Nature and Science
Answer» D. Nature and Science

Discussion

102.	Leavis states, But it is to be note that the improvement we ask for is of the critic, the critic as critic, and to count on it would be to count on the attainment of
A.	A glorious task
B.	A perfect balance
C.	An ideal task
D.	An arduous ideal
Answer» E.

Discussion

103.	The ideal critic according to Leavis is the __________
A.	Ideal poet
B.	Ideal reader
C.	Ideal philosopher
D.	Ideal person
Answer» C. Ideal philosopher

Discussion

104.	Leavis states that poetry is concrete and that philosophy is
A.	The same
B.	Abstract
C.	Disinterested
D.	Ephemeral
Answer» C. Disinterested

Discussion

105.	only the best poetry according to Arnold is capable of performing its ___
A.	duty
B.	job
C.	task
D.	systems
Answer» D. systems

Discussion

106.	Poetry according to Arnold, attaches its emotion to the
A.	theme
B.	style
C.	idea
D.	diction
Answer» E.

Discussion

107.	Who, according to Arnold is the father of English poetry?
A.	Shakespeare
B.	Wordsworth
C.	Chaucer
D.	Dryden
Answer» C. Chaucer

Discussion

108.	According to Matthew Arnold, poetry is
A.	a criticism of life
B.	spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C.	an escape from personality
D.	the sensuous way of expression
Answer» B. spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

Discussion

109.	According to Arnold, the scantiest and frailest of classics in English poetry is
A.	Gray
B.	Pope
C.	Burns
D.	Milton
Answer» B. Pope

Discussion

110.	How should we conceive poetry as advocated by Arnold?
A.	Worthily and Highly
B.	Highly and Mightily
C.	Worthily and Prayerful
D.	Mighty and Powerful
Answer» B. Highly and Mightily

Discussion

111.	The literary critic aims to make fully conscious and articulate the immediate sense of
A.	value that places the poem
B.	value that situates the poem
C.	value that modifies the poem
D.	value that decodes the poem
Answer» B. value that situates the poem

Discussion

112.	Poetic justice is:
A.	Followed by Shakespeare
B.	Not at all followed by Shakespeare
C.	Criticizes by Shakesperae
D.	Not always followed by Shakespeare
Answer» E.

Discussion

113.	What has the power of forming, sustaining and delighting us as nothing else can?
A.	Excellent prose
B.	Criticism
C.	The best poetry
D.	Drama
Answer» D. Drama

Discussion

114.	An Appendix on Poetic Diction was added to the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads in_____.
A.	1800
B.	1798
C.	1805
D.	1802
Answer» E.

Discussion

115.	The Poetic Composition take place in ______ stages
A.	Four
B.	Eight
C.	Two
D.	Six
Answer» B. Eight

Discussion

116.	Whose plays are considered the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction and the author s role in the epic by Aristotle?
A.	aristophanes
B.	virgil
C.	sophocles
D.	homer
Answer» E.

Discussion

117.	In the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth's purpose was to imitate and adopt the very language of
A.	the neoclassics
B.	metre
C.	men
D.	the classics
Answer» D. the classics

Discussion

118.	Middleton Murry has criticized the critical work of
A.	Wordsworth
B.	Eliot
C.	Arnold
D.	Leavis
Answer» C. Arnold

Discussion

119.	The language of every good poem can in no respect differ from that of good __.
A.	Drama
B.	Prose
C.	Novel
D.	Tragi- comedy
Answer» C. Novel

Discussion

120.	According to Dr. Johnson, authors are rated by their best when they are _____.
A.	In their prime
B.	Matured
C.	Old
D.	Dead
Answer» D. Dead

Discussion

121.	Shakespeare had no regard to the unities of
A.	action and place
B.	time and action
C.	time and place
D.	action and theme
Answer» C. time and place

Discussion

122.	Charlatanism is for confusing or obliterating the distinctions between
A.	Excellent and inferior
B.	Sound and unsound
C.	True and untrue
D.	All of the above
Answer» B. Sound and unsound

Discussion

123.	Middleton Murry had criticized the critical work of
A.	Matthew Arnold
B.	F.R. Leavis
C.	T.S. Eliot
D.	Samuel Johnson
Answer» D. Samuel Johnson

Discussion

124.	What confuses the distinctions between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound, true and untrue or only half-true in poetry?
A.	Charlatanism
B.	Philistinism
C.	Estimates
D.	High seriousness
Answer» B. Philistinism

Discussion

125.	According to Matthew Arnold, Chaucer is not one of the great classics because
A.	His poetry does not transcend and efface the poetry of Catholic Christendom
B.	His verse lacks liquidness and fluidity.
C.	his poetry lacks virtue of manner and movement
D.	None of the above
Answer» E.

Discussion

126.	Whom did Arnold regard as the high priest of prose and reason
A.	Milton
B.	Gray
C.	Dryden
D.	Pope
Answer» E.

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127.	Which poet does Arnold say lack the high seriousness of the great classics ?
A.	Chaucer
B.	Dryden
C.	Pope
D.	Burns
Answer» B. Dryden

Discussion

128.	A critic s constant concern is never to lose his ________________
A.	Completeness of possession
B.	Value Judgment
C.	Completeness of response
D.	Irrelevant generalizing
Answer» B. Value Judgment

Discussion

129.	Which chapter of Aristotle s Poetics discusses the construction of an ideal plot, which is fundamental to tragedy?
A.	sixth
B.	seventh
C.	eighth
D.	ninth
Answer» C. eighth

Discussion

130.	Poems of value are produced by a man who possess more than usual organic sensibility and had also thought
A.	in tranquility
B.	long and deep
C.	passionately
D.	calmly
Answer» C. passionately

Discussion

131.	Rustic life is more noble and permanent because they are connected with the objects of_______
A.	Real life
B.	Truth
C.	Nature
D.	Fancy
Answer» D. Fancy

Discussion

132.	Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English __________.
A.	fiction
B.	poetry
C.	prose
D.	morals
Answer» D. morals

Discussion

133.	The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of
A.	Disinterestedness or detachment
B.	Response to rhythm and metre
C.	Speculation and theorisation
D.	Measurement of knowledge
Answer» B. Response to rhythm and metre

Discussion

134.	Wordsworth feels that Poetry is the image of
A.	human beings and nature
B.	men and women
C.	God and human
D.	man and nature
Answer» E.

Discussion

135.	An action which ended happily to the principal persons is a __.
A.	Comedy
B.	Tragedy
C.	History
D.	Tragi- comedy
Answer» B. Tragedy

Discussion

136.	According to Eliot, Literary tradition is
A.	Self-sacrifice
B.	Whiggering
C.	Self-organism
D.	a canon
Answer» C. Self-organism

Discussion

137.	Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands _____ responsiveness.
A.	Disinterested
B.	Partial
C.	Complete
D.	Voluntary
Answer» D. Voluntary

Discussion

138.	Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than __.
A.	History
B.	Tragi-comedy
C.	Comedy
D.	Drama
Answer» E.

Discussion

139.	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
Answer» B. It calls for rigid poetic forms

Discussion

140.	Wordsworth was primarily
A.	a critic
B.	a poet
C.	an essayist
D.	a philosopher
Answer» C. an essayist

Discussion

141.	Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands________________ responsiveness.
A.	Total
B.	Absolute
C.	Complex
D.	Complete
Answer» E.

Discussion

142.	Arnold states, But for poetry the idea is everything, the rest is a world of illusion; of
A.	godlike illusion
B.	human illusion
C.	divine illusion
D.	wonderful illusion
Answer» D. wonderful illusion

Discussion

143.	Shakespeare s drama is the mirror of
A.	human beings
B.	peace
C.	remorse
D.	life
Answer» E.

Discussion

144.	Arnold states, The strongest part of our religion is its
A.	unconscious verses
B.	unconscious poetry
C.	unconscious lyrics
D.	unconscious history
Answer» C. unconscious lyrics

Discussion

145.	In what ways is Lyrical Ballads different from much of the poetry that was popular when it was published?
A.	It calls for even more strict and rigid poetic forms
B.	It features poems that focus on nature and rural communities
C.	It contains poems that are more complicated and academic in tone.
D.	It sought to stimulate the reader s reasoning mind.
Answer» C. It contains poems that are more complicated and academic in tone.

Discussion

146.	Arnold feels the historic estimate and the personal estimate often supersedes the
A.	ideal estimate
B.	principal estimate
C.	critical estimate
D.	real estimate
Answer» E.

Discussion

147.	Keats, according to Arnold, is with _________
A.	Milton
B.	Wordsworth
C.	Shakespeare
D.	Shelley
Answer» D. Shelley

Discussion

148.	Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English______
A.	Prose
B.	Morals
C.	Fiction
D.	Poetry
Answer» B. Morals

Discussion

149.	Who considers Hard Times a moral fable with a definite intention that exhibits satiric irony in the first two chapters of his book The Great Tradition?
A.	thomas hardy
B.	t.s.eliot
C.	f.r.leavis
D.	charles dickens
Answer» D. charles dickens

Discussion

150.	The Principal object in the Lyrical Ballads was to choose incidents and situations from
A.	urban life
B.	agrarian life
C.	common life
D.	genteel life
Answer» D. genteel life

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Wordsworth said that Poetry is the image of

Leavis states, But it is to be note that the improvement we ask for is of the critic, the critic as critic, and to count on it would be to count on the attainment of

The ideal critic according to Leavis is the __________

Leavis states that poetry is concrete and that philosophy is

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

Poetry according to Arnold, attaches its emotion to the

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

According to Matthew Arnold, poetry is

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

How should we conceive poetry as advocated by Arnold?

The literary critic aims to make fully conscious and articulate the immediate sense of

Poetic justice is:

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

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

The Poetic Composition take place in ______ stages

Whose plays are considered the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction and the author s role in the epic by Aristotle?

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

Middleton Murry has criticized the critical work of

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

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

Shakespeare had no regard to the unities of

Charlatanism is for confusing or obliterating the distinctions between

Middleton Murry had criticized the critical work of

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

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

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

Which poet does Arnold say lack the high seriousness of the great classics ?

A critic s constant concern is never to lose his ________________

Which chapter of Aristotle s Poetics discusses the construction of an ideal plot, which is fundamental to tragedy?

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

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

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

The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of

Wordsworth feels that Poetry is the image of

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

According to Eliot, Literary tradition is

Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands _____ responsiveness.

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

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

Wordsworth was primarily

Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands________________ responsiveness.

Arnold states, But for poetry the idea is everything, the rest is a world of illusion; of

Shakespeare s drama is the mirror of

Arnold states, The strongest part of our religion is its

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

Arnold feels the historic estimate and the personal estimate often supersedes the

Keats, according to Arnold, is with _________

Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English______

Who considers Hard Times a moral fable with a definite intention that exhibits satiric irony in the first two chapters of his book The Great Tradition?

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