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Who was the first literary critic who said that ” Art is twice removed from reality"?
Who was the first literary critic who said that ” Art is twice removed from reality"?
- Aristotle
- Plato (correct)
- Longinus
- Horace
Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic?
Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic?
- Horace
- Plato (correct)
- Longinus
- Aristotle
Aristotle's critical work is entitled
Aristotle's critical work is entitled
- Poetics (correct)
- Ars Poetica
- Arte Poetica
- Art Poetique
Who is the author of 'Ars Poetica'?
Who is the author of 'Ars Poetica'?
Who is the author of the Symposium?
Who is the author of the Symposium?
Horace was a
Horace was a
Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in
Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in
How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus?
How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus?
What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
What is the meaning of the term Peripeteia is used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
What is the meaning of the term Peripeteia is used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
What is denouncement?
What is denouncement?
Who is the originator of the Theory of Imitation in literature?
Who is the originator of the Theory of Imitation in literature?
Who was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates?
Who was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates?
From where has the term Oedipus Complex Originated?
From where has the term Oedipus Complex Originated?
In which of the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry?
In which of the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry?
Who is the author of a notorious book entitled The School of Abuse?
Who is the author of a notorious book entitled The School of Abuse?
Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry is a defense of poetry against the charges brought against it by
Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry is a defense of poetry against the charges brought against it by
“It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long worn maketh an advocate" whose view is this?
“It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long worn maketh an advocate" whose view is this?
What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in Drama?
What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in Drama?
Dryden wrote ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' is this?
Dryden wrote ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' is this?
In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there is four interlocutors representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden's own views?
In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there is four interlocutors representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden's own views?
Is Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of
Is Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of
Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism?
Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism?
Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in
Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in
“The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one of the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poet's thought” Whose view is this?
“The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one of the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poet's thought” Whose view is this?
Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare's Comedies to his Tragedies?
Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare's Comedies to his Tragedies?
Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published
Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published
Who is the author of “Biographia Literaria”?
Who is the author of “Biographia Literaria”?
In the Life of which poet did Dr. Johnson apply the term Metaphysical School of Poetry?
In the Life of which poet did Dr. Johnson apply the term Metaphysical School of Poetry?
“I write in meter because I am about to use a language different from that of prose” Who says this
“I write in meter because I am about to use a language different from that of prose” Who says this
Which of the following critics has most elaborately discussed the concept of Imagination?
Which of the following critics has most elaborately discussed the concept of Imagination?
Who says that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislator of the world?
Who says that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislator of the world?
Who has divided literature into two broad divisions- the literature of power and literature of knowledge.
Who has divided literature into two broad divisions- the literature of power and literature of knowledge.
Who gave the concept of 'Art for Art's Sake'?
Who gave the concept of 'Art for Art's Sake'?
Who gave the concept of Art of Life Sake?
Who gave the concept of Art of Life Sake?
In whose opinion” Poetry is the most highly organized form of intellectual activity?
In whose opinion” Poetry is the most highly organized form of intellectual activity?
Shelley's 'Defence of Poetry was a rejoinder to
Shelley's 'Defence of Poetry was a rejoinder to
Who is the author of ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity'?
Who is the author of ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity'?
Who is the author of The Sacred Wood?
Who is the author of The Sacred Wood?
Who called Shakespeare's Hamlet an artistic failure?
Who called Shakespeare's Hamlet an artistic failure?
Matthew Arnold is the author of one of the following works. Which of the following?
Matthew Arnold is the author of one of the following works. Which of the following?
Who is the author of the Principle of Literary Criticism?
Who is the author of the Principle of Literary Criticism?
Who is the author of New Criticism?
Who is the author of New Criticism?
Who is the author of The Foundation of Esthetics?
Who is the author of The Foundation of Esthetics?
The term “Defamiliarization" was coined by _____
The term “Defamiliarization" was coined by _____
_____ is a concept envisaged by formalist Boris Tomashevsky
_____ is a concept envisaged by formalist Boris Tomashevsky
Who put forwarded the concept of Close reading?
Who put forwarded the concept of Close reading?
Who was the author of The Well-Wrought Urn?
Who was the author of The Well-Wrought Urn?
A _____ is a self – contradictory statement
A _____ is a self – contradictory statement
_____ is a way of writing in which what is meant is contrary to what the word appears to say.
_____ is a way of writing in which what is meant is contrary to what the word appears to say.
Who was the author of "Lives of the Poets"?
Who was the author of "Lives of the Poets"?
" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason" Who says this?
" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason" Who says this?
_____ defines poetry as “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
_____ defines poetry as “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
Who says poetry can be defined as the “expression of the imagination”?
Who says poetry can be defined as the “expression of the imagination”?
Who is generally called “the first modern critic' of the western world?
Who is generally called “the first modern critic' of the western world?
“The true and right meaning of the words classic and classical is the class of very best poetry" Who says?
“The true and right meaning of the words classic and classical is the class of very best poetry" Who says?
Who is the author of “Anatomy of Criticism” ?
Who is the author of “Anatomy of Criticism” ?
_____ in Sanskrit means embellishment whereas the root alam denotes perfection
_____ in Sanskrit means embellishment whereas the root alam denotes perfection
_____is generally regarded as the corner stone of Indian Aesthetics
_____is generally regarded as the corner stone of Indian Aesthetics
According to _____ Rasa is evoked when the Vibhavas, Anubhavas and Vyabhicaribhavas are combined
According to _____ Rasa is evoked when the Vibhavas, Anubhavas and Vyabhicaribhavas are combined
Suggested language of poetry is called..
Suggested language of poetry is called..
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Who is Plato?
Who is Plato?
The first literary critic who stated that "Art is twice removed from reality."
Who is Plato?
Who is Plato?
He proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.
What is Poetics?
What is Poetics?
Aristotle's key critical work on literary theory.
Who is Horace?
Who is Horace?
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Who is Plato?
Who is Plato?
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Who was Horace?
Who was Horace?
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What is Poetics?
What is Poetics?
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How many principal sources of sublimity are there?
How many principal sources of sublimity are there?
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What is Hamartia?
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What is Peripeteia?
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What is Anagnorisis?
What is Anagnorisis?
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What is denouement?
What is denouement?
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Who is Plato?
Who is Plato?
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Who is Plato?
Who is Plato?
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Where did the term Oedipus Complex originate??
Where did the term Oedipus Complex originate??
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What is The Republic?
What is The Republic?
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Who is Stephen Gosson?
Who is Stephen Gosson?
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Who is Stephen Gosson?
Who is Stephen Gosson?
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Who is Sidney?
Who is Sidney?
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What did Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in Drama?
What did Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in Drama?
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What type of work?
What type of work?
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Who expresses Dryden's own views?
Who expresses Dryden's own views?
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What type of work is Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy?
What type of work is Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy?
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Who is Dr. Johnson?
Who is Dr. Johnson?
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When did this poetic diction arise?
When did this poetic diction arise?
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John Dryden's View of Tragic-comedy
John Dryden's View of Tragic-comedy
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John Dryden's criticism
John Dryden's criticism
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Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
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The Biographia Literaria
The Biographia Literaria
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Who got called metaphysical?
Who got called metaphysical?
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John Keats' view
John Keats' view
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Elaboration of Imagination
Elaboration of Imagination
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Poets Legislators
Poets Legislators
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The two broad divisions of Literature
The two broad divisions of Literature
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Concept of 'Art for Art's Sake'
Concept of 'Art for Art's Sake'
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Shelley's Defence rejoinder to what?
Shelley's Defence rejoinder to what?
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William Empson
William Empson
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T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
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T.S. Eliot
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Essays in Criticism
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Study Notes
- Plato stated that "Art is twice removed from reality"
- Plato proposed poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.
- Aristotle’s critical work is entitled Poetics.
- Horace is the author of 'Ars Poetica'.
- Plato is the author of the Symposium.
- Horace was a Roman Critic.
- Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in Poetics.
- Longinus identifies five principal sources of sublimity
- Longinus identifies five principal sources of sublimity
- Hamartia, as used by Aristotle, means a weak trait in the character of the hero in his Theory of Tragedy
- Peripeteia, as used by Aristotle, means a change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad in his Theory of Tragedy
- Anagnorisis, as used by Aristotle, means the hero's recognition of his tragic flaw in his Theory of Tragedy.
- Denouncement is the ending of a tragedy.
- Plato originated the Theory of Imitation in literature.
- Plato was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates.
- The term Oedipus Complex Originated from Oedipus the Rex.
- Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry in The Republic.
- Stephen Gosson is the author of the book entitled The School of Abuse.
- Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry defends poetry against charges brought by Stephen Gosson
- Sidney believed that “It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long worn maketh an advocate."
- Sidney states that the three Dramatic Unities in Drama must be observed
- Dryden's ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' is an interlocution.
- Neander expresses Dryden's own views in Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy, which features four interlocutors
- Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy is a work of Comparative Criticism.
- Dr. Johnson called Dryden the Father of English Criticism.
- Poetic Diction was the standard language for poetry in The Neo-classical Age.
- Joseph Addison viewed that “The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one of the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poet's thought”
- Dr. Johnson preferred Shakespeare's Comedies to his Tragedies
- Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism, published in 1800
- S T Coleridge is the author of “Biographia Literaria.”
- Dr. Johnson applied the term Metaphysical School of Poetry in the Life of Cowley.
- Keats says “I write in meter because I am about to use a language different from that of prose”
- S.T Coleridge most elaborately discussed the concept of Imagination.
- Shelley says that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislator of the world
- De Quincey divided literature into two broad divisions: the literature of power and literature of knowledge.
- Walter Pater gave the concept of 'Art for Art's Sake'
- Matthew Arnold gave the concept of Art of Life Sake.
- T. S Eliot considers poetry the most highly organized form of intellectual activity
- Shelley's 'Defence of Poetry was a rejoinder to Thomas Love Peacock's The Four Ages of Poetry.
- William Empson is the author of ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity.'
- T.S Eliot is the author of The Sacred Wood
- T.S Eliot called Shakespeare's Hamlet an artistic failure
- Matthew Arnold is the author of Essays in Criticism.
- I.A Richard is the author of the Principle of Literary Criticism.
- David Daiches is the author of New Criticism
- I.A Richards is the author of The Foundation of Esthetics
- The term “Defamiliarization" was coined by Shklovsky.
- Motivation is a concept envisaged by formalist Boris Tomashevsky
- I A Richards put forwarded the concept of Close reading
- Cleanth Brooks was the author of The Well-Wrought Urn.
- A paradox is a self – contradictory statement
- Irony is a way of writing in which what is meant is contrary to what the word appears to say.
- Dr Samuel Johnson was the author of "Lives of the Poets"
- Dr Johnson believes that " Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason"
- Wordsworth defines poetry as “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
- Shelly defines poetry as the “expression of the imagination”
- Mathew Arnold is generally called “the first modern critic' of the western world
- Mathew Arnold said “The true and right meaning of the words classic and classical is the class of very best poetry"
- Northrop Fry is the author of “Anatomy of Criticism”
- Alamkara in Sanskrit means embellishment whereas the root alam denotes perfection
- Rasa is generally regarded as the corner stone of Indian Aesthetics
- Bharata believes Rasa is evoked when the Vibhavas, Anubhavas and Vyabhicaribhavas are combined
- Suggested language of poetry is called Vakrokti
- Modernism is a reaction against machines, routinized killing and the belief in science
- Realism is a literary and intellectual movement that led writers not to imagine life as it could be, but to examine life as it was actually lived and to record what they saw around them as honestly as they could
- Authors feature just themes of love, except in Romanticism
- Neo- classical movements emphasized the observance of literary rules
- Humanism emphasizes reason and science over scripture and tradition, believing humans are flawed but can improve
- The realist novel first developed in the 19th century.
- Naturalism was influenced by Darwinism, materialism, and the determinist philosophy of French critic Hyppolyte Taine.
- Emily Zola coined the term Naturalism.
- Jean Moréas coined the term 'Symbolist' in the review La Vogue in 1886
- Symbolism reacted to scientific/literary Positivism, Realism, Naturalism, and popular press language/bestsellers.
- John Keats first used the term Negative Capability
- Catharsis is a metaphor used by Aristotle in the Poetics to describe the effects of true tragedy on the spectator
- Romanticism can be estimated as a revolt in attitude and intellectual orientation against the Neoclassicism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Thinai refers to a comprehensive set of poetical elements, including plot, characters, settings, season, time and place of ancient Tamilakam.
- Kurinji is the mountainous region associated with union of lovers
- Mullai Thinais experiences late summer and cloudy days
- Kadalon was the deity of Neithal Thinai
- Mullai has forests and pasture lands with lakes and rivers
- Vyanjana is the essence of literature according to the Dhvani school
- Kuntaka was the chief exponent of the school of Vakrokti
- Abhinavagupta wrote the commentary to “Dhvanyaloka” in the name, ‘Dhanyalokalocana
- Anandavardhana was the author of “Dhvanyaloka”.
- The theory of Dhvani was promulgated by Kuntaka
- Northrop Frye is the author of the essay “The Archetypes of Literature"
- Carl Yung coined the term "Collective Unconscious".
- Sense is the literal meaning of the word we use in general communication like sharing factual information
- TS Eliot put forward the idea of ‘dissociation of sensibility' in The Metaphysical Poets.
- Washington Allston first used the term ‘Objective Correlative'
- Eliot uses the term ‘Objective Correlative' in Hamlet and his Problems
- Objective Correlative is a situation or event designed by the poet which symbolizes or objectifies a particular emotion to evoke the same emotion in the reader.
- New Criticism was an American literary movement
- The movement New Criticism received its name from the title of J C Ransom’s book, 'The New Criticism'
- Cleanth Brook believes that "Literary criticism is a description and evaluation of its object”
- Mathew Arnold' coined the term, Grand Style
- Mathew Arnold wrote “Culture and Anarchy"
- I A Richard is the author of "Practical Criticism"
- Formalism is a branch of literary criticism that concentrates on the formal or structural features of a text
- Literariness is an important concept developed by formalists
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