Deck 6: Aesthetics and Literary Criticism From Aristotle to Indian Theory

Question 1

Identify the state festival held every year in honour of the God Dionysus in Greece.

A)great dionysia
B)dionysia
C)phaedrus
D)athenia

Answer 1

great dionysia

Question 2

Choose the work from the choices below that is in the form of scholarly exchanges between Plato and his teacher Socrates.

A)protogoras
B)gorgias
C)symposium
D)dialogues

Answer 2

dialogues

Question 3

In which work did Aristotle firmly refute Plato's pronouncements deriding art, artists and poetry?

A)de anima
B)poetics
C)metaphysics
D)physics

Answer 3

poetics

Question 4

The pivotal speaker in Republic, Socrates recalls the visit to Piraeus, the port of Athens to take part in the festivities to honour which deity?

A)bendis
B)apollo
C)dionysus
D)cupid

Question 5

Who is the young half-brother of Plato whose name means "owl" or "gleaming eyes"?

A)cephalus
B)aristotle
C)glaucon
D)thrasymachus

Question 6

Which book in the Republic ends with the Phoenician myth, which Socrates feels would serve as the effective mythical explanation for their State/

A)first
B)fourth
C)second
D)third

Question 7

Who attempts to define a philosopher and introduces the Theory of Forms?

A)plato
B)socrates
C)aristotle
D)longinus

Question 8

Which form of government is based primarily on wealth?

A)timocracy
B)oligarchy
C)democracy
D)tyranny

Question 9

The Republic concludes with Socrates' vibrant description of the tale of which hero?

A)er
B)ulysses
C)telemachus
D)achilles

Question 10

Who mentions: "God is not the author of all things, but of good only"

A)plato
B)glaucon
C)socrates
D)adeimantus

Question 11

Whose verses does Socrates criticise because of the uneven blend of narrative, especially the speeches of the characters in Iliad that also employ mimesis or imitation?

A)hesiod
B)homer
C)aeschylus
D)sophocles

Question 12

Which genre, according to Aristotle is divided into the epic and the dramatic according to the manner of its imitation?

A)poetry
B)drama
C)prose
D)fiction

Question 13

Which type of drama, according to Aristotle is considered a representation of characters of a base type, which means ridiculous?

A)farce
B)tragicomedy
C)satire
D)comedy

Question 14

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

Question 15

What is the Greek term for "resolution of complication"?

A)perepeteia
B)anagnorisis
C)denouement
D)catharsis

Question 16

Which is the entire part of a tragedy placed between the complete choric songs, in the divisions of a tragedy when staged?

A)parode
B)episode
C)exode
D)stasimon

Question 17

Whose misfortunes should an ideal plot depict?

A)hero
B)antagonist
C)chorus
D)family

Question 18

Which unity has not been mentioned by Aristotle?

A)time
B)action
C)place
D)all these

Question 19

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

Question 20

Which kind of poetry has been ignored because Aristotle considers it more suited to music than poetry?

A)ode
B)lyric
C)sonnet
D)dramatic monologue

Question 21

What is the structure of Longinus' "On the Sublime"?

A)epistolary
B)narrative
C)discussion
D)discursive

Question 22

What is the excessive use of verbal ornamentation that obstructs the natural use of language and hence it should be avoided?

A)grandiloquence
B)puerility
C)elaboration
D)exaggeration

Question 23

How many sources of sublimity are mentioned by Longinus?

A)four
B)three
C)five
D)two

Question 24

Which figure of speech is useful in heightening expression, in the opinion of Longinus?

A)hyperbation
B)periphrasis
C)asyndeton
D)none of these

Question 25

When was the pastoral romance Arcadia was published?

A)1579
B)1576
C)1575
D)1580

Question 26

What does the word vates mean?

A)building
B)a seer
C)coward
D)disciple

Question 27

Who mentions "as is painting so is poetry"?

A)virgil
B)homer
C)dante
D)horace

Question 28

Which edition of the Preface is considered important because of the explanation of the nature and characteristics of the poet, and his superiority over the man of science?

A)1802
B)1800
C)1815
D)none of these

Question 29

Who is the author of Defence of Poetry?

A)coleridge
B)keats
C)shelley
D)mathew arnold

Question 30

Who mentions: "Every great poet is a teacher; I wish either to be considered as a teacher or as a nothing".

A)william wordsworth
B)lord byron
C)edmund spenser
D)robert herrick

Question 31

Which critic published his classroom lectures and his ideas along with the dictums of the other critics regularly in Scrutiny?

A)raman selden
B)f.r.leavis
C)henry james
D)joseph conrad

Question 32

Who among the following is recognised one of "the great English novelists"?

A)charlotte bronte
B)emily bronte
C)jane austen
D)henry fielding

Question 33

Which critic is of the opinion that though Charles Dickens possesses the vitality and vision of art as Conrad does, he cannot be included "in the line of great novelists"?

A)george santayana
B)t.s.eliot
C)d.h. lawrence
D)f.r.leavis

Question 34

Whose first book of poems Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917?

A)robert browning
B)t.s.eliot
C)alfred tennyson
D)john keats

Question 35

Locate T.S. Eliot's full length book of essays on poetry and criticism.

A)the sacred wood: essays on poetry and criticism
B)the egoist
C)tradition and the individual talent
D)the art of t.s.eliot

Question 36

Identify the author of The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)/

A)william k. wimsatt
B)cleanth brooks
C)joel e.spingarn
D)yvor winters

Question 37

What is referred as the analysis of the figurative elements such as images, similes, metaphors, symbols, and myth that unify a work?

A)contrapuntal reading
B)imagery
C)close reading
D)fallacy

Question 38

Who wrote the essay "The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks"?

A)r.s.crane
B)elder olson
C)robert penn warren
D)richard mckeon

Question 39

Under which method of analysis, does the critic proceed to ascertain the meaning of a work from the general truth to the particular one?

A)deductive
B)inductive
C)formalist
D)archetypal

Question 40

What is referred as the proper knowledge of language that helps to satisfy desires?

A)rasa
B)natyashastra
C)kamadhenu
D)dhwani

Question 41

Which is the earliest systematic work on Indian dramaturgy?

A)kavyalankara
B)natyashastra
C)kavyadarsha
D)nirupana

Question 42

Who critiqued the sphota doctrine of the grammarians and the Buddhist linguistic doctrine of apoha?

A)dandin
B)abhinavagupta
C)udbhata
D)bhamaha

Question 43

Which critic gave great importance to the gunas and doshas (merits and defects) in poetry?

A)kalidasa
B)anandavardhana
C)dandin
D)rajashekhara

Question 44

Who is the most authoritative exponent of Pratyabhijna philosophy that is centered on Kashmiri Shaivism?

A)abhinavagupta
B)anandavardhana
C)kshemendra
D)bhoja

Question 45

Who is the Kashmiri scholar whose Vakroktijivita is famous for the discussion of vakrata (indirection or obliqueness) in expression in poetry?

A)anandavardhana
B)rajashekhara
C)abhinavagupta
D)kuntaka

Question 46

Which tailanga scholar who was a prominent poet in the court of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, was conferred the title Panditaraja?

A)jagannatha
B)mahimabhatta
C)kshemendra
D)bhoja

Question 47

In which work by Vamana was the word sahrudaya used first in the technical sense of a competent reader of poetry?

A)agnipurana
B)dwanyaloka
C)kavyaloka
D)kavyalamkara

Question 48

Which category of prathibha refers to the creative ability of the poet?

A)karayitri
B)bhavayitri
C)abida
D)anumana

Question 49

Who mentions "vakyam rasatmakam kavyam", which means any composition which gives tasteful pleasure is poetry?

A)kshemendra
B)bhattalolatta
C)mammata
D)jagannatha

Question 50

Which Indian critical theory concentrates on emotive expression?

A)rasa
B)abida
C)anumana
D)kavya

Question 51

Which theory in Indian aesthetics theory connotes indirect or suggestive expression?

A)alamkara
B)dhwani
C)kavya
D)aswad

Question 52

Who was the first dramatist to recognise the importance of rasa in aesthetics?

A)kalidasa
B)jagannatha
C)bharatamuni
D)purandaradasa

Question 53

Which term in Indian aesthetics refers to the objective conditions or reasons for producing or exciting an emotion, which is also the main stimulating cause or the object of the emotion?

A)bhava
B)samyoga
C)anubhava
D)vibhava

Question 54

Who pointed out the major drawbacks in Bhattalolatta's theory in relation to vibhava and rasa?

A)mammata
B)shankuka
C)kalidasa
D)bharata

Question 55

Identify the theory by Bhattanayaka that projects the experiential aspect related to emotions, which is also known as the enjoyment theory?

A)rasa
B)bhuthivada
C)anumitivada
D)pracya nyaya

Question 56

Which term in Indian aesthetics refers to the process of Generalisation?

A)bhavakatva
B)tamas
C)sattva
D)sadharanikarana

Question 57

Which aspect helps the sahrdaya or the aesthetically sensible person to see the characters presented in a literary work in a generalised manner?

A)denotation
B)imagination
C)inference
D)connotation

Question 58

Who among the following validates how the poetic language triggers the aesthetic process through its suggestiveness?

A)mammata
B)bhattanayaka
C)anandavardhana
D)abhinavagupta

Question 59

Which term is used by Abhinavagupta to denote "relating", "narrating" or "describing" emotive conditions.

A)bhavanukirtanam
B)anumana
C)bhavaktwa
D)bhojakatwa

Question 60

Which word is used to denote not only the special aesthetic pleasure and the outward manifestation of artistic experience but also the mental faculty which makes aesthetic experience possible.

A)rasavaga
B)alaukika
C)chamatkara
D)charvana

Question 61

Which term used by Bharata means a spectator?

A)rupaka
B)prekshaka
C)sahrudaya
D)bhavana

Question 62

Which term refers to any hindrance to aesthetic relish, the impediment that could be effected by poetry, the actor, or the reader.

A)rasa
B)bhayanaka
C)rasavighna
D)hasya

Question 63

What is the literal meaning of the word dhwani?

A)sound
B)explosion
C)phonetics
D)phonology

Question 64

What is the source of dhwani theory?

A)sphota theory
B)theory of rasa
C)rasadhwani
D)lochana

Question 65

Which Indian grammarian discussed the concept of dhwani in a systematic manner?

A)mammata
B)shankuka
C)patanjali
D)none of these

Question 66

Who opposed the theory of dhwani on the ground there was no meaning in inventing a new power for words since dhwani was subordinate to anumana?

A)bhattanayaka
B)mahimabhatta
C)jagannatha
D)abhinavagupta

Question 67

What is the term used to refer to pictorial poetry?

A)chitrakavya
B)chitra
C)shloka
D)kavya

Question 68

Which word refers to the primary power of signification existing in words that is capable of providing the literal or lexical meaning?

A)lochana
B)anugraha
C)abida
D)pada

Question 69

Which term by Kuntaka is used to include dhwani as a mode of varkroti ?

A)upacharavakrata
B)vakrata
C)nirupana
D)lakshana

Question 70

Which is the variety of dhwani accepted by Kuntaka that includes the employment of words of double meaning

A)artha
B)shabda
C)shabdashaktimoola
D)rupa

Question 71

In the opinion of Aristotle, whose plays are the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction?

A)homer
B)virgil
C)sophocles
D)dante

Question 72

What is considered superior to the epic since it contains all the elements that give pleasure along with music and spectacle?

A)comedy
B)tragedy
C)tragicomedy
D)none of these

Question 73

To whom does Longinus write "On the Sublime", which is in the form of letters?

A)aristotle
B)cecilius
C)postumius terentianus
D)plato

Question 74

Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first modern treatise on English composition?

A)thomas wilson
B)thomas hardy
C)f.r.leavis
D)t.s.eliot

Question 75

According to Sir Philip Sidney, which kind of poetry evokes pity because it deals with the weakness of mankind and the desolation of the world.

A)lyric
B)elegiac poetry
C)tragedy
D)dramatic monologue

Question 76

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

Question 77

Which play of Shakespeare does Northrop Frye use to explicate the inductive method of analysis?

A)othello
B)king lear
C)hamlet
D)macbeth