A. Comedy
B. Tragedy
C. Satire
D. Melodrama
Related Mcqs:
- According to Aristotle the unravelling of the plot_____________?
A. Should arise from the circumstances of the plot itself
B. By supernatural machinery
C. By narration
D. By the choral odes - The structure of tragedy according to Aristotle is________________?
A. Simple
B. Complex
C. Loose
D. Episodic - Which character says he “fear[s] those big words that make us so unhappy” ?
A. Stephen Dedalus
B. Mr. Deasy
C. Gabriel Conroy
D. Leopold Bloom - “How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another.” ?
A. Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system
B. Fear of the AIDs crisis
C. Fear of global nuclear war
D. Fear of the economic Great Depression - Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by_______________?
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Southey
D. Shelly - Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
A. Agathon
B. Aeschylus
C. Sophocles
D. Euripides - Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?
A. It is only lyrical songs in the play
B. It should be regarded as one of the actors
C. It should make only reports
D. It should only comment on the action - What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?
A. The hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw
B. The hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw
C. The hero’s recognition of his adversary
D. The hero’s recognition of his tragic end - Who is the meaning of the term Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?
A. Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good
B. Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad
C. Constancy in the fortune of the hero
D. Fluctuations occurring in the fortune of the hero - How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
A. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
B. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
