A. Should arise from the circumstances of the plot itself
B. By supernatural machinery
C. By narration
D. By the choral odes
Related Mcqs:
- According to Aristotle pity and fear are evoked by_______________?
A. Comedy
B. Tragedy
C. Satire
D. Melodrama - The structure of tragedy according to Aristotle is________________?
A. Simple
B. Complex
C. Loose
D. Episodic - 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 - Aristotle and Plato belong to phase of criticism ?
A. Hellenic
B. Hellenistic
C. Renaissance
D. Graeco-Roman - Who called Aristotle “the very Alexander of criticism” ?
A. Saintsbury
B. Murray
C. Atkins
D. Tyllard - 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 - Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ?
A. Ethics
B. Metaphysics
C. Rhetoric
D. Ars Poetica - 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.
