According to Longinus, there are ________principle sources of sublime.

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1. How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus ?

   A. Three
   B. Four
   C. Five
   D. Six

2. According to Longinus, the queen of figures is ___________?

   A. Simile
   B. Hyperbole
   C. Apostrophe
   D. Metaphor
   E. None

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3. Longinus asserts that nothing contributes more to loftiness of tone in writing than _________?

   A. Grandeur Thought
   B. Genuine Emotion
   C. Impassioned Utterance
   D. Splendour Style

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4. Longinus establishes that the most beautiful of meters is __________?

   A. Dactylic Hexameter 
   B. Iambic Pentameter
   C. Torchaic Octameter
   D. None

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5. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’ ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. P.B Shelley
   C. S. T. Coleridge
   D. John Keats

6. On the Sublime was written in_____________?

   A. 1st Century BC
   B. 1st Century AD
   C. 2nd Century AD
   D. 3rd Century AD

7. On the Sublime is considered ______________?

   A. A classical approach
   B. Romantic approach
   C. Neo-classical approach
   D. None of these

8. On the Sublime is written in_________________?

   A. Greek
   B. Latin
   C. Hebrew
   D. Italian

9. Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?

   A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body
   B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty
   C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting
   D. The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure

10. In “The Gothic Sublime” how does Mishra characterize the labyrinth motif ?

    A. As a plot structure that diminishes the Gothic novel’s intensity
    B. As the reader’s inward turn to examine his or her own tangled consciousness
    C. As a means for characters to directly confront unconscious problems
    D. As a place for the distressed heroine to hide