Who called Aristotle “the very Alexander of criticism” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?

   A. Disintrestedness
   B. Intresedness
   C. Purification
   D. Civilization

2. What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?

   A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
   B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
   C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
   D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts.

3. A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

   A. Marxist criticism
   B. Reader-response criticism
   C. Psychoanalytic criticism
   D. New Criticism

4. Aristotle and Plato belong to phase of criticism ?

   A. Hellenic
   B. Hellenistic
   C. Renaissance
   D. Graeco-Roman

5. Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism ?

   A. Joseph Addison
   B. Dr. Johnson
   C. Coleridge
   D. Matthew Arnold

6. Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

   A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27
   B. Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid
   C. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending
   D. He just wasn’t bright enough

7. Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him ?

   A. To err is human, to forgive divine
   B. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
   C. A little learning is a dangerous thing
   D. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

8. Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work_________________?

   A. The Rape of Lock
   B. The Deserted Village
   C. Spectator
   D. Man was made to mourn

9. What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author’s life and times ?

   A. Historical
   B. Formalist
   C. Mimetic
   D. All of these

10. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective ?

    A. Reader Response Criticism
    B. Formalist Criticism
    C. Historical Criticism
    D. These are all equally subjective