A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Horace
D. Longinus
Related Mcqs:
- The probable date of composition of Ars Poetica is_______________?
A. 100 BC
B. 12 to 8 BC
C. 15 AD
D. 20 AD - The name “Ars Poetica” (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace’s Epistle to the Pisos by____________?
A. Horace
B. Quintillion
C. Cicero
D. Virgil - Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author’s intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief ?
A. The pathetic fallacy
B. The intentional fallacy
C. The affective fallacy
D. The objective correlative - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - 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 - With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
B. Jacques Derrida
C. Jacques Lacan
D. Michel Foucault - In his essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
A. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.
B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
C. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the author’s politics.
D. Literature is inextricably connected to its creator. - Name the author of The New Criticism ?
A. F. R. Leavis
B. Allen Tate
C. John Crowe Ransom
D. R. P. Blackmur - What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
C. Formalism
D. Psychological Approach - What approach is described by the paragraph? Users of this approach believe that all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself; there is no need to bring in outside information about the history, politics, or society of the time, or about the author’s life ?
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
C. Formalism
D. Psychological Approach
