History of literary Criticism

Who wrote Poetics?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Horace

• Ovid

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What is catharsis?

• sorrow and worry

• to cough

• to be afraid

• to cleanse

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The title of Philip Sidney's work is ------------------------------------.

• Defense of Poetry

• Four Kinds of Meaning

• An Apology for Poetry

• Poetics

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Docero delictendo means ---------------------------------------.

• delighting and entertaining

• poetic justice

• pity and fear

• three unities

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Who is the first literary critical theorist in English?

• Francis Bacon

• Charles Lamb

• Sir Philip Sidney

• Edmund Spenser

Who condemned literature?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Horace

• Ovid

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Whose work was The Republic?

• Aristotle

• Horace

• Rousseau

• Plato

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Plato condemned all literature because --------------------------.

• it makes men lazy

• it stirs up the passions—lust, desire, pain, anger—rather than nurtures the intellect.

• it makes one imagine things.

• it entertains

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Which one of the following is not one of the three unities mentioned by Aristotle?

• time

• place

• action

• character

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------------------------ is a term which is linked to Aristotle, meaning a tragic flaw or error.

• Inertia

• Hamartia

• Dike

• nemesis

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