UGC NET - LITERARY CRITICISM

In Republic, why does Plato criticize poetry?

• It is twice removed from truth
• It improves memory
• It creates Forms
• It teaches virtue

In Ion, what inspires the rhapsode to perform?

• Knowledge
• Technique
• Divine madness
• Training

In Republic, which emotions tragedy mainly arouses?

• Pity and fear
• Anger and envy
• Joy and sorrow
• Shame and guilt

In Phaedrus, which myth critiques writing?

• Theuth and Thamus
• Prometheus
• Orpheus
• Daedalus

Plato recommends banning which poetic genre from his ideal state?

• Comedy
• Epic
• Tragedy
• Lyric

According to Poetics, the “soul of tragedy” is:

• Character
• Plot
• Chorus
• Diction

How many parts of tragedy does Aristotle list?

• Four
• Six
• Seven
• Eight

Aristotle says poetry is more philosophical than history because it deals with:

• Facts
• Universals
• Dates
• Heroes

What term means “recognition” in tragedy?

• Peripeteia
• Anagnorisis
• Hamartia
• Catharsis

What is hamartia in Aristotle’s view?

• Crime
• Error
• Vice
• Fate