Objective Type Questions

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative.

1. What is meant by rhetoric?
(a) Art of using language effectively and impressively in poetry.
(b) Using language musically in poetry
(c) Using language according to poetic diction
(d) Using metaphorically in poetry

2. What is meant by prosody?
(a) It is the science of verse forms.
(b) It is the science of metres in poetry.
(c) It is the science of stanza in poetry.
(d) It is the science of all the three mentioned above.

3. What is heroic couplet?
(a) It is two lines stanza having eight syllables in each line.
(b) It is two lines stanza having ten syllables in each line.
(c) It is two lines stanza having two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter.
(d) It is two lines stanza having two rhyming lines in any metre.

4. What is an Iambic Pentameter?
(a) It is a poetic line having four feet in iambic metre.
(b) It is a poetic line having five feet in iambic metre.
(c) It is a poetic line having six feet in iambic metre.
(d) It is a poetic line having eight feet in iambic metre.

5. What is Terza Rima?
(a) Terza Rima is an end stop three lines stanza.
(b) Terza Rima is a three lines stanza of rhyming lines.
(c) Terza Rima is run on three lines stanza with fixed rhyme scheme.
(d) None of them

6. What is rhyme royal stanza?
(a) Rhyme royal stanza is a seven lines stanza is any metre.
(b) Rhyme royal stanza is a seven lines stanza in iambic pentameter. bol
(c) Rhyme royal stanza is a seven lines stanza in iambic hexametre.
(d) None of them

7. What is Ottava Rima?
(a) It is an eight lines stanza in iambic pentameter with fixed rhyme scheme.
(b) It is an eight lines stanza with varying rhyming schemes in iambic pentameter.
(c) It is an eight line stanza made up of four heroic couplets in any rhyme scheme.
(d) None of them

8. How many lines are there in spenserian stanza?
(a) Six lines
(b) Seven lines
(c) Nine lines
(d) Eight lines

9. What is blank verse?
(a) Blank verse has no metre and no rhyme
(b) Blank verse has a metre and no rhyme
(c) Blank verse has rhyme but no metre
(d) Blank verse has both rhyme and metre but no rhythm

10. What is free verse?
(a) Free verse has no metre and no rhyme
(b) Free verse has rhyme but no metre
(c) Free verse has metre but no rhythm
(d) Free verse is musical prose

11. Epistle is a:
(a) Letter in verse
(b) Story in verse
(c) Play in verse
(d) Essay in verse

12. .......... coined the term "Dissociation of sensibility".
(a) Eliot
(b) Coleridge
(c) Richards
(d) Milton

13. "Dissociation of sensibility" was introduced by T.S. Eliot with reference to:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) The metaphysical poets
(c) Milton
(d) Bacon

14. What is practical criticism?
(a) A form of literary analysis which focuses exclusively on the text
(b) Which is based on its experiments conducted in Cambridge
(c) (a) and (b) both
(d) None of them

15. The ter, "Practical criticism" is coined by -
(a) William-Empson
(b) F. R. Leavis
(c) I. A. Richards
(d) Eliot

16. Practical criticism "A study of literary judgement" (1929) book published by:
(a) T. S. Eliot
(b) Coleridge
(c) I. A. Richards
(d) Wordsworth

17. New criticism's chief exponents are:
(a) I. A. Richards
(b) F. R. Leavis, T. S. Eliot
(c) W. Empson
(d) All of these

18. When two unaccented syllable is followed by an accented one it is called:
(a) Dactylic
(b) Anapaestic
(c) Trochaic
(d) None of these

19. "The ploughman homward plods his weary way". This line indicates :
(a) Oxymoron
(b) Metaphor
(c) Transferred epithet
(d) Pun

20. The four main narative genres of literature are comedy, romance, tragedy and .......
(a) Irony
(b) Poetry
(c) Prose
(d) Biography

21. What is meant by Prosody?
(a) It is the science of verse forms
(b) It is the science of meters in poetry
(c) It is the science of stanza in poetry
(d) All of the above

22. Which one is untrue about Rhetoric?
(a) The ideas should be presented in an impressive way
(b) One should control the motion of the rhetoric
(c) The rhetoric should use such words that can draw the picture in the mind of the listener
(d) Writer should not use examples to support his memory

23. Which one is the objective of practical criticism?
(a) To encourage the students to concentrate "on the words on the page"
(b) To rely on preconceived beliefs about the text
(c) Inhibition
(d) None of the above

24. Which one does not comprise a Rhetorical Triangle?
(a) Logos
(b) Locos
(c) Ethos
(d) Pathos

25. "The aesthetical state is not any different from the ordinary state in our life." Who is the speaker?
(a) Plato
(b) Arnold
(c) Aristotle
(d) I.A. Richards

26. Practical criticism began in the 1920s by the Cambridge critic:
(a) I.A. Richards
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) John Dryden
(d) W.B. Yeats

27. Allegories are abound with:
(a) Irony
(b) Symbolism
(c) Satire
(d) Humour

28. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds is called :
(a) Rhyme
(b) Alliteration
(c) Personification
(d) Simile

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