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What is 'Mimesis'?
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Part A · Brief Questions — Previous Year Questions
2016–2024
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Part A · Brief Questions108 questions
Part A · Brief Questions108
A2
What is 'epic' according to Aristotle?
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A3
How does poetry differ from history?
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A4
What is Stasimon?
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A5
To whom does Sidney compare the haters of poetry?
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A6
What does the sentence imply, "There is always an appeal open from criticism to nature"?
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A7
What does the unity of action imply?
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A8
What are the stages in the process of poetic creation, according to Wordsworth?
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A9
What does the sentence "Poetry is the image of man and nature" mean?
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A10
What is Coleridge's idea of fancy?
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A11
What is 'Organic unity'?
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A12
Who is Sir John Davies?
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A13
What is 'Poetics' about?
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A14
What is preface?
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A15
What, according to Aristotle, should be the length of a plot?
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A16
How does Sidney differentiate between 'delight' and 'laughter'?
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A17
Who is Voltaire?
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A18
How, according to Aristotle, is the imitation produced?
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A19
How does Coleridge define 'Imagination'?
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A20
Who, according to Wordsworth, is a poet?
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A21
What is Shakespeare's first fault?
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A22
What, according to Dr. Johnson, is the end of writing?
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A23
What is 'Arcadia'?
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A24
With what does Coleridge compare 'the soul' of poetic genius?
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A25
What is a ballad?
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A26
Who is Tully?
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A27
What is 'Gorboduc'?
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A28
What fault does Sidney find in contemporary English comedy?
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A29
Who is Robert Southey?
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A30
How does Dryden appreciate Shakespeare?
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A31
What is 'Hamartia'?
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A32
Who coined the expression 'willing suspension of disbelief'?
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A33
What, according to Aristotle, is a well-constructed plot?
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A34
What is 'Descriptive Sketches'?
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A35
How many stages are there in Wordsworth's poetic process?
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A36
What is 'Comedy of Errors'?
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A37
What according to Aristotle, is poetic truth?
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A38
How does Wordsworth define poetry in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads?
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A39
What is Parode?
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A40
What, according to Coleridge, is the basic difference between fancy and imagination?
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A41
What is poetic justice?
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A42
What age does Doctor Samuel Johnson belong to?
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A43
What kind of text is Biographia Literaria?
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A44
What, according to Sir Philip Sidney, is the basic difference between laughter and delight?
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A45
Whom do Shakespeare's characters represent?
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A46
What is anagnorisis?
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A47
What is called the de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement?
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A48
How many kinds of poetry does Sidney mention in his An Apology for Poetry?
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A49
What is 'touchstone'?
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A50
Who remarked that Chaucer's poetry had "gold dew drops of speech"?
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A51
What is poetic diction?
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A52
Who was Stephen Gosson?
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A53
To whom does Sidney compare the haters of poetry?
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A54
What is hymn?
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A55
What is catharsis?
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A56
Why did Dr. Johnson write 'The Preface to Shakespeare'?
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A57
What type of poet, according to Dr. Johnson, is Shakespeare, above all?
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A58
What type of critic is Dr. Johnson?
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A59
What is "Lyrical Ballads"?
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A60
What is fancy?
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A61
What does Aristotle mean by epic?
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A62
Who, according to Wordsworth, is a poet?
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A63
What is Sydney's notion about tragi-comedy?
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A64
What is the first fault of Shakespeare that Dr. Johnson mentioned in his 'The Preface to Shakespeare'?
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A65
What is the most important element of a tragedy?
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A66
What is 'Willing Suspension of Disbelief'?
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A67
What do you mean by Heroic couplet?
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A68
What is organic unity?
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A69
Who was Seneca?
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A70
What, according to Aristotle, is the common feature of all art?
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A71
What is Dr. Johnson's allegation about the plots of Shakespeare's dramas?
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A72
How does Sydney differentiate between 'laughter' and 'delight'?
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A73
What is catharsis?
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A74
What does Aristotle mean by imitation?
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A75
What is Dr. Johnson's opinion about Shakespeare's dramas?
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A76
What is hamartia?
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A77
What are the constituents of a tragedy?
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A78
What do you mean by the unity of action?
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A79
What are the major elements of a tragedy?
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A80
How does Sydney prove that poets are not liars?
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A81
What is mimesis?
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A82
How does Coleridge define a poem?
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A83
What is poetic diction?
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A84
What is Coleridge's idea of fancy?
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A85
What, according to Aristotle, is the most important element of tragedy?
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A86
What according to Sidney, is the aim of poetry?
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A87
Who is Stephen Gosson?
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A88
What is an epic?
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A89
Who coined the expression "Willing suspension of disbelief"?
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A90
What is "The Preface to Shakespeare"?
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A91
How does Wordsworth define a poet?
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A92
How many stages are there in Wordsworth's Poetic Process?
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A93
What is meant by the term 'Vates'?
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A94
Why does Johnson call Shakespeare "Poet of Nature"?
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A95
What is Stasimon?
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A96
How does Coleridge define "imagination"?
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A97
What is catharsis?
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A98
What the unity of time?
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A99
What is hamartia?
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A100
What are the constituents of a tragedy?
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A101
How does Sidney prove that poets are not liars?
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A102
Who is Sophocles?
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A103
What is Dr. Johnson's opinion about Shakespeare's dramas?
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A104
To what school of criticism does Dr. Johnson belong?
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A105
What are the primary passions of human life.
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A106
What is the main difference between a poet and a common man?
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A107
What is Coleridge's idea of 'fancy'?
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A108
What does Aristotle mean by imitation?
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