Question

1. Answer the following questions very
briefly/Fill in the blanks

(a) Which philosopher is associated with the
dictum 'Poetry is the mother of lies?
(b) State the meaning of the term 'Hubris'
according to Aristotle.
(c) What is the root meaning of 'Hamartia?
(d) Horace's Ars Poetica is a kind of advisory
manual to whom?
(e) What, according to Longinus, is the most
important source of the sublime?
(f) Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie for Poetrie
is a rejoinder to___ .​

Answer 1

Explanation:

a) The philosopher who called poetry "Mother of all Lies" is Plato, who banished poetry from his ideal world.

b) Aristotle mentions hubris in his book Rhetoric: “Hubris consists in doing and saying things that cause shame to the victim … simply for the pleasure of it. ... Young men and the rich are hubristic because they think they are better than other people.”