Match List I with List II

LIST I	LIST II
A) Plato	I. Rhetoric
B) Aristotle	II. Symposium
C) P. B Shelley	III. Apology of Poetry
D) Philip Sydney	IV. Defence of Poetry

The correct option is A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III.

Let us understand why this matching is correct by looking at each author and their respective work:

• A. Plato - II. Symposium: Symposium is one of the most famous dialogues written by the classical Greek philosopher Plato. It is a philosophical text depicting a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable men attending a banquet, focusing primarily on the nature of love (Eros).
• B. Aristotle - I. Rhetoric: Rhetoric (or Art of Rhetoric) is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, written by the philosopher Aristotle in the 4th century BCE. Along with his work Poetics, it remains highly influential in literary criticism and communication studies.
• C. P. B. Shelley - IV. Defence of Poetry: A Defence of Poetry is an essay written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821. It was written in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock's article "The Four Ages of Poetry" and contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
• D. Philip Sidney - III. Apology for Poetry: An Apology for Poetry (also known as The Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by the Elizabethan poet and soldier Sir Philip Sidney, written around 1580. It represents one of the earliest and most important pieces of literary criticism in the English language.

Matching the authors with their works, we get:
A matches with II (Plato - Symposium)
B matches with I (Aristotle - Rhetoric)
C matches with IV (P. B. Shelley - Defence of Poetry)
D matches with III (Philip Sidney - Apology of Poetry)

Therefore, the correct combination is A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III.