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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the chapter titled Structuralism, Saussure used the terms ________ and ________ to signify language as a system or structure on the one hand, and any given utterance in that language on the other.
(a) Langue / parole.
(b) Logocentrism / margin.
(c) Humanism / icon.
(d) Paradigm / paradigmatic.

2. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Thomas de Quincey.
(b) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(d) Saki.

3. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 2000s.

4. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) William Empson.
(c) Wilfred Owen.
(d) George Zebrowski.

5. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
(a) SQ3R.
(b) NACL2.
(c) NH2P.
(d) H2OO.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

2. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?

3. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.

5. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?

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