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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"

2. In Exiled from the Image-repertoire/Exile, the idea of exile can be associated with which of the following things?

3. Match the term "loquela" with the correct phrase.

4. In The Love Letter, what single piece of information is presented with variation?

5. Which of the following scenarios is described in No Answer/Silence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relation between the informer, the lover, and the loved being in The Informer.

2. In Inexpressible Love/To Write, what does the narrator suggest when he says "I cannot write myself"?

3. In Images, what is the lover's relationship to visual images he sees?

4. What object does the lover compare himself to in This can't go on/Unbearable?

5. "I am crazy"/Mad: How is the lover's madness metaphorical?

6. "Looking embarrassed"/Embarrassment: Describe the scene of embarrassment from Werther cited in this section.

7. In The Ghost Ship/Errantry, why is the lover doomed to wander?

8. Describe the functioning of the loquela in the section entitled The Loquela.

9. Briefly describe the process of induction in the figure "Show me whom to desire"/Induction.

10. List some of the scenarios described by the narrator to illustrate the sense of disreality in The World Thunderstruck/Disreality.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Obscene, the author argues that modern views make love's sentimentality obscene, therefore, the lover's refusal to abandon sentiment becomes a transgression.

- What are the negative views of sentiment? Of the lover?

- Why is the lover's sentimentality obscene? Provide examples.

Essay Topic 2

The lover would like to surround the other and their love in a cocoon of intimacy that is uniquely theirs. Yet, repeatedly the lover is reminded through images, interactions, or through language, that the other also belongs to the world. Discuss this dynamic in several of the figures, for example, Alteration (pg. 25), The Orange/Irksome (pg. 110), and Tenderness (pg. 224.) Does the lover's image of the other shift as a result?

Essay Topic 3

"I love you" is a peculiar phrase because, as the author states in I-Love-You (pg. 147), it is the metaphor of nothing else: it only has meaning at the moment it is uttered. Analyze the author's argument in this section.

- How does he describe the utterance in linguistic terms, i.e. how does it fit into language?

- What are the various responses to this utterance, both acceptable and unacceptable to the lover's ears?

- How is I-love-you an "active force," and against what?

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