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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) Cenci.
(b) The Necessity of Atheism.
(c) A Defence of Poetry.
(d) Queen Mab.

2. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Victor Hugo.
(b) Washington Irving.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

3. Lacan argues that the two "dream work" mechanisms identified by Freud correspond to the basic poles of language, identified by the linguist Roman Jakobson, to ________ and ________.
(a) Intention / intentionality.
(b) Langue/parole.
(c) Metaphor / metonymy.
(d) Paradigm / paradigmatic.

4. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Connotative code.
(b) Universals.
(c) Tel Quel group.
(d) Syntax.

5. The gist of "Style in Language," edited by ________, is to claim that linguistics offers a more objective way of studying literature, and the book tends to set up "a confrontation of camps" between literary and language studies.
(a) Wiley.
(b) Sebeok.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Chaucer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?

2. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?

3. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

4. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?

5. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.

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