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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) F.D. Maurice.
(b) Nick Hornby.
(c) Frank McCourt.
(d) J.R.R. Tolkien.

2. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.
(a) Reference / referent.
(b) Story / discourse.
(c) Imaginary / symbolic.
(d) Syntagm / syntagmatic.

3. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Romanticists.
(b) Poets.
(c) Journalists.
(d) Theorists.

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.
(a) Psychiatrist.
(b) Cardiologist.
(c) Podiatrist.
(d) Paleontologist.

5. Which of the following term is about "lexical items" (words) which cross the boundaries between sentences, binding them into a single continuous utterance, even though they are grammatically separate sentences?
(a) Trope.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Trace.
(d) Cohesion.

Short Answer 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.

2. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?

3. 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.

4. According to Peter Barry, stylistics developed in what century?

5. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.

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