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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Organic form.
(c) Chora.
(d) Semiotic.

2. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Douglas Adams.
(b) F.R. Leavis.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

3. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.
(a) Surface structure.
(b) Constative language.
(c) Close reading.
(d) Emotive language.

4. The chapter "Postcolonial Criticism" states that post-colonial critics celebrate hybridity and ________, which is the situation whereby individuals and groups belong simultaneously to more than one culture.
(a) Cultural polyvalency.
(b) Affective fallacy.
(c) Constative language.
(d) Decorum.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A book in which author Peter Barry claimed to properly inaugurate post-colonial criticism was Edward Said's ________, which was a specific expose of the Eurocentric universalism which took for granted both the superiority of that which was European or Western.

2. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

3. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.

4. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?

5. According to Marxist literary criticism, what term is best defined as an outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances, etc. and having a major bearing on what is written by a member of a social class?

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