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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to the chapter "Stylistics," in medieval times rhetoric played an important part in training people for the ________, the legal profession, and political or diplomatic life.
(a) Church.
(b) Court.
(c) School.
(d) Library.
2. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.
(a) 2000s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1950s.
3. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Americans.
4. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?
(a) The Anglo-Americans.
(b) The American Indians.
(c) The Native Americans.
(d) The African Americans.
5. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(b) Thomas de Quincey.
(c) Saki.
(d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
2. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?
3. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.
4. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.
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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