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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Langue/parole.
(b) Intention / intentionality.
(c) Metaphor / metonymy.
(d) Paradigm / paradigmatic.

2. In the phrase "the archival continuum," an important difference between old and new historicisms is encapsulated in the word ________, for that word indicates that new historicism is indeed a historicist rather than a historical movement.
(a) New.
(b) Continuum.
(c) Archival.
(d) Historic.

3. Which of the following terms is defined as the view that, in spite of the connections between culture and economics, art has a degree of independence from economic forces?
(a) Foregrounding.
(b) Indeterminacy.
(c) Écriture.
(d) Relative autonomy.

4. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
(a) NACL2.
(b) SQ3R.
(c) NH2P.
(d) H2OO.

5. According to the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," in its earliest phase, post-colonial criticism took as its main subject matter ________ representations of colonial countries and criticized these for their limitations and their bias.
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."

2. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?

3. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.

4. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?

5. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.

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