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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.
(a) The forfeit of the real.
(b) The loss of the real.
(c) The gain of the real.
(d) The knowledge of the real.

2. 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) Library.
(b) Church.
(c) School.
(d) Court.

3. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) God.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Zeus.

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 African Americans.
(b) The American Indians.
(c) The Anglo-Americans.
(d) The Native Americans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

2. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.

3. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

4. 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 ________.

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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