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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(a) Barry.
(b) Lacan.
(c) Murray.
(d) Washington.

2. According to the chapter titled "Marxist Criticism," what was the name of the group that had flourished in the 1920s until disbanded by the Party, even though their work was not strictly Marxist in spirit?
(a) Korean Formalists.
(b) Russian Formalists.
(c) Irish Formalists.
(d) German Formalists.

3. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?
(a) Diana Fuss.
(b) Rock Meyer.
(c) Judith Butler.
(d) Eve Sedgwick.

4. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.
(a) Semiotic.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Natural.
(d) Imaginary.

5. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?
(a) Fowler.
(b) Sligh.
(c) Fletcher.
(d) Roderick.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

4. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?

5. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

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