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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, what is the subject of narratology common to all story-telling?
(a) Genre and plot.
(b) Mechanisms and procedures.
(c) Metaphors and synonyms.
(d) Imitation and motivation.

2. Throughout the nineteenth century, linguistics was usually known as ________, and was almost entirely historical in emphasis.
(a) Philology.
(b) Narratology.
(c) Semiology.
(d) Phenomenology.

3. The chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism" explains that the practice of giving ________ to literary and non-literary material is the first and major difference between the "new" and the "old" historicism.
(a) Deep structure.
(b) Equal weighting.
(c) Emotive language.
(d) Catharsis.

4. ________ focalization is classic narrative called omniscient narration, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Narratology."
(a) Internal.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Zero.
(d) External.

5. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?
(a) The Empire Writes Back.
(b) Nation and Narration.
(c) In Other Worlds.
(d) The Studs Lonigan Trilogy.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following are part of the four areas identified as "outdoor environment" in the Chapter "Ecocriticism," except for which one?

2. The narrator believes that after the moment of theory there comes, inevitably, the ________ of theory, when it ceases to be the exclusive concern of a dedicated minority and enters the intellectual bloodstream.

3. A poem of which author is provided by Peter Barry as an example of ecocriticism?

4. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?

5. In the chapter titled "Narratology", ________ means slow telling where an author stages a tale for readers whereas ________ means relating where the narrator summarizes events without trying to create an illusion.

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly discuss the ancestry of post-colonial criticism.

2. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?

3. How does Barry use the term "discourse" in relation to narratology? Who else used such term according to Barry?

4. What four areas of ecocriticism does Peter Barry identify?

5. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?

6. Briefly define "mimesis" and "diegesis" as determined by Peter Barry.

7. What is discourse as it relates to new historicism?

8. What are the ambitions of stylistics as defined by Peter Barry?

9. According to the narrator, what is one significant effect of post-colonial criticism?

10. Is stylistics confined to just the analysis of literature? Explain.

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