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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. Ecocriticism was a term that was applied to the work previously known as what form of writing?
(a) Nature.
(b) Nurture.
(c) Biological.
(d) Scientific.

2. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.
(a) Emotive language.
(b) Close reading.
(c) Surface structure.
(d) Constative language.

3. What was the name of the Nigerian novelist who published his first novel, "Things Fall Apart," in 1958, and was criticized by an early reviewer for affecting identity with African villagers?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(d) Chinua Achebe.

4. The panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian ________.
(a) Anthony Burgess.
(b) Ray Bradbury.
(c) Jeremy Bentham.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.

2. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.

3. During the 1980s, linguists consulted and incorporated non-linguistic material in which came to be called the ________, which had a limited degree of eclecticism and was less likely to claim that it alone studied literature in an objective way.

4. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?

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

3. What were some of the influences on early Marxist thinking?

4. What is the purpose of lesbian/gay criticism according to the "Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader"?

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

6. Discuss the three elements Aristotle identified in a plot. What key point does Barry suggest about timing as it relates to plot?

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

8. What is lesbian feminism?

9. Briefly discuss what post-colonial critics do according to the narrator.

10. Who was Karl Marx?

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