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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Peter Barry uses an excerpt from which author to illustrate the analysis of narratologists?

2. According to the chapter "Narratology," Russian formalist Vladimir Propp identified how many actions in a tale with seven spheres of action to animate?

3. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?

4. According to Peter Barry, what is the subject of narratology common to all story-telling?

5. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is narratology?

3. Who was Karl Marx?

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

5. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

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

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

8. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

9. What is the aim of Marxism, according to the narrator?

10. Briefly explain new historicism as it is described by the author.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how deconstruction ties into post-structuralism. Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how women are represented by both men and women in a piece of literature that you have read in the past. Explain how this representation of women would be viewed by feminist critics.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and describe the organizational structure of New Historicism theory.

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