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

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

3. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?

4. According to the narrator, what is another term for ecocriticism?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four characteristics that define the term "Political Shakespeare"?

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

3. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

4. What are some of the advantages of new historicism?

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

6. What is narratology?

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

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

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

10. In what way does the narrator say queer theory differs from lesbian feminism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Analyze and discuss the ambitions of stylistics as described by Peter Barry.

Essay Topic 3

Distinguish modernism from post-modernism according to the book "Beginning Theory." Be sure to include the origin of both theories.

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