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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. What is characteristic about the events in Antiphrasis?

2. What letters are mixed up with adjoining words in Spoonerisms?

3. In what style is Spectral written?

4. What is different about the first man in Spectral?

5. What is wrong with the button in Philosophic?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast "Back Slang" and "Dog Latin."

2. What makes the narrator in the variation "Biased" a biased narrator?

3. Explain how "Ode" is different from the rest of the variations.

4. Explain the variation "Reactionary," and why it is titled "Reactionary."

5. Why do you think the author includes the variation "Interjections?"

6. Why do you think the author writes a separate variation for each of the five senses?

7. Explain the variation "Olfactory."

8. Explain how the basic story is changed in "Antiphrasis."

9. Explain the variation "Consequences."

10. What is apostrophe in literature? How is it used in the variation "Apostrophe?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast "Alexandrines" and "Sonnet," paying close attention to the forms of the sonnets.

Essay Topic 2

What is the theme of Exercises in Style? How do you know?

Essay Topic 3

What was Barbara Wright's role in Exercises in Style? What changes did she make to Queneau's exercises? Why did she make these changes?

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