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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."
(a) "A disproportion between signifiers and signifieds."
(b) "A disproportion between two signifieds."
(c) "A disproportion between one signifier for every other signified."
(d) "A disproportion between two signifiers."

2. What is the name of the pioneering essay the Russian formalist wrote that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Theory as Practise.
(b) Literature as Image.
(c) Film as Thought.
(d) Art as Device.

3. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) News.
(b) Novels.
(c) Decrees.
(d) Sermons.

4. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The text.
(b) The critic.
(c) The fiction.
(d) The facts.

5. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?
(a) Religion.
(b) Theory.
(c) Literature.
(d) Canon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?

2. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?

3. According to Eagleton, structuralism exposed what "shocking truth"?

4. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?

5. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."

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