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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. What is the difference between metaphor and metonymy?
(a) In metaphor one sign is substituted for another; in metonymy one sign is privileged over another.
(b) In metaphor one sign is equal to another; in metonymy one sign is less than another.
(c) In metaphor one sign is privileged over another; in metonymy one sign is associated with another.
(d) In metaphor one sign is subtituted for another; in metonymy one sign is associated with another.

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) Art as Device.
(b) Film as Thought.
(c) Theory as Practise.
(d) Literature as Image.

3. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1917.

4. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
(a) Dominance.
(b) Struggle.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Rejection.

5. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?
(a) Someone who didn't have any codes at her or his disposal.
(b) Someone who had all the codes at her or his disposal.
(c) Someone who had intelligent codes at her or his disposal.
(d) Someone who had the right codes at her or his disposal.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, structuralism has proved that there is nothing _____ about codes.

2. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?

3. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?

4. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?

5. What kind of analysis is phenomenology, according to Eagleton?

(see the answer key)

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