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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction: What is Literature?.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1993.
2. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
(a) Pendantic.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Peculiar.
(d) Profound.
3. According to Eagleton, what does his book try to demonstrate about a body of literary theory?
(a) That there is sometimes a body of literary theory that springs from and is applicable to literature alone.
(b) That there are several bodies of literary theory that spring from and is applicable to literature alone.
(c) That there is one body of literary theory that springs from and is applicable to literature alone.
(d) That there is no body of literary theory that springs from or is applicable to literature alone.
4. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?
(a) Inventiveness.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Literariness.
(d) Realism.
5. 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?
(a) "Don Quixote."
(b) "History of the Rebellion."
(c) "Tristram Shandy."
(d) "Animal Farm."
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
2. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
3. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
4. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."
5. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?
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