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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of study is approached clinically?
(a) Cultural.
(b) Literary.
(c) Nomanclature.
(d) Poetry.

2. According to Foucault's beliefs, what does society determine?
(a) Which ideas should invoke awe.
(b) Which ideas are interesting.
(c) Which ideas should be analyzed.
(d) All of these.

3. Using a word to represent a person, title, group, or similar is the use of __________.
(a) Anthropomorphism.
(b) Bibliomancy.
(c) Trope Metonymy.
(d) Synecdoche.

4. What type of lyric is used in sublime poetry?
(a) Extravagant lyric.
(b) Advanced lyric.
(c) Prolonged lyric.
(d) Foolish lyric.

5. What theory believes that language limits the ability to think?
(a) Johnson-Kater results.
(b) Sisley-Spear formula.
(c) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
(d) Morton-Gran conjecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of literary theory, according to "What is Theory?"

2. Culler reports that cultural studies typically focus on the lifestyle of whom?

3. What has literary theory helped add to the study of classics?

4. Why are cultural studies and literary theory not at odds with each other?

5. According to the majority of theorists, who has the power to determine what can be known as literature?

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