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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Performative Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What culture put literary works into only three groups?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Romans.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Swiss.

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

3. According to Chapter 6, what type of narration typically occurs when the point of view is limited?
(a) Fantastical.
(b) Accurate.
(c) Derisive.
(d) Unreliable.

4. Why do theorists study performance utterances?
(a) To understand whether language acts.
(b) To understand Latin phrases.
(c) To question political bias in writing.
(d) To question the realism in words.

5. What did Derrida discover in Rousseau's work?
(a) Absolutes.
(b) Many structures.
(c) Russian phrases.
(d) Mystical images.

Short Answer Questions

1. Literature, according to Culler, has the ability to do what for ideology?

2. According to Culler, what power is given to literature by literary performatives?

3. On a grand scale, scholars believe literature to have the capability to speak for __________.

4. Focault warned the masses to be wary of _________.

5. In order to understand language as a system, what must a linguist examine regarding its meaning and form?

(see the answer key)

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