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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. According to Chapter 4, what effect should the words have on the reader?
(a) A subliminal message.
(b) All of these.
(c) An emotional response.
(d) An effect on imagination.

2. According to the majority of theorists, who has the power to determine what can be known as literature?
(a) Readers.
(b) Professors.
(c) Society.
(d) Scholars.

3. When a narrator only knows certain things, what is the narration called?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) Productive limited.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Third person.

4. What is the purpose of literary theory, according to "What is Theory?"
(a) To prove writing wrong.
(b) To transcend ignorant readers.
(c) To tame the masses.
(d) To reflect on ideas.

5. According to Chapter 2, which of the examples below cannot be considered literature?
(a) Private journals.
(b) All of these.
(c) Instructional manuals.
(d) The phone book.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 5, why is rhythm important to a poem?

2. According to Chapter 4, what is Hamlet about on a deeper level?

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

4. In the West, most theorists believe language allows for _____________.

5. Who asserts that the interpretation of metaphor is often reliant upon another metaphor?

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