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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 great thinker believed plot to be the most significant part of a story?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Beauvoir.

2. According to Chapter 6, what is the desired result after conflict within a novel?
(a) A plot twist.
(b) Resolution.
(c) More conflict.
(d) A sudden romance.

3. Interpretation is important in language because it can affect ______________.
(a) The meaning of a text.
(b) Its prestige.
(c) Who wrote the text.
(d) Who will buy the text.

4. In Culler's opinion, to what is rhetoric related?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Exaggeration.
(c) Blasphemy.
(d) Poetics.

5. Culler reports that the use of a genre can do what for a reader?
(a) Inspire creativity.
(b) Falsify facts.
(c) Create expectation.
(d) Limit reading ability.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 3, what creates tension within cultural studies?

2. Examining the time period prior to modern literature, in what fashion are these works of fiction analyzed for literary theory?

3. According to Culler, when it comes to performative language, what is required to give a word or a phrase weight?

4. Who is Mikhail Bakhtin?

5. How old is modern literature?

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