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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 Goethe, "life devoid of passion" is ___________.
(a) Meaningless.
(b) Typical.
(c) An honor.
(d) Difficult to achieve.

2. Who defined rhetoric as "the art of persuasion"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Michelangelo.

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

4. What is the literary device that is an over exaggeration of a word or idea?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Theme.
(c) Satire.
(d) Tone.

5. Who is the narrator in "What Maisie Knew"?
(a) A young man.
(b) A young woman.
(c) An adult, through the eyes of a child.
(d) A child, through the eyes of an adult.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is accomplished by literary performatives, according to Culler?

2. What is the goal of cultural studies, according to Chapter 3?

3. Many theorists believe that understanding the meaning of words in a text is ___________.

4. When a novel contains situations that should be intolerable, what are readers prompted to defy?

5. Thanks to cultural studies, the literary canon has succeeded in _____________.

(see the answer key)

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