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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 form of narration tells a story from an "I" point of view?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) Second Person.
(c) First-person.
(d) Third Person.

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

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

4. According to Chapter 7, a declarative statement that promises action can be defined as ________________.
(a) Performative utterance.
(b) Performative thought.
(c) Performative action.
(d) Performative viewpoint.

5. What was Richard Rorty's area of expertise?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Science.
(c) Literature.
(d) Math.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of lyric is used in sublime poetry?

2. What non-fiction literary device does "Jane Eyre" mimic?

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

4. Who believed language is made up of a system of differences?

5. According to Chapter 1, what does literary theory often critique?

(see the answer key)

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