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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Identity, Identification, and the Subject.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The use of what literary device requires the combination of language and imagination?
(a) Verb.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Foreshadowing.

2. According to Culler, what power is given to literature by literary performatives?
(a) The ability to cause chaos.
(b) The ability to change the world.
(c) The ability to make the present obsolete.
(d) The ability to understand the world.

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

4. In terms of reading a literary work, Culler believes publication places what burden on a reader?
(a) Buying it.
(b) Understanding it.
(c) Sharing it with friends.
(d) Reading it.

5. According to Nancy Armstrong, feelings and personal qualities in characters became more important than _____________.
(a) Education level.
(b) Class distinctions.
(c) Beauty.
(d) The ability to be clever.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 2, which of the examples below cannot be considered literature?

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

4. What is the literary device that is an over exaggeration of a word or idea?

5. Rousseau was concerned that what form of communication could be easily misinterpreted?

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