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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the literary device that substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?
(a) Spoonerism.
(b) Doppleganger.
(c) Amplification.
(d) Synecdoche.

2. According to Chapter 6, what do strong characters encourage readers to imagine?
(a) The conclusion of the story.
(b) Other people's lives.
(c) How to be better writers.
(d) A proper literary form.

3. According to Chapter 6, what do readers seem to enjoy in narratives?
(a) All of these.
(b) A satisfying conclusion.
(c) Plot twists.
(d) Interesting characters.

4. When it comes to the "I" created in society, theorists suggest that the "I" is subjected to what influences?
(a) Social.
(b) All of these.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Linguistic.

5. Who was against the ideas that performative language could be humorous?
(a) Derrida.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Steinam.
(d) Aristotle.

6. According to Chapter 8, what is the product of a subject's inner core?
(a) The core individual.
(b) The select individual.
(c) The natural individual.
(d) The false individual.

7. According to Culler, what do many novels teach about heartache?
(a) It is not common.
(b) It is part of life.
(c) It is fleeting.
(d) It is the end of life.

8. Who is Mikhail Bakhtin?
(a) A French theorist.
(b) A Russian theorist.
(c) An American writer.
(d) A Roman philospher.

9. What is accomplished by literary performatives, according to Culler?
(a) They present various concepts.
(b) They create a state of affairs.
(c) They educate theorists.
(d) All of these.

10. According to Culler, what is a classic ideal that appears in many novels?
(a) True love.
(b) Understanding of oneself.
(c) A moral lesson.
(d) Truth and justice.

11. According to Nancy Armstrong, what is a product of 18th century novels?
(a) The modern individual.
(b) The frazzled student.
(c) The strong man.
(d) The angry woman.

12. According to Cullers in Chapter 6, what form of literature has been studied the most in the 20th century?
(a) Non-fiction.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Plays.
(d) Novels.

13. According to Chapter 7, why can the study of utterances be confusing?
(a) Utterances can be similar.
(b) None of these.
(c) Utterances are not quantifiable.
(d) Utterances are typically in code.

14. Using a word to represent a person, title, group, or similar is the use of __________.
(a) Anthropomorphism.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Trope Metonymy.
(d) Bibliomancy.

15. In literature, what is it called when events take place opposite of expectation?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Point of view.
(d) Irony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture put literary works into only three groups?

2. What adjective describes a narrator who knows everything, even thoughts of other characters?

3. According to theorists, being lumped into a group identity poses what risk to an individual?

4. According to some theorists, what idea was created by literature?

5. The use of what literary device requires the combination of language and imagination?

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