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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Culler, when it comes to performative language, words create their own __________.
(a) Plot and story function.
(b) Humorous take on humanity.
(c) Reality.
(d) Legacy for a situation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what is a requirement for the believable appearance of literary performatives?

2. Culler suggests that the occasional confusion that results from the use of metaphor is due to __________.

3. According to Chapter 6, what type of narration typically occurs when the point of view is limited?

4. According to Culler, what do many novels teach about heartache?

5. According to Culler, poetry's imagery has the power of ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Chapter 5, what is rhetoric?

2. Who believed that performative language had to be serious in order to set a standard?

3. What is the ultimate goal of literary theory, according to "Chapter 8, Identity, Identification, and the Subject"?

4. What is first-person narration?

5. What is the function of a narrator within a novel?

6. According to Chapter 7, who developed the idea of performative language?

7. During the Renaissance, what was the definition of rhetoric?

8. What is the role of the narrator limited?

9. Who created a portrait of the "modern individual"?

10. Why do some theorists believe that popular characterizations in novels create bad influences?

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