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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. For what type of performative theory was Judith Butler known?
(a) Religious phrasing.
(b) Gender and sexuality.
(c) Political climate.
(d) Roles in the workforce.

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

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

4. Culler suggests that performative language aids is the understanding of ______________.
(a) Discourse.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Silence.
(d) Resolution.

5. According to Culler, when it comes to performative language, what is required to give a word or a phrase weight?
(a) Syllable count.
(b) Spelling.
(c) Repeatability.
(d) Origin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Poetry has the capability to influence what in its reader, according to Culler?

3. Who said "the child is father to the man"?

4. Who believed that performative language could be humorous?

5. What should appear at the end of a novel according to "Chapter 6, Narrative"?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, from where does unreliable narration typically come?

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

3. What is the occasional confusion that results from the use of metaphor?

4. What is first-person narration?

5. According to Aristotle, what three points must be contained within a plot?

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

7. According to Culler, how is rhetoric defined today?

8. What is poetics, as explained by "Chapter 5, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry"?

9. According to theorists, what gives the reader the most pleasure when reading a novel?

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

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