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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. Who believed that performative language could be humorous?
(a) Roe.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Austin.
(d) Shakespeare.

2. What is a typical theme in literature?
(a) Character identity.
(b) Family demoralization.
(c) Deliberate violence.
(d) Character compassion.

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

4. Culler suggests that the occasional confusion that results from the use of metaphor is due to __________.
(a) The lyricism of the phrase.
(b) A literal interpretation.
(c) Repeat metaphors.
(d) The invention of new words.

5. What presents a story through the use of verbal patterning?
(a) Paragraph.
(b) Movement.
(c) Lyric.
(d) Theme.

Short Answer Questions

1. Culler suggests that performative language aids is the understanding of ______________.

2. According to Chapter 5, how should poems be read?

3. Instead of providing tested solutions, Culler teaches that theory aims to ____________.

4. According to Culler, what is rhetoric?

5. Who created "the mirror stage" theory?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, "Narrative," why is narrative appealing to readers?

2. What is the role of the narrator limited?

3. Who believed that performative language could be somewhat humorous?

4. What is first-person narration?

5. What type of work did Judith Butler pioneer?

6. According to Chapter 7, what is accomplished by attempting to identify literary performatives?

7. In terms of the "I," what do literary works offer?

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

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

10. Into what three classes did the Greeks divide literature?

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