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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 type of poetry allows the reader to listen in on the narrator's thoughts?
(a) None of these.
(b) Lyric poetry.
(c) Nursery rhymes.
(d) Limericks.

2. In literature, what is learned when a character "finds" himself?
(a) Where he is standing.
(b) All of these.
(c) To whom he is related.
(d) Who he is.

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

4. According to Culler, theory demands a promise to keep ____________.
(a) Asking questions.
(b) All of these.
(c) Reading.
(d) Thinking.

5. Who asserts that the interpretation of metaphor is often reliant upon another metaphor?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Derrida.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Chapter 6, what is the purpose of withholding information from a reader?

4. What is a typical theme in literature?

5. When a novel contains situations that should be intolerable, what are readers prompted to defy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In terms of the "I," what is the product of someone's core?

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

3. According to Chapter 8, in terms of the "I," what do literary theorists debate?

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

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

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

7. What type of work did Judith Butler pioneer?

8. What is first-person narration?

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

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

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