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

2. What era defined rhetoric as "the art of eloquence"?
(a) The Industrial Age.
(b) The Dark Ages.
(c) The Modern Age.
(d) The Renaissance.

3. What form of narration tells a story from an "I" point of view?
(a) Second Person.
(b) First-person.
(c) Third Person.
(d) Omniscient.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do theorists study performance utterances?

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

3. According to Culler, what power is given to literature by literary performatives?

4. According to Culler, what is rhetoric?

5. In Culler's opinion, to what is rhetoric related?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the role of the narrator limited?

7. What extra understanding does performative language allow an audience, according to theorists?

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

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

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

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