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

2. In relationship to the "I" what does Culler suggest is a constant debate?
(a) Why it is important.
(b) What it means.
(c) Where it originates.
(d) If it matters.

3. According to some theorists, what idea was created by literature?
(a) Living by one's conscience.
(b) Being in love.
(c) Acknowledging one's significance.
(d) Creating a family unit.

4. What is the literary device that substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Spoonerism.
(c) Doppleganger.
(d) Amplification.

5. Who created "the mirror stage" theory?
(a) Peter McGregor.
(b) Emily Larson.
(c) Roofus Duff.
(d) Jacques Lacan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should a novel be according to Mikhail Bakhtin?

2. Using a word to represent a person, title, group, or similar is the use of __________.

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

4. Who was against the ideas that performative language could be humorous?

5. In Chapter 7, performative language phrases are not required to be _____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 5, what is rhetoric?

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

4. According to Culler, what prompts a reader to finish reading a novel?

5. What is the role of the narrator limited?

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

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

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

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

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

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