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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 adjective describes a narrator who knows everything, even thoughts of other characters?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Productive.
(c) Intuitive.
(d) Omniscient.

2. In Culler's opinion, to what is rhetoric related?
(a) Poetics.
(b) Blasphemy.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Metaphor.

3. Why do theorists study performance utterances?
(a) To understand whether language acts.
(b) To question the realism in words.
(c) To question political bias in writing.
(d) To understand Latin phrases.

4. Who was Judith Butler?
(a) An American philospher.
(b) A published fiction writer.
(c) A famous French speaker.
(d) A Harvard professor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When it comes to the "I" created in society, theorists suggest that the "I" is subjected to what influences?

2. Who was J.L. Austin?

3. In Chapter 8, what forms of entertainment encourage feelings and virtue?

4. Who was Nancy Armstrong?

5. Who is the narrator in "What Maisie Knew"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What type of work did Judith Butler pioneer?

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

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

10. According to Chapter 5, genre is very important to a reader. Why?

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