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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What human need, according to Culler, drives the desire to hear the conclusion of a story?

2. Who is Mikhail Bakhtin?

3. Who asserts that the interpretation of metaphor is often reliant upon another metaphor?

4. According to Culler, what attracts readers to a character?

5. When did J.L. Austin define the distinction between the various forms of utterance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is first-person narration?

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

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

4. According to Chapter 5, what is rhetoric?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is poetics, as explained by "Chapter 5, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the five points of literature, citing specific examples to illustrate each point.

Essay Topic 2

Within a novel, there are several different forms of narration. Identify one form of narration and answer the following questions:

1) What does this type of narration accomplish?

2) What is the relationship between the reader and this type of narrator?

3) What are the positives and negatives with this form of narration?

Essay Topic 3

Literary theory has the power to create new ideas and to destroy old ones. Write an essay on the power of literary theory to change a social mindset based on its social influence.

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