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

2. What type of lyric is used in sublime poetry?

3. According to Chapter 8, what is the product of a subject's inner core?

4. What culture put literary works into only three groups?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What type of work did Judith Butler pioneer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the differences between constative and performance utterances.

1) What are the rules behind these two devices?

2) How do they affect the meaning of literature?

3) In what ways do they conflict with one another?

Essay Topic 2

Create an argument either supporting or refuting the following statement, citing examples from the text: Linguists argue that the very use of words can change the interpretation of a text based on who is reading it.

Essay Topic 3

For an author, the opportunity to be published is a hurdle to overcome when it comes to having a work declared literary. Why is publication so important to the literary process? Create an argument citing specific examples from the text.

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