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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(b) Thomas de Quincey.
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(d) Saki.

2. What is thecritical approach which uses the methods and findings of the science of linguistics in the analysis of literary texts?
(a) Ambiguity.
(b) Stylistics.
(c) Intersubjectivity.
(d) Grammatology.

3. The chapter "Postcolonial Criticism" states that post-colonial critics celebrate hybridity and ________, which is the situation whereby individuals and groups belong simultaneously to more than one culture.
(a) Affective fallacy.
(b) Decorum.
(c) Cultural polyvalency.
(d) Constative language.

4. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Universals.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Connotative code.
(d) Tel Quel group.

5. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?
(a) Animal Farm.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) 1984.
(d) 8.25 Geneva to Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"?

2. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.

3. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.

4. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

5. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.

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