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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

2. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.
(a) Neoclassicism.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Philology.
(d) Neoplatonism.

3. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Mythology.
(d) Reason.

4. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Textual.
(c) Visual.
(d) Verbal.

5. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.
(a) The forfeit of the real.
(b) The loss of the real.
(c) The gain of the real.
(d) The knowledge of the real.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?

2. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

3. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

4. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?

5. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.

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