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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?
(a) Aesop and Aeschylus.
(b) Jane Austen and Stephanie Meyers.
(c) Proust and Joyce.
(d) Aristotle and Plato.

2. Lesbian theory that broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women is called "queer theory" or ________.
(a) Heterosexual examinations.
(b) Homosexual concepts.
(c) Homosexual education.
(d) Queer studies.

3. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(a) Murray.
(b) Washington.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Barry.

4. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.
(a) American.
(b) Russian.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

5. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?
(a) Sligh.
(b) Fowler.
(c) Roderick.
(d) Fletcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?

2. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."

3. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.

4. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?

5. According to the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," in its earliest phase, post-colonial criticism took as its main subject matter ________ representations of colonial countries and criticized these for their limitations and their bias.

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