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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Ordinary.
(b) Secular.
(c) Spectacular.
(d) Religious.

2. What is the example Eagleton provides of a metalanguage, where one sign-system denotes another sign-system?
(a) The relation between philosophy and literature.
(b) The relation between philosophy and religion.
(c) The relation between literary criticism and literature.
(d) The relation between literary criticism and religion.

3. What text did Tzvetan Todorov attempt a grammatical analysis of so that the characters were nouns, their attributes adjectives, and actions verbs?
(a) Updike's "Rabbit."
(b) Twain's "Tom Sawyer."
(c) Boccaccio's "Decameron."
(d) Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment."

4. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
(a) Those with little knowledge of literary theory.
(b) Those with extensive knowledge of literary theory.
(c) Those who have specialised knowledge of literary theory.
(d) Those who have some knowledge of literary theory.

5. For Eagleton, how did the romantics usher a "forestalling of reasoned critical enquiry"?
(a) Because the word was seen as a refleciton of religious truths that you either saw or didn't see.
(b) Because the text was regarded as a reflection of society that you either saw or didn't see.
(c) Because the image was seen as material reality that you saw immediately.
(d) Because the symbol was regarded as an absolute spiritual truth that you either saw or didn't see.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?

2. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?

3. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

4. What is the difference between metaphor and metonymy?

5. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?

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