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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Culler, what do literary theorists work to expose in literature?
(a) Inaccuracies.
(b) Underlying themes.
(c) Exceptional sentence structure.
(d) Bad writing.

2. According to Chapter 4, what effect should the words have on the reader?
(a) A subliminal message.
(b) An emotional response.
(c) All of these.
(d) An effect on imagination.

3. How old is modern literature?
(a) Two decades.
(b) Fifty years.
(c) Two centuries.
(d) One century.

4. According to Chapter 5, what is the goal in using a metaphor?
(a) To outrage the reader.
(b) To make the reader think.
(c) To invoke emotion.
(d) To confuse with whimsy.

5. Who believed that linguists have the ability to help others speak, read, and understand never seen before words and sentence structures?
(a) Beuford Wether.
(b) Guy Roach.
(c) Samson McHenry.
(d) Noam Chomsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said "the child is father to the man"?

2. In Chapter 2, it is suggested that British literature worked to do what among the classes?

3. What is the significance of published literature, according to Culler?

4. Who believed language is made up of a system of differences?

5. In Chapter 3, from what form of culture is pop culture developed?

(see the answer key)

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