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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Identity, Identification, and the Subject.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who defined rhetoric as "the art of persuasion"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Michelangelo.

2. According to Culler, when it comes to performative language, what is required to give a word or a phrase weight?
(a) Spelling.
(b) Origin.
(c) Syllable count.
(d) Repeatability.

3. According to Culler, what do literary works offer their readers?
(a) Appropriate names.
(b) Models of identity.
(c) Detailed plans on how to revolt.
(d) None of these.

4. Who created the theory of interpellation?
(a) Jacques Bouvois.
(b) Shane Montgomery.
(c) Louis Althusser.
(d) Jacob Traventhorn.

5. Culler suggests that the occasional confusion that results from the use of metaphor is due to __________.
(a) Repeat metaphors.
(b) The invention of new words.
(c) A literal interpretation.
(d) The lyricism of the phrase.

Short Answer Questions

1. The way the plot is presented is referred to as the ________.

2. According to theorists, being lumped into a group identity poses what risk to an individual?

3. Words are formed due to the conventions of __________.

4. Interpellation studies the effect of ______________ in shaping an individual's actions.

5. What has literary theory tried to do for the classics?

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