Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 109 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction Test | Final Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Culler, when it comes to performative language, what is required to give a word or a phrase weight?

2. What adjective describes a narrator who knows everything, even thoughts of other characters?

3. What is a typical theme in literature?

4. When a novel contains situations that should be intolerable, what are readers prompted to defy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does a rhetorical figure use language in poetry?

2. What is the function of a narrator within a novel?

3. Who believed that performative language could be somewhat humorous?

4. According to Chapter 8, in terms of the "I," what do literary theorists debate?

5. According to Chapter 7, what is accomplished by attempting to identify literary performatives?

6. What type of work did Judith Butler pioneer?

7. According to Chapter 5, what is rhetoric?

8. According to Chapter 5, genre is very important to a reader. Why?

9. What is first-person narration?

10. According to Chapter 7, who developed the idea of performative language?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the twentieth century, the novel became a focus in literary education and extremely popular among the masses. Create a supporting argument for the following statement, citing examples from the text: The novel is the most popular form of literature in the twentieth century due to a desire for readers to hear and tell new stories.

Essay Topic 2

Novels, like any good form of literature, offer the opportunity to educate the reader about different lifestyles and social injustice. Write an essay examining how and why the structure and delivery of a novel can achieve these objectives, citing examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the differences between constative and performance utterances.

1) What are the rules behind these two devices?

2) How do they affect the meaning of literature?

3) In what ways do they conflict with one another?

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