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The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ?
A. Begin your paper with an introduction that identifies the purpose of the paper and the text you are addressing.
B. Compose topic sentences (four or five, perhaps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis.
C. Select specific passages in the text of the story that help you to develop each topic sentence.
D. Build your paper to a climax; save your most engaging or important topic sentence for discussion last.
With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
B. Jacques Derrida
C. Jacques Lacan
D. Michel Foucault
Detractors argue that such an approach can be too “judgmental.” Some believe literature should be judged primarily (if not solely) on its artistic merits. What approach possess this disadvantage ?
A. Psychological
B. Formalism/New Criticism
C. Moral/Philosophical
D. Historical/Biographical
“It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long gown maketh an advocate”. Whose view is this ?
A. Shakespeare’s
B. Marlowe’s
C. Spenser’s
D. Sidney’s
Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in______________?
A. The Elizabethan Age
B. The Neo-Classical Age
C. The Romantic Age
D. The Victorian Age
Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that ?
A. the meaning of a text always relies on context.
B. texts are always heterogeneous.
C. any system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?
A. Identify the Mode of Development
B. Analysis of the Author
C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
D. Identify External Factors Related to the Work
What is dialogism ?
A. A term developed by Mikhail Bakhtin
B. A term used to describe how texts include a variety of styles
C. A term used to explain the use of multiple points of view in literature
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning ?
A. Copying
B. Criticism of life
C. Representation
D. Interpretation
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