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Question 1

Linguistic term used to describe word choices

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Diction

Question 2

What is the technical term for when one text makes reference to another text?

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Allusion

Question 3

What is the term for something that has a short text time for long story time?

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Acceleration

Question 4

A book cover like this one is specific kind of paratext. What specific sub-category of paratext does it come under?

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Peritext

Question 5

What is the Greek term for a classification or category of literature and/or discourse?

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Genre

Question 6

The raw material of a story is fabula.

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True

Question 7

“Had I known then that I would never see her again…I might have hugged her too.” is an example of what?

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Prolepsis

Question 8

Linguistic term used to describe rules governing arrangement of words in phrases, clauses, and sentences

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Syntax

Question 9

What is the difference between a prescriptive grammarian and a descriptive grammarian?

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Prescriptive advocates for rules while descriptive allows dialect

Question 10

This is an example of an intentional fallacy.

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True

Question 11

Linguistic term used to describe process of word formation

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Morphology

Question 12

Which of the general categories of narrative frequency best describes such athlete profiles?

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Iterative

Question 13

In the word “player,” the technical term for the “er” component is grammatical.

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True

Question 14

Which specific fallacy would a New Critic claim that the following analysis makes?

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Affective

Question 15

This is a component of the Rhetorical Situation:

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Topic, Purpose, Context/Mode/Media, Audience

Question 16

Individual speech acts

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Parole

Question 17

Diachronic is the current usage while Synchronic is the history of usage.

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False

Question 18

What is the term for something that has a long text time for brief story time?

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Deceleration

Question 19

According to the New Critics, what is the fallacy reader focuses on the emotional response that they receive from a text

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Affective Fallacy

Question 20

What single term goes into both of the blanks in the quotation below from Gerard Genette?

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Paratext

Question 21

__ is the amount of time a story exists within. __ is how long it takes for the audience to consume the piece of media.

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Story time; text time

Question 22

Of the following language elements, which contributes most to Yoda’s unique voice? (“Going to the store, I am”)

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His syntax

Question 23

What is made up of both the signifier and the signified?

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The sign

Question 24

Fill in the blanks.

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(1) transmission; (2) literary criticism; (3) bibliography

Question 25

All literary devices used to transform story into plot:

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Syuzhet (or sjuzet)

Question 26

Structure and rules of a language mastered by all native speakers

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Langue

Question 27

Name the rhetorical appeal that focuses on the character and/or reputation of the speaker.

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Ethos

Question 28

Rimmon-Kennan suggested that text time is “inescapably linear” because you cannot go back in time (can only read longer)

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True

Question 29

Punctuation changing the meaning of the sentence is one of the three “Purposes of Punctuation Marks”. Which one is it?

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Semantics

Question 30

What single term goes in the blanks found in the following quote from Bressler's Literary Criticism?

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Russian Formalists

Question 31

When you create _ in your writing, you answer the “So what?” question for your audience (more likely to read your work).

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Exigence

Question 32

When Kolln speaks of an internalized system of rules that accounts for your language ability what is she referring to

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Grammar

Question 33

Which Reader-Response theorist created the concept of “reception theory”?

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Jauss

Question 34

Is the transition between chapters an example of acceleration, deceleration or ellipsis?

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Ellipsis

Question 35

The term for an omission of text time for a given story time is: ellipsis.

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True

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