MTA Revision 301B

Question 1

Dub poetry is written to be performed, incorporates a music beat.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Semantic deviation can mean sense.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Multimodality is

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combining different verbal & nonverbal elements in the creation of meaning

Question 4

The most obvious human sign system is non-verbal language.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

According to Vladimir Propp, character is very much subordinate or secondary/minor to analysis of events

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

what is an in literary theory?

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a person, creature,or object playing any set of active roles in narratives

Question 7

Performance is seen as

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a composite text that includes verbal and nonverbal elements

Question 8

Turn-grabs occur when one of the participants

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interposes himself or herself into an interaction uninvited

Question 9

A displaced interaction in a text ...........

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is a text in which the context-bound interaction between author and reader, allows meanings to emerge indirectly and obliquely.

Question 10

what is Deviation?

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used to describe spelling and pronunciation of a word or a sentence, occurs in words, phrases and grammar deviating from expected meaning, leads to unexpected irregularity

Question 11

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia. This is:

Accepted Answer

Text patterning

Question 12

Propp's actants are:

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hero, sought-for-person, dispatcher, helper, donor, false-hero

Question 13

•Greimas introduced more complicated roles such as SUBJECT and OBJECT.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

What does dramatis personae mean?

Accepted Answer

identities or personalities in each story

Question 15

Deviation of words and meaning include rare dialect or foreign words or strange usage of figurative language.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

How the actions and events are clarified.

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Plot

Question 17

Leech classified semantic deviation into:

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1.Honest Deception, 1.Semantic Oddity, 1.Transference of Meaning

Question 18

Characterization means

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How characters are set up and developed

Question 19

What are Propp's character types?

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The villain, dispatcher, magical helper, princess, donor, False hero & hero

Question 20

Herman considers the contribution that turn-taking patterns make understanding of situations and character in plays.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

In view of Ruth Finnegan, the performance may be tailored to a particular audience.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

The plot is usually composed of:

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introduction, rising action, climax,falling action, ending

Question 23

•What happens through defamilarization?

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All the above

Question 24

what are the cooperative principle maxims?

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Quantity, Quality, Relation and Manner

Question 25

Julius Greimas (1983) believes that events are subordinate to character.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

what's the targeted function in bold: 'Hold on to your your hats! It's a breeeeezy one today!'

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expressive

Question 27

As for transitivity analysis, it implies the analysis of clauses in terms of:

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circumstances, associated participants, process types

Question 28

A text perceived as resulting from the additive interaction of several linguistic levels is recognized as more literary

Accepted Answer

Semantic density

Question 29

Maria Thomas suggests that play texts may be interpreted in a variety of ways.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

What is Turn?

Accepted Answer

the enactment of a speaker’s right to speak by taking an opportunity

Question 31

Hyperboles and ironies are examples of honest deception.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

what's the targeted function in bold: 'Hold on to your your hats! It's a breeeeezy one today!'

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Poetic

Question 33

When we use a type of speech or writing in another genre as writing advertisement in sonnet, intertextuality is formed.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

Semiotic is a science dedicated to the study of production of meaning in society.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

The ‘cognitive approach’ relates literary language to mental processes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 36

What is Dialogue?

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investigates how turn-taking is organized between the different characters

Question 37

what are Roman Jakobson’s Language functions?

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emotive, referential, poetic, conative, phatic and Metalinguistic

Question 38

•Greimas’ focus was characters, he wanted also to make his scheme less restrictive than Propp’s character roles.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

Metaphors and similes are examples of Transference of Meaning.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

Any consideration of literature in performance needs to take account of how the text is performed through:

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scenery and lighting effects, manner of delivery, dress, facial expression and body movement

Question 41

What is parallelism?

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combining of the same or similar sounds, repetition at the level of sound, grammatical structure or meaning, ‘unexpected regularity’ involving prominent patterns of repetition

Question 42

In view of Greimas the actants are:

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subject, object, sender, receiver, helper, opponent

Question 43

What is the Inherency approach?

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defines creativity at the level of language itself, treats artistry as residing within creative uses of language intrinsic with, sees literariness as embedding in certain formal properties of language

Question 44

Jakobson argues that a work of art is a message in which the poetic or aesthetic function dominates.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

Conversation analysis grew out of ethnomethodology.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 46

Ruth Finnegan relates her research to the developments in anthropology and folklore.

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True

Question 47

In Look Back in Anger, Herman focuses on aspects of turn-taking:

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1.Turn order, 1.Turn allocation, 1.Turn-grabs, 1.Turn size and texture

Question 48

Saussure’s approach to language is based on paradigms and syntagms.

Accepted Answer

True

MTA Revision 301B

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MTA Revision 301B

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