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After reading "The Bride Comes to Yellow
Sky," by Stephen Crane, a reader may feel a sadness about the demise of the American
West and recall enjoying old Westerns on television. If the reader's writing focuses on
sharing these emotions and recollections, then the reader is committing what fallacy?
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intentional fallacy |
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emotional fallacy |
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affective fallacy |
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personal fallacy |
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If a reader is guilty of the heresy of paraphrase,
he has __________. |
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confused a paraphrase with an analysis of the text |
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not cited a paraphrase properly |
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used a paraphrase when inappropriate |
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misinterpreted the text, resulting in a false summary |
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| 3. |
An author writes a novel, meaning for it to
address a specific societal problem. If a piece of criticism focuses on assessing how well
the work reflects and fulfills the author's goals, the writer has committed __________.
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the intentional fallacy |
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the fallacy of assumption |
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the affective fallacy |
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the fallacy of purpose |
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| 4. |
What is the goal of the Formalist or the New
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to create new conventions which will be used to analyze texts |
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to find and interpret binary oppositions |
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to articulate and validate personal responses to a text |
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to discover a text's meaning independent of the author or the reader through analysis
of literary structure and technique |
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| 5. |
All of the components of a text (irony, tone,
figures of speech, etc.) work together, giving the text a sense of . |
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completeness |
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organic unity |
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association |
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tension |
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Through the integration of the elements of a text,
the meaning of a piece of literature is experienced by the reader. A Formalist may term
this meaning the __________ of the text. |
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interpretation |
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intention |
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dramatic context |
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achieved content |
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| 7. |
T. S. Eliot used this term to identify the key
object(s) or elements within a text that becomes the focal point for the reader's
emotional understanding of a literary work. |
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catalyst |
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objective correlative |
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dramatic context |
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sign-system |
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The recurrence of an image, such as horses in
"The Horse Dealer's Daughter," is often an important structure that the New
Critic examines. These recurring elements comprise __________. |
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motifs |
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allusions |
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conventions |
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symbols |
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| 9. |
A reader of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
realizes that the poem's imagery dramatizes two types of power: natural power and
political power. A Formalist might conclude that these are opposing forces that together
create __________ which is a key to the thematic meaning of the poem. |
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achieved content |
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ambiguity |
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tension |
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coherence |
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In "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," the
knowledge of Mabel's activities in the home before and after her father's death is part of
the story's __________ that contributes to an understanding of theme and character.
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objective correlative |
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achieved content |
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irony |
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dramatic context |
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