Structuralism Quiz 4 (20 MCQs)

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1. According to Saussure the universal and innate capacity in human beings corresponds to .....
2. Linguistics help us to .....
3. The relationship between the signifier and the signified is:
4. According to Marx, what determines the change in the social system?
5. In Structuralism, the perspective of the author is
6. Wilhelm Wundt
7. FORMALISM connects the work of a particular author with works of similar structures, while STRUCTURALISM only analyses one particular work at a time.
8. It is an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices "within" the text.
9. Structuralism is primarily concerned with:
10. FORMALISM analyses the genre, mode, form and discourse while rejecting bibliographical, cultural, historical and social contexts, while STRUCTURALISM analyses universal, underlying structures in a text.
11. These are signs where the signifier is caused by the signified.
12. The ..... is the general philosophical theory of signs and symbols.
13. It deals about discovering the structures or rules that govern groups of literary works.e.g. narrative elements (plot, character, conflict, setting, point of view); there are certain principles or structures that can be found in all novels, or other types of literature.
14. According to Saussure the concrete use of the language that each individual has, corresponds to .....
15. According to the text indicate if the following sentence is true or false: "A structuralist approach in its general framework looks at the syntactic relations which are defined and exhibited in terms of operations" .
16. The signifier is perceived as resembling on imitating the signified. Which sign is being described?
17. When we understand something by what it isn't, we are using what?
18. It adds new information to the ongoing communicative action
19. How did the magazine cover of an African boy saluting the French flag support the mythology of the French Colonial Empire?
20. ..... focuses on micro scale of interpreting the society.