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Russian Formalism 0 / 15

Mar 4, 2022, 8:38 PM

Reshma Rajan

1. The 1970s witnessed a change in the humanities and social sciences reflecting a recognition of the 0 /1✘
importance of language in human meaning-making. This called the

○ Linguistic Turn
○ Aesthetic Turn
○ Interpretive Turn
○ Semantic Turn

2. Which of the following is NOT a feature of OPOYAZ? 0 /1✘

○ It was a movement founded at St Petersburg in 1916

The group included Victor Shklovsky, Boris Eichenbaum, Gerard Genette and Roman
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Jakobson
○ The members of OPOYAZ were linguists and literary historians
○ The group merged with the Moscow Linguistic Circle in the 1920s.

Gerard Genette is not part of OPOYAZ

3. The Russian formalist Osip Brik was also associated with 0 /1✘

Avant-garde
○ Movements

○ Stalinism
○ Realism
○ Fascism

4. The Socialist Party of the USSR were intolerant to the Russian Formalists and avant-garde artists and 0 /1✘
promoted

○ socialist realism
○ social realism
○ materialist literature
○ liberal humanism

5. Viktor Shklovksy begins his essay "Art as Technique" with the maxim "Art is thinking in images." This 0 /1✘
maxim is derived from

○ Alexander Potebnya
○ Vilem Mathesius
○ Leo Tolstoy
○ Dmitri Shostakovich

6. Which of the following is NOT a principle upheld by Prague Linguistic Society? 0 /1✘

○ The study of linguistic functions should be replaced by a historical study of language

○ Language is “a system of purposeful means of expression.”
○ Language changes should be viewed in a systematic and teleological way.
Sound as a physical phenomenon should be kept distinct from sound as an element of the functional
○
system
7. "Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important."--What principle of 0 /1✘
Russian Formalism does this point to?

○ literariness
○ formalism
○ defamiliarization
○ ostranenie

8. Shklovsky quotes the example of the story Kholstomer by Tolstoy to illustrate defamiliarization. What is 0 /1✘
peculiar about this story?

○ It is narrated from a horse's perspective

○ It is the autobiography of a dog
○ It tells the story of a narrator after his death
It tells the story of crime from the criminal's
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perspective

9. Who of the following first discussed the concept of Foregrounding? 0 /1✘

○ Jan Mukarovsky
○ Boris Eichenbaum
○ Viktor Shklovsky
○ Roman Jakobson

10. Which novel did Shklovsky praise as "the most typical novel in world literature"? 0 /1✘

○ Tristram Shandy
○ Anna Karenina
○ Tom Jones
○ Eugene Onegin

11. Which of the following statements is wrong? 0 /1✘

○ Poetry is based on contiguity, while prose is based on similarity

○ Poetry is metaphoric, prose is metonymic
Poetry is based on the principle of selection and prose on
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combination
○ All are correct

12. Who of the following argued that poetics may be regarded as an integral part of linguistics? 0 /1✘

○ Roman Jakobson
○ Viktor Schklovsky
○ Boris Eichenbaum
○ Jan Mukarovsky

13. Which of the following are the six functions of language according to Roman Jakobson? 0 /1✘

○ Emotive, Conative, Metalingual, Poetic, Phatic, Referential

○ Emotive, Conative, Metaphoric, Metonymic, Poetic, Phatic
Emotive, Conative, Metaphoric, Metonymic, Phatic,
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Referential
○ Emotive, Conative, Metalingual, Poetic, Phatic, Contextual

14. How is Structuralism different from Formalism? 0 /1✘

Unlike Formalism, Structuralism focuses on external factors such as authorship, social and cultural
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influence
○ Unlike Formalism, Structuralism analyses literary devices
○ Unlike Formalism, Structuralism focuses on the historical context of the text
○ Unlike Formalism, Structuralism focuses on sociological poetics
15. Which of the following are the seven charater types identified by Vladimir Propp? 0 /1✘

○ hero, villain, dispatcher, helper, donor, princess, false hero

○ hero, villain, lover, magician, outlaw, innocent, princess
○ everyman, static character, dynamic character, flat character, round character, villain, hero
○ None of these