Formalism: Central Texts Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Formalism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. In which essay does Roman Jakobson talk about "literariness"?
"On Realism in Art"
"On the Sounds of Poetic Language"
"Sound Repetitions"
"Problems in the Study of Language and Literature"
Q. Which novel does Viktor Shklovsky discuss to demonstrate the distinction between "plot" and "story"?
War and Peace
Tristram Shandy
The Metamorphosis
Madame Bovary
Q. In which essay does Boris Eikhenbaum summarize Formalism as a theoretical movement?
"Art as Technique"
"Formalism as a Theoretical Movement"
"The Theory of the 'Formal Method"
"Problems in the Study of Language and Literature"
Q. Franz Kafka uses "defamiliarization" in the opening passage of which work of fiction?
Cane
The Metamorphosis
"Portrait in Georgia"
The Trial
Q. Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is based on which famous Shakespeare play?
King Lear
Othello
Hamlet
Coriolanus