Formalism: Who's Who? 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. Who's the fellow who first tried to define the distinction between "poetic" and "practical" language?
Osip Brik
Lev Jakubinsky
Roman Jakobson
Boris Eikhenbaum
Q. Who came up with the concept of "literariness"?
Roman Jakobson
Yuri Tynyanov
Tom Stoppard
Shakespeare
Q. Who wrote "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'"?
Boris Eikhenbaum
Viktor Shklovsky
Laurence Sterne
Roman Jakobson
Q. Who made us familiar with the concept of "defamiliarization"?
Osip Brik
Roman Jakobson
Lev Jakubinsky
Viktor Shklovsky
Q. Who came up with the distinction between "story" and "plot"?
Yuri Tynyanov
Boris Eikhenbaum
Viktor Shklovsky
Lev Jakubinsky