Narrative Theory: Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Narrative Theory? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which major theorist argued that the "minimal complete plot can be seen as the shift from one equilibrium to another"?
Roland Barthes
Mr. Miyagi
Tzvetan Todorov
Master Shifu
Q. Take a look at this quote: "The novels of Fleming exploit in exemplary measure that element of foregone play which is typical of the escape machine geared for the entertainment of the masses." Who said it?
Sigmund Freud
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Steven Spielberg
Umberto Eco
Q. Who wrote that "most important of all is the structure of the incidents. For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality"?
William Shakespeare
Socrates
Aristotle
William James
Q. Who suggested that "narratology has been mistaken in trying to arrive at a single definition and description of plot??
David Herman
Susan Lanser
Virginia Woolf
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Q. Who suggested that "the chronotope, functioning as the primary means for materializing time in space, emerges as a center for concretizing representation, as a force giving body to the entire novel"?
Mikhail Bakhtin
Viktor Shklovsky
Ted Nelson
Roman Jakobson