Rhetoric and Narrative Structure Quiz
Rhetoric and Narrative Structure Quiz
If I remember correctly
thank God
3. 'it's good' (it's okay)
A) Personification
B) Hyperbole
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Hyperbaton
2. What linguistic or literary specialty does the structure refer to that considers adjunction, the
omission, investment, and substitution in your analysis?
A) Rhetoric
B) Stylistics
C) Semantics
D) Pragmatics
3. Where did the dramatic genre originate? Name an author that serves as an example.
sustain the response.
A) Rome 0 Petronius
B) France 0 Moliere
C) Greece 0 Aeschylus
D) England 0 Shakespeare
4. What is narration?
A) Textual document that contains arguments to be presented.
B) Texto que contiene la presentación de algún tópico o sobre un asunto.
C) Textual prototype that narrates one or more actions, facts, or events.
D) Prototype in the form of text that presents phrases spoken by characters.
5. What are the elements of the narrative structure that together determine the environment of a
story?
A) Rhythm and timelessness
B) Work and history
C) Actions and characters
D) Space and time
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7. What is the importance of using bibliographic cards?
A) Evidence that there is previous work analyzing several books.
B) Reveals that he has used various references and sources of information.
C) Provides support for the formality and credibility of the work.
D) Demonstrate that it has been based on books and documents.
8. What are the basic rules for making citations in the work done in the textual sheet?
A) Repeat the idea of a text without distorting it in any way.
B) Incluir una cita textual y un resumen sobre dicha cita.
C) Write in quotation marks, brief quotes, and an overarching idea.
D) Write personal ideas about what has been read with critiques and judgments.
9. Analyze the following excerpt from the text by Augusto Monterroso, 'The Black Sheep and Other Fables'
Finally, according to the cable, last week the Turtle reached the finish line.
In a press conference, he modestly stated that he always feared losing...
What type of reading would you do to enjoy said text?
A) Instructional
B) Recreational
C) Research
D) Formative
10. Based on various geographical and sociocultural factors, of the communicative intention and of the
context in which communication acts take place, speakers of a language use it
verbally and in writing in different forms. Select the levels or registers of the language that
correspond from the list:
1. Formal
[Link]
3. Vulgar
[Link] words
5. Inversion of order in pronouns
A) 2,3,5
B) 1,4,5
C) 3,4,5
D) 1,2,3
12. If the first or third person singular is used for narration, what are the forms of
style employed by the author?
A) Subjective and objective
B) Direct and indirect
C) Basic and secondary
D) Formal and informal
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13. In general, what is the form of the narrative that involves a brief text with few characters and
a matter to resolve?
A) Correspondence
B) Story
C) Essay
D) Romance
14. What name is given to the set of oral sounds and graphic representations as a means of
communication and coexistence that contains the mental images of those articulated sounds
as an instrument of each individual's thinking?
A) Speak
B) Language
C) Communication
D) Language
16. When talking about the impact of new media (such as television, radio
and the Internet) and the techniques of propaganda, from the perspective of Haber theory plus
What phenomenon does it specifically refer to?
A) The entry of a massified and diverse society.
B) The emergence of a broader and more indiscriminate critical current.
C) The emergence of mass psychological phenomena.
D) The emergence of active participation of individuals in ideas.
17. A friend of yours who is also pursuing high school is having difficulty identifying the
different genres. Which of the following aspects would you recommend considering, when
Read analytical essay and literary texts to identify the genre.
Time period to which it corresponds
2. Structural elements
3. Characteristics
4. Author's intention
5. Origin of the work
6. Use of language
A) 2,3,4,5
B) 1,3,4,5
C) 2,3,4,6
D) 1,2,5,6
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A) Function
B) Extension
C) Communicative intention
D) Language to use
19. What is the fundamental difference between a fable and the narrative form called apologue?
A) The fable is written in verse.
B) The fable does not make social criticism.
C) The fable is shorter than the apologue.
D) The fable usually does not include a moral.
20. Who was it that, in ancient times, distinguished between tragedy and comedy, and described the parts?
of the tragedy?
A) Sophocles
B) Squirrel
C) Aristotle
D) Aristophanes
24. Identify the number of poetic syllables in each verse of the following stanza of a poem
known of Manuel Acuña:
Well! I need to tell you that I adore you, to tell you that I love you, with all my heart.
A) 7, 8, 7, 6
B) 7, 7, 7, 7
C) 9, 8, 8, 7
D) 7, 7, 7, 6
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25. Analyze the fragment of the nocturne 'A Rosario' and respond to what is requested.
26. Relate the elements of narrative text development from the left column with the
concepts that appear on the right.
27. What is the literary current or phenomenon that emerged in Latin America between the 60s and 70s?
Does it belong to Carlos Fuentes?
A) Latin American Boom
B) Kitsch in Latin America
C) Latin American crack
D) Postmodernism
28. Califica los siguientes enunciados como V si son verdaderos o F si son falsos, de acuerdo con
the historical and geographical context in which the following dramatic works developed.
Don Gil de las calzas verdes takes place in the Golden Age.
The car of the Three Wise Men is a contemporary drama.
Oedipus Rex is a Greek drama.
4. Comedies of Plautus and Terence is a Roman drama.
The Trickster of Seville is a Medieval drama.
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A) T, T, F, T, F
B) T, F, T, T, F
C) T, F, F, F, T
D) T, F, F, T, F
29. In the micro story "The Creation of Eve" by Álvaro Méndez, what phrase narrates the plot twist or conflict?
THE CREATION OF EVA
This will be called woman because it comes from man.
had been taken (Genesis). Adam felt
invaded by a deep drowsiness. And he slept.
He slept long, without dreaming of anything. It was a
Long journey in the darkness. When he/she woke up,
His side hurt. And he began his dream.
It was a long journey in the darkness.
B) Invaded by a deep sleep
And he began his dream
His side hurt.
30. Interpret what the author is trying to say in the following text.
Although philosophical issues concern
to everyone, not everyone
become a philosopher. For various reasons the
the majority clings so much to the everyday that the
one's own astonishment at life is relegated to
a second background. For children, the world
it's something new, something that provokes their astonishment.
31. Which option contains the names of writers that do NOT belong to 'the Contemporaries'?
the group of intellectuals and writers, who intended to mix intelligence with sensation?
A) Vicente Huidobro and Pablo Neruda
B) Salvador Novo and Pellicer
C) Pellicer and Villaurrutia
D) Pablo Neruda and Gorostiza
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32. What are the three types of expository works or texts?
A) Narrative, journalistic, and advertising.
B) Historical, narrative, and formal.
C) Literary, historical, and commercial.
D) Historical, journalistic, and educational.
33. What do you do if you are allowed to read the novel 'Pedro Páramo' by Juan Rulfo, and when you finish reading it,
It turns out that you couldn't understand her well?
A) You quit completely because you get overwhelmed quickly.
B) You reconsider your reading technique and try again.
C) Read several times until something sticks with you.
D) Rest for a while and later try the same technique.
34. Analyze the following list of authors and specify which of them the geographical environment does NOT
Does it have a great influence on your work?
Rómulo Gallegos
B) Horacio Quiroga
C) García Márquez
D) Carlos Fuentes
There is a genre, generally in verse, where the author recounts events of actions.
heroic that are foreign to him, endowing them with grandeur. The events are presented as so unreal
that can become legendary. What work of Greek literature belongs to that
gender?
A) The Oresteia
B) Oedipus at Colonus
C) The frogs
D) The Macla
36. In which movement is the work: "Pedro Páramo" by Rulfo located, in that lyrical and violent world?
that the living and the dead coexist in different planes, and that influences the work of authors like
García Márquez?
A) Impressionism
B) Magical realism
C) Surrealism
D) Realism
37. Kafka produced novels, stories, and other texts. Identify the option that only includes stories.
written by Franz Kafka.
["The sentence","The penitentiary colony","The Great Wall of China"]
["The Trial","The Castle","America"]
C) Ricardo and Samuel, The Metamorphosis
D) Letter to the Father, Notebooks in Octave, Diaries
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39. What do you do when reading a novel or a short story and new and unknown words appear?
for you?
A) You immediately omit the word because the context helps to understand the text and you continue.
with your reading.
B) Find a way to deduce its meaning from its context and if you can't achieve that
Skip to continue.
C) You try to deduce the meaning within the context and later verify it by looking it up.
dictionary.
D) You immediately look up the word in the dictionary or create a list of words.
unknown.
40. When a text says: 'a cup falls to the ground from the table' it refers to an event.
related to the change of state 'cup on the table' to 'cup on the floor'. This event
it can be characterized by the expression:
A) Fall to the ground
B) From the table
It could have been prevented.
D) Was it me or someone else?
41. What are the two meanings of the verb 'tratar', according to the context in the following sentence?:
In his book, García addresses craftsmanship, which is why the artisan guild has treated him well.
1. To confer, discuss or dispute verbally or in writing about a matter.
2. Subject a substance or material to a process to purify it, analyze it or give it other purposes.
properties.
3. To act well or poorly with a person, through deeds or words.
4. Seek the regulations for some purpose.
5. Communicate, relate to an individual.
6. To handle, manage, or dispose of a business.
A) 3, 6
B) 2, 5
C) 4, 5
D) 1, 3
42. Relate the types of linguistic context in the left column with their respective ones.
examples from the right column.
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43. What is the logical sequence that the following text should have, taking into account the parts
general aspects of an essay?
Development of philosophy
By stating 'I think therefore I am,' Descartes was assuming an idealist stance.
2. However, gradually philosophy took on the role of the science of sciences.
3. Philosophical positions are synthesized in idealism and materialism.
4. In a reflective, critical, and methodical manner, it seeks to explain the most substantial issues.
of the existing.
5. In ancient times, philosophy was understood as simple amoral knowledge, that is, the
search for the truth for the truth.
A) 3 4 5 2 1
B) 5 2 3 4 1
C) 5 2 4 3 1
D) 3 1 5 2 4
44. Why will the content of a text never be the same for all its readers?
A) Por sus conocimientos y experiencias previas.
B) For their different personal purposes.
C) Due to their current psychological moment.
D) Due to their socioeconomic conditions.
46. Assuming that the hypothesis of our work is "The scenes of the soap opera Sentimientos"
will present more sexual content than those of the soap opera Lady Carolina, and these, in turn,
more sexual content than the scenes of any other that has been seen." What will be the
keyword to search on the Internet?
A) Sexuality
B) Soap Operas
C) Content
D) Feelings
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48. What is the name given to the set of oral sounds and graphic representations as a means of
communication and coexistence that contains the mental images of those articulated sounds
as an instrument of each individual's thinking?
A) Language
B) Communication
C) Language
D) Speak
49. In general, what is the form of the narrative that involves a short text with few characters and
a matter to resolve?
A) Romance
B) Story
C) Essay
D) Correspondence
53. Why can hyperbaton be exemplified in the following text by Jorge Luis Borges?
Thank you, I want to give to the divine Labyrinth of dates and causes.
A) Because it includes and considers the context in which the original text is stated.
B) Due to the alteration of the logical order of words in the construction of the sentence.
C) Because it describes only a fragment of information representative of the whole.
D) For the exaggerated presentation of a fact, in order to highlight or ridicule it.
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54. Read the following text and according to its characteristics select what type of narrative
belongs.
"LA SOCIEDAD PRESENTECOMO MATERIA NOVELABLE" por Benito Pérez Galdós
How many received here honors similar to those you are graciously bestowing upon me in this
seriousness, they will certainly feel less disturbance than I do, before the duty of lecturing on
a literary theme worthy of you and this illustrious house. Courtesy and custom dictate
that upon entering this, which I can well call the supreme order of Letters, may be made
tests of critical abilities and solid knowledge in various subjects of Art, that
you cultivate with such glory.
But the one that you have brought to your bosom on this occasion, with the vote in which it has been
To always see more benevolence than justice, he has devoted his entire life to cultivating it.
anecdotal and narrative, and by the effect of the deformations that it produces in our being due to its use
exclusive to one faculty and its forced development at the expense of others, is almost deprived
in absolute critical skills, and the ideas and words do not obey him when he tries to
apply to the hard examination of the pilgrims' intellects that illuminated our nation and in
the strange Poetry, the Drama or the Novel.
A) Review
B) Comment
C) Essay
D) Reflection
55. What is the fundamental difference between a fable and the narrative form called apologue?
A) The fable is shorter than the parable.
B) The apologue does not make social criticism.
C) The fable is written in verse.
D) The apologue does not usually include a moral.
56. Among the following examples, select the text that corresponds to the narrative genre.
A) Ruth the Moabite goes to glean in the fields, even though she doesn't have even a meager field. She thinks that
God is the owner of the prairies and she reaps in a divine plot.
B) On a dark night, inflamed with yearnings for love, Oh! Fortunate adventure, I left without being
noted being and at my tranquil home (Saint John of the Cross).
C) Colonel Aureliano Buendía promoted thirty-two armed uprisings and lost them.
He had seventeen male children from seventeen different women, who were exterminated.
one after another in a single night, before the eldest turned thirty-five years old.
Gabriel García Márquez
D) Celestina—What is it, lady, that your ailment shows the signs of its torment so clearly in the
colors of your gesture?
Melibea—My mother, snakes are eating this heart inside my body.
Celestina—It is fine. That's what I wanted. You will pay me, crazy lady, the remainder of your...
ire.(Fernando de Rojas)
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57. Relate the examples on the right with the literary figure on the left.
59. Read the following verse and determine the rhetorical figure that is used.
Like me. Love, the angry condition, the blonde braids and the beautiful view I flee, with foot
already of the salty of my enemy celebrated in vain.
A) Epitheton, because it adds words to give greater emphasis to the sentence.
B) Hiperbaton, because the normal order of words is altered.
C) Hyperbole, because it alters the normal order of words.
D) Litotes, because it adds words to give greater emphasis to the sentence.
61. What aspects of an essay show the style that an author uses?
A) Expression of social and personal motivations.
B) The frequent use of quotes takes a position on the subject.
C) Clarity in the subject and use of short, affirmative sentences.
D) Formulation of wishes, aspirations, and awareness.
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62. What is the importance of using bibliographic cards in the preparation of works?
research?
A) Reveals that he has used various references and sources of information.
B) Demonstrate that it has been based on books and documents.
C) Proporciona respaldo a la formalidad y credibilidad del trabajo.
D) Evidence that there is previous work analyzing several books.
63. In the textual record, what are the basic rules for making citations of the work done?
A) Write personal thoughts on what you have read, with critiques and judgments.
B) Repeat the idea of a text without distorting it in any way.
C) Incluir una cita textual y un resumen sobre dicha cita.
D) Write in quotes, brief quotes and an overarching idea.
64. Which of the following elements do you consider to make a critical analysis of a text?
dramatic?
Rhetorical figures
2. Subject and lyrical object
3. Escenas
4. Historical and geographical context
5. Metric
6. Use of language
A) 1,3,5
B) 4,5,6
C) 2,4,6
D) 3,4,6
65. Relaciona a los principales exponentes del modernismo en América con sus nacionalidades.
66. In the micro-story 'The Creation of Eve' by Álvaro Méndez. Which sentence narrates the knot or entanglement?
THE CREATION OF EVE
She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man (Genesis).
Adam felt overwhelmed by a deep drowsiness.
And he slept. He slept deeply, without dreaming of anything.
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And he began his dream
B) It was a long journey in the dark
C) Invaded by a deep sleep
His side hurt.
67. Analyze the following list of authors and specify which of them the geographical environment does NOT
does it have a great influence on your work?
Rómulo Gallegos
B) Horacio Quiroga
C) García Márquez
D) Carlos Fuentes
69. What is the proposal of thesis novels such as Camus' "Nausea" and Luis' "Smallness"?
Coloma, according to its historical context?
The poet recited the composition.
B)
C)
D)
70. In which movement is the work: 'Pedro Páramo' by Rulfo located, in that lyrical and violent world?
that living and dead coexist in different planes, and that influences the work of authors like
García Márquez?
A) Surrealism
B) Realism
C) Magical Realism
D) Impressionism
71. What elements merge the author's interpretive cycle to transform it into a set of
ordered propositions?
A) The reflexive-interpretative scheme that merges all the elements.
B) The global structure of the work that integrates and harmonizes the creative cycle.
C) The structure of connection and coherence of the interpretative cycle.
D) The creative-artistic scheme that differentiates all the elements.
72. What resources do you use for your learning about the geographical context of a text?
A) All the resources that the institution proposes for the study of the module.
B) The bibliography that you have at your disposal personally or in the library.
C) The websites you find through a search engine or encyclopedias
digital
D) The internal or external advice that you find in the institution or on your own.
73. When Umberto Eco in his "Open Work" establishes that the notion of poetic suggestion is the
Based on the concept of openness, what quality of the text does it refer to?
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A) Encourage an approach to the text.
B) Specify and ignore everything.
C) Guide the reader in the development.
D) Suggest rather than say.
75. Assuming that the hypothesis of our work is "The scenes of the soap opera Sentimientos
will present more sexual content than those of the soap opera Lady Carolina, and these, in turn,
more sexual content than any other scenes that have been seen." What will be the
keyword to search on the Internet?
A) Content
B) Feelings
C) Sexuality
D) Soap Operas
76. What applicability do the knowledge of 'Texts and visions of the world' have in your life?
daily?
A) Allow you to access the structural elements of different academic and literary texts,
such as: novel, short story, fable, etc.
B) Provide you with the necessary elements for the analysis of given realities, whether past or
presents, through the realm of reading.
C) None, you only made an effort to pass the module, since it is not an area
what is easy for you or what you like.
D) To facilitate your analysis of readings in the academic field, both in this module and in
others that are related.
77. The phatic function of language focuses on the _________ and is used to ______________.
A) Referent - to inform of an objective fact
B) Sender - to reflect a subjective attitude of the speaker.
C) Channel - establish communication.
D) Code – referring to the language itself.
78. What is the name of the narrator who speaks in the third person and has knowledge of the
history, feelings, and thoughts of the characters?
A) Subjective
B) Omniscient
C) Character
D) Witness/goal
79. What are the elements of the narrative structure that together determine the environment of a
story?
A) Space and time
B) Rhythm and Timelessness
C) Actions and characters
D) Work and history
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Every narrative can be viewed from a two-level perspective: story and discourse.
Relate both levels to the interpretations indicated below:
Ordering and organizing to narrate an event
2. It focuses on the facts and the narrated event.
3. Linguistic-communicative modality of a fact
A) [Historia=1] [Discurso=3]
B) [Historia=2] [Discurso=1]
C) [Historia=1y2] [Discurso=3]
D) [Historia=2] [Discurso=1y3]
81. Where did the dramatic genre originate? Name an author who serves as an example.
to sustain the response.
A) Rome - Petronius
B) France - Moliere
C) Greece - Aeschylus
D) England - Shakespeare
83. Relate the following descriptions with the corresponding language functions
Description Function
It is used when the speaker (sender) uses the a. Representational or informative
language to express your feelings or reflect
a subjective attitude: I'm so hot! b. Expressive or emotive
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84. In the morphosyntactic analysis, different resources are presented. What are the resource and its
characteristics that are visualized in the following fragment of Francisco de Quevedo?
How you slip through my hands! Oh, how you glide, my age!...
A) Hyperbaton, as an alteration of the logical order of words.
B) Circumlocution, a roundabout way to arrive at a core meaning.
C) Parallelism, repetition of a syntactic structure.
D) Intercrossing, the verb is stated and then the noun.
85. What type of description is made in the following text? Justify with examples taken from it.
same text.
The blonde is the one who collects the fees from the vendors.
He has yellow teeth and blue eyes.
Her face is ugly, wrinkled, has a lot of strength, can carry up to a hundred chickens on her back..
A) Chronography –collect the fees
B) Character - has a lot of strength
C) Prosopography - yellow teeth, ugly face, wrinkled...
D) Parallel - force, holds up to one hundred chickens
86. Classify the following fragments with the subgenre that corresponds to them
FRAGMENTS
A. Where are you going, the unfortunate one / where are you going, sad for yourself?
I am in search of my wife / whom I haven't seen in a long time...
Where are you going, King Alfonsito / Where are you going, sad for yourself?
I am going in search of Mercedes / it has been days since I last saw her...
87. Choose the true statements regarding the characteristics of the lyrical genre.
The author reflects his intimacy and his objective view of reality.
The lyrical subject represents the voice of the writer himself.
Who writes is the one who reflects their way of thinking.
4. Lyric works are written in verse and poetic prose.
The expression of feelings or emotions is subject to a lyrical motive.
6. Its characteristic historical forms are the ode, sonnet, ballad, romance.
7. The communication circuit in the lyrical genre is sender, poem, and reader.
8. The lyrical subject acts as a narrator or character.
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A) 1,4,5,7
B) 2,3,6,8
C) 2,4,6,7
D) 1,3,5,8
88. According to the following fragment from: "El buscón", specify what the rhetorical figure is with
...They say he was of very good stock and, according to how he drank,
It's something to believe in.
A) Pleonasm, because it repeats similar expressions by redistributing the words.
B) Silepsis, because it uses both the literal and figurative meaning of the same word.
C) Prosopopeia, because it uses the literal and figurative meaning of the same word.
D) Chiasmus, because it repeats similar expressions redistributing the words.
90. When developing an essay, considering that it is re-read, restructured, and reviewed, what is
what is desirable in that process?
A) Hacer dos textos posibles.
B) Outline the content.
C) Prepare a draft.
D) Correct only at the end of the process
91. What is the genre that explains current events, in addition to complementing and deepening the
news?
A) Chronicle
B) Interview
C) Article
D) Report
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92. What is the name of the Chilean writer with a turbulent and tragic life, whose work he himself defines
how baroque and dionysian?
A) Vicente Huidobro
B) Pablo de Rokha
C) Pablo Neruda
D) Nicanor Parra
93. Select the option that contains writers of the Latin American Boom.
A) Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez
B) Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Carlos Onetti
C) Antonio Machado, Miguel de Unamuno, Ramón del Valle Inclán
D) Luis Cernuda, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salina
95. Which of the following statements present differences between a novel and a short story?
The story is longer than the novel.
The novel tells a straightforward and effective story.
The story has few characters and has a small number of climaxes.
4. The novel can be written in verse.
5. The story narrates a fictional event.
The novel only deals with the protagonist's problems.
A) 2, 4, 5
B) 1, 2, 6
C) 2, 3, 5
D) 3, 4, 5
96. Read the following excerpt from 'The Human Mourning' by José Revueltas and answer what is requested.
later.
Those beings understood that suddenly the
everyone's destinations were united and they were the
same thing, supportive and dark. Community
sudden ambitions, of sufferings...
What type of ideas from the author is it mainly referring to?
A) Religious
B) Scientists
C) Ethics
D) Social
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97. In the face of the exploitation of the Indians and Indigenous people, still in the first half of the 20th century, in
Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia or Mexico, what role were assigned to them by the writers?
Latin Americans in his work?
As a proletarian.
B) As a social outcast.
C) As a hypothetical figure.
D) As an isolated individual
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