QUIZ ON INTERTEXTUALITY

Read and understand carefully the statements in every item. Choose the correct answer.

What do you call this literary technique used in intertextuality where an indirect reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character are used to extend meaning?

• Allusion

• Appropriation

• Parody

• Quotation

She believes that every text is affected by all the texts that came before it since those texts influenced the author’s thinking and aesthetic choices.

• Julian Kristeva

• Julie Kristeeva

• Julie Anne Kristeva

• Julia Kristeva

Which of the following is NOT a type of intertextual relationship?

• Allusion

• Citation

• Parody

• Adaptation

What do you mean by parody?

• A criticism

• A direct reference

• An intellectually humorous imitation

• A rewritten, more serious version of an original

This literary device is generally employed to imitate a piece of literary work light-heartedly, but in a respectful manner.

• Parody

• Pastiche

• Allusion

• Adaptation

When does intertextuality happen?

• When a text is directly referring to another texts

• When a text is indirectly referring to another texts

• When an already pre-existing work of art is ‘reworked’ by another either by applying new media into it

• All of the above

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

• Intertextuality requires citing or referencing punctuation.

• Adaptation is the ‘reworking’ or the ‘re-imagination’ of a well-known work of art or a piece of literature to change or extend its meanings.

• Appropriation technique refers to the use of direct reference to another text with the use of famous lines.

• Intertextuality is stealing other people's work.

The film “Bayaning Third World” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260731/) is a reconstruction of the life of the hero Jose Rizal. It was produced in part investigative-part documentary-part satirical style and shot entirely in black-and-white. What intertextuality technique was used by the film writer?

• Adaptation

• Appropriation

• Pastiche

• Parody

Which of the following is NOT be an example of intertextuality?

• A meme image made for President Duterte

• A writer paying homage to Shakespeare by adopting the themes and tones of the latter’s dramas

• A stage play on the book "Dekada '70"

• None of the choices

When John was still a child, one of their family bonding is to watch a play every summer. Now, John is an accomplished author, most of his works are based on the classics like Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. What can be true about John?

• He loves drama very much.

• He is well loved by his rich parents.

• He has adapted intertextuality in his works.

• He does not like Intertextuality to affect his way of writing books.