Put these theorists in chronological order.

• Aristotle

• Richards

• Cicero

• Hobbes

Who said "Today it [rhetoric] is the dreariest and least profitable part of the waste that the unfortunate travel through in Freshman English!"?

• Cicero

• Hobbes

• Saussure

• Richards

Structuralism looks at something as made up of _________ ​among entities rather than looking at entities themselves

Who talks about language as a "systematic structure of differences"?

• Aristotle

• Cicero

• Saussure

• Foucault

Match the following

• Form of word or phrase uttered

• Signified

• Combination of the other two parts

• Sign

• Mental concept

• Signifier

What is the name that Saussure gives to his study of language through structures of signs and symbols?

What is key to Saussure's theory of semiotics, and his view of language as a system of 'conventional signs'? (select multiple answers)

• No fundamental relation between sign, word, signified

• Meaning is fixed and inherently stable

• Meaning is not inherent in words but is produced through patterns of difference and similarity

• There is fundamental linguistic ambiguity

Who talks about the 'death of the author' and the implausibility of a 'single theological meaning' of a text?

• Saussure

• Barthes

• Foucault

• Richards

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Structuralism

,

(b) Poststructuralism

• Dysfunctionality of semiotics

• Functionality of semiotics

• Critique of logos

• Stability of language

• Instability of language

"Rhetoric, I shall urge, should be a study of (a)   and its ​ (b)   ."​ (I. A. Richards)

• misunderstanding
• remedies
• language
• meanings
• metaphor
• advantages
• structure
• consequences