What is defamiliarization ?
Correct answer: D. All of the above answers are correct.
- A. A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality
- B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
- C. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit
- D. All of the above answers are correct.
Explanation
Defamiliarization, a concept developed by Viktor Shklovsky, makes familiar things seem strange so that habitual perception is disrupted and art's constructed nature becomes noticeable. Each of the first three statements describes an aspect of this technique, making all of them correct.
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