Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase "to make the stones stonier" ?
Correct answer: B. Formalism
- A. Humanism
- B. Formalism
- C. Structuralism
- D. Poststructuralism
Explanation
The phrase comes from Viktor Shklovsky's account of defamiliarization, a central idea in Russian Formalism. Literary devices make ordinary objects seem strange and newly perceptible, making the stones appear “stonier.”
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