Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which work by Roland Barthes examines everyday cultural objects and practices as systems of myth?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mythologies analyses advertisements, food, sport, fashion and other features of everyday culture as signifying practices.
• Barthes shows how historically produced meanings can be presented as natural and self-evident.
• S/Z focuses on narrative codes, while Camera Lucida discusses photography.
• The work is foundational to Barthes's cultural semiotics.
• Barthes shows how historically produced meanings can be presented as natural and self-evident.
• S/Z focuses on narrative codes, while Camera Lucida discusses photography.
• The work is foundational to Barthes's cultural semiotics.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In Barthes's theory, myth is best described as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Barthes defines myth as a second-order semiological system.
• A complete sign from the first level becomes a signifier at the second level.
• Myth is not limited to ancient stories and may operate through modern images, advertisements and public rituals.
• Its ideological force often lies in making cultural meanings appear natural.
• A complete sign from the first level becomes a signifier at the second level.
• Myth is not limited to ancient stories and may operate through modern images, advertisements and public rituals.
• Its ideological force often lies in making cultural meanings appear natural.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
What happens to a first-order sign in Barthes's model of myth?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• In the first-order system, a signifier and a signified combine to form a sign.
• That completed sign then serves as the signifier or form of the mythic system.
• A new signified is attached to it at the second level, producing mythic signification.
• The original meaning is not simply erased; it is partially emptied and redirected.
• That completed sign then serves as the signifier or form of the mythic system.
• A new signified is attached to it at the second level, producing mythic signification.
• The original meaning is not simply erased; it is partially emptied and redirected.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which distinction correctly identifies denotation and connotation?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Denotation refers to the relatively direct or primary level of meaning.
• Connotation refers to cultural, emotional and ideological associations attached to a sign.
• Barthes demonstrates that connotations may become naturalized and operate as myth.
• The distinction is central to analysing images, advertisements and literary language.
• Connotation refers to cultural, emotional and ideological associations attached to a sign.
• Barthes demonstrates that connotations may become naturalized and operate as myth.
• The distinction is central to analysing images, advertisements and literary language.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
A photograph denotes a soldier saluting a flag but connotes patriotism and national unity. Which concept best explains the second level of meaning?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The visible act of saluting belongs to the denotative level of the image.
• Patriotism and national unity are culturally associated meanings and therefore connotations.
• When such connotations appear natural or universal, they may function mythically.
• Parole and free indirect discourse belong to different linguistic and narrative contexts.
• Patriotism and national unity are culturally associated meanings and therefore connotations.
• When such connotations appear natural or universal, they may function mythically.
• Parole and free indirect discourse belong to different linguistic and narrative contexts.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
What does Barthes mean by a readerly text?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A readerly text guides the reader toward relatively stable and conventional meanings.
• It positions the reader mainly as a consumer rather than a producer of the text.
• Such texts tend to conceal their constructedness and offer an apparently coherent world.
• Barthes contrasts the readerly text with the more open and plural writerly text.
• It positions the reader mainly as a consumer rather than a producer of the text.
• Such texts tend to conceal their constructedness and offer an apparently coherent world.
• Barthes contrasts the readerly text with the more open and plural writerly text.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which description best fits Barthes's writerly text?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The writerly text encourages active participation in the production of meaning.
• It resists closure and foregrounds plurality, discontinuity and textual play.
• The reader becomes a producer rather than merely a consumer.
• This concept challenges the assumption that a text contains one final author-controlled meaning.
• It resists closure and foregrounds plurality, discontinuity and textual play.
• The reader becomes a producer rather than merely a consumer.
• This concept challenges the assumption that a text contains one final author-controlled meaning.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which work offers Barthes's detailed analysis of Balzac's novella Sarrasine?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• S/Z is Barthes's extended structural and poststructural analysis of Balzac's Sarrasine.
• The work divides the narrative into small units and traces five major codes.
• It also develops the distinction between readerly and writerly texts.
• The other listed works address writing, fashion and Japanese cultural signs.
• The work divides the narrative into small units and traces five major codes.
• It also develops the distinction between readerly and writerly texts.
• The other listed works address writing, fashion and Japanese cultural signs.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
In Barthes's narrative analysis, the proairetic code primarily concerns:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The proairetic code organizes actions and their likely consequences.
• It creates narrative expectation by linking one action to another.
• Cultural knowledge belongs to the cultural or referential code.
• Connotative traits belong to the semantic code, while deep oppositions belong to the symbolic code.
• It creates narrative expectation by linking one action to another.
• Cultural knowledge belongs to the cultural or referential code.
• Connotative traits belong to the semantic code, while deep oppositions belong to the symbolic code.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which narrative code in S/Z deals most directly with enigmas, questions and delayed answers?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The hermeneutic code organizes mysteries, unanswered questions and their gradual resolution.
• Delays and partial disclosures sustain the reader's curiosity.
• The semantic code produces connotative meanings, while the symbolic code organizes larger antitheses.
• The cultural code draws on shared bodies of knowledge.
• Delays and partial disclosures sustain the reader's curiosity.
• The semantic code produces connotative meanings, while the symbolic code organizes larger antitheses.
• The cultural code draws on shared bodies of knowledge.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which narrative code draws upon shared cultural knowledge, proverbs, sciences and accepted wisdom?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The cultural or referential code invokes socially recognized knowledge and authoritative discourses.
• It may include scientific beliefs, historical references, proverbs or conventional wisdom.
• The proairetic code concerns actions, and the hermeneutic code concerns enigmas.
• The semantic code gathers connotations around textual elements.
• It may include scientific beliefs, historical references, proverbs or conventional wisdom.
• The proairetic code concerns actions, and the hermeneutic code concerns enigmas.
• The semantic code gathers connotations around textual elements.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: Barthes's essay on the death of the author rejects authorial intention as the final authority over textual meaning.
Statement II: The essay argues that every text has only one legitimate interpretation fixed by its creator.
Statement I: Barthes's essay on the death of the author rejects authorial intention as the final authority over textual meaning.
Statement II: The essay argues that every text has only one legitimate interpretation fixed by its creator.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Barthes challenges the practice of treating the author as the ultimate source of meaning.
• Statement II is incorrect because the essay emphasizes textual plurality rather than a single authorially fixed interpretation.
• Barthes shifts attention from the origin of the text to its destination in reading.
• Therefore, option C correctly evaluates the statements.
• Statement II is incorrect because the essay emphasizes textual plurality rather than a single authorially fixed interpretation.
• Barthes shifts attention from the origin of the text to its destination in reading.
• Therefore, option C correctly evaluates the statements.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Assertion: For Barthes, the birth of the reader must be achieved at the cost of the death of the author.
Reason: Meaning is produced through the play of textual codes and reading rather than guaranteed by authorial intention.
Reason: Meaning is produced through the play of textual codes and reading rather than guaranteed by authorial intention.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion accurately summarizes the conclusion of Barthes's argument about authorship and reading.
• The Reason is correct because texts consist of multiple cultural writings and codes that readers activate.
• The Reason directly explains why authorial intention cannot remain the final interpretive authority.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because texts consist of multiple cultural writings and codes that readers activate.
• The Reason directly explains why authorial intention cannot remain the final interpretive authority.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason explains the Assertion.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Hermeneutic code
2. Proairetic code
3. Semantic code
4. Symbolic code
List II
I. Actions and sequences
II. Connotative traits and meanings
III. Enigmas and delayed answers
IV. Deep oppositions and reversibilities
List I
1. Hermeneutic code
2. Proairetic code
3. Semantic code
4. Symbolic code
List II
I. Actions and sequences
II. Connotative traits and meanings
III. Enigmas and delayed answers
IV. Deep oppositions and reversibilities
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The hermeneutic code matches III because it organizes enigmas and delayed answers.
• The proairetic code matches I because it structures actions and sequences.
• The semantic code matches II because it produces connotative traits and meanings.
• The symbolic code matches IV because it develops deep oppositions and reversibilities.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-I, 3-II, 4-IV.
• The proairetic code matches I because it structures actions and sequences.
• The semantic code matches II because it produces connotative traits and meanings.
• The symbolic code matches IV because it develops deep oppositions and reversibilities.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-I, 3-II, 4-IV.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which work by Barthes is most directly associated with the distinction between pleasure and jouissance?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Pleasure of the Text explores different forms of textual enjoyment.
• Barthes distinguishes conventional pleasure from the more disruptive intensity often described by the French term jouissance.
• The work treats reading as bodily, affective and resistant to rigid theoretical classification.
• Mythologies and Camera Lucida focus on cultural signs and photography respectively.
• Barthes distinguishes conventional pleasure from the more disruptive intensity often described by the French term jouissance.
• The work treats reading as bodily, affective and resistant to rigid theoretical classification.
• Mythologies and Camera Lucida focus on cultural signs and photography respectively.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
In The Pleasure of the Text, jouissance is most closely associated with:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Jouissance refers to an intense and unsettling form of textual bliss.
• It may disrupt cultural assumptions, reading habits and the reader's coherent sense of self.
• It differs from more comfortable pleasure associated with recognizable conventions.
• The concept is not based on moral instruction or authorial intention.
• It may disrupt cultural assumptions, reading habits and the reader's coherent sense of self.
• It differs from more comfortable pleasure associated with recognizable conventions.
• The concept is not based on moral instruction or authorial intention.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
In Camera Lucida, what does Barthes mean by studium?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Studium is the broad cultural, social and intellectual interest through which a viewer understands a photograph.
• It depends on learned codes and shared cultural knowledge.
• Punctum, by contrast, is the detail that unexpectedly pierces or affects an individual viewer.
• Barthes develops both terms in Camera Lucida.
• It depends on learned codes and shared cultural knowledge.
• Punctum, by contrast, is the detail that unexpectedly pierces or affects an individual viewer.
• Barthes develops both terms in Camera Lucida.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
What is the punctum of a photograph in Barthes's Camera Lucida?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Punctum is an accidental or striking detail that personally wounds, pierces or disturbs the viewer.
• Its effect is individual and cannot be fully reduced to shared cultural codes.
• Studium refers instead to the photograph's general field of cultural interest.
• The punctum may arise from a detail not deliberately emphasized by the photographer.
• Its effect is individual and cannot be fully reduced to shared cultural codes.
• Studium refers instead to the photograph's general field of cultural interest.
• The punctum may arise from a detail not deliberately emphasized by the photographer.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which pair is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Camera Lucida examines photography through concepts such as studium and punctum.
• Readerly and writerly texts are developed most prominently in S/Z.
• Mythologies correctly concerns everyday cultural signs and ideological myth.
• The Pleasure of the Text correctly explores pleasure and jouissance.
• Readerly and writerly texts are developed most prominently in S/Z.
• Mythologies correctly concerns everyday cultural signs and ideological myth.
• The Pleasure of the Text correctly explores pleasure and jouissance.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Myth can make historical meanings appear natural.
2. A readerly text invites unrestricted textual production.
3. The cultural code invokes shared knowledge.
4. Punctum names a personally affecting photographic detail.
1. Myth can make historical meanings appear natural.
2. A readerly text invites unrestricted textual production.
3. The cultural code invokes shared knowledge.
4. Punctum names a personally affecting photographic detail.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because myth naturalizes historically and culturally produced meanings.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because unrestricted productive participation is associated with the writerly text.
• Statement 3 is correct because the cultural code draws upon shared knowledge and accepted discourse.
• Statement 4 is correct because punctum is the detail that personally pierces the viewer.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because unrestricted productive participation is associated with the writerly text.
• Statement 3 is correct because the cultural code draws upon shared knowledge and accepted discourse.
• Statement 4 is correct because punctum is the detail that personally pierces the viewer.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
An advertisement presents luxury consumption as the natural expression of personal success. Which Barthesian analysis is most appropriate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The advertisement links luxury goods with success through culturally produced connotations.
• Myth makes this ideological association appear natural, universal and self-evident.
• The sign is not purely denotative because it carries social values beyond its literal content.
• Punctum is an individual photographic effect and does not require identical reactions.
• Myth makes this ideological association appear natural, universal and self-evident.
• The sign is not purely denotative because it carries social values beyond its literal content.
• Punctum is an individual photographic effect and does not require identical reactions.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Assertion: Denotation can function as the foundation for connotation.
Reason: A primary sign may become the signifier of an additional cultural meaning.
Reason: A primary sign may become the signifier of an additional cultural meaning.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because a denotative sign can support further associative meanings.
• The Reason is correct because the completed sign at one level may function as a signifier at another level.
• This layered process explains connotation and mythic signification in Barthes's semiotics.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the completed sign at one level may function as a signifier at another level.
• This layered process explains connotation and mythic signification in Barthes's semiotics.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which sequence correctly represents the formation of myth as second-order signification?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• At the first level, a signifier combines with a signified to form a sign.
• That first-order sign then functions as the signifier or form in the second-order system.
• A mythic concept is attached to this form, producing mythic signification.
• Therefore, option B presents the correct structural sequence.
• That first-order sign then functions as the signifier or form in the second-order system.
• A mythic concept is attached to this form, producing mythic signification.
• Therefore, option B presents the correct structural sequence.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A critic analyses a novel by tracing enigmas, action sequences, connotations, oppositions and cultural references without treating the author as the final source of meaning. Which Barthesian approach is being used?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The critic is applying the five-code method developed in S/Z.
• Enigmas, actions, connotations, symbolic oppositions and cultural references correspond to Barthes's narrative codes.
• Refusing to treat the author as the final authority also reflects the death-of-the-author argument.
• The approach therefore combines structural analysis with poststructural textual plurality.
• Enigmas, actions, connotations, symbolic oppositions and cultural references correspond to Barthes's narrative codes.
• Refusing to treat the author as the final authority also reflects the death-of-the-author argument.
• The approach therefore combines structural analysis with poststructural textual plurality.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which statement best summarizes Barthes's contribution to cultural semiotics?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Barthes extends semiotic analysis to fashion, food, sport, advertising, photography and other cultural practices.
• He shows that ordinary objects can communicate ideological values through denotation, connotation and myth.
• Their meanings are shaped by social codes rather than existing naturally or permanently.
• This extension of semiotics is central to modern cultural analysis.
• He shows that ordinary objects can communicate ideological values through denotation, connotation and myth.
• Their meanings are shaped by social codes rather than existing naturally or permanently.
• This extension of semiotics is central to modern cultural analysis.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Mythologies సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. A second-order system of signification సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. It functions as the signifier of a second-order system సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Denotation is the primary descriptive meaning, whereas connotation is the associated cultural meaning సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Connotation సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. A text that presents relatively fixed meanings for consumption సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. It invites the reader to participate actively in producing meaning సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. S/Z సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Actions and their sequential development సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. Hermeneutic code సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: D. Cultural code సమాధానం: D.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. 1-III, 2-I, 3-II, 4-IV సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. The Pleasure of the Text సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: B. Disruptive bliss that unsettles the reader's stable identity సమాధానం: B.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. The culturally informed field of general interest in a photograph సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: D. A detail that unexpectedly pierces or personally affects the viewer సమాధానం: D.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. Camera Lucida — readerly and writerly texts సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. It is a myth that transforms a cultural value into an apparently natural truth సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: B. First-order signifier and signified, first-order sign, second-order signifier, mythic signification సమాధానం: B.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. Narrative-code analysis combined with textual plurality సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. Everyday objects and practices can carry ideological meanings through systems of signs సమాధానం: D.