1. Direction: Identify the word being described in each statement. Choose your answer from the words below.
Nihilism
intertextuality
middle class
concerns
prose
poetry
ennui
1. It refers to that lethargic feeling wrought out of routine, out of the repetition of meaningless things.
2. It refers to the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or
implicit
3. These concerns involve marriage, property, and social propriety, which are shared by the social class
to which most novel readers belong.
4. These are poems that are written in paragraphs.
5. It refers to an attitude that finds meaninglessness in things, societal structures, rituals, habits, and
moral codes.​