Assess graduate students' foundational understanding of structuralist literary criticism by testing definitions and functions of core concepts (sign/signifier/signified, langue/parole, binary oppositions, narrative functions), recognition of principal thinkers (Saussure, Barthes, Lévi‑Strauss), and basic application: identify underlying structures or oppositions in a brief passage. Scope: introductory terminology, key principles, and short analytical identification tasks to evaluate comprehension and basic application.