CISTERN: LIQUIDS : :

A．the extent to which Allison’’s characters have been marginalized by totalizingforces and ideas
B．Allison’’s gift for rendering the moral complexity of women that allows themto commit both good and evil acts
C．the scope and variety of the female characters found in Allison’’s body of fiction
D．the degree to which Allison embraces the notion of feminist literature as deriving from a tradition of negativity and reaction
E．the strength of the political interests Allison expresses through her characters

A．Words can be categorized into different grammatical functions.
B．Some relationship between signifier and signified can be articulated.
C．Every signifier points to a single pre-existing signified.
D．Words may name imaginary, non-physical things.
E．The use of categories is essential to the operation of language.