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Terry Eagleton defines 'Ideology' in literature as:

  1. The secret code embedded by authors to conceal their true intended meaning
  2. A set of personal beliefs that helps any individual make sense of the world
  3. The ideas and values that sustain and reproduce a particular social power structure
  4. The grammatical rules and syntactic structures that underpin a given language
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Correct answer: The ideas and values that sustain and reproduce a particular social power structure

For Eagleton, ideology is not just a personal belief but a social force. Literary works are viewed as products of ideology that often try to solve real-world social contradictions through fictional resolutions.

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