Quiz on Structuralist/Formalist Approach

It is sometimes called lenses, which are different perspectives we can consider when looking at a piece of several pieces of literature.

• Critical Approaches in literature

• Journalism

• Argumentative essay

• writing discourse

________ _________ emphasize the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.

• Formalist Criticism

• Literary Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

A group of lines arranged together in a poem.

• Lines

• Stanza

How many lines are in this poem?

• 2

• 8

• 1

• 7

What type of stanza is this based on the number of lines?

• Couplet

• Quintain

• Sestet

• Octave

How many stanzas are in this poem?

• 1

• 4

• 8

• 3

Stanza three is what type of stanza?

• Tercet

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Octave

How can we describe this poem in terms of stanza?

• 4 stanza poem written in tercets

• 3 stanza poem written in quatrains

• 1 stanza poem written in octave

• 3 stanza poem written in tercets

How are rhyme schemes labeled?

• Using the end sound of the first word on each line

• Using the end sound of the middle word on each line

• Using the end sound of the last word on each line

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem:

My cat is nice.

My cat is fat.

My cat eats mice.

I like my cat.

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCB

• BABA