Learning Check 1 Review

Why are literary theories (lenses) important while reading?

(Select all the answers you believe to be correct!)

• They help us understand texts in new and challenging ways.

• They help readers uncover multiple meanings in a text.

• It helps represent only one person's interpretation of sensory or conceptual information.

• They require readers and scholars to agree on important themes.

• They help readers become aware of competing perceptions of truth

Which one of these is NOT a literary theory/lens that we discussed in class?

• Feminist

• Critical

• Cultural

• Historical

How would someone respond to this image using the feminist lens/theory?

• This ad does not speak for me because I hate being in the kitchen.

• This ad seems to have taken place in the 1950s which is historically when housewife propaganda posters were on the rise.

• Why would the creator of the ad think that women belong in the kitchen? This denies a woman's agency.

• The culture of this time must of supported the idea that all women loved being housewives.

Which of these is an example of a paradox?

• He found true freedom the day he stepped foot in federal prison.

• We watched the sunset in the evening. The sun glowed bright.

• Money is the root of all evil.

• Being kind is more important than being right.

What is a hyperbole?

• A comparison between two things that extends throughout the poem.

• Words that start with the same consonant sound that are close together in a line.

• A comparison using the words like or as.

• An exaggeration used for dramatic effect.

When using the reader response lens/theory it is possible for readers to come to more than one conclusion.

• True

• False

If a student was writing an essay using the reader-response lens to support the interpretation that Phyllis Wheatley was writing about injustice... which phrase from the poem best supports this idea?

• Some view our sable race with scornful eye

• benighted soul

• May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train

• T'was mercy brough me from my Pagan land