LIT CRIT QUIZ

It refers to the genre of writing whereby an author critiques a literary text. Literary texts include poetry and works of fiction like a short story, fables, fairytales, plays, myths, and novels.

• Literature

• Critiquing

• Literary criticism

• Masterpiece

It focuses on the power struggles of the characters.

• Reader response

• Marxist

• Feminist

• Structuralist

Marxist concerns class differences, economic, as well as the implications and complications of the capitalist system.

• TRUE

• FALSE

It analyzes textual representations from a woman’s perspective such as stereotyping and objectification of womanhood.

• Feminist

• Structuralist

• Moralist

• Marxist

Feminist does not examine how some aspects of our culture are inherently patriarchal or male-dominated.

• TRUE

• FALSE

It sees literature as both a reflection and a product of the times and circumstances in which it is written.

• Reader Response

• Historical

• Feminist

• Marxist

In Reader-response, literature may be judged according to how the reader _____ it instead of what the author _____.

• write/read

• read/write

• intends/perceives

• perceives/intends

In Reader response, the reader creates the meaning.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Why is it important to criticize a literary piece?

• enables judge if A certain literary work is worth reading

• helps to have a better sense of the work and form judgement about literature

• allows study different points of view

• all of the above

It analyzes a work in its eventful context and understanding the its period, author’s background and how it directly affect the author and possibly the characters of the text.

• Historical

• Moralist

• Structuralist

• Moralist