Critical Approaches

This critical approach in writing states that "meaning" arises as the reader experiences the text.

• feminism

• formalism

• reader-response

• marxism

Which of the following activity is NOT a question in doing the reader-response approach?

• Examine/explain your personal reaction to a reading.

• Explore why you like or dislike the reading.

• Explain whether you agree or disagree to the author.

• Analyze the elements of a short story.

It focuses on the structural purposes of a text/work. It is the study of a text/work without considering any outside influence.

• feminism

• biographical

• formalism

• reader-response

Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.

Who is narrating or telling what happens in the story?

• reader-response

• formalism

• feminism

• biographical

Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.

How do character, plot, and setting develop in the story?

• formalism

• feminism

• marxism

• biographical

This critical approach presents women as subjects of sociopolitical, psychological, and economic oppression.

• formalism

• marxism

• biographical

• feminism

Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.

What are the attitudes toward women held by the male characters?

• reader-response

• feminism

• formalism

• marxism

Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.

How do female characters perceive themselves in the text?

• formalism

• feminism

• marxism

• biographical

It concerned with issues of class conflict wealth, work, and and the various ideologies that surround these things.

• marxism

• formalism

• feminism

• reader-response

It critiques the economic structure behind all social conditions and historical changes in the work.

• formalism

• feminism

• biographical

• marxism