English Practice Test

The practice of analyzing literary work by using

the knowledge of the author’s life to gain insight

• Biographical Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

• Cultural Studies

• Sociological Criticism

Expresses the truth

or validity of an idea

• Negation

• Expression

• Literary Criticism

• Affirmation

A school of criticism that rejects the traditional

assumption that language can accurately

represent reality.

• Cultural Studies

• Deconstructionist Criticism

• Psychological Studies

• Sociological Criticism

A person’s social

environment.

• Milieu

• Rationale

• Literary Criticism

• Negation

A contemporary disciplinary field of academic

study that focuses in understanding the social

power encoded in “texts”

• Biographical Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

• Cultural Studies

• Sociological Criticism

The practice of analyzing literary work by

analyzing the social, cultural, and intellectual

context that produced it.

• Sociological Criticism

• Historical Criticism

• Cultural Studies

• Psychological Criticism

Where was Job from?

• Israel

• Jordan

• Gath

• Uz

How does the meaning of a text change as you reread it?

• Reader Response Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

• Philosophical Criticism

• Sociological Criticism

What does the work say about economic or social power? Who has it and who doesn’t? Any

Marxist leanings evident?

• Psychological

• Sociological

• Philosophical

• Marxist

Is the world ordered or random?

• Inter-textual

• Formalist

• Philosophical

• Sociological