Metamorphosis Literary Terms

Magic realism happens when (a)  

• Your dog answers you in Latin
• Wings sprouts on your back
• Your best buddy turns into a bug
• All the above

Surrealism does NOT include

• Blurring the lines between dream and reality

• Heads depicted as trees and vice versa

• Viewing reality in a novel way

• Rigid rules

When a Marxist critic reads a text, he or she _____________________.

• considers primarily how the women are represented in the text

• looks for the power struggles and these operate and with what consequences.

• looks for the themes of the story

• always reviews all types of documents such as government records, periodicals, periodicals, etc.

Freudism proposes that everyone is controlled by their Is, Ego, or Superego. The "Id" is defined as which part of your human personality?

• Based on morals and judgments about right and wrong

• Dealing with reality

• Meeting basic needs

Mostly realistic narratives that incorporate elements of fantasy and myth -- contains a realistic setting, magical elements, a critique of society, and a unique plot structure. (a)  

• Marxism
• Symbolism
• Magical Realism
• Freudism

The movement associated with socioeconomic status is

• Freudism

• Symbolism

• Marxism

• Animalism

Who developed a  psychoanalytic personality theory which involved the id, ego and superego?

• B.F. Skinner
• Erik Erikson
• Sigmund Freud
• William Golding

A story is "Kafkaesque" if it has which of the following traits? (Check all that apply)

• nightmarishly complex

• bizarre or illogical

• very logical and sensible

• distorted, even dangerous, for the characters

A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract (a)  

• Symbol
• Allegory
• Imagery
• Literature

Which of the following examples shows fantastic or dreamlike elements in the story?

• The servant girl gets on her knees to beg to be dismissed from her job and cries when she leaves.

• Gregor is transformed into a bug for no apparent reason, but his thoughts and reactions are still human and logical.

• Mr. Samsa tries to hurt Gregor by throwing apples at him when he escapes his room.

• Grete needs to get a job outside of the home to help provide for the family.