Literary Criticism

It is the job of _______ critics to consider how these elements function and contribute to the form of the poem.

• Psychoanalysts

• Formalists

• Existentialists

• Feminists

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

§comparison, analysis, interpretation, and/or evaluation of works of literature.

• Stylistics

• Stylistic Analysis

• Literary Criticism

• Literary Critique

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

§essentially an opinion, supported by evidence, relating to theme, style, setting or historical or political context.

• Literary Criticism

• Literary Genre

• Literary Type

• Literary Critique

Literary Critiques can be published in scholarly journals

• True

• False

§Literary criticism is an in-depth analysis of a literary work:  novel, short story, play, or poem.

• True

• False

This was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century.

• Structuralism

• Formalism

• Psychoanalytic Criticism

• New Criticism

This is a form of applied psychoanalysis, a science concerned with the interaction between conscious and unconscious processes and with the laws of mental functioning.

• Structuralism

• Formalism

• Psychoanalytic Criticism

• New Criticism

it focused instead how human behavior is determined by cultural, social, and psychological structures.

• Structuralism

• Formalism

• Psychoanalytic Criticism

• New Criticism

is distinctive for its emphasis on the functional role of literary devices and its original conception of literary history.

• Structuralism

• Formalism

• Psychoanalytic Criticism

• New Criticism

This is a type of analytical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary works.

• New Criticism

• Semiotics

• Archetypal Criticism

• Post Colonialism