Literary Criticisms

He is the proponent of Marxist criticism which literary works are viewed as product of work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of class and ideology as they reflect, propagate, and even challenge the prevailing social order.

• Karl Marx

• Sigmund Freud

• Robert Scholes

• Plato

It focuses on the act of reading and how it affects our perception of meaning in a text lies with how the reader responds to it.

• Formalist Criticism

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Sociological Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

In the fairy tale Snow White, a prince is needed in order to wake up Snow White by giving her a “true love’s kiss”. This is demonstrating that women need, and have to rely on men to survive, when in reality women have every capability of surviving on their own.

• Gender Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

• Historical Criticism

3. 3.The way in which people become alienated from one another through power, money and politics.

• Marxist

• Moralist

• Formalist

• Feminist

5. 5. In a literature class, students are tasked to analyze a poem to determine its meaning, focusing on the rhyme scheme, meter, and other literary elements.

• Marxist

• Historical

• Moralist

• Formalist

6. 6. It supports the given idea, “Literature that is ethically sound and encourages virtue is praised while literature that misguides and corrupts is condemned.” What is the literary approach being described?

• Marxist

• Moralist

• Formalist

• Reader-response

8. 8. The speaker “I” in the poem “The Road Not Taken”, is in the middle of journey somewhere in a wood and stands between two roads that he had to choose. It shows the speaker see the two roads in front of him, when he writes “two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” What literary approach is present in the text?

• Formalist

• Marxist

• Moralist

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

• FEMINIST

• MORALIST

• FORMALIST

It examines complications found within a capitalist system, including social structures, wealth disparities and class hierarchies.

• HISTORICAL

• FORMALIST

• MARXIST

• MORALIST

A critique written about a novel that focuses on how a character relates to us because of his 'shared experiences' with us would be what type of criticism?

• Archetypal Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

• Biographical Criticism

• Reader Response Criticism