FORMALIST APPROACH

What literary criticism approach analyzes the structure or form of each individual part of a story and it focuses only on the text itself?

• Moralist Approach

• Formalist Approach

• Marxist Approach

• Historical Approach

Which of the following is TRUE about formalism?

• It is concerned with the historical events outside of the story, cultural, and religious beliefs.

• It uses quick reading to get the main idea of the text and compare it with other related works.

• It analyzes the work as a whole, the form of each individual part of the text from the individual scenes and chapters, elements, and literary devices.

• It analyzes the social issues being conveyed in the story.

Which of these features of a text would a formalist critic be most interested in?

• Structure

• Author

• Reader

• Length

What element in a literary work is described as the series of related events?

• Theme

• Plot

• Rising Action

• Setting

How to analyze a text using formalist approach?

• Examine a text including the biographical information about the author and the effect on the reader.

• Scrutinize the point of view, structure, social and political ideas.

• Analyze how the elements work together to give meaning to the text.

• Determine the social problems depicted in the text.