Approaches to Literary Criticism

________ _________ emphasize the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.

• Formalist Criticism

• Literary Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

________ _________ focuses on the roles, positions, and influences of women within literary texts.

• Marxist Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

• Formalism

Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 possible answers)

• historical criticism

• formalism

• feminism

• gender role

Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 possible answers)

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Gender Criticism

• Short Story

• Sociological Criticism

What type of criticism focuses mainly on your own reaction to the text?

• Archetypal Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

• Reader Response Criticism

• New Criticism

In the fairytale 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

• Archetypal Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

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

• Feminist

• Marxist

• Historical

• Karlism

It investigates the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it. This investigation includes the author's biography and the social milieu.

• Formalist Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

• Historical Criticism

• Reader response Criticism

Determine the critical approached use in this example:

Think of "Twinkle Twinkle" as an example. The reader would notice the repetition of the word twinkle and consider connotation and denotation of the word. It would notice the first person speaker of the poem. He would note the use of simile in the 4th line (like a diamond in the sky). He would note the refrain of the first two lines in lines 5 and 6, and he would mark the meter and the rhyme scheme. Once the poem was literally dissected, then the reader can consider how those elements work together to create the meaning of the poem as a whole.

• Feminist Criticism

• Historical Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

• Reader-response Criticism

Determine the critical approached used in the example:

• Historical Criticism

• Gender Criticism

• Marxism Criticism

• Feminist Criticism