Criticism

It focuses mainly on the structure and form of the literary piece

• Historical Approach

• Formalist Approach

This approach views literary works as reflections of the social institutions of the places where the pieces came from.

• Historical

• Marxist

A transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader.

• a.) Marxist

• b.) Feminist

• c.) Reader-response

• d.) Historical

This is an approach that aims to understand the impact of the piece to its original audience.

• Marxist

• Reader-Response

Why is it important to criticize a literary piece?

• helps to have a better sense of the work and form judgement about literature

• allows study different points of view

• enables judge if A certain literary work is worth reading

• all of the above

It refers to the genre of writing whereby an author critiques a literary text. Literary texts include poetry and works of fiction like short story, fables, fairytales, plays, myths, and novels.

• literature

• master piece

• critiquing

• literary criticism

it analyzes textual representations from a woman’s perspective such as stereotyping and objectification of womanhood.

• FORMALIST

• FEMINIST

• MORALIST

• HISTORICAL

It studies a text as only a text, its features like rhymes, cadences, and literary devices in an isolated way, not attempting to apply their own opinion. Example: In the analysis of haiku, the focus is five -seven-five syllables three lined structure of the poem and other literary devices that was used

• HISTORICAL

• FEMINIST

• FORMALIST

• MORALIST

It judges a literary work by their ethical teachings and by their effects on readers. Literature that is ethically sound and encourages virtue is praised.

• HISTORICAL

• FEMINIST

• FORMALIST

• MORALIST

It attempts to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting the text. It critics believe that no text provides self-contained meaning and readers have different ideas/meanings about the text.

• MARXIST

• FORMALIST

• READER-RESPONSE

• FEMINIST