Literary Criticism

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

• Historical

• Marxist

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

• Marxist

• Reader-Response

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

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

• Marxist

• Moralist

• Formalist

• Feminist

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

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

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