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Critical Approaches to Literature

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

________ _________ attempts to explain and evaluate literature. Critics attempt to create meaning by examining many factors.

a)

Literary criticism

b)

Short Story

c)

Postcolonial Criticism

2.

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

a)

Formalist Criticism

b)

Feminist Criticism

c)

Literary Criticism

3.

________ _________ examines the “universal” elements of human life as they occur across cultures.

a)

Mythological criticism

b)

Sociological criticism

c)

feminist criticism

4.

READER + READING SITUATION + TEXT = ____________

a)

MEANING

b)

PLAY

c)

STORY

5.

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

a)

Feminist Criticism

b)

Marxist Criticism

c)

Tenets

6.

__________ _________ emphasizes the importance of the author’s life and background into account when analyzing a text.

a)

Biographical Criticism

b)

Literary Criticism

c)

Postcolonial Criticism

7.

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

a)

Formalism Criticism

b)

Biographical Criticism

c)

Mythological Criticism

d)

Meaning

8.

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

a)

New Historic Criticism

b)

Psychological/Psychoanalytic Criticism

c)

Deconstructionist Criticism

d)

Story

9.

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

a)

Reader-Response Criticism

b)

Sociological Criticism

c)

Gender Criticism

d)

Short Story

10.

_______ ______ argues that because there is no single meaning of any word, there is no single meaning of any text.

a)

Deconstructionist criticism

b)

Construction criticism

c)

Good criticism