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WorksheetsCritical Approaches to Literature
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
________ _________ attempts to explain and evaluate literature. Critics attempt to create meaning by examining many factors.
Literary criticism
Short Story
Postcolonial 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
Feminist Criticism
Literary Criticism
________ _________ examines the “universal” elements of human life as they occur across cultures.
Mythological criticism
Sociological criticism
feminist criticism
READER + READING SITUATION + TEXT = ____________
MEANING
PLAY
STORY
________ _________ focuses on the roles, positions, and influences of women within literary texts.
Feminist Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Tenets
__________ _________ emphasizes the importance of the author’s life and background into account when analyzing a text.
Biographical Criticism
Literary Criticism
Postcolonial Criticism
Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 Possible answers)
Formalism Criticism
Biographical Criticism
Mythological Criticism
Meaning
Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 possible answers)
New Historic Criticism
Psychological/Psychoanalytic Criticism
Deconstructionist Criticism
Story
Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 possible answers)
Reader-Response Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Gender Criticism
Short Story
_______ ______ argues that because there is no single meaning of any word, there is no single meaning of any text.
Deconstructionist criticism
Construction criticism
Good criticism
