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WorksheetsQ4-ST-3-CNF
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature?
Literary Theory
Critical Essay
Literature Review
Close Reading
What is an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text?
Marxism
Structuralism
New Historicism
Formalism
Which literary theory tend to focus on the representation of class conflict as well as the reinforcement of class distinctions through the medium of literature?
Structuralism
Marxism
Ethnic Studies
Gender Studies
What do you call the study of structure of literature itself rather than its social context?
New Historicism
Structuralism
Masculine Gender Theory
Post-colonial Criticism
Which study investigates the relationships between colonizers and colonized in the period post-colonization?
Ethnic Studies
Feminist Gender Theory
Cultural Materialism
Post-colonial Criticism
What is a collection of ideas and methods we use to understand literature?
Literary Theory
Literature
Literary Technique
Literary Elements
All are fundamentals of literary criticism except ____________.
The way we read is a choice.
Meaning is not absolute, it’s constructed.
There is a definite meaning of a certain literary text.
We can choose what lenses we apply and explore how each lens influences our interpretation of a text.
How do you define a “text”?
Anything that you can see with your eyes.
Anything that has something to do with literature.
Anything that can be read (also called a “work”)
Anything that has color and space.
Which of the following is an example of text?
Photos
Poems
Computer
Machine
What do you call the way of looking at a particular work of literature by focusing on a particular perspective and types of questions?
Critical lens
Criticism
Critical Essay
Critic
Which of the following is NOT an indicator of the best “lens” to use in analyzing literature?
Depends on what you want to look for
No one lens gives the clearest view
All lens is unlimited
Applying different lenses to the same text can reveal different features of that text.
How do we know what the author intended when writing a critical analysis?
It doesn’t matter.
Research on the background of the author.
Interview family and relatives.
None of the above.
Which of the following sentence is FALSE?
The intention of the author in writing a literary text in writing a literary analysis.
Authors convey messages both intentionally and unintentionally, so intent is irrelevant.
A creator’s intentions for their work are separate from the work itself.
We don’t need to know their intentions in order to analyze their work; the work exists independently.
All questions are asked in literary analysis except ____________?
What happens when you look at the text in this way?
What meanings emerge?
What are the multiple meanings supported by the text?
What is the intention of the writer in writing the text?
Which of the following is TRUE?
There is one perfect analysis, you just got to look for it.
There is no one perfect analysis because of the meaning of the text depends on the lens of the reader.
The author’s opinion about the text is greatly important before you analyze a text.
The meaning of the should be based on the interpretation of the author otherwise, it is invalid.
Which of the following is NOT a goal in teaching in learning literary theory?
To have tools to practice looking at texts in different ways.
To see what happens to meaning when you ask certain questions.
To focus less on being right, and more on being curious.
To set one standard analysis of one text.
What comes when the author try to send the message to a certain audience through a period of time?
Consistency
Change
Stillness
None of the above
What does a magnifying glass refer to when we analyze a text?
A. Critical lens
Glasses
Meaning
Audience
Which critical approach is most appropriate if you want to focus on the length of the text?
Formalist
New Criticism
Feminism
Marxism
What critical approach challenges the idea that there’s a unity to the text?
Post modernism
New Criticism
Psychoanalytic reading
Narratology
