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WorksheetsFormalist Approach
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What literary criticism approach analyzes the structure or form of each individual part of a story and it focuses only on the text itself?
Moralist Approach
Formalist Approach
Marxist Approach
How to analyze a text using formalist approach?
Examine a text including the biographical information about the author and the effect on the reader.
Scrutinize the point of view, structure, social and political ideas.
Analyze how the elements work together to give meaning to the text.
Which of the following is TRUE about formalism?
It is concerned with the historical events outside of the story, cultural, and religious beliefs.
It uses quick reading to get the main idea of the text and compare it with other related works.
It analyzes the work as a whole, the form of each individual part of the text from the individual scenes and chapters, elements, and literary devices
Which of these features of a text would a formalist critic be most interested in?
Structure
Author
Reader
Which of the following refers to the evaluation, analysis, description, or interpretation of literary works?
Literary approach
Literary device
Literary criticism
A dark leaden-colored mass is creeping over the sky towards the sun. Red zigzags of lightning gleam here and there across it. There is a sound of far-away rumbling. A warm wind frolics over the grass, bends the trees, and stirs up the dust. In a minute there will be a spurt of May rain and a real storm will begin. Fyokla, a little beggar-girl of six, is running through the village, looking for Terenty, the cobbler. The white-haired, barefooted child is pale. Her eyes are wide-open, her lips are trembling.
What literary device is evident in the introduction of the story?
Symbolism
Metaphor
Imagery
The following are examples of sound devices except
Assonance
Anaphora
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
Who is the author of the poem "The Road Not Taken"?
Robert First
Pearl Buck
Robert Frost
Leo Tolstoy
What is the theme of the poem "The Road Not Taken"?
giving up hope
making a choice
enjoying the present
making wishes
It is the repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
repetition
onomatopoeia
assonance
alliteration
