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WorksheetsCRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
Total questions: 95
Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins
________ _________ emphasize the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.
Formalist Criticism
Literary Criticism
Feminist Criticism
________ _________ focuses on the roles, positions, and influences of women within literary texts.
Marxist Criticism
Feminist Criticism
Formalism
Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 possible answers)
historical criticism
formalism
feminism
gender role
Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 possible answers)
Reader-Response Criticism
Gender Criticism
Short Story
Sociological Criticism
What type of criticism focuses mainly on your own reaction to the text?
Archetypal Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Reader Response Criticism
New Criticism
In the fairytale 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
Archetypal Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Formalist Criticism
He is the proponent of Marxist criticism which literary works are viewed as the product of work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of class and ideology as they reflect, propagate, and even challenge the prevailing social order.
Nelson Mandela
Karl Marx
Joe Biden
Robert Scholes
It investigates the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it. This investigation includes the author's biography and the social milieu.
Formalist Criticism
Feminist Criticism
Historical Criticism
Reader response Criticism
Determine the critical approached use in this example:
Think of "Twinkle Twinkle" as an example. The reader would notice the repetition of the word twinkle and consider connotation and denotation of the word. It would notice the first person speaker of the poem. He would note the use of simile in the 4th line (like a diamond in the sky). He would note the refrain of the first two lines in lines 5 and 6, and he would mark the meter and the rhyme scheme. Once the poem was literally dissected, then the reader can consider how those elements work together to create the meaning of the poem as a whole.
Feminist Criticism
Historical Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Reader-response Criticism
Determine the critical approached used in the example:
Historical Criticism
Gender Criticism
Marxism Criticism
Feminist Criticism
It is sometimes called lenses, which are different perspectives we can consider when looking at a piece of several pieces of literature.
Critical Approaches in literature
Journalism
Argumentative essay
writing discourse
Determine the critical approach use in the graphic organizer:
Reader response criticism
Feminist Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Historical Criticism
Determine the critical approach use in the example:
Reader response Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Gender Criticism
Determine the perception of the critic in the example:
Feminist
Marxist
Formalist
Reader response
The following are feminist EXCEPT _________.
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
Psychological Criticism is based on the work of _____________.
Sigmund Freud
Karl Marx
Howard Gardner
________ emphasizes the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.
Biographical Criticism
New Historicist Criticism
Formalist Criticism
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
It argues that every literary work is a product of its time and its world.
New Historicist Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Biographical Criticism
It argues that we must take an author’s life and background into account when we study a text.
Biographical Criticism
Gender Criticism
Sociological Criticism
It is concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in a literary text.
Feminist Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Some sociological criticisms can be extracted from: (tick all 2 possible answers)
Marxist Criticism
Feminist Criticism
Formalist 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
It is sometimes called lenses, which are different perspectives we can consider when looking at a piece of several pieces of literature.
Critical Approaches to Literature
Journalism
Writing Discourse
This tries to balance the power of men and women in literature through writing books on women's empowerment.
Marxist
Reader-Response
Formalism
Feminism
This asks the question when was the work written?
Historical
Reader-Response
Biographical
Feminism
The life of the writer is reflected in the work.
Historical
Reader-Response
Biographical
Feminism
It focuses on the work itself.
Formalism
Reader-Response
Biographical
Marxist
This approach centers on the value of the society and how the values are reflected in the literary work.
Historical
Reader-Response
Marxist
Formalism
This answers the question of what is your interpretation of the literary work?
Historical
Reader-Response
Marxist
Formalism
He is the man behind Marxist criticism.
(a)
What approach will you use if you are going to critique the series "Ang Probinsiyano"?
(a)
This approach was used in studying the Bible.
(a)
This form of criticism tries to correct a predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a feminist consciousness.
(a)
This form of criticism points attention toward the idea that all language makes ideological statements about things like class, economics, race, and power.
(a)
This approach removes the focus from the text and places it on the reader instead by attempting to describe what goes on in the reader's mind while reading the text.
(a)
Critics in this approach see works as the reflection of an author's life.
(a)
This approach believes that all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself.
(a)
This criticism identifies the reason why certain literature survives the test of time which works well with the texts that are highly symbolic.
(a)
Which of the approaches to literary criticism asks and enables the reader to examine, explain and defend his personal reaction about a literary piece?
Formalist
Marxist
Moralist
Reader-response
Historical
In this book, each sibling rebels and forges her own path forward while dealing with 19th century gender norms. - The criticism made use of the _________________ approach.
Formalist
Feminist
Moralist
Reader-response
Historical
The author, Victor Hugo clearly re-creates the teeming Paris of the late Middle Ages, with its sharp roofs and narrow, muddy streets, as well as the people, customs, and pageantry of fifteenth century France. The cathedral inspired Hugo to write the novel and encouraged his life long passion for Gothic art and architecture. What approach was used in the previous statements?
Formalist
Feminist
Moralist
Reader-response
Historical
Robert Frost's "The Road not Taken" is consist of four cinquain, and has a rhyme scheme. - Which approach was utilized to evaluate poem?
Formalist
Feminist
Moralist
Marxist
Historical
Literary criticism is an opinion supported by evidence.
true
false
In critiquing a literary piece, we compare, interpret, analyze and revise.
true
false
Literary pieces can be oral or written.
true
false
The author is the only one who really knows the meaning of his literary work.
true
false
5. In the film "Inside Out", I have learned that crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life’s problems. - This is a statement that shows how the reader applied the _______________ approach in appreciating the literary work.
Formalist
Feminist
Moralist
Marxist
Historical
The Platform gives viewers a glimpse at what life looks like in a dystopian futuristic prison. Theirs is composed of vertically stacked cells, where inmates live in a somewhat real-life food chain. Each day at mealtime, food descends from above, feeding the upper tiers first and leaving those below them with only the scraps from above. - This can be analyzed through ______________ approach.
Formalist
Feminist
Moralist
Marxist
Historical
This critical approach in writing states that "meaning" arises as the reader experiences the text.
feminism
formalism
reader-response
marxism
Which of the following activity is NOT a question in doing the reader-response approach?
Examine/explain your personal reaction to a reading.
Explore why you like or dislike the reading.
Explain whether you agree or disagree to the author.
Analyze the elements of a short story.
It focuses on the structural purposes of a text/work. It is the study of a text/work without considering any outside influence.
feminism
biographical
formalism
reader-response
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
Who is narrating or telling what happens in the story?
reader-response
formalism
feminism
biographical
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
How do character, plot, and setting develop in the story?
formalism
feminism
marxism
biographical
This critical approach presents women as subjects of sociopolitical, psychological, and economic oppression.
formalism
marxism
biographical
feminism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
What are the attitudes toward women held by the male characters?
reader-response
feminism
formalism
marxism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
How do female characters perceive themselves in the text?
formalism
feminism
marxism
biographical
It concerned with issues of class conflict wealth, work, and and the various ideologies that surround these things.
marxism
formalism
feminism
reader-response
It critiques the economic structure behind all social conditions and historical changes in the work.
formalism
feminism
biographical
marxism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
How do issues of social and economic status affect the characters and events in the work?
reader-response
biographical
formalism
marxism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
How do the writer reflect his interest in the poem?
marxism
reader-response
biographical
formalism
This critical approach argues that a text doesn't really exist in a meaningful way until a reader comes along.
marxism
feminism
reader-response
formalism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
What is your interpretation of the poem?
formalism
feminism
reader-response
marxism
It emphasizes the roles, positions, and influence of women within a literary text.
formalism
feminism
reader-response
marxism
Formalist criticism is talking about ...
to determine how such elements work together with the text's content to shape its effects upon
readers.
by actual people and that understanding an author's life can help readers more thoroughly
comprehend the work.
to understand a literary work
by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that
produced it-a context that necessarily includes the artist's biography and
milieu.
Originally an offshoot of
feminist movements, gender criticism today includes a number of
approaches.
This approach reflects the effect that modern
psychology has had upon both literature and literary criticism. It's called ...
Psychological Criticism
Gender Criticism
Biographical Criticism
Historical Criticism
This approach "begins with the simple but central insight that literature is
written by actual people and that understanding an author's life can help readers more thoroughly
comprehend the work."
Formalist Criticism
Biographical Criticism
Historical criticism
Gender Criticism
According to you, Is it the same theory between Gender Criticism and Feminist Criticism?
Yes. It is same.
No. It's not same
This approach "examines literature in the
the cultural, economic, and political context in which it is written or
received," exploring the relationships between the artist and society.
Sociological Criticism
Psychological criticism
Mythological Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
Mythological Criticism is talking about ...
This approach "examines literature in the
cultural, economic and political context in which it is written or
received," exploring the relationships between the artist and society.
This approach emphasizes "the recurrent universal
patterns underlying most literary works."
This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that
"literature" exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a
transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader.
"Each text creates limits to
its possible interpretations."
This approach "rejects the traditional
assumption that language can accurately represent reality."
Deconstructionist Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
Mythological Criticism
Sociological Criticism
This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that
"literature" exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a
transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader.
Deconstructionist Criticism
Mythological Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
Sociological Criticism
A key goal for historical critics is to understand the effect of
a literary work upon its original readers. Is this definition talking about reader response criticism?
Yes. It's correct
No. It's wrong
Marxist criticism "can illuminate political and economic
dimensions of literature other approaches overlook." Is this statement talking about sociological criticism?
Yes. It's correct
No. It's wrong
______ tend to give us answers to these questions; what do we read, why do we read, and how do we read?
Biographical Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Critical Approaches
It focuses on economic, political, and cultural issues within a literary text.
Biographical Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Critical Approaches
It emphasizes the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.
Biographical Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Feminist Criticism
It emphasizes the importance of the author’s life and background into account when analyzing a text.
Biographical Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Feminist Criticism
_______focuses on the roles, positions, and influences of women within literary texts.
Biographical Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Feminist Criticism
This critical approach in writing states that "meaning" arises as the reader experiences the text.
feminism
formalism
reader-response
marxism
Which of the following activity is NOT a question in doing the reader-response approach?
Examine/explain your personal reaction to a reading.
Explore why you like or dislike the reading.
Explain whether you agree or disagree to the author.
Analyze the elements of a short story.
It focuses on the structural purposes of a text/work. It is the study of a text/work without considering any outside influence.
feminism
biographical
formalism
reader-response
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
Who is narrating or telling what happens in the story?
reader-response
formalism
feminism
biographical
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
How do character, plot, and setting develop in the story?
formalism
feminism
marxism
biographical
This critical approach presents women as subjects of sociopolitical, psychological, and economic oppression.
formalism
marxism
biographical
feminism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
What are the attitudes toward women held by the male characters?
reader-response
feminism
formalism
marxism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
How do female characters perceive themselves in the text?
formalism
feminism
marxism
biographical
It concerned with issues of class conflict wealth, work, and and the various ideologies that surround these things.
marxism
formalism
feminism
reader-response
It critiques the economic structure behind all social conditions and historical changes in the work.
formalism
feminism
biographical
marxism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
How do issues of social and economic status affect the characters and events in the work?
reader-response
biographical
formalism
marxism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
How do the writer reflect his interest in the poem?
marxism
reader-response
biographical
formalism
This critical approach argues that a text doesn't really exist in a meaningful way until a reader comes along.
marxism
feminism
reader-response
formalism
Identify the critical approach used in the given question/ point.
What is your interpretation of the poem?
formalism
feminism
reader-response
marxism
It emphasizes the roles, positions, and influence of women within a literary text.
formalism
feminism
reader-response
marxism
