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UIL Literary Criticism

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I study the language used in the literary work so that it is understandable.

a)

Feminism

b)

Formalism

c)

Marxism

d)

Structuralism

2.

If Formalism is to Literary Devices,

then ____ is to Ladies' Lives.

a)

Structuralism

b)

Feminism

c)

Marxism

3.

The (a)   literary approach investigates on the author's background so that the work can be connected to the writer.

4.

Which among the following is NOT used in Formalism?

a)

literary devices

b)

figures of speech

c)

elements of literature

d)

grammar

5.

In literary analysis, what does the term "theme" refer to?

a)

The setting of the story

b)

The main characters in the story

c)

The central idea or message of the story

d)

The sequence of events in the story

6.

In literary analysis, what does it mean to "analyze the development of a theme over the course of a text"?

a)

To describe the setting in detail

b)

To explain how a theme is introduced, explored, and resolved

c)

To list all the themes found in the text

d)

To compare the theme of the text to another text

7.

Which of the following best describes a "dynamic character"?

a)

A character that does not change throughout the story

b)

A character that undergoes significant internal change

c)

A minor character that plays a pivotal role

d)

A stereotype or clichéd character

8.

LITERARY CRITICISM:

Identify the approach used...

The song FIREWORK by Katy Perry is rich in the use of the METAPHOR.

a)

Formalism

b)

Feminism

c)

Marxism

d)

Structuralism

e)

Historical

9.

Which among the following is a literary criticism for Feminism?

a)

The song WHO RUN THE WORLD is an affirmation for female leadership.

b)

The advertisement of Mcdo uses PAPARAPAPA as an expression of love.

c)

The novel GOOD EARTH was written during the Old Chinese Dynasty.

10.

Identify which approach is used for this literary criticism: THE MOVIE, MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7, IS BASED FROM A TRUE STORY AS EXPERIENCED BY THE WRITER.

a)

Reader-Response

b)

Marxism

c)

Historical

d)

Formalism

11.

You can use more than 1 literary approach in doing a Literary Criticism for the same literary work.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

A figure of speech in which a part represents a whole

a)

Eponymy

b)

Synecdoche

c)

Paronomasia

d)

Portmanteau

13.

The concurrent project to reclaim and rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various forms of imperialism. Said and Spivak are major thinkers of this time and literary theorists.

a)

Reconstruction Era

b)

Revolutionary War Era

c)

Colonialism/Post-colonialism

d)

Civil War Era

14.

A word, phrase, statement, or idea that can be understood in more than one way

a)

Ambiguity

b)

Eponymy

c)

Metonymy

d)

Syntactic ambiguity

15.

When the sentence or statement has ambiguous punctuation or syntactic structure.

a)

Synecdoche

b)

Ambiguity

c)

Syntactic ambiguity

d)

Hieronymus

16.

The original model from which something is developed or made. In literary criticism, those images, figures, character types, settings, and story patterns are universally shared by people across cultures.

a)

Primitivism

b)

Historicism

c)

Baroque

d)

Archetype

17.

Class of novel that depicts and explores the manner in which the protagonist develops morally and psychologically typically from youth to adulthood.

a)

Zeitgeist

b)

Individualism

c)

Life World

d)

Bildungsroman

18.

A literary term first used by T. S. Eliot in his essay “The Metaphysical Poets” that refers to the way in which intellectual thought was separated from the experience of feeling in 17th century poetry

a)

Gestalt Philosophy

b)

Objective correlative

c)

Oedipus Complex

d)

Dissociation of Sensibility

19.

Philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it.

a)

Existentialism

b)

Post-structuralism

c)

Impressionism

d)

Post-Modernism

20.

Literary writing by or about working-class people with an anticapitalist or prosocialist theme

a)

Bourgeois

b)

Dadaism

c)

Proletariat

d)

Dystopia

21.

Holds that true meaning of a text can be determined only by analyzing the literary elements of the text and by understanding how these elements work together to form up a cohesive whole

a)

structuralist/formalist

b)

Marxist

c)

historical

d)

moralist

22.
a)

structuralist/formalist

b)

Marxist

c)

moralist

d)

feminist

23.

Involves the understanding of the historical and cultural conditions that influence the production of the literary work

a)

reader-response

b)

feminist

c)

moralist

d)

historical

24.

Which literary approach focuses on the text itself, analyzing its structure and use of literary devices without considering external factors such as author's intent or historical context?

a)

A) Formalism

b)

B) Feminism

c)

C) Marxism

d)

D) Reader-Response

25.

In literary criticism, which approach examines the power structures and class relations within a text, often highlighting issues of economic inequality?

a)

A) Structuralism

b)

B) Marxism

c)

C) Formalism

d)

D) Feminism