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WorksheetsUIL Literary Criticism
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
I study the language used in the literary work so that it is understandable.
Feminism
Formalism
Marxism
Structuralism
If Formalism is to Literary Devices,
then ____ is to Ladies' Lives.
Structuralism
Feminism
Marxism
The (a) literary approach investigates on the author's background so that the work can be connected to the writer.
Which among the following is NOT used in Formalism?
literary devices
figures of speech
elements of literature
grammar
In literary analysis, what does the term "theme" refer to?
The setting of the story
The main characters in the story
The central idea or message of the story
The sequence of events in the story
In literary analysis, what does it mean to "analyze the development of a theme over the course of a text"?
To describe the setting in detail
To explain how a theme is introduced, explored, and resolved
To list all the themes found in the text
To compare the theme of the text to another text
Which of the following best describes a "dynamic character"?
A character that does not change throughout the story
A character that undergoes significant internal change
A minor character that plays a pivotal role
A stereotype or clichéd character
LITERARY CRITICISM:
Identify the approach used...
The song FIREWORK by Katy Perry is rich in the use of the METAPHOR.
Formalism
Feminism
Marxism
Structuralism
Historical
Which among the following is a literary criticism for Feminism?
The song WHO RUN THE WORLD is an affirmation for female leadership.
The advertisement of Mcdo uses PAPARAPAPA as an expression of love.
The novel GOOD EARTH was written during the Old Chinese Dynasty.
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.
Reader-Response
Marxism
Historical
Formalism
You can use more than 1 literary approach in doing a Literary Criticism for the same literary work.
True
False
A figure of speech in which a part represents a whole
Eponymy
Synecdoche
Paronomasia
Portmanteau
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.
Reconstruction Era
Revolutionary War Era
Colonialism/Post-colonialism
Civil War Era
A word, phrase, statement, or idea that can be understood in more than one way
Ambiguity
Eponymy
Metonymy
Syntactic ambiguity
When the sentence or statement has ambiguous punctuation or syntactic structure.
Synecdoche
Ambiguity
Syntactic ambiguity
Hieronymus
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.
Primitivism
Historicism
Baroque
Archetype
Class of novel that depicts and explores the manner in which the protagonist develops morally and psychologically typically from youth to adulthood.
Zeitgeist
Individualism
Life World
Bildungsroman
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
Gestalt Philosophy
Objective correlative
Oedipus Complex
Dissociation of Sensibility
Philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it.
Existentialism
Post-structuralism
Impressionism
Post-Modernism
Literary writing by or about working-class people with an anticapitalist or prosocialist theme
Bourgeois
Dadaism
Proletariat
Dystopia
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
structuralist/formalist
Marxist
historical
moralist
structuralist/formalist
Marxist
moralist
feminist
Involves the understanding of the historical and cultural conditions that influence the production of the literary work
reader-response
feminist
moralist
historical
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) Formalism
B) Feminism
C) Marxism
D) Reader-Response
In literary criticism, which approach examines the power structures and class relations within a text, often highlighting issues of economic inequality?
A) Structuralism
B) Marxism
C) Formalism
D) Feminism
