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WorksheetsCritical Lenses Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
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.
What does a magnifying glass refer to when we analyze a text?
A. Critical lens
Glasses
Meaning
Audience
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
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.
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.
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
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 the primary focus of a feminist critical lens in literature?
A) The representation of gender roles and power dynamics
B) The historical context of the text
C) The use of symbolism and metaphors
D) The author's personal biography
Which critical lens would you use to analyze the economic and social class structures within a text?
A) Psychoanalytic Criticism
B) Marxist Criticism
C) Formalist Criticism
D) Reader-Response Criticism
What does the term 'deconstruction' refer to in literary theory?
A) Building a narrative from scratch
B) Analyzing the text's structure and form
C) Challenging the idea of fixed meanings in a text
D) Focusing on the author's intent
