EAPP-CRITICAL APPROACHES

It is a paper in which the writer gives his careful judgement about the strengths and weaknesses of a piece of writing or a work of art.

• Critic paper

• critique paper

• reaction paper

• position paper

• concept paper

Which statement best describes critical approaches in writing critique?

• They involve analysis and objective interpretation.

• They are the different perspectives to consider in analyzing a piece of work.

• They serve as bases to make the critique paper substantial and content-sufficient.

• All of these

• none of these

This approach focuses on the relevance of women in a piece of work, particularly on how women are represented as subjects of sociopolitical, psychological and economic oppression.

• biographical

• patriarchial

• Feminism

• Formalism

This approach critiques the economic structure behind all social conditions as well as stresses on issues of class conflicts in a literary work.

• Feminism

• Formalism

• Marxism

• Reader-Response

This approach stresses the attachment of the reader's mind and their experiences in putting meaning and interpretation of a literary work at hand.

• Biographical

• Feminism

• Marxism

• Reader-Response

This approach focus on the structural purposes of a text/work without considering any outside influence.

• Feminism

• Formalism

• Marxism

• Reader-response

This approach emphasizes on the connection of the work to author's personal experiences to amplify meaning and relevance in the text.

• Biographical

• Feminism

• Marxism

• Reader-response

Excerpt of a critique:

It has six lines in a stanza, it is lyrical because it shows strong feelings and thoughts. It shows no rhyme (a,b, c,d,e,c). It is a hexameter consisting of six number of feet and shows repetition of phrases to invoke a strong feeling.

What critical approach is employed in the excerpt?

• Biographical

• Feminism

• Formalism

• Marxism

Excerpt of a critique:

"The poem explores the concept of justice and how it is applied in the Philippine society compared to our times in the past. For example, the use of money and power of government officials to cover up their mistakes in public. Evidently, the check and balance in the Phil. govenment to some extent are still alive and well, but, there are loopholes at some circumstances observable today."

What critical approach is employed in the excerpt?

• Feminism

• Formalism

• Marxism

• Reader-response.

Which approach will likely be used to answer these questions?

a. Who is telling the story in the piece?

b. How does the author create the mood and tone?

• Biographical

• Feminism

• Formalism

• Reader-response