__views literature as the reflection of an author's life and times (or of the characters' life and times).
Literary Theory

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Marxist Criticism
Biographical Criticism
New Historicist Criticism
Psychological Criticism
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
__views literature as part of history, and furthermore, as an expression of forces on history.
Feminist Criticism
Marxist Criticism
New Historicist Criticism
New Criticism
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
__ involves a close reading of the text; all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself
Formalism/New Criticism
Archetypal Criticism
Psychological Criticism
New Historicist Criticism
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Cinderella's stepmother's conflict with her was driven by an unconscious rivalry for the love of her father, a concept Freud referred to as the Electra complex." This is an example of __
Archetypal Criticism
Biographical Criticism
Psychological Criticism
Feminist Criticism
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Cinderella features the misogynist theme of abused-girl- waiting-to-be-rescued-by-prince. Can't Cinderella save herself? Why is she in need of man? Can't a woman exist independent of man?" This is an example of __
New historicist criticism
Psychological criticism
Feminist criticism
Biographical criticism
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Cinderella is a representative of the proletariat:
oppressed by her bourgeoisie stepmother and stepsisters, who have stolen her rightful inheritance and turned her into a servant in her own home, and
desiring to join the ranks of the bourgeoisie by marrying the prince." This is an example of __.
Formalism/New Criticism
New Historicist Criticism
Feminist Criticism
Marxist Criticism
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"In Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan is exposed to key elements of Western civilization by the English colonists in Africa, building a common theme of Western culture as synonymous with being a civilized human."
Marxist Criticism
Formalism/New Criticism
New Historicist Criticism
Postcolonial Criticism
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