Practice Quiz

It is a careful analysis of an argument to determine what is said, how well points are made, what assumptions underlie the idea, what issues are overlooked, and what implications are drawn from such observations.

• Concept

• Critiquing

• Critic

• Reviewing

Like an essay, a ______ uses a formal, academic writing style and has a clear structure - introduction, body, and conclusion.

• Critique paper

• Writing

• Review

• Concept

This approach “examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works.”

• Feminism

• Gender

• Formalist

• Sociological

The focus of this approach is to determine how such elements work together with the text’s content to shape its effects on readers.

• Gender

• Formalist

• Content

• Reader-response

An offspring of gender criticism.

• Feminism

• Gender

• Masculinity

• None of these

This examines how the images of men and women in imaginative literature reflect or reject the social forces that have historically kept the sexes from achieving total equality.

• Masculinity Criticism

• Gender Criticism

• Feminism Criticism

• Sociological Criticism

It involves looking beyond the literature at the broader historical and cultural events occurring during the time the piece was written.

• Sociological Criticism

• Reader-response Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

• Historical Criticism

This theory recognizes the reader as an active agent who imparts “real

existence” to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation.

• Reader-response Criticism

• Reading Strategies

• Feminism Movement

• Formalism Theories

This type of criticism examines the type of language used in the text, as well as the patterns.

• Formalism

• Reader-response

• Sociological

• Content Types

This examines the events, dates, persons, places, things, and customs that are mentioned or implied in the text.

• Historical Criticism

• Sociological Criticism

• Gender Criticism

• Feminist Criticism