Midterm Literature

What does Literature mean?

• Written with poetic devices like rhyme, rhythm, and meter.

• The comparison, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of works of literature.

• Pieces of writing that are valued as works of art, especially novels, plays and poems.         

• A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

William Shakespeare is most associated with which period?

• Victorian

• Renaissance

• Romantic

• Post Modern

What is a key theme in the Romantic period?

• Technology

• Political Satire

• Religious Reform

• Nature and Emotion

Which literary technique was common in Old English poetry?

• Stream of consciousness

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Alliteration

Which period followed the Victorian period?

• Romantic

• Edwardian

• Renaissance

• Modernist

The term ‘kennings’ is associated with which period?

• Post Modern

• Old English

• Middle English

• Neoclassical

Which age is marked by the rise of novels and industrial themes?

• Victorian

• Neoclassical

• Romantic

• Post Modern

Which theory focuses on how women are represented in literature?

• New Criticism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Feminist Criticism 

Which theory emphasizes how readers interpret and construct meaning?

• Psychoanalytic Criticism

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Moral Criticism

• Structuralism

What is the main focus of Marxist Criticism?

• Personal emotions

• Gender identity

• Political and economic power

• Textual form