Final Review

Question 1

Psychoanalytic

Answer 1

Origins of the unconscious of a character, author, society, or story.

Question 2

Archetypal

Answer 2

Recurring image, character, plot, theme, etc.

Question 3

Biblical/Relgious

Answer 3

Religious symbolism and value are crucial to the plot, themes, characters, etc.

Question 4

Bio-centric critique science critical theory

Answer 4

Deals with the relationship between human and the natural world

Question 5

Revisionist

Answer 5

To refresh an old story with modern ideas

Question 6

Feminist Critique

Answer 6

Who has the power - men or women or equal?

Question 7

Biographical Critique

Answer 7

The author’s life is very important in understanding a piece of literature

Question 8

Historical Critique

Answer 8

Literature is a products of a specific time and place

Question 9

Mythological Critque

Answer 9

References to Greek and world Mythology

Question 10

Family/home critique

Answer 10

What is the “right” version of a family?

Question 11

Socio-Economic Critique (Marxist)

Answer 11

Who has the power? Is money the key to power and authority?

Question 12

Reader’s response review

Answer 12

Summarizing, clarifying, rating, predicting the text

Question 13

Phenomenology/ Cultural

Answer 13

How people living in specific societies relate to their existences

Question 14

Gender/Queer Theory

Answer 14

Are heterosexuals treated as “the norm?”

Question 15

New Criticism

Answer 15

Acts like a review but focuses on a works repetitions of symbols, images and rhythms

Question 16

Postcolonial

Answer 16

Investigates relationships between colonizer and colonized

Question 17

Formalist/Structuralist

Answer 17

Analyze the structure and rhetoric of a novel and whit it was written that way

Question 18

Round Character

Answer 18

Characters that are fully developed and multi-dimensional

Question 19

Dynamic Chracters

Answer 19

Characters that develop through the course of the story

Question 20

Flat Characters

Answer 20

Characters that are based solely on one characteristics

Question 21

Static Characters

Answer 21

Characters that do NOT develop throughout the story

Question 22

Foil Characters

Answer 22

A character who is the opposite of another character used to shed light upon the character of the latter.

Question 23

Catalyst

Answer 23

A character (or event) that starts a chain of events. A catalyst is the first domino to fall and hit the other dominoes

Question 24

Literary Allusion

Answer 24

A Writer’s comparison of his or her character to characters in other well-known works of literature.

Question 25

Ambivalent

Answer 25

Having mixed feelings or contradictory

Question 26

Malevolent

Answer 26

having or showing a wish to do evil to others

Question 27

Despondent

Answer 27

in low spirits from loss of hope or courage

Question 28

Elegiac

Answer 28

mournful or sad

Question 29

Sardonic

Answer 29

Grimly mocking or cynical

Question 30

Insipid

Answer 30

lacking vigor or interest

Question 31

Undaunted

Answer 31

Not intimidated or discouraged

Question 32

Unwieldy

Answer 32

No readily handled or manages in use or action

Question 33

What is a Compound Sentence

Answer 33

1 independent clause + a conjunction + 1 other independent clause