lesson 3

Question 1

refers to any principles derived from internal analysis of literary texts or from knowledge external to the text that can be applied in multiple interpretive situations.

Answer 1

Literary theory

Question 2

Emphasizes how literature’s capacity for healing relates to the literary work’s conveyance of universal truths.

Answer 2

mimetic theory

Question 3

this theory of literary criticism places primary importance on how well a literary work imitates life

Answer 3

mimetic theory

Question 4

Criticism referring to an author’s intent as it is encoded in his or her work.
It is the way an author desires readers to understand their work.

Answer 4

AUTHORIAL THEORY

Question 5

It is a critical approach to literature in which information about an author’s life and background is used to better understand his works.
It focuses on links between a work’s content and the writer’s life; often use the writer’s intentions, experiences, motives, or beliefs to interpret his/her literary texts.

Answer 5

BIOGRAPHICAL THEORY

Question 6

this theory identifies the significant role of the reader in constructing textual meaning.
This theory allows you to take your own personal feelings and your own perspective into account when you analyze a literary text.

Answer 6

reader response theory

Question 7

the critic evaluates the biographical information of the author in relation to the text.
They also consider patterns within the author’s works to identify style, structure, or tone for example.

Once identified, the critic searches for the author’s meaning behind those patterns and the way the author distinguished themselves from other writers.

Answer 7

literary tradition theory

Question 8

methodology that involves understanding language, symbols, and/or pictures present in texts to gain information regarding how people make sense of and communicate life and life experiences

Visual, written, or spoken messages provide cues to ways through which communication may be understood. Often the messages are understood as influenced by and reflective of larger social structures.

Answer 8

textual analysis theory

Question 9

the analyst must understand the broader social structures that influence the messages present in the text under investigation.

Question 10

Refers to the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey his or her messages in a simple manner to the readers.
When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret and analyze a literary work.
It often used to enhance one’s writing and make it more appealing or interesting to the reader.

Answer 10

literary devices

Question 11

a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using comparison words such as “like”, “as”, “so”, or “than”, while metaphors create an implicit comparison.

Answer 11

simile

Question 12

figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas.

Answer 12

metaphor

Question 13

literary device that gives human characteristics to nonhuman things or inanimate objects

Answer 13

personification

Question 14

a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object

Answer 14

apostrophe

Question 15

the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis.

Answer 15

hyperbole

Question 16

figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original

Answer 16

metonymy

Question 17

it is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole, or vice versa.

Answer 17

synecdoche

Question 18

figure of speech and one of the most widely- known literary devices, which is used to express a strong emotion or raise a point. As defined, ____is the use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of what is actually said

Answer 18

irony

Question 19

a literary device or figure of speech that refers back to a previous event, work, or story. are left unexplained and are often indirect, so it is up to the reader to piece together the meaning of an allusion using their own knowledge or research.

Answer 19

allusion

Question 20

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

Answer 20

paradox

Question 21

a figure of speech that uses words to describe the sounds made by all living things including people, animals, birds and all inanimate objects

Answer 21

onomatopoeia

Question 22

a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings, like “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized chaos.” These may seem illogical at first, but in context they usually make sense.

Answer 22

oxymoron

Question 23

a figure of speech that is used when an author wants to create a certain mood or emotion in a work of literature. It is the use of an object, person, situation or word to represent something else, like an idea, in literature.

Answer 23

symbolism

Question 24

is a figure of speech where a word or phrase is repeated more than one time to put emphasis

Answer 24

repetition

Question 25

Where characters speak to one another; may often be used to substitute for exposition

Answer 25

dialogue

Question 26

Where an author interrupts a story in order to explain something, usually to provide important background information.

Answer 26

exposition