LITERARY CRITICISM/APPROACHES

Question 1

analyzes, interprets, or
evaluates the inherent features
of a text”grammar and syntax,literary devices
figures of speech elements

Answer 1

Formalism/Structuralism

Question 2

based on the assumption that every text has a universal,underlying structure

Answer 2

Structuralism

Question 3

It focuses on ethical teachings and the effects on readers

Answer 3

Moralist Approach

Question 4

Main argument is that whoever controls the means of production in a society controls the society.
It focuses on power struggle

Answer 4

Marxist Approach

Question 5

It is the ones who controls/powerful in the text.

Answer 5

Bourgeoisie

Question 6

These are who are controled by powerful

Answer 6

Proletariat

Question 7

Focuses on the role of women (or gender) in a literary text

Answer 7

Feminist Approach

Question 8

sees literature as both a reflection and a product of the times and circumstances in which it is written

Answer 8

Historical Approach

Question 9

judges literature according to how the reader
perceives it instead of what the author intends

Answer 9

Reader-Response approach