Q2: Critical Approaches

Question 1

This type of reading approach allows the readers to also see the text using other lenses such as literary criticisms or critical approaches.

Answer 1

intensive reading

Question 2

enumerate the critical approaches

Answer 2

• feminism
• marxism
• moral/ethical
• historical/biographical

Question 3

A belief that men and women should have equal rights.

Answer 3

feminism

Question 4

types of feminism

Answer 4

• liberal or pragmatic
• radical
• cultural

Question 5

Type of feminism that aims for a concrete change at an institutional or government level.

Answer 5

liberal or pragmatic feminism

Question 6

This type of feminism Integrates women into power structure and equal access to positions men had traditional dominated.

Answer 6

liberal or pragmatic feminism

Question 7

A type of feminism that employs non-hierarchical and antiauthoritarianism approaches to politics and religion.

Answer 7

radical feminism

Question 8

A type of feminism that aims to eliminate male supremacy in all social and economic contexts.

Answer 8

radical feminism

Question 9

A type of feminism that replaced the notion that men and women are intrinsically the same.

Answer 9

cultural feminism

Question 10

A type of feminism that celebrate qualities associated with women.

Answer 10

cultural feminism

Question 11

This critical approach in literature aims to find out how the literary work represents women, how it defines gender, and how a specific gender affects the way a person reads literature.

Answer 11

Feminism as a Literary theory

Question 12

A belief that the social classes should be abolished because they create a force in the history and society.

Answer 12

marxism

Question 13

It relates a literary product to the actual economic and social reality of its time and place.

Answer 13

marxism

Question 14

Which literary theory/approach is used:

to find out how the literary work represents women

Answer 14

feminism

Question 15

Which literary theory/approach is used:

to find out how a literary work defines gender

Answer 15

feminism

Question 16

Which literary theory/approach is used:

To find out how a specific gender affects the way a person reads literature.

Answer 16

feminism

Question 17

Which literary theory/approach is used:

It supports or criticizes political/economic structures in a place/context.

Answer 17

marxism

Question 18

Which literary theory/approach is used:

To discovers the meaning of the literary piece through the message of lessons that can be learned from it.

Answer 18

moral/ethical approach

Question 19

Which literary theory/approach is used:

to use literature to describe the competing socioeconomic interests that advance capitalistic interests such as money and power over socialist interests such as morality and justice.

Answer 19

marxism

Question 20

Which literary theory/approach is used:

Pays attention to the moral or ethical issues and lessons of the literary text.

Answer 20

moral/ethical

Question 21

Which literary theory/approach is used:

It sees the social significance of the text or a literary work. It pays attention to how hierarchy or classes affect the life of the characters and even present conflicts in the story.

Answer 21

marxism

Question 22

Which literary theory/approach is used:

it focuses on the content rather than the form.

Answer 22

marxism

Question 23

Which literary theory/approach is used:

To show how messages or lesson can affect not only the life of the characters but also the life of the readers before, while, and after reading the text.

Answer 23

moral/ethical

Question 24

An approach that discovers the meaning of the literary work.

Answer 24

moral/ethical approach

Question 25

It checks the truth and significance of the literary work.

Answer 25

moral/ethical approach

Question 26

It determines whether a work conveys a lesson or message and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world.

Answer 26

moral/ethical approach

Question 27

An approach that has been evolving.

Answer 27

historical/biographical approach

Question 28

It sees literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a reflection of the author’s life and times of the characters in the work.

Answer 28

historical/biographical

Question 29

True or False

Facts about the author’s experience can help a reader decide how to interpret a text.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Which literary theory/approach is used:

It uses the author’s context in interpreting the literary text.

Answer 30

historical/biographical

Question 31

Which literary theory/approach is used:

It takes into account the historical incidents that the text may be portraying in the story.

Answer 31

historical/biographical

Question 32

Which literary theory/approach is used:

It considers the fact that the text may be reflecting the society (the life and times) where the characters in the work live in.

Answer 32

historical/biographical