Quiz 1

Question 1

Type of literature

Answer 1

Genre

Question 2

A tool for teaching, perhaps too much, so “preachy”

Answer 2

Didactic

Question 3

Substantial body of important literature

Answer 3

Canon

Question 4

Changing one’s language based on context

Answer 4

Code-switching

Question 5

What are some points about New Criticism?

Answer 5

Well-wrought urn
Look at any piece of the text and what is good about the book should be present
Look at work itself, nothing else needed - close reading

Question 6

What is Feminist Theory?

Answer 6

Gender based theory - read story based on gender or in a certain gender POV

Question 7

What are some points about Queer Theory?

Answer 7

Sexuality/sexual identities are influencing how you read based on your own orientation, what you think of the characters, and what happens to them in the story

Question 8

What is traditional criticism?

Answer 8

What author intended
Locked book, you have to find the key

Question 9

What is reader response criticism?

Answer 9

Not everyone reads the same, get what you get out of it on your uniqueness, text is collaborated between reader and text

Question 10

You are the only one alive and everyone else is a fragment of your imagination

Answer 10

Solipsism

Question 11

Heterosexual/homosexual rating scale

Answer 11

Kinsey Scale

Question 12

What is Bildurigsroman?

Answer 12

Building a story
Assumed that the thing you’re building is the self

Question 13

What is a coming of age story?

Answer 13

Story of a character’s maturation
More mature at the end of the book than at the beginning

Question 14

What is Young Adult Literature?

Answer 14

Present message in today’s world
Often coming of age
Standing up for who you are

Question 15

Comparison of 2 unlike things. Doesn’t use like or as

Answer 15

Metaphor

Question 16

Uses direct comparison language. Uses like or as

Answer 16

Simile

Question 17

A text’s implied claim and how the world works/being a human

Answer 17

Theme

Question 18

A concrete thing standing in for an abstract idea

Answer 18

Symbol

Question 19

Who wrote the hate you give?

Answer 19

Angie Thomas

Question 20

Who wrote Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe?

Answer 20

Benjamin Sáenz

Question 21

Who wrote Turtles All the Way Down

Answer 21

John Green

Question 22

Who wrote the Critical Apparatuses - be the magpie?

Answer 22

Michael Cart

Question 23

What is the hate you give about?

Answer 23

African American teenagers and their life after a shooting where one of their friends dies, protests and riots, police brutality, etc.

Question 24

What is the Ari and Dante story about?

Answer 24

Ari and Dante discovering their love for each other, homosexual, coming of age story/coming out story

Question 25

What is turtles all the way down about?

Answer 25

Girl who has OCD and anxiety, her life with her friends and Davis. Davis’s father’s mystery disappearance and body discovery. Aza and Daisy coming to terms with each other’s lives. Aza coming to terms with the voices in her head controlling her.