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It involves breaking down a work in terms of themes, symbols, and characterization internally, seeking to attach meaning to literary elements.
Literary criticism
There are tools used by writers to hint at larger themes, ideas, and meaning in a story or piece of writing. Some of them are as follows: simile, metaphor, imagery, symbolism, and personification.
Literary Devices
It comments on and evaluates the work in the light of specific issues and theoretical concerns in a course.
Critique Paper
A term used for the variety of beliefs, movements, and ideas regarding a common goal, which is to define and achieve equal rights for women in terms of personal, political, cultural, economic, and social concerns.
Feminism
A literary criticism that examines literature using civil and ethical criteria. It judges works based on their ethical teaching or moral lesson.
Moralism
It relates literary compositions to a larger structure such as a genre or a system of recurrent patterns or motifs.
Structuralism
A literary criticism that refers to the social, political, and economic theories, including the belief that struggles between social classes are a major force in history and that in the future, there should be a society with no social classes.
Marxism
A literary theory that points out the importance of the reader’s role in interpreting texts.
Reader-Response
A literary criticism that portrays in the text the social and political conditions during the time when the text was written.
Historicism
It focuses on literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. It also analyzes the devices, techniques, and other functions of a literary work objectively.
Formalism