Reading Flashcards
A piece of literary work, it also comes in the form of spoken and sung stories, comics, and pre-literary works.
TEXT
The receivers of the text, as in, the individual or group that reads and responds to the message of the material
AUDIENCE
Works that express ideas of permanent or universal interest, in forms of fiction and non fiction, or prose and poetry.
LITERATURE
Works that are imaginary in terms of characters, settings, events, and other elements.
FICTION
They may or may not be based on factual events and are typically written in prose form.
FICTION
Works that are presented as historical and factual truths
NON-FICTION
A form of literature that follows the structure of natural speech, with fully formed sentences and paragraphs
PROSE
A form of literature where words are arranged artistically, typically with attention to rhyme, rhythm, and symbolism
POETRY
The argumentation analysis of literary text through different views that focus on the text’s purpose, principles, and perspectives
LITERARY CRITICISM
True or false
Literary criticism can be made through different schools of thought.
TRUE
Literature is taken as a form of knowledge that needs to be examined on its own, with all the necessary elements for understanding the text within the text itself
FORMALIST CRITICISM
The work is analyzed through understanding the facts of the life of the author, and how they have affected the events and themes of the text.
BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM
The work is analyzed through examining the historical events that occurred within the context of writing the text.
HISTORICAL CRITICISM
The work is analyzed with how sexual identity influenced the creation and reception of the text, most notably through a feminist lens.
GENDER CRITICISM
The work is analyzed with methods influenced in large part by Freud’s psychoanalysis
PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
The text is examined with how societal elements are represented in the work. An influential type of this is Marxist criticism, which focuses on the economic and political impact of the piece.
SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM
The work is treated to contain no meaning until a reader derives meaning from it, with the fundamental idea that literature is a transaction between the text and the mind of the audience
READERS-RESPONSE CRITICISM
The work is examined with a focus on how language is used in the text. It rejects the assumption that language can accurately represent reality
DECONSTRUCTIONIST CRITICISM
A school of criticism that emerged in the 1970’s that focuses on finding meaning in the act of reading itself and examining how individual readers or communities experience a literary text.
READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
