Unit One - Literary Reading through a Sociocultural Context

Question 1

refers to different schools of thought and bodies
of ideas that can be used as a tool in understanding literary context

Answer 1

literary theory

Question 2

relating to, or involving a combination of social and cultural factors

Answer 2

sociocultural

Question 3

the set or system of social structures, institutions, norms, customs that conserve, maintain, or enforce patterns of relations and behavior

Answer 3

social order

Question 4

a systematic body of
concepts or beliefs about life or
culture

Answer 4

ideology

Question 5

a cup used to hold
wine

Answer 5

chalice

Question 6

Literature shows class struggle and materialism.

Answer 6

Marxism

Question 6

The feminist perspective examines the role of the
women in the literature.

Answer 6

Feminism

Question 7

The queer perspective is concerned with the queer or
the third gender

Answer 7

Queer theory

Question 8

a perspective dealing with the history that influenced the writing of literature

Answer 8

Historicism

Question 9

a literary perspective that
looks into the changes in the attitude of the post
colonies after the colonial period

Answer 9

Postcolonialism

Question 10

It focuses not only on the history when the
literary text was written, but also how the history
happened

Answer 10

New Historicism