PATRIA SABLE CORPUS COLLEGE

Santiago City
Quiz in Literary Criticism

I.A. MULTIPLE CHOICES. Choose the best answer among the choices below.
Write the complete word on the space provided before the number. (15 pts)

a. Reader- e. Formalistic h. Moral/Intellectual

Response Approach Approach
Approach f. Historical- i. Psychological
b. Marxism Biographical Approach
c. Feminism Approach j. Sociological
d. Queer Approach g. Deconstruction Approach

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l.
1. This approach uses Literary Elements. FA
2. It focuses on devices such as plot, characters, setting, point of view,
theme and conflict. FA
3. It is an exact opposite of Historical-Biographical Approach. FA/ RR
4. It capitalizes on form rather than content. FA
5. It advocates recognition on both homosexual and lesbians as sexual
preferences or identities not deviant to what we consider as normal
and natural. QT
6. It examines subjugation of women in the society and how they were
personified in literature whether dependent or independent, superior
or inferior, strong or weak, liberated or conservative, assertive or
submissive, uncompromising or accommodating, expressive or timid.
7. It defies the stereotype that women are only secondary to men in
terms of their economic, social and political roles. F
8. It magnifies how structural violence affects people in their quest for
social justice and equality. M
9. It focuses on class conflicts as well as class distinctions by
emphasizing social, economic, and political inequalities as exemplified
by the characters in a literary work. M
10. It concerns itself with the ethical goodness or badness of a person.
Moral
11. It strives to exhibit that any text is not a disconnected whole but
contains numerous conflicting meanings. Decons
12. Fundamental figures in this criticism include Sigmund Freud, whose
psychoanalytic theories changed our notions of human behavior by
exploring new or controversial areas. PA
 13. This approach examines literature in the cultural and political context
in which it is written or received, exploring the relationships between
the artist and society. SA
14. This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that literature exists not
as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the
physical text and the mind of a reader. RR
15. Critics in this approach regard language as a fundamentally unstable
mediumthe words tree or dog, for instance, undoubtedly conjure
up different mental images for different peopleand therefore,
because literature is made up of words, literature possesses no fixed,
single meaning.

m. I.B.
n. Traditional r. New Historicism u. Cultural Studies
Theory and Cultural v.
o. Formalism and Materialism w.
New Criticism s. Ethnic Studies
p. Marxism and and Post
Critical Theory Colonialism
q. Structuralism and t. Gender Studies
Post and Queer
Structuralism Theory
x.
1. It is a term coined by Stephen Greenblatt, proponent from United States. New
Historicism
2. According to this theory, the circulation of literary and non-literary texts produces
relations of social power within a culture. NH
3. For the proponent of this, all acts of expression are embedded in the material
conditions of a culture. NH
4. It is sometimes referred as Minority Studies. ES
5. It has had a considerable impact on literary studies in the US and Britain. In
W.E.B. Dubois, we find an early attempt to theorize the position of African-
Americans within dominant white culture through his concept of double
consciousness, a dual identity including both American and Negro.
6. This theory reverses the historical center/ margin direction of cultural inquiry.
Moreover, theorists like Homi K. Bhabha have questioned the binary thought that
produces the dichonomies by which colonial practices are justified. Post
Colonialism
7. This theory questions the fixed categories of sexual identity are transgerred,
reversed, mimicked, or critiqued. Queer
8. This theory/study arose quite self-consciously in the 80s to provide a means of
analysis of the rapidly expanding global culture industry that includes
entertainment, film, computers, and the internet. CS
9. This approach emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within
the text. Formalism
10. This literary theory tends to focus on the representation of class conflict as well
as the reinforcement of class distinctions through the medium of literature. MX
11. Critics in this theory feel that in order to truly evaluate an authors work, they
must know some basic biographical information about the writer. They then look
to see how that information reflects to work. Traditional
12. This literary theory spearheaded by two main bodies which focused on
understanding the literary text through the text itself. Formalism
13. This theory includes the study of theory and literature as it relates to the
colonizer-colonized experience. Edward Said is the leading theorist in this field,
with Chinua Achebe being one of its leading authors. PostColonialism
14. It is through the theories of this class struggle, politics, and economics. MX
15. In this theory, we need to understand the authors biography and social
background, ideas circulating at a time, and the cultural milieu. NH
y.
I. ESSAY. Explain substantially. Write your answer on the space provided.
(20 pts)
z.
aa. Grammar - 50%
ab. Unity and substance 50%
ac. 100%
ad.
1. Is literature important in our lives? Why or why not?
2. I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do
to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Samuel Johnson