Literary Forms
Critical Approaches
Sociopolitical
Culture
Understanding/Analysis
100
A genre first created by Truman Capote that blends nonfiction elements in a novel format.
What is the Nonfiction Novel
100
This critical approach takes into consideration gender equality and women's roles.
What is the Feminist approach?
100
This controversial issue is challenged in Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking.
What is the death penalty?
100
The time period between the Korean and Vietnam wars lent credence to this non fiction novel by Capote.
What is In Cold Blood.
100
This novel exhibited a character that sought a simple life away from the fast paced modern society.
What is Into the Wild?
200
The genre or style of a literary work.
What is literary form?
200
This critical approach is inspired by Sigmund Freud and involves the subconscious and interpretation of dreams.
What is the Psychoanalytic approach
200
Sula broke this taboo.
What is promiscuity/infidelity, OR dumping her mom in a white nursing home?
200
This novel takes place shortly before Ronald Reagan launched America's war on drugs.
What is No Country for Old Men?
200
This novel showed the struggle over the utility versus the morality of the death penalty.
What is Dead Man Walking?
300
This literary genre is exhibited in No Country for Old Men, and features a moral struggle.
What is a Western?
300
This critical approach takes into consideration class and criticizes capitalism.
What is the Marxist approach?
300
This mid twentieth century family is portrayed as an all American family, living the American dream.
Who are the Clutters
300
This mental affliction was once dismissed as simple melancholy or war tremors.
What is post traumatic stress disorder?
300
An authors use of hints or suggestions to show what will happen later in the book.
What is foreshadowing?
400
This is a nonfiction account of an authors lived experiences.
What is a Memoir?
400
This critical approach seeks to understand phenomena using the metaphor of language. It stresses systems on which ideologies are built.
What is Structuralism?
400
This is a term used by travelers to describe people who travel by foot in Jon Krakauer's Into The Wild.
What is a leather tramp?
400
This event in history marks the beginning of contemporary literature.
What is World War II?
400
This is an object, character, figure or color that is used to represent an abstract idea or concept.
What is a symbol?
500
This genre of literature attempts to break away from traditional literary forms.
What is Postmodernism?
500
This critical approach may be used to explain Chris McCandless' drive to give away his possessions.
What is the Marxist approach?
500
The drug trade heavily featured in this book led to the closing of the Mexican-American border
What is No Country for Old Men?
500
This industry has evolved alongside literature, influencing and in turn being influenced by literature
What is the film industry?
500
This is the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work. Apply this to a literary work read in this class.
What is a theme? (answers may vary)
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