Which LENS?
KEY terms!
Which question?
Who is that?
Name That Film
100

This lens... 

Examines complications found within a capitalist system, including social structures, wealth disparities, and class hierarchies.

Marxist Critical Literary Lens

100

These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens):

Alienation 

Money 

Power 

Politics 

Socioeconomic Class

Capitalism → economic system where a  country’s profits are controlled by the  upper class, not the working class 

Bourgeoisie →upper class that controls  the capital (money) 

Proletariat → working class that  produces goods which keep the upper class wealthy.


Marxist Lens

100

This question matches with which critical literary lens?

  • What is the significance of race in the text?

Critical Race Lens

100

Marsai Martin
American actress



100

DAILY DOUBLE:

BIG 

200

This lens... 

Examines how identities are constructed and performed rather than essential and "Natural." This lens explores issues of sexuality, power, and marginalized populations in literature and culture.

Gender Studies Literary Lens 

200

These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens):

Binary 

Code switching

Gender 

Non conformity 

Gender expression 

Social construct 

Power 

Erasure 

Silence 

Normal 

Gender Studies Lens

200

This question matches with which critical literary lens?

What time period was the work written, and what time period is the literary work taking place in? Is there a connection?

New Historical Lens

200


Charli D'Amelio
American dancer & influencer 



200

The Aristocats 

300

This lens ... 

Examines how "the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women" (Tyson 83). 

Feminist Lens

300

These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens):

Sexism 

Femininity 

Power 

Patriarchy 

Gender Roles 

Gender discriminations

Masculine 

Patriarchy → an ideology in which men are  superior to women and have the right to RULE  women. 

Feminist Lens

300

This question matches with which critical literary lens?

How is the relationship between men and women portrayed?

What does the work reveal about the operations (economically, politically, socially, or psychologically) of patriarchy?

Feminist Lens

300

DAILY DOUBLE: 

Name the 2 colleges that Mrs. Breland attended.

Yale and Georgetown.

300

The Wiz

400

This lens...

Examines a work in its historical context (i.e. Understanding the time period, author's background, and how the events of the time affect the author and possibly the characters of the text). But also challenges the way history has been recorded and presented.

New Historical Lens

400

These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens):

Cultural Context 

Author’s background 

History / Time Period

Marginalized / Power 

Representation 

Textuality 

Voices vs. Facts 

New Historical Lens

400

This question matches with which critical literary lens?

What are the politics (ideological agendas) of specific gay, lesbian, or queer works, and how are those politics revealed in...the work's thematic content or portrayals of its characters?

Gender Studies Lens 

400

Maya Angelou 

Writer & Poet 

400

Tangled 

500

This lens...

Based on the theories of Sigmund Freud in which one's behaviors are influenced by their unconscious thoughts and fears. Many times this theory is applied to the author and what the text is telling us about their psyche; however, it can be applied to characters as well.

Psychoanalytical  Lens

500

These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens): 

Control 

Dreams 

Conscious 

Subconscious 

id → "...the location of the drives”

ego→ and home of the defenses listed above

superego →the area of the unconscious that houses Judgment 

Psychoanalytic Lens

500

This question matches with which critical literary lens?

What characters have money? What characters are living in poverty? What are the differences?

Marxist Critical Lens

500

James Baldwin 

Writer 

500

The Goonies

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