LITERARY CRITICISM /THEORY
Which method argues that literature is shaped by socio-economic forces such as class struggle and ideology?
Marxist Criticism
What is the only novel written by Emily Brontë?
Wuthering Heights
What does literary science study at its core?
Literary texts and their artistic, cultural, and communicative functions.
What are the three main forms of literature?
Prose, Poetry, Drama
Which period is known as the Golden Age of novels?
The Victorian Period
The study of literature across cultural, national, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.
Comparative Literature.
What is the first Kazakh social-realist novel and the beginning of modern Kazakh prose?
Unhappy Jamal
What is the term for the reader’s role in creating meaning?
Reader-Response Theory
This literary form is written in lines and stanzas rather than paragraphs
Poetry
which literary period belongs The Three Musketeers?
The Romantic Period in French literature.
Type of criticism that looks for universal patterns, archetypes, or symbols.
Mythological / Archetypal Criticism.
American novelist born in poverty, sailor, worker, later writer. Author of Martin Eden.
Jack London
Which modern paradigm uses computational tools, text mining, and data visualization?
Digital Humanities / Distant Reading
A long fictional narrative with developed characters and plot
Novel
Bonus q
Name five famous literary works along with their authors.
Theory that challenges stability of meaning; sees texts as self-contradictory and open-ended.
Poststructuralism / Deconstruction.
Who is the author of The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man?
H. G. Wells.
A one- or two-sentence claim expressing your main argument in an essay
Thesis statement
This genre tells a story about a hero’s journey or great legendary events.
Epic
Which period strongly emphasized emotion and moral feeling?
Modern Sentimentalism.
Criticism focusing on the background: time, culture, circumstances in which a text was written.
Contextual Analysis
A crime novel featuring a criminal mastermind hypnotist
Doctor Mabuse.
Criticism studying consciousness, experience, memory, subjectivity in literature.
Phenomenological Criticism.
What early literary type involved two poets insulting each other in a ritual competition?
Satirical combats
Emily Brontë wrote only one novel. What period does Wuthering Heights belong to?
The Victorian era.