What A Character!
The main character of a narrative that the audience is supposed to care about.
What is a protagonist?
Explores how different social categories like race, class, and gender intersect and impact women's experiences.
What is intersectionality?
The quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs who may be seriously hurt after yesterday's game.
Who is Patrick Mahomes?
Vivid language that is used to describe something in a way that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
Feminist Criticism primarily focuses on this.
What are gender roles and how they affect women?
The reasons for why a character behaves the way he or she does.
What is motivation?
Proletariat means this.
Who are the working class?
The mascot of UCLA.
What is a Bruin/bear?
Comparing two similar things using the words Like or As. (He was as cold as ice when he took the shot.)
What is a simile?
What is the male gaze?
A character faces a challenge that makes him or her think about what is the right thing to do.
What is a conflict? (Internal Conflict)
Understanding that texts can have multiple meanings depending on the reader.
What is polysemy?
This major league baseball team has plans to move to Las Vegas in 2028.
Who are the Oakland Athletics?
When an author makes a reference to famous literature like Shakespeare of the Bible.
What is an allusion?
This word means a system of beliefs and values.
What is ideology?
Two or more characters speaking is called this.
What is dialogue?
A male dominated society where men are considered the leaders.
What is patriarchy?
The home stadium for both the Rams and the Chargers.
What is Sofi?
An unexpected even happens in a story (the opposite of what you were expecting to happen).
What is irony? (Situational Irony)
This is a key concern of Marxist criticism.
What are social and economic classes/economic inequality?
A character who is not a major part of a story is called this.
What is a minor character?
The bourgeoise are this class.
What is the ruling class?
The state that the Lakers played in before moving to Los Angeles, California.
Where is Minnesota?
The letters MLA stand for this.
What is Modern Language Association?
Reader Response criticism thinks this about the author.
He or she is not as important as the reader.