Literary Criticism
This type of literary criticism looks at the way individual readers understand and create meaning from a given text.
What is reader response?
A Shakespearean sonnet has this many lines.
What is 14?
According to Faber, the "parlor walls" Mildred watches are an example of media that lacks this characteristic.
What is texture?
Clones in Never Let Me Go spend time doing this right before becoming a donor.
What is caring/working as a carer?
An MLA paper heading should include these four things.
What are your name, the teacher's name, the name of the class, and the assignment due date?
An essay that analyzes how Much Ado about Nothing is primarily a romantic comedy despite some disturbing elements is this type of literary criticism.
What is genre?
A Shakespearean sonnet has three of these followed by one of these.
What is three quatrains followed by one couplet?
This poem published in 1867 is about people losing their religious faith due to scientific advancements.
What is "Dover Beach"?
"Donor," "complete," and "recovery center" are examples of this rhetorical device.
What is doublespeak?
An MLA in-text citation for a book by one author should include these two things.
What are the author's last name and the page number?
An essay that analyzes the use of irony and symbolism in Romeo and Juliet is this type of literary criticism.
What is formalist?
In Shakespeare's plays, high-status characters are more likely than low-status to speak in this way.
What is iambic pentameter?
This phrase serves as a chapter title, childhood memory, and metaphor for Montag's struggle to retain what he reads.
What is the sieve and the sand?
These are the five types of claims we covered in this unit.
What are definition, cause, fact, value, and policy?
Every source referenced in the essay must also be on this page at the end of the essay.
What is a work cited page?
An essay that analyzes how Simba follows the hero's journey in The Lion King is this type of literary criticism.
What is archetypal?
This is used in Much Ado about Nothing to highlight the double standards between men and women during Shakespeare's time.
What is Balthazar's song "Sigh No More"?
According to Neil Gaiman, these are the three types of questions answered by speculative fiction.
What is "what if," "if only," and "if this goes on"?
The title of the book comes from a song by this artist.
Who is Judy Bridgewater?
In-text citations go after these two types of references.
What are direct quotes and paraphrases?
According to this idea, readers cannot determine the author's intent when writing.
What is the intentional fallacy?
In this type of speech, a character is speaking only to themselves, not to other characters.
What is a soliloquy?
Montag's journey throughout the novel can be compared to this idea articulated by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
What is the allegory of the cave?
According to this theory, evil is often carried out by bureaucrats and people who are "just following orders."
What is the banality of evil?
Essays written in MLA format never have these two things.
What are bold and underline?