General
Historical criticism was first applied to this text
What is the bible?
The historical figure represented by Farmer Mr. Jones.
Who is Czar Nicholas?
Historical events influencing Antoinette and her family’s life.
What is the Slave Trade and/or colonialism?
The word for family bonds that defined much of the social norms of Ancient Greece.
What is Oikos?
Slavery was a major historical component of this novel that we read this school year.
What is Beloved?
The modern type of historical criticism that focuses on the reader's perspective towards the text.
What is New Historicism?
Animal Farm was based on this historical event.
What is the Russian Revolution of 1917?
A financial step, something that took away economic freedom.
What is marriage?
The war that occured between Athens and Sparta during the initial launch of Medea.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This book showed British Colonialism in Igbo society.
What is Things Fall Apart?
The time period that the historical lens was popular.
What is the 19th and 20th centuries?
The literary term for a literary text that often has a hidden meaning.
What is an allegory?
Jean Rhys may have used this variation of traditional historical criticism when writing Wide Sargasso Sea
What is New Historicism?
A type of conflict that demonstrates “there's no affliction worse than losing one's own country.”
What are political conflicts?
The time period that TEWWG is set in.
What is the early 1900s?
The author of this quote “The literary text is itself part of the interplay of discourses, a thread in the dynamic web of social meaning.”
Who is Lois Tyson?
The type of government that the Animal Farm under Napoleon’s rule represented.
What is a dictatorship?
The exploitation of colonialism in Caribbean Culture.
What is European Modernism?
Euripides criticizes this Ancient Greece city as corrupt in Medea.
What is Athens?
The person you’ll become if you remember what AP Lit taught you.
Who is John Green?
Historical criticism began under this person
Who is Benedict Spinoza?
At the end of the book, these animals looked like humans.
What are pigs?
The reasoning behind the contempt from both black Jamaicans and the English to Antoinette.
What is a White Creole?
The historical theme of this quote: ““Suffering such injustice, she cries out, calling the gods—calling Themis, Zeus' daughter, goddess of those promises which carried her across the ocean to Hellas…” (pg. 10)”
What is spirituality and religion?
The time period that Oedpius was performed in.
What is the Golden Age of Ancient Greece?