Formalism
Reader Response
Concepts
Final Question
100

Exposition, rising action, climax, resolution.  These are elements of what "pyramid"?

Freytag's pyramid

100

Reader response is coined as "the author's means of ____________ his reader."

Controlling.  Ex: What rhetorical strategies ensure the reader sees through the protagonist's eyes?

100

Protagonist and antagonist are elements of what concept?

Plot

100

What lens considers binaries in stories?

Structuralism 
200

Russian formalism merged with other elements in American universities to become this new way of reading literature:

New Criticism

200

Reader response is largely based on ___________ (starts with an "R")

Rhetoric

200

The term used for considering the main and supporting roles/personas within a work of art:

Characters

300

Author, text by itself, background, context to society, context to history.

Which of these are critical to a formalist reading?

Text by itself

300

Reader response developed as a _________ to New Criticism.

Reaction (or similar term)

300

4 ways to look at literature:

The text itself

The reader

The context of the literature

and ?

The author