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What year was New Criticism founded?

What is 1920?

100

This theory looks at time period and author background.

What is false?

100

What is another name for New Criticism? (Don't overthink it.)

What is Formalist Criticism?

200

Name one person who introduced New Criticism?

Who is T.S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, or William Empson?

200

Readers cannot use the New Criticism theory to look at Persepolis and Born a crime.

What is False?

200

What is one way to practice New Criticism?

What is close reading?

300

Where did the term New Criticism come from?

What is John Crowe Ransom’s book, The New Criticism?

300

This theory looks at how word choice, repetition, syntax, literary devices, and grammar influence a text's meaning.

What is true?

300

What can you gain from analyzing Persepolis and Born a Crime with the New Criticism theory?

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