Thesis
For 1 point, the thesis must respond to the prompt with a defensible interpretation and may establish a _______.
What is line of reasoning?
Responses earning 0 points provide examples that are generally this.
What is irrelevant or incoherent?
Sensory and descriptive diction that builds a clear picture of your argument and engages your reader.
What is vivid language?
This technique, employed by writers like Virginia Woolf, depicts a character's thoughts and perceptions in an unbroken flow.
What is stream of consciousness?
This lens examines literature through the perspective of gender norms, stereotypes, and biases.
What is gender lens?
For 0 points, the intended thesis does this to the prompt.
What is only restate the prompt?
Also accept, does not answer the prompt
Responses earning 1 point provide references to the text that are this.
What is vaguely relevant?
One way to demonstrate sophistication is recognizing and accounting for these within the text.
What are contradictions and complexities?
This involves the reference or influence of one literary text upon another, such as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet linking to West Side Story.
What is intertextuality?
This lens considers how a work reinforces or undermines class structures and societal roles related to wealth and status.
What is social class lens?
"Shakespeare's Hamlet is a famous play." is an example of a thesis lacking ____
What is claim or argument?
For 2 points, the commentary repeats, oversimplifies, or does this to the cited evidence.
What is misinterprets the evidence?
Using a prose style that is this qualifies as sophistication worth 1 point.
What is vivid, persuasive, convincing, or appropriate to the argument?
Characteristic of works by Amy Hempel and Chuck Palahniuk, this pared-down style uses short sentences and omits elaborate descriptions.
What is minimalism?
Examining how a text confirms or resists cultural definitions of race, ethnicity, and identity.
What is postcolonial lens?
"Hamlet's indecisiveness leads to his tragic downfall, suggesting the dangers of overcaution."
What is an example of a thesis?
This type of textual reference, along with paraphrases, can be used to earn up to 4 points if relevant to the thesis.
What are direct quotes from the text?
One way to demonstrate sophistication is discussing these interpretations of the text.
What are alternative interpretations?
Unlike parody which mocks, this literary technique imitates and pays homage to other styles and works, as seen in Bret Easton Ellis's novels.
What is pastiche?
This lens analyzes how the literary text undermines its own assertions through contradictions, and subverts traditional interpretations.
What is the deconstructionist lens?
Making up a novel or a film.
What is not using a literary work of fiction?
For 4 points, the response must provide well-developed commentary that explicitly explains the relationship between the evidence and ____?
What is the thesis?
Responses don't earn the sophistication point if attempts to contextualize consist predominantly of ________?
What are sweeping generalizations?
Defined by Viktor Shklovsky, this involves representing familiar objects or concepts in an unfamiliar or strange way to prompt new perception.
What is defamiliarization?
Focusing on the text itself rather than extra-textual influences, this lens examines the use of literary devices and form.
What is the formalist lens?