Formalism
True or False: Formalism focuses on the form of the text rather than the author's life or culture it was created.
True
True or False: Reader-Response is a reader's opinion of a text.
False.
True or False: Psychoanalytic Criticism is not diagnosing a character in the text.
True
This person decides to stay with Starr, Seven, and DeVante to go to where the protests are being held.
Who is Chris or Starr's boyfriend?
The theme song of Starr's favorite TV show.
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
This word means to link or reference another body of literature in the text you are reading.
What is an allusion?
This is the type of reader who is currently reading the text.
What is the actual reader?
These are the two options in which you can focus a psychoanalytic analysis for a text you are reading.
Who is the author or the characters?
DeVante left Uncle Carlos' house to visit the grave of this person.
Who is Dalvin or DeVante's brother?
This NWA rap song that is sung in Ch. 23 by Starr, Seven, DeVante, and Chris during the riots.
What is F*** the Police?
These are the three main features of formalism.
What are Form, Diction, and Unity?
This type of reader is part of the group that the theme, message, or moral is directed towards.
What is the implied or intended reader?
This psychological theorist is responsible for the idea of the unconscious mind, and also the Id, Ego, and Superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In Ch. 24, when Seven's car runs out of gas, this person that Starr is familiar with chants "A hairbrush is not a gun!"
Who is Ms. Ofrah or Starr's attorney?
In Ch. 21 Starr's family dances to this song with the lyrics I just let the music come from my soul
So all of my people can stay on the floor
They got a brand new dance, you gotta move your muscle
Brand new dance, it's called ________
What is The Cupid Shuffle?
This word is defined as the subtle, commonly accepted meanings of words and it can be either positive or negative.
What is connotation?
The following points are part of this assumption for the Reader-Response literary lens.
1) Literature exists only when it is read.
2) Literary meaning is created by the interaction of the reader and the text.
What are theoretical assumptions?
Is the following an essential question for psychoanalytical reading: What do you learn about the character from the way other characters relate to him or her?
Yes
This person was responsible for burning down Maverick's store and ultimately the people of Garden Heights snitched on him to the police.
Who is King?
This 2Pac song is sung by Maverick to Starr in Ch. 10 to tell her to keep her head up.
What is Keep Ya Head Up?
Is the following a formalist question: Does the use of paradoxes and/or irony help create tension or conflict in the text?
Yes
According to this person, who is also responsible for creating the Reader-Response method, a poem is “what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text.”
Who is Louise Rosenblatt?
Lawrence Kohlberg is responsible for developing this psychological theory.
What is Moral Development?
Starr deletes the phone number of this person after deciding that the bad outweighs the good in their relationship.
Who is Hailey?
In Ch. 22, this 2Pac rap plays on the radio after Seven realizes his mother's sacrifice to protect him. The song talks about how people have to start making changes.
What is Changes?