engurishh

78問 • 2年前

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It is an in-depth evaluation of a story, novel, film, or other reading/viewing materials for the purpose of giving the public an insight into the text

Critique

Critique shares the same root word with ________?

Criticize

Elements of a narrative

Characterization, Setting, Conflict, Plot, Point of view, Mood/tone, Theme, Style

Are the people involved in the narrative

Characters

It is the process by which a writer creates a character

Characterization

This element can refer to a time and place the story is set in

Setting

It refers to the issue or problem characters in a story confronted by

Conflict

It is the reader's feeling and emotion from a text

Mood

It describes the attitude of the author

Tone

It is the structure of the narrative as it moves through time

Plot

Plot structure (In order)

Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, Resolution

It refers to the perspective the story is told from

Point of view

2 Point of views

First-person view, Third-person view

It is perhaps the most important literary concept because it is the overarching idea that the writer of the story wants the reader to understand

Theme

This elements refers to the way the writer, uses language including diction, voice, tone, sentence style, etc.

Style

QUESTION: Who are the characters in the story?

Characterization

QUESTION: What is the motivation of each character?

Characterization

QUESTION: How do characters grow or transform throughout the story? Or do they fail to grow at all?

Characterization

QUESTION: What does their growth or lack of growth say about the theme of the story?

Characterization

QUESTION: Where and when does the story take place?

Setting

QUESTION: How does the location, time, and/or date of the story affect the theme?

Setting

QUESTION: How does the setting affect how to characters respond to conflict?

Setting

QUESTION: What is the main problem in the story?

Conflict

QUESTION: How does the conflict affect the main characters in the story?

Conflict

QUESTION: How is the conflict resolved and what does the resolution say about the theme?

Conflict

QUESTION: How does the conflict change the main characters?

Conflict

QUESTION: What kind of emotion or feeling do you get after reading the story?

Mood

QUESTION: What is the author's attitude towards the subject?

Tone

QUESTION: What is happening in the story?

Plot

QUESTION: What is the story about?

Plot

QUESTION: What is the relationship between the events in the story?

Plot

QUESTION: How do the actions inform the theme of the story?

Plot

QUESTION: Who is narrating or telling the story?

Point of view

QUESTION: Is one character acting as a narrator (First person), or someone telling what is going on (Third person)?

Point of view

QUESTION: First, identify the subject(s) of the story and then ask: What is the writer trying to say about this subject?

Theme

QUESTION: What literary tools does the writer use to create this theme?

Theme

QUESTION: Is the diction hard or simple to understand?

Style

QUESTION: Are the sentences short or complex?

Style

QUESTION: Why did the writer make these stylistic choices?

Style

QUESTION: How do these choices add or detract from the effect of the story?

Style

A ______ is a genre of academic writing that briefly summarizes and critically evaluates a work or concept

Critique

Critiques can be used to analyze a variety of work such as:

Creative works, Research, Media

Novels, exhibits, film, images, and poetry

Creative works

Monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, and theories

Research

News reports and feature articles

Media

How to write a critique?

Study the work under discussion, Make notes on key parts of the work, Develop an understanding of the main argument or purpose being expressed in the work, Relate the work to a broader issue or context, Verify claims of the work

Framework of writing a critique

Introduction, A summary of work, Critical evaluation, Conclusion

This part of writing a critique is short (10% of the word length)

Introduction

Identify the title and author of the work, Describe the context that informs the creation of the work, State your thesis or overall evaluation of the work

The reader will need this information in order to understand your analysis and evaluation afterwards

A summary of work

Relevant plot elements, Character details, Information about the context of the work, Describe how the creator portrays these by using techniques, styles, symbols, literary devices

This section should include an organized, detailed analysis of the work using your chosen lens, expressing your thesis statement and providing supporting information why you feel the work succeeded at its goal or not

Critical evaluation

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the work using specific examples and evidence from the text

Critical evaluation

You can organize the critical evaluation section by

Broader, Larger scale, Specific points

This is where you briefly summarize the questions you have just made, leading to a restatement of your verdict about the text

Conclusion

The _______ restates your evaluate/judgement about the text

Conclusion

Approaches to literary criticism

Structuralist/formalist, Moralist, Marxist, Feminist, Historical, Reader-response

It is the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of authors and their works of literature, which can include novels, short stories, essays, plays, and poetry

Literary criticism

_______ has both a textual and human element

Literature

The _______ element contains the reader and the author

Human

Rhetorical triangle

Text, Reader, Author

Critical theories are based on the ______

Rhetorical triangle

The ______ reading of a story will pay attention to the underlying elements that the text has in common with similar texts

Structuralist

_______ focuses on the form of the work, assuming that the text itself contains the keys to understanding the text

Formalism

Another way of analyzing a text and determining its worth is ______ Criticism

Moralist

This approach involves examining how a text deals with the issue at its center

Moralist

It examines how the text represents and treats the power dynamics between social classes

Marxist

Focuses on its dynamics between genders in a text

Feminist

Assumes that a work is influenced by the cultural era that created it

Historical

Gives importance to your own experiences, principles, and beliefs

Reader-response

It believes that there is a deep structure that is universal to all members of a particular genre: structural elements that are seen in all poems, all short stories, and so on

Structuralist

Structural elements of a poem

Number of lines, Number of syllables each line, Rhyming of certain words and phrases with others

Structural elements of a short story

Character, Setting, Conflict, Plot, Theme

Structural elements of novel

Plot, Character, Setting, Conflict

_______ mainly deals with the structure of a particular text and how are one part of the work relates to other parts and to the whole

Formalist

It pays more attention to features like grammar, syntax, structure, and literary devices

Formalist

It also examines the genre, mode, form, and discourse while rejecting bibliographical, cultural, historical, and social contexts

Formalist

It only analyzes one particular literary work at a time; it is not compared or contrasted with another work

Formalist

Constellations

tokkijijii · 88問 · 2年前

Constellations