LITERATURE
Explore Reader-Response Criticism
Test your knowledge of literature with our comprehensive quiz on Reader-Response Criticism! This quiz delves into the important role of the reader in interpreting texts, exploring various contexts and literary devices.
- 28 engaging multiple choice questions
- Learn about different types of imagery
- Understand key literary concepts and terminologies
A literary criticism considers readers’ reactions to literature as vital to interpreting the meaning of the text.
Reader Response Criticism
Formalism Theory
General relativity theory
Format Theory
True or False: The role of the reader can be omitted from our understanding of literature.
False
True
True Or False: Readers do not passively consume the meaning presented to them by an objective literary text. Rather they actively make the meaning they find in literature.
True
False
Which statement is correct about the Characteristics of Reader-Response Criticism?
Reader-response criticism places strong emphasis on the reader’s role in producing the meaning of a literary work.
Formalists treat meaning as objectively inherent in the text, in reader response criticism, the text has a meaning until it is read by a reader who creates the meaning.
It is in some senses an opposite approach from that of reader response theory.
It is originated from the notion of weaving together. It is defined as the circumstances that form the setting of events, statements, or ideas and in the way of which it can be fully understood and assessed.
Intext
Context
Citation
Hypertext
Various Contexts of Literary Work which talks about the life story of the writer. It shows biographical facts that the author used in the text. It provides greater understanding of factors which may have influenced the author’s writing.
Psychological Context
Biographical Context
Psychological Context
Political Context
Various Contexts of Literary Work which talks about The settings of the events. Knowing where things happen can help us understand why things happen.
Psychological Context
Political Context
Geographical Context
Biographical Context
The social, political, cultural, economic, and environmental situations that influence the events or trends we see happen during that time. It refers to the background and surrounding situations that affect that story.
Psychological Context
Historical Context
Political Context
Biographical Context
It is the is creating a picture in the reader's mind by using words that appeal to the senses.
Imagery
Picture
Imaging
Imagining
Produced by the use of words that appeal to the sense of sight. This kind of imagery describes what we see such as: Colors, Patterns, or Size
Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Visual imagery
Tactile Imagery
Pertains to physical textures or the sense of touch. It describes what we touch or feel such as: Texture, movement, temperature.
Visual imagery
Tactile Imagery
Gustatory Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Words or pictures that make someone think of food or taste. It describes what we taste such as: Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty
Visual imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Gustatory Imagery
Tactile Imagery
Refers to sensory information about ''smells'' that the author is able to convey. It describes what we smell such as: Nice fragrances, Bad odors
Olfactory Imagery
Tactile Imagery
Auditory Imagery
The central, underlying, and controlling idea or insight of a work of literature.
Theme
TOPIC
Main Idea
Tell the reader what the story is about.
Theme
Main Idea
Moral
Topic
Lessons are derived at the end of a piece of art.
Theme
Main Idea
Topic
Moral
Subject matter discussed in the writing.
Main Idea
Topic
Subject
Them
It highlights important concepts in a text, strengthen the narrative, and help readers connect to the characters and themes.
Literary text
Literary devices
Literary art
Figure of speech in which an object, idea, character, or action is compared to another thing using the words “as” or “like”.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Irony
When ideas, actions, or objects are described in non-literal terms.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Irony
He is a walking encyclopedia.” is an example of what figure of speech?
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Irony
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” Is an example of what figure of speech?
ALLITERATION
SYMBOLISM
EPIGRAPH
PERSONIFICATION
Is when a nonhuman figure or other abstract concept or element is described as having human-like qualities or characteristics.
ALLITERATION
PERSONIFICATION
EPIGRAPH
EUPHEMISM
Is a combination of two words that, together, express a contradictory meaning.
OXYMORON
EPIGRAPH
ALLITERATION
SYMBOLISM
The comparing and contrasting of two or more different ideas, characters, objects, etc. Example: “When the cat's away the mice will play”
EUPHEMISM
OXYMORON
JUXTAPOSITION
ALLUSION
Her smile is a mile wide.” Is an example of?
SIMILE
METAPHOR
PERSONIFICATION
HYPERBOLE
The precise, literal definition of a word that might be found in a dictionary.
Context
Literary Device
Denotation
Connotation
Refers to the wide array of positive and negative associations that most words naturally carry with them.
Context
Denotation
Connotation
Literary Device
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