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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.

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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

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

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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