Literary Context

Question 1

is defined as the social, cultural, political, historical, and other related circumstances that surround the text and form the terms from which it can be better understood and evaluated

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Context

Question 2

Is this author a regionalist writer?

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Graphical context

Question 3

How does dialect influence the text?

Answer 3

Graphical context

Question 4

What insights do readers acquire about the author’s life by reading the text?

Answer 4

Biographical context

Question 5

What biographical facts has the author used in the text?

Answer 5

Biographical context

Question 6

What specific historical events are happening when the work was being composed?

Answer 6

Historical Context

Question 7

In what ways did history influence the writer’s outlook?

Answer 7

HIstorical Context

Question 8

What political events are significant to the text?

Answer 8

Political context

Question 9

what political beliefs does the author seem to have?

Answer 9

Political context

Question 10

what changes do you think the writer would like to make in the society? Evidence?

Answer 10

Sociological context

Question 11

What does the writer seem to like/dislike about the society?

Answer 11

Sociological context

Question 12

What theories of human behavior does the writer seem to believe?

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Psychological context

Question 13

What theories of human behavior does the writer seem to reject?

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Psychological context

Question 14

What behavior do the characters display that the author wants us to think is “right”?

Answer 14

Philosophical/religious context

Question 15

What religious/ethical/philosophy called beliefs does the author seem to favor?

Answer 15

Philosophical/religious context