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It involves breaking down a work in terms of themes, symbols, and characterization internally, seeking to attach meaning to literary elements.

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Literary criticism

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There are tools used by writers to hint at larger themes, ideas, and meaning in a story or piece of writing. Some of them are as follows: simile, metaphor, imagery, symbolism, and personification.

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Literary Devices

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It comments on and evaluates the work in the light of specific issues and theoretical concerns in a course.

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Critique Paper

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A term used for the variety of beliefs, movements, and ideas regarding a common goal, which is to define and achieve equal rights for women in terms of personal, political, cultural, economic, and social concerns.

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Feminism

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A literary criticism that examines literature using civil and ethical criteria. It judges works based on their ethical teaching or moral lesson.

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Moralism

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It relates literary compositions to a larger structure such as a genre or a system of recurrent patterns or motifs.

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Structuralism

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A literary criticism that refers to the social, political, and economic theories, including the belief that struggles between social classes are a major force in history and that in the future, there should be a society with no social classes.

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Marxism

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A literary theory that points out the importance of the reader’s role in interpreting texts.

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Reader-Response

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A literary criticism that portrays in the text the social and political conditions during the time when the text was written.

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Historicism

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It focuses on literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. It also analyzes the devices, techniques, and other functions of a literary work objectively.

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Formalism

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