The text is seen as a reflection of the author’s mind and personality.

It emphasizes the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.

It emphasizes the importance of the author’s life and background into account when analyzing a text.

It argues that social contexts must be taken into consideration when analyzing a text.

It focuses understanding how power, politics, and money play a role in literary texts and amongst literary societies and characters.

It examines the “universal” elements of human life as they occur across cultures.

It analyzes literature through the lens of socially-constructed gender roles.

It posits that every literary work is the product of its time and its world.

It focuses on the roles, positions, and influences of women within literary texts.

It is a new and emerging type of literary criticism. It is a type of cultural criticism that focuses on literary texts produced in places that were, at one time, under the influence of European (read: white) colonial rule.

It argues that the meaning of a text is dependent upon the reader’s response to it.

It argues that because there is no single meaning of any word, there is no single meaning of any text. ALL texts have multiple, valid meanings because readers will interpret words differently than the writer intended them.

What does a critique do?

This part of a critique essay explains the context in which the work was created.

This part of a critique essay includes a statement indicating the overall evaluation of the work.

Who did Mathilde did not want to see because whenever she did she felt so sad?

Why did Mathilde get angry after hearing her husband about the invitation of the Minister?

How much did she ask for the gown?

How much was the "real" diamond necklace which Mathilde borrowed from Madam Forestier?

What technique is similar to pointing out first the strengths before the weaknesses of someone or something?