1. is there a central passage in the text that can be pointed to as summing up the work?______2. What does the text have to do with you, personally, including your past, present, and future?______3. How does the text play out in given ethical principles?______4. What common patterns exist within the work that are also present in other literary compositions?______5. How is the relationship between men and women portrayed in the text?______6. Who benefits from the production and acceptance of the literary work?______7. Have any of the words in the text changed meanings since the text was written?______8. What did the text do well and what did it do poorly? Was it an enjoyable text as a piece of entertainment or work of art?______9. How are the various elements of the work interconnected?______10. How do characters of different social classes interact or conflict?


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Structuralist
Formalist
Moralist
Marxist
Feminist
Historical
Reader-response