Activity 2.
Directions: Read and answer the statements carefully. Write ✓ if the statement is correct and X if not.

1. A critique is a genre of academic writing that briefly summarizes and critically evaluates a work or concept.
2. It is important to have a thorough understanding of the work that will be critiqued.
3. The body of a critique includes a summary of the work and a detailed evaluation.
4. Structure or form of a literary selection is the arrangement of story elements according to purpose, style and genre
5. The structure does not support the story to ensure the most powerful delivery of elements.
6. Structuralism recognizes that the significance of each word within a text is determined by internal as well as extemal factors; i.e. historical, biographical and cultural contexts.
7. Structuralism refers to critical approaches that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a text.
8. The formalist approach reduces the importance of a text's historical, biographical , and cultural context
9. In formalism the features include only grammar and syntax.
10. Formalism analyzed literature according to devices unique to literary works and focused on the literariness of a text.​