Literary Criticism - the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature
Literary Criticism helps us to understand what is important about the text: Its structure, and Its context: social, economic, historical, What is written, How the text manipulates the reader
Literary Criticism helps us to understand what is important about the text:Its structureIts context: social, economic, historicalWhat is writtenHow the text manipulates the reader
Movie Review - Sums up the author’s personal impression and critical evaluation of a film and its elements organized in paragraphs.
Movie Review
Its main purpose is to inform, analyze, convince, and entertain.
Headline - The Title of the Movie (e.g. Avengers: Endgame’: Three Hours of Action and Emotion, worth every second)
Film Intro
Indicate a few details that will help the readers understand what type of film you are referring to.
Plot Summary - Summarize the plot of the movie
Plot Summary
It has to be brief but contain the necessary details
Setting Spotlight - Elaborate on how the setting contributed to the effectiveness of the film, to the actions of the cast, and to the emotions and atmosphere it sets through every scene
Character Limelight - Talk about the actors/actresses and how they portrayed their characters in the movie.
Character Limelight - Discuss about their characters and how the actors are effective or not in giving justice to their roles.
Likes and Dislikes - Talk about the parts of the movie that you like and/or dislike.
Lesson Learned Share lessons learned from the movie (theme/moral).
Formalist Aprroach
reduces the importance of a text’s historical, biographical, and cultural context.
MoralistApproach - It is a type of literary critique that judges the value of the literature based on its moral lessons or ethical teachings.
Moralist Approach - determines the worth of literature by seeing if it encourages good out of the reader.
Expanded Definition - Also called “extended definition”, is a type of technical definition that is used when a certain word or phrase needs to be explained with much detail or to be defined in a particular context or situation.
Expanded Definition - It goes deeper than a simple dictionary definition.
Expanded Definition by Giving an Example - It helps you illustrate and describe by providing clear, specific, extra facts or information to the word an clarify an abstract and formless concept.
Author's Purpose - the reason why an author writes. It may be to entertain the reader, to persuade the reader, or to inform the reader
Persuasive Text - any text where the main purpose is to present a point of view and seeks to persuade a reader
Persuasive Text - can be an argument, exposition, discussion, review, or even an advertisement
Factual Recount - tells something that happened in the past. It includes what happened, who was involved, where it took place, when it happened, and why it occured
Factual Description - describes a particular person, place or thing. Its purpose is to 'tell' about the subject by describing its features without including personal opinions
Expository Text - provide facts in a way that is educational and purposeful. The text is fact-based to expose the truth through a reliable source and focus on educating it reader
Informational texts - contain facts and true information. It includes books and other types of texts that are about real life. Its main purpose is to share information about the world
Recommendations - identify the group of people who would like and enjoy seeing the movie
Formalist Approach - critical approached that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a text
Moralist approach - type of literary critique that judges the value of the literature based on its moral lessons or ethical teachings