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  • 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.
    • Moralist Approach - 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