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• Critique


  A technique that aims to study, discuss, evaluate, and interpret literary works
• Forms of critique

  • A critical essay
  • An article evaluating a literary piece
  • A review
• Critique

  An in-depth evaluation of a story, novel, film, or other reading/viewing materials to provide insight into the text
• Critique does not merely point out faults or flaws but seeks to shed light on the content of the text to help readers or viewers understand better
• Reasons to critique a literary work

  • To know its overall value
  • To determine its strengths and weaknesses
  • To inform decisions on what other good materials to read or watch next
• Elements assessed in a critique

  • Characterization
  • Setting
  • Conflict
  • Plot
  • Dialogue
  • Theme
  • Style
• Characterization includes physical traits, POV, personality, thoughts, and actions of characters
• Style in literature describes the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text
• Parts of a Critique

  1. Introduction:

  2. Body: (Analysis)

  3. Conclusion:
• Introduction in a Critique

  1. State the title of the work and the author's name

  2. Outline main ideas and the author's thesis statement

  3. State your thesis statement and the element you want to examine

  4. Summarize the story in your own words
• Body in a Critique

  1. Interpret and evaluate the text based on:

  2. How the text is organized

  3. The Style and Rhetoric

  4. How effective the message is

  5. Whether or not the author did justice to the message

  6. How the text appealed to its audience
• Conclusion in a Critique

  1. Restate your thesis in new words

  2. Summarize your main ideas, if possible with new and stronger words

  3. Give the overall assessment of the story's value, worth, and significance (both positive and negative)

  4. Give recommendations for improvement if necessary
• To write a good critique, avoid introducing ideas with "I think" or "in my opinion" and always introduce the work assuming readers may not know about it
• To write a good critique, one should have a good understanding of the material being critiqued