AP Lit Lenses Flashcards

13373157602	Lens	A focus for your analysis, a new appreciation for the work. Picking one direction can help build a thesis	0
13373035144	Character Analysis	Analysis concentrating on the role, development, or symbolic meaning of a character/characters For an A grade: Needs development, more than just an adjective, prove that a character is used to do something, prove the import of a character through something	1
13373035145	Character Analysis Tools	Round vs. flat Dynamic vs. static Direct vs. indirect Protagonist vs. antagonist Character types and archetypes Personality traits	2
13373035146	Philosophical Lens	Focuses on a certain philosophical viewpoint Commonly Freud, Jung, Marx	3
13373035147	Freud	Focuses on the individual, unconscious, and its manifestations	4
13373035148	Id	Instinctual physical desires. Insatiable and pleasure seeking Does not consider consequences	5
13373035150	Ego	Inserts the context of reality	6
13373035149	Superego	Has internalized the norms of society	7
13373035151	Jung	Identifies and concentrates on a collective unconscious universally shared by people across cultures Primordial images and patterns, archetypes What makes a work universal	8
13373035152	Archetypes	The original model Universally shared images, figures, character types, setting and story patterns Embedded deep in humanity's collective unconscious	9
13373035153	Marx	Focuses on class, ideology and the prevailing social order Do not seek to find hidden meaning Texts are material products to be understood in broadly historical terms	10
13373035154	Rhetorical Lens	Emphasizes strategies and devices authors use to get readers to interpret their works in certain desired ways Interpret a work's denotative and connotative meanings Study of the interaction of authors and reader, viewing the text as a means of communication of the two Symbolism, themes, tone, diction, figurative language, tropes, etc.	11
13373035155	Feminist Lens	Examination of how female characters are portrayed Stress on stereotyping and "boxing in" of the female persona Stresses the unity of women given their difference from men in a patriarchal society	12
13373035156	New Critical Theory	Treats a work of literary art as if it were a self-contained, self-referential object Close reading: Relationships within the text that give it its own form; Structure should not be divorced from meaning; Attention to images, symbols, repetition, sound effects, rhythms, and literary device such as irony and paradox; An objective approach	13
13373035157	Historical Lens	Examines literary works within their diverse and interrelated historical contexts. Cultural and social forces that influenced the work and are revealed through the text Reception and significance of the work in the past and present also important	14
13373035158	Historical Perspectives	Is the work able to be fully understandable outside of the historical context? Is the work simply representative of an era? Is the work a judgment of an era or event? How has the work enmeshed itself within historical context past and present?	15