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    The document contains instructions for a preliminary examination on literary criticism. Students are asked to discuss concepts like literary criticism, literary analysis, and formalistic and reader response approaches. They must then analyze the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost using a formalist lens, noting its structure, elements, patterns, and message. Finally, students must write a reader response to the poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley, expressing their own impression and reaction.

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    ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF TAGUM, INC.

    Tagum City, Davao del Norte


    TEACHER-EDUCATION PROGRAM

    PRELIM EXAMINATION IN LIT 07


    LITERARY CRITICISM

    NAME: ______________________________________ COURSE/YEAR: ________________


    GENERAL INSTRUCTION: Please follow the given instructions.
    I. Discuss the following: (5 points each)
    1. Literary Criticism
    2. Literary Analysis
    3. Formalistic Approach
    4. Readers’ Response Approach
    II. Using the lens of formalism, please study the following lines from the poem, “The Road
    Not Taken.” Please answer the questions that follow. (40 points)
    The Road Not Taken
    BY ROBERT FROST

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,


    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;
    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,
    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.
    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    A. How is the work’s structure unified?
    B. How do various elements of the work reinforce its meaning?
    There are "elements" of poetry that we can focus on to enrich our understanding of a
    particular poem or group of poems. These elements may include, voice, diction, imagery,
    figures of speech, symbolism and allegory, syntax, sound, rhythm and meter, and structure. 

    C. What recurring patterns (repeated or related words, images, etc.) can you find? What is the
    effect of these patterns or motifs?
    D. What is the message of the poem?
    III. Using Readers’ Response Approach, write your own reaction/impression on this poem. (20
    points)

    INVICTUS
    By: William Ernest Henley
    Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.

    In the fell clutch of circumstance


    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.

    Beyond this place of wrath and tears


    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds and shall find me unafraid.

    It matters not how strait the gate,


    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate,
    I am the captain of my soul.

    ----END----

    “ Literature is like a window to one’s soul.”


    GOD BLESS!

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