DIRECTIONS: Read the following carefully. Write T if the statement
is true and if the statement is false.
1. Critique or review is a genre of academic writing which briefly summarizes and
critically evaluates a work or concept.
2. Writing a critique on a work helps us to develop a fault-finding ability within one's
self.
3. Critiques can be used to carefully analyze a variety of works such as novels,
exhibite, film, images, poetry, monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, theories,
news reports, feature articles, and the like.
4. Critical approaches sometimes called lenses, are different perspectives we can
consider when looking at a piece or several pieces of work.
5. Feminism examines a literary work in terms of its form and lernents like
characters, setting, plot, point-of-view, theme, symbolism, figures of speech, etc.
6. Pormalism focuses on socio-economic status or on the unequal distribution of
wealth and resources between rich and poor.
7. Reader response approach focuses on the discrimination, unequal treatment, and
prejudices of women in the society,
8. Marxism approach allows the writer to give his or her own assumptions or
reactions on the event seen or article read.
9. The purpose of critical approaches is to help us answer questions, as well as
helping us interpret and understand a variety of works.
10. One of the reasons in writing critique is to recognize the strengths and
weaknesses of the work.