Horror Escape Room

literary theories

Horror Escape room

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Introduction

"Your PR assignment is trapped in this house, doomed to wander it until it regains all its memories of literary theories. To help it remember, you must first overcome all the challenges and collect the missing objects in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to gettrapped yourself…"

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Inventory

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Which theory requires you to apply specific historical information about the time during which the author wrote the work?

Reader-Response

New Historicism

Deconstructionism

Marxist Criticism

02

"The Cat in the Hat is disruptive and disrespectful. Despite being a guest in the children's home, he disregards rules and creates chaos which also put the children in danger. This is an inappropriate message to its younger audience as it seems to encourage a disregard for authority and a lack of respect for others' property and safety."

New Criticism

Moral Criticism

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Which archetype was NOT included on the graphic on the slide about archetypla criticism?!?!

Helpless Idiot

Magician

Jester

04

Which theory focuses on how a work "fits" within a certain genre?

Psychoanalytical

Marxist

Structuralism

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Inventory

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Sigmund Freud believes that we have three areas of the mind that develop from childhood to adulthood. All are included below EXCEPT:

Id

Super Id

Ego

Superego

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Through a deconstructionist lens, THIS film is questioned as truly being about "a hero rescuing a princess by defeating a dragon". What film is it?

THE PRINCESS AND THE DRAGON

SHREK

PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA

RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON

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Moral Criticism

Gender Studies

Ecocriticism

Queer Theory

04

Focusing on Linda being the only complex female character in Death of a Salesman aligns with...

Moral Criticism

Gender Studies

Archetypal

Psychoanalytical

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Remember these notes and play them on the piano in the correct order

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Inventory

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Use the magnifying glass to search for the code and then insert it into the typewriter

224

Enter the secret code

Code

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WHO IS REFERRED TO WHEN DISCUSSING DRAMATIC CONSTRUCTION?

ARTHUR MILLER

ARISTOTLE

IAN JOHNSTON

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_____ CRITICISM STUDIES ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL THEORIES TO GROUND WORKS TO THE SOCIAL REALITY OF THEIR TIME AND PLACE.

MARXIST

SOCIAL

JUNGIAN

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NEW CRITICISM STUDIES A WORK AND DISREGARDS THE HISTORICAL / AUTHORIAL CONTEXT OF IT. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS ALSO CALLED...

ANALYSIS

DRAWING CONCLUSIONS

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