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Literary theory is largely absent from high school English courses. While virtually all. high school students read and respond to literature, few are given opportunities to analyze. the works they read using established, critical methods. This curriculum unit will. introduce high school students to four critical approaches, and it will ask students to. apply each approach to selected works of childrenâs literature. Four methods of literary criticism - feminism, Marxism, post-colonial criticism, and. reader-centered criticism â are especially useful in understanding the wide variety of texts. students study in high school and college English courses.
In literature, tone refers to the author's attitude (as narrator) toward the subject of the story and the readers of the story. The author reveals tone through word choice. Your ability to recognize the tone will often be the difference between understanding the story or completely missing the point.