To interpret Montressor and Fortunato's descent into the Montressor catacombs as descending into hell, the writer adopts the critical approach called Formalism (Option D).
- Formalism criticism provides the reader with a method via which they can understand a text, writ, or story by the use of narrative forms that are conversational in nature. Essentially, it is a way of looking at things.
- This school of thought posits that in formalism, only formal elements or traits are the only things that hold value about literature.
The formal elements of a literary work are:
- the rhythm of the sentences
- the meaning of the entire text
- meaning of words
- Harmony of words
- rhyming of the words
- structure/shape of the text
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