Question

The passage suggests that the author most probably holds the view that an important characteristic of literary criticism is that it should:

• A. Demonstrate false assumptions and inherent contradictions
• B. Employ skill and insight
• C. Reveal how a text is put together like a building and that it is in need of being taken apart
• D. Be both a judge and executioner who leaves a text totally dismantled, if not reduced to a pile of rubble

Answer 1

The correct option is B

Employ skill and insight

Let us have a look at these lines in the last paragraph “Criticism and critic derive from the Greek Kritikos, “skillful in judging, decisive.”
So the author most probably holds the view that literary criticism should employ skill and insight. So the answer is (B).
All the other options refer to deconstruction.