UIL Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism is about analyzing famous literary works and knowledge of literary terms & history. The contest has a section for literary terms+history, a section on questions from the annual UIL Reading List (Fiction, Poetry, Drama), a section on criticizing, and a tiebreaking essay.

• 65 Questions + Essay
• 90 minutes
• Scoring:
• +1 for a correct question in P1
• +2 for a correct question in P2
• +3 for a correct question in P3
• The essay is graded on its own rubric