| A | B |
| psychological | the type of analysis that uses the works of Sigmund Freud to analyze charcters in a novel |
| contextual | the type of analysis that looks into the history of the time period and/or the author's life |
| formalist | the type of analysis that focuses on the author's techniques and literary devices |
| feminist | the type of analysis that studies a novel's gender issues |
| archetypal | the type of analysis that uses the work of Jung and Campbell to look for universal motifs and themes |
| eclectic | any combination of the other types of literay analysis |