Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on kitsch. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and two questions and nicely introduces this concept. It’s not hard to see how the words kitsch or kitschy would find their way into a review–especially of, say, a visual arts exhibition.
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