Kafka's Life
(Close Prague Circle)
Who is Max Brod, Felix Weltsch, Franz Werfel, Oskar Baum, and Ludwig Winder.
The day Kafka died was...
What is June 3, 1924
What literary genre came before Modernism?
What is romanticism.
Who are the Lost Generation?
What is people who came of age during World War I
Kafka's friend and literary executer
Who was Max Brod
The word used to describe similar situations to Kafka's stories is...
What is Kafkaesque
Name three authors from the Modernism Period.
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Franz Kafka.
Who coined the term "The Lost Generation"?
What is Gertrude Stein.
The career that Kafka trained for in school
What is a lawyer
What languages could Kafka read in?
What is German, Yiddish, Czech, French, and Greek.
What are the Five major characteristics of Modernism writing?
What is
Free Verse
Literary Devices
Multiple Perspectives
Individualism
Experimentation
Writers of the 'Lost Generation' fled to...
What is Paris?
The cause of his death
What is tuberculosis
What language did Kafka write most of his work in?
What is German
A new writing technique used in Modernism is...
What is Stream of Consciousness?
What is aimless, directionless, and cynical.
Kafka's instructions to his literary executor.
What is the directive to destroy all his remaning works
The last work that Kafka wrote was called?
What is "The Hunger Artist"?
What were the five major influences of the Modernism period?
What is the Industrial Revolution, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and Prohibition.
Some major themes used in literature by authors in the Lost Generation are...
Must get at least two correct.
What is... Individualism, disillusionment, death, Alienation, Death of the American Dream, loss of tradition , social isolation, and loss of identity.