Modernist Poetry
This poet wrote “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”
Who is Wallace Stevens?
This literary movement is marked by fragmentation, alienation, and experimentation.
What is Modernism?
In “Mother to Son,” life is compared to this object.
What is a staircase?
In “Barn Burning,” the main character is named this.
Who is Sarty?
This author wrote “Hills Like White Elephants.”
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
Modernist poetry often emphasizes this idea instead of a single fixed meaning.
What is multiple perspectives or shifting perception?
This cultural movement celebrated African American identity in the early 20th century.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
In “Harlem,” deferred dreams may do this dramatic thing.
What is explode?
Sarty struggles between loyalty to family and ________.
What is moral justice (or along these lines)?
This author wrote “Barn Burning.”
Who is William Faulkner?
This poem by T. S. Eliot portrays a spiritually empty world.
What is “The Hollow Men”?
Writers of this movement often rejected traditional social norms.
What is the Beat Generation?
This poet wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
"Hills Like White Elephants" is set in this country.
What is Spain?
This author wrote “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.”
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This poetic movement focused on clarity and precise imagery.
What is Imagist?
Southern Gothic literature is known for these kinds of characters.
What are grotesque characters?
This poet is known for confessional poetry and works like “Lady Lazarus.”
Who is Sylvia Plath?
Elisa’s frustration in “The Chrysanthemums” reflects limitations in this area.
What are gender roles?
This novel by Jack Kerouac is a key Beat Generation text.
What is On the Road?
This poet wrote “In a Station of the Metro,” a classic Imagist poem.
Who is Ezra Pound?
This author is associated with Southern Gothic themes in “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
Which poem by Sylvia Plath has the theme of new motherhood?
What is "Morning Song"?
The ending of “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” highlights this concept.
What is moral hypocrisy and irony (or along these lines)?
This author wrote Slaughterhouse-Five about the bombing of Dresden.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?