GENRES & STYLES
This literature genre flourished into the main writing form in Modernism, as it could encompass anywhere from storytelling to abstract minimalism, bringing authors like Robert Frost, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot to success.
A ship that crashed into an iceberg in 1912, which influenced a panic and was later developed into literature and film.
What is Titanic?
The author of "Of Mice and Men".
Who is John Steinbeck?
Prior to The Great Depression, a lot of Americans and immigrants strongly believed in this patriotic idea.
What is "The American Dream"?
The Robert Frost poem reflecting on his childhood in the woods.
What is "Birches"?
This writing genre was prevalent throughout the Modernist literature period, as an inclusion of fantasy after the naturalist and realist time periods had taken the world by storm.
What is fiction?
This war caused worry to spread across the nation in 1917.
What is World War I?
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
What crisis made writers controversially concerned with America and its position in the world.
What is the Great Depression?
This book involves two main characters, George and Lennie, trying to survive their dreams.
What is "Of Mice and Men"?
This style can be defined as an artistic attempt to bridge together reality and the imagination.
What is surrealism?
The U.S. entered this war, influencing widespread realism and naturalism in literature, in 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
What is World War II?
The author of "The Road Not Taken".
Who is Robert Frost?
This small time period in the larger span of Modernism had to do with the flourishing of art forms in African-Americans across the country, especially in a certain New York neighborhood.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This book by F. Scott Fitzgerald about living in prosperous communities and was later interpreted in a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
What is "The Great Gatsby"?
This style favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
What is imagism?
This amendment was passed in 1920 giving women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The author of "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms".
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This was a growing topic having to do with the study of the mind and behavior in the Modernism period.
What is psychology?
This poem portrays the struggle for demonstration and representation by Langston Hughes.
What is "I, Too"?
This style is often considered a revolt against realism and naturalism, seeking to achieve a psychological or spiritual reality rather than record external events in logical sequence.
What is expressionism?
This is the theory that Einstein created in 1905.
What is "The Theory of Relativity"?
The author of "I, Too".
Who is Langston Hughes?
This is a main topic in psychology, that some writers focused and built their careers upon in the Modernism time period.
What is the "Stream of Consciousness"
This book is set in the Italian campaign during WWI, written by Ernest Hemingway.
What is "A Farewell to Arms"?