Jazz Age
Modernism
American Dream
Harlem Renaissance
Modern Poetry
100
The Jazz age was also known as what?
What is the Roaring 20's
100
What government did Karl Marx create?
What is Marxism
100
What is one of the great American Novel that embodies the idea of a New Eden and the American Dream
What is The Great Gastsby
100
Poetry was based on spirituals, Street talk and
What is blues
100
Name two European artists that influenced American poets
Who is Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot
200
What did women gain in 1920
What is the Right to vote
200
Name 2 stream of consciousness writers
Who is James Joyce, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner
200
What is the second element of the American Dream
What is Optimism
200
Name 2 important poets
What is Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Weldon Johnson
200
Explain the term Symobolism
What is when a logo, or icon stands for something else.
300
Who was the most influential of all post-WWI writers
Who is Ernest Hemmingway
300
What did people lose faith in
What is American Dream
300
Most popular form of entertainment in the 1930's was
What is the radio
300
Writers of Modern Era experimented boldly with forms and
What is subject matter
300
Two poets who used symbolism
What is William Carlos Williams, T.S. Elliot
400
Name 3 characteristics of the Jazz Age
What is bootlegger, speak-easy, cocktail, flapper, gangster, new rhythm of jazz
400
Who experimented with the ideas of conscious thoughts and human sexuality
Who is Sigmund Freud
400
What was the long waited blockbuster of 1939
What is Gone with the Wind
400
How did the Harlem Renaissance change how America saw African-American authors?
What is showed how they felt, what they went through
400
Explain Imagism
What is 20th century movement, creation of heard, clear images, concisely expressed in everyday speech
500
What did lawmakers consider the central evil, outlawing it in 1919
What is Alcohol
500
What kind of hero did modernists want?
What is realistic & flawed
500
What was the famous Halloween broadcast of 1938
What is Invasion from Mars
500
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Congrats!
500
Name a poet who used Imagism
Who is E.E. Cummings
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