Modernist Literature
Based on what you have learned, what emotion best describes the tenor of Europe after World War I?
What is anxiety?
What is the wine cup used in the Christian Eucharist?
What is a chalice?
What is one way Woolf actively tries to connect with her audience?
Why does she talk about what her audience might expect from her?
What kind of text would most likely be written in a stream-of-consciousness narrative style?
What is a journal entry?
What led to WWI?
What does it mean to be a patriot and an assassin?
What do you call a ritual tray that holds the wine goblet in church?
What is a salver?
Virginia Woolf was primarily a(n) _____
Who is a modernist?
Where, according to Woolf, is Shakespeare’s sister today?
What does it mean to be alive inside all women, and buried under the Elephant and Castle bus stop?
World War I was also called a ________ because of the millions of casualties and the sheer brutal violence.
What is The Great War?
What does it mean to be pared-down language? By the way, it uses a minimal palette of words, images, and emotions?
What is the purpose of scrupulous meanness?
The ______ rhetorical strategy can undermine the credibility of an argument if it is overused.
What is pathos?
What, according to Woolf, is needed most of all for a woman to attain intellectual freedom?
What does it mean to attain one's own money?
For Paul Valery and Hamlet, ghosts represent _____.
What is the loss of feeling or mobility in an affected area
What is paralysis?
What, according to Virginia Woolf, does a woman need in order to successfully write?
What is a literal space for writing: a room to be alone, and a figurative space for writing: in the form of financial security?
The ghost of Hamlet’s father haunts him as do the ghosts of Europe that haunt Valery’s writing. It is safe to surmise that ghosts are a symbol of _____.
What is uncertainty?
In “They,” Sassoon uses the literary technique of _____, which attempts to mock others with irony.
What is sarcasm?
What are moments of self-awareness; moments of awareness of the true nature of an environment?
What are epiphanies?
When you acknowledge and address multiple perspectives on a topic, you are using the ____ rhetorical strategy..
What kind of crisis did Paul Valéry argue was most threatening to Europe after World War I?
What does it mean to be intellectual?