A Wonderful Life
This African-American poet was one of the most popular to come from the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The article "Why Soldiers Won't Talk" explains how this condition kept many returning soldiers from pursuing their American Dreams.
What is PTSD?
(also acceptable: being "shellshocked")
This rhetorical device does not expect an answer, despite what it looks like.
What is a rhetorical question?
The Modern Literary Period spanned these years.
What is 1900-1950?
This rhetorical device, regarding the five senses, is displayed in the "Why Soldiers Won't Talk" quote:
"The eardrums are tortured by blast and the eyes ache from the constant hammering."
What is imagery?
This author was arrested for "espionage" because they assumed his poems were secret spy codes.
Who is e.e. cummings?
The narrator of "American History" is chased away from her dream of dating Eugene because of this form of discrimination.
What is racism?
(or prejudice)
This rhetorical device uses the repetition of a specific phrase at the beginning of multiple clauses.
What is anaphora?
This neighborhood in New York City was the birthplace of an explosion of African-American art, writing, music, and more.
What is Harlem?
This tiny clue in the poem "my sweet old etcetera" is how readers know that the narrator values his girlfriend and his sister more than his aunt, father, or mother.
What is their capitalized names?
In "East Goes West," Kang leaves this home country for this new city.
(Both locations required for points)
What are Korea & New York City?
In this poem, Langston Hughes describes how many different groups (like the farmer and the immigrant) have been kept from the American Dream.
What is "Let America Be America Again"?
This term refers to when writers express characters' thoughts in a realistic flow.
What is stream-of-consciousness?
This describes an element of the Jazz Age, besides its popular music.
(multiple possible answers)
What is ... [flapper, speakeasy, parties, Prohibition, gangsters, progressive values...] ?
Harold Krebs loses this as a result of his PTSD/the war.
What is religious faith?
This author, who usually focused on war themes, won the Nobel Prize in literature and created the idea of a certain "code" and "hero."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This soldier character returns home with no energy/desire to pursue the American Dream.
Who is Harold Krebs?
Some American poets and writers felt stifled and alienated in America, so they moved to Paris for more freedom--and became known by this term.
SPELLING COUNTS on this one :)
What are expatriates?
This amendment finally gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This rhetorical device is a more specific types of repetition, where the repeated phrase occurs at the ends of clauses.
What is epistrophe?
The title of the short story "American History" refers to the death of this man.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
("JFK" is acceptable)
Many Modernists defined the American Dream as having bounty, progress, and this.
What is independence?
(or self-reliance)
This term refers to the idea that, because life has so many painful times, one must embrace the good times while they exist.
What is the "Hemingway Code"?
The poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" is an example of this rhetorical device, where a sentence is stretched over multiple lines.
What is enjambment?
These two groups of people, as described in our Modernist Literary Period notes, found some improvement in their overall circumstances during the course of the 1900s-1950s.
Who are African-Americans and women?