The events during this time period influenced the Modernist movement.
What are early 1900s-WW2?
100
The main focus of Modernism that rebelled against tradition.
What is Avante-Garde--expressing ideas in new and different ways that break with traditions?
100
This poet founded the Imagist movement but his death in WW1, caused another poet to take over and be considered the starter of the movement.
Who is T.E Hulme?
100
One day Gregor wakes up and has turned in to this.
What is a bug, vermin or cockroach?
100
Modernists many times made a passing reference or an ________ to famous places, people, or other art/literature
What is an allusion?
200
The horrors of this war, often called the Great War, and how it affected the world greatly influenced Modernist writers and artists.
What is WWI?
200
Method of narrating a story that focuses more on the inner thoughts in the mind of the character.
What is stream of consciousness?
200
This poet is most responsible for making the Imagist movement popular.
Who is Ezra Pound?
200
Gregor dislikes his job as a __________ because he has to get up early and travel everyday.
What is a traveling salesman?
200
This art form stressed the power of imagination and subconscious, dream-like stories and images. Salvador Dali is the most well-known artist of this art form.
What is surrealism?
300
More people moved into the cities to find grueling, meaningless work in industries rather than living on the traditional family farm.
What is industrialization and urbanization?
300
The first group of modern poets that rebelled against formal poetry and relied on concrete images and ordinary, local language. They wanted to make poetry easily accessible.
Who are the Imagists?
300
This is the most well-known of Harlem Renaissance writers.
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
This person at first feeds Gregor, cleans his room, and tries to help create space for him to crawl.
Who is Grete, his sister?
300
This philosophy believed that people create their own reality/destiny based entirely on their free-will; the outcome of their lives is based solely on their decisions.
What is existentialism?
400
Different types and classes of people were reading and writing providing more points of view and the need to communicate with all classes of people which caused Modernist writers to rebel against the formal writing and vocabulary.
What is the rise of public education?
400
This modern poetry form dealt with the struggles of being both an American and being African American in the early 1900s. It usually had an easy to read and understand style.
What is poetry from the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This poet rebelled against the Modernist idea of poetry being easy to read and informal. He wrote very complicated poetry with lots of allusions, but he still wrote about modernist themes.
Who is TS Eliot?
400
Besides his family, who sees Gregor once he changes? (3)
Who are Gregor's boss, the housekeeper, and the 3 boarders/renters?
400
This philosophy was created by a famous psychologist who believed the subconscious is responsible for our behavior and our subconscious is developed through our upbringing and relationships (or lack of) with our family.
What is freudism?
500
Both of these major events impacted the world and reinforced the horrors that people can inflict on others, economic hardships, and other societal ills.
What is the Great Depression and WW2?
500
Three themes of Modernist literature
What are pessimism, alienation, loss and destruction, social evils such as consumerism, cruelty, prejudice, or pretty much anything depressing about life and people?
500
Name 3 other Modernist fiction or poets.
Who are _____, _____, and _____?
500
This literary form has nightmarish events happen to characters making them feel isolated. The characters seem to have no control over the situation but are responsible for their own fate/death.
What is Kafkaesque?
500
This philosophy believes that a person's thoughts about what is happening are more important than the "reality" they live in. What is important is not what happens to a person but how they react to it.