Writers like Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Tennessee Williams fall into a subset of Modernism called this.
What is Southern Gothic?
100
The first part of the 20th century was filled with lots of innovations regarding style, form, and this literary feature.
What is subject?
100
This author, a pure modernist, writes simplistic, straight-forward, dialogue-heavy stories featuring hard to handle situations such as abortion, child birth, and suicide.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
100
This story takes place in a train station, which is a fitting setting considering the characters are headed in different directions (emotionally speaking, that is).
What is "Hills Like White Elephants?"
100
Spiritual practices from African and Caribbean roots, such as voodoo and this became popular during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is Santeria?
200
This is a cultural movement promoting (mostly) African American art, literature, music, and culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
This philosophical approach to understanding life, popular during the 40s and 50s, attempted to make meaning from a meaningless and confusing world and investigated our perception of what is real.
What is Existentialism?
200
This Harlem Renaissance poet moved to Sparta, Georgia where he was exposed to severe racism for the first time.
Who is Jean Toomer?
200
Jim O'Connor remembers Laura fondly. He used to call her this nickname in high school.
What is Blue Roses?
200
The Harlem Renaissance pretty much ended with this American economic catastrophe.
What is The Great Depression?
300
20th century literature is typically divided into these two periods.
What are Modernism and Post-Modernism?
300
The goal of early modernism was to reconstruct conventional images of the world and human nature by changing the forms in which this was usually represented.
What is reality?
300
This Harlem Renaissance author wrote "The Harlem Dancer."
Who is Claude McKay?
300
This character requested poison - arsenic, to be specific - to take care of the man she loved...because he had ruined her reputation and used her as a booty call.
Who is Emily Grierson?
300
Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" uses this kind of narration to tell the story. We never really know who all is telling the story, which lends to the unreliability of the tale and adds some Southern Gothic mystery.
What is first person plural?
400
This refers to the relocation of over 6 million African Americans from the South to metro areas in the North, such as NYC, Detroit, and Chicago.
What is The Great Migration?
400
The 20th century response to positive rationalism criticized this as a faulty way of figuring things out, since some philosophers and psychoanalytic critics believed there were better ways to uncover insights into human behavior.
What is science?
400
This author wrote "Georgia Dusk."
Who is Jean Toomer?
400
This sad character said, "Everything tastes of liquorice. Especially all the things you've waited so long for..."
Who is Jig?
400
This word literally means "belonging to the present day; of latest kind; using latest styles; of language's latest stage."
What is modern?
500
The Southern Gothic movement was a reaction to and comment on this previous movement from the Romantic period in literature.
What is the Victorian Gothic movement?
500
The 20th century realized that this is not fixed or stable, and what we actually know has a lot to do with what questions we ask and how we seek the answers.
What is knowledge?
500
This guy wrote "The Glass Menagerie."
Who is Tennessee Williams?
500
This Average Joe reminded another character that people aren't so bad when you get to know them, and "everybody has problems, not just you..."
Who is Jim O'Connor?
500
This writer worried that some African Americans tried too hard to mimic white ideals in their writing and they should focus, instead, on reaching a black audience.