The mixing of actual historical events with fictional events without clearly defining what is factual and what is fictional.
What is faction?
100
"And when I am formulated / sprawling on a pin /
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall / Then how should I begin"
In this poem excerpt, this author expresses his insecurities about meeting women.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
100
This author died from kidney failure, but some speculated his death was caused by an intentional overdose of morphine.
Who is Jack London?
100
This movement dispensed with the notion of free will capable of enacting change in life's circumstances?
This modernist poet like to experiment with lack of capitalization and variance of stanza patterns.
Who is e.e. cummings?
200
This author created the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha and used it as a setting for many of his stories.
Who is William Faulkner?
200
Authors of this time period authors tend to depict the world as having already undergone countless disasters and being beyond redemption or understanding.
What is postmodernism?
200
Nella Larsen
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
In his writing, this man pioneered the practice of emphasizing the local speech of an area.
Who is Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain?
300
This poet's poem "The Wasteland" is considered a quintessential modernist work.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
300
This writer was a man whose work summed up an era. His wife only agreed to marry him after he achieved success.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
300
During this literary movement, artists of the Lost Generation struggled to find some meaning in the world in the wake of chaos.
What is Modernism?
300
Toni Morrison
What is postmodernism?
400
The use of non-linear timelines and narrative techniques in a story.
What is temporal distortion?
400
This poet wrote "After Apple Picking," which some feel is a metaphor for looking back at life and realizing the things you no longer have time to achieve.
Who is Robert Frost?
400
This author died early, at age 28, by which time he had published enough material to fill a dozen volumes of a collected edition.
Who is Stephen Crane?
400
This type of writing could be considered as an early form of docudrama, in which fictional persons and events are intended to seamlessly reproduce the real world
What is realism?
400
e.e. cummings
What is modernism?
500
A literary style that often directly addresses readers and openly acknowledges of the fictional nature of the events being described.
What is reader involvement?
500
This poet modeled his stanza forms on the improvisatory rhythms of jazz music and adapted the everyday vocabulary of those around him into his poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes?
500
This author became editor for Boston's Atlantic Monthly and was an avid promoter of realism; he attacked sentimentality of thought and feeling wherever he found them in fiction.
Who is William Dean Howells?
500
This literary movement was centered in America’s cultural capital, open to cross-currents from around the world.