Theme's and Ideas
What is the feeling, common in American Modernism, of being lost or alienated in a rapidly changing world?
What technique involves presenting a character's thoughts and feelings in a continuous, uninterrupted flow?
Stream of Consciousness
What event led to a significant shift in American demographics and influenced the themes of the Harlem Renaissance?
The Great Migration
What did Zora Neale Hurston think about the end of slavery and the Reconstruction?
She thought it set her up to live a better life and wanted to keep running without looking back.
Pride in one's heritage is a theme from the Harlem Renaissance that is still relevant in today's discussions about what?
Cultural Identity
What literary device uses objects or ideas to represent something else, often with a deeper meaning?
Symbolism
What period of economic hardship in the 1930s deeply affected American society and inspired many Modernist writers?
The Great Depression
What was Emily hiding in her house?
The body of Homer Barron.
What feeling did many American Modernist works explore towards traditional values and institutions?
What type of narration, common in Modernist literature, can be unreliable and offer a subjective perspective on events?
Unreliable Narrator
What artistic and intellectual movement, centered in Harlem, celebrated African American culture and identity?
The Harlem Renaissance
What killed Mrs. Mallard in "The Story of an Hour"?
The knowledge that she would not have her freedom.
This theme of American Modernism supports the idea that everyone is their own person.
Individualism
What literary device is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?
Allusion
What global conflict caused widespread disillusionment and influenced the themes of loss and fragmentation in American Modernist literature?
World War I
What was the shape of the world John F Carter Jr. was given that he noted in "'These Wild Young People' by One of Them"?
What complex and often painful theme related to race, identity, and belonging did both American Modernist and Harlem Renaissance writers explore?
Double Consciousness
What experimental literary technique, used in Modernist poetry, breaks traditional rules of grammar, syntax, and form?
Free Verse
What laws, prevalent in the Southern United States, contributed to the Great Migration and influenced the themes of racial injustice in Harlem Renaissance literature?
Jim Crow Laws
What was the main literary element we could see in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
Unreliable Narrator