Modernism
What methods of storytelling we studied demonstrate the modernist focus on the individual?
stream of consciousness / interior monologue
Which poem is most like a Romantic era poem where meaning is found in connection to nature?
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats
From what point of view is "A Cup of Tea" written?
third person limited
What does Araby symbolize is Joyce's story?
the Catholic Church
A person, place, or thing within a narrative or poem that means something in addition to itself.
symbol
What is the term for the loss of hope in religion, humanity, government, etc. that people experienced?
disillusionment
What are the first words of dialogue in Waiting for Godot?
"Nothing to be done."
What, in the end, was the mark on the wall?
a snail
Which of the selections has this theme: life keeps going in a mechanistic cycle but it is pointless?
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Something derived from treating grotesque, serious, or morbid situations comically.
black humor
What is the term for the lack of connection and belonging that people and modernist characters experience?
alienation or fragmentation
"somewhere in the sands of the dessert / A shape with lion body and the head of a man / A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,"
the Sphinx
What motivates Rosemary to bring Miss Smith home for a cup of tea?
She wants to play fairy godmother and have a story to tell her friends.
Which of the selections has this theme: "in the cycle of history, man is and will return to a brutal form of paganism"?
"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
A sudden insight into some aspect of life or reality that springs from an ordinary person, object or event.
epiphany
The modernist experimentation with literary form and technique came from a rejection of what?
tradition and social norms
Name at least 2 things that put Waiting for Godot in the category of avant-garde.
homeless characters
no set except for a dead tree
no plot arc or character arc
Which story ends with the main character realizing in that final moment: it was all meaningless?
"Araby" by James Joyce
Which of the selections has this theme: "One can transcend time by creating great art"?
"Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats
When a speaker’s thoughts tumble onto the page as they do inside one’s head.
interior monologue
What is the term for the idea that people are trapped by conditions imposed on them by human nature, society, and the world?
determinism
Waiting for Godot primarily represents which philosophy?
existentialism
(absurdism is also ok)
What story ends in the midst of an unresolved crisis?
"A Sick Collier" by D.H. Lawrence
In which story does the main symbol symbolize multiple different things: knowledge, meaning, impermanence, certainty, uncertainty, an escape from reality, an assurance of reality?
"The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf
A reproduction of the flow of thoughts in a character’s mind with little attention to grammar or logic.
stream of consciousness