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Modern era 101
Characteristics of Modern Lit.
Poetry we "read"
More poetry stuff
Key Authors
100
Time period of the modern era
What is roughly 1900 - 50 (or really, to date)?
100
Other than war, what is one of the sources of anxiety of this period?
What is psychology, science (Darwinism), religion (questioning God)?
100
What does it mean that this period was "The Gilded Age?"
What is something that looks golden/showy on the surface but actually is tarnished/of little worth on the inside?
100
"Athlete Dying Young" - What is "the road all runners come?"
What is death?
100
We dissected his sad love poem
Who is T.S. Eliot?
200
Causes of modernism: disillusioned & antagonistic against ____________
What is the tradition?
200
Resentment at Victorian culture, values, stiff poetry style = "Make it ____!"
What is New and/or Different (kind of synonymous)?
200
type of poetry to emerge during this period
What is the free verse?
200
Same poem - what is the authors's argument for dying young?
What is you go out on top/at the apex of your "game"?
200
Science fiction, womanizer, gamer, "end of world" guy
Who is H.G. Wells?
300
Disheartened & disillusioned by what war (mainly)?
What is WW1?
300
The notion that modern literature had to be elitist, intellectual = "Make it _________!"
What Difficult?
300
What word best describes the literature of the era (means a broad/diverse range of sources)?
What is eclectic?
300
What is fallacious about the author's argument?
What is you don't get to live a life?
300
British political hero, wore tall hat, WWII hero, memoir-writer
Who is Winston Churchill?
400
"Beyond the Pale" - means going beyond _____________
What conventional (normal) boundaries?
400
3 popular genres of writing:
What are novel, short story, essay, manifesto, imagest poetry, free verse poetry?
400
When there is a pause......in the poetry
What is caesura?
400
It's 14 lines; it's a _______
What is sonnet?
400
The creation of the modern novel is attributed to her
Who is Virginia Wolf?
500
Many of the great modernists writers were emigrants, Irish, exiles, expatriates = _______________ basically
What is outsiders?
500
attempts to recreate the thinking of characters in works, to find a literary equivalent for how minds work, random thinking writing technique -
What is stream of consciousness?
500
Where does "the hedge master" receive his education?
nature (outside) "street smarts" not book
500
If IT has 10 sylLAbles IN it, we CALL it A ______
What is iambic pentameter?
500
Any author not already mentioned in modern era
What is lots of possibilities?