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Harlem Renaissance writer who passed for white, moved to Sparta, GA to become principal of a school, and wrote about his experience in the American South.
Who is Jean Toomer?
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Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants" takes place in this busy location in Spain.
What is a train station?
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Lying strangers, one-legged women, ruined Antebellum mansions, poison, gentleman callers, alcoholism. These are some elements of THIS genre.
What is Southern Gothic?
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This sub-set of the Modern movement features writers such as Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Tennessee Williams, who write about the darker side of modern America.
What is Southern Gothic?
100
The Harlem Renaissance ended with this economic catastrophe.
What is The Great Depression?
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His reporter-style of writing forces us to read between the lines in stories like "Hills like White Elephants," in which the characters dance around the story's subject.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
200
Jim O'Connor lovingly calls Laura this nickname from high school.
What is Blue Roses?
200
THIS or lack thereof, is a major theme of "Hills Like White Elephants," in which the characters never really say what they need to or desire to say.
What is communication?
200
The 20th century realized that THIS is not fixed and stable, and what we actually know has a lot to do with what questions we ask and the methods we use to find the answers.
What is knowledge?
200
This refers to the movement of over six million African Americans from the Southern US to metropolitan areas in the Northeast, Midwest, and West from the 1910s to the 1960s.
What is the Great Migration?
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This Harlem Renaissance writer was from Jamaica, not the American South, but he still wrote beautifully about the black experience in America and was a role model for younger writers like Langston Hughes.
Who is Claude McKay?
300
"A Rose for Emily" is told using this point of view.
What is first person plural?
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During early modernism, literary elements evolved. Plot was broken up; perspectives could shift mid-novel; interior monologues were popular; fantasy and THIS blended.
What is reality?
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The first part of 20th century literature, which we focused on in this unit, is called Modernism. THIS is the second half of 20th century lit.
What is Post-Modernism?
300
This philosophical movement, popular in the 1940s and 1950s, was an attempt to understand a confused and meaningless world; it investigates the role of perception in establishing our ideas about what is real.
What is existentialism?
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This playwright wrote about family conflict and the struggles of Southerners post-Civil War and during the Great Depression.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
400
This poem by Langston Hughes speaks to ALL minorities in America who have longed for the American Dream.
What is "Let America Be America Again"?
400
The Glass Menagerie is THIS kind of play, so the narrative may not be reliable.
What is a memory play?
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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?
400
During the Harlem Renaissance, some folks returned to ancient spiritual practices such as these two religions.
What are Voodoo and Santeria?
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These TWO Southern Gothic writers bring in elements of the Romantic Gothic writers, such as the grotesque, decrepit homes, and family conflict, alongside newer themes such as race, gender, and social class issues.
Who are Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner?
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The Glass Menagerie introduces us to THIS dysfunctional family, who have relocated from the South to a metropolitan city in the mid-west.
Who are The Wingfields?
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This word literally means belonging to the present day; of latest kind; using latest styles; of language's latest stage.
What is modernism?
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The first half of the 20th century showed literary innovations in regards to ________, ________, and ________, but it took a while for these evolving styles to be absorbed into the culture.
What are style, form, and subject.
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In the 20th century, people responded to positive rationalism by criticizing THIS as a faulty way of figuring things out; people turned more to psychology to understand human behavior.
What is science?