Plot Points
This boring character is obsessed with his slippers.
Who is Hedda's husband (George Tessman)?
This literary period uses art as art, alienation, fractured forms, and a focus on anti-heroes.
What is modernism?
This term essentially means a story within a story.
What is a nesting narrative?
Poe uses ________, since his works contain supernatural elements, while O'Connor uses ________.
What is Gothic and Southern Gothic?
These two wars occurred during the Modernism/Postmodernism literary eras.
What is World War 1 and 2?
Daru is the narrator of this short story.
The use of irony, metafiction, faction, and magical realism was popular for what literary period.
What is Postmodernism?
Abjection means both a bleak state of mind as well as _________.
What is the loss of innocence?
Robert Browning is well known for his use of this technique where the speaker’s character is gradually disclosed in a dramatic situation through his or her own words.
What is dramatic monologue?
Araby relates to this idea created by Plato.
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
In this poem, written by Yeats, the narrator mocks his ex-lover for not being with him.
What is "When you Are Old?"
Modernist use this idea to describe their idea that society does not hold the truth, but rather it depends on your own perception.
What is the loss of "objectivity?"
"The Garden of Forking Paths" references Goethe which means it uses the idea of ____________.
What is intertextuality?
William Butler Yeats viewed time as this shape. It looks vaguely like a spiral.
What is a gyre?
This character is afraid of many things including dying, women, growing old, and talking to people.
Who is J. Alfred Prufrock?
This text can be considered both a Modernist and Post-colonial text.
What is Heart of Darkness?
This term describes how life has no meaning and, instead, humans are the ones who give it meaning.
What is existentialism?
A major difference between e.e. cummings and other poets is his creative use of __________ and ___________.
What is space and punctuation?
The Berlin Conference (also considered the Scramble for _______) deeply affected this continent.
What is Africa?
This real life event heavily influences the events which occur in "The Guest."
What is the Algerian War?
The Postmodernist use this term to describe the idea that representation precedes and determines the real.
What is the simulacra?
This term, coined by Barthes, can either mean:
1. A story featuring heroes, gods, or ancestors.
2. Individually using half-truths
4. Stories which advance a cultural imperative (often seen in the Postmodern/Modern era)
What is mythology?
These three authors lived in Switzerland during WWI.
Who are Borges, Joyce, and Eliot?
This event was important for the Irish authors Yeats and Joyce since it occurred in their home country.
What is the Easter Rising?