The Great War and Disillusionment
World War I
What major global event led to the modernist movement?
It tells us more about who was a part of the lost generation.
How does paragraph 4 add to the development of the text?
Trends in society.
What did modernist fiction reject?
Artists' desire to rebel and find new ways to respond to the changing world?
What created the modernist movement?
A type of first-person narration that tunes into a character's private thoughts.
What is stream of consciousness narration?
Soldiers were unprepared to deal with trauma from the chaos and brutality.
Why were soldiers disillusioned during this time period?
People who came of age during or after World War I.
Who is the lost generation?
Broken grammatical rules, allusion, irony, satire, and experimenting with new themes.
What are some conventions of modernism?
Many artistic and literary conventions.
What previous practices or ideals did modernism reject?
Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Elliot.
Who are some of the American writers of the "Lost Generation"?
Character traits, plotlines, and conventions of grammar syntax.
What did modernist fiction writers experiment with in writing?