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Biography
Modernism
Modernism Characteristics
Modernism and Eliot
Eliot's Poems
100
Where was Eliot born?
What is Missouri?
100
What is modernism?
What is an artistic movement that breaks from traditional forms?
100
Modernism emphasizes the subjectivity of what?
What is reality?
100
Eliot's works show a more what view of society?
What is depressing?
100
How many parts are in The Wasteland?
What is 5?
200
What other poet influenced Eliot?
What is Ezra Pound?
200
When did the Modernism start?
What is the late 1800s?
200
Name a thematic characteristic of Modernism.
What is hard to understand, characters not presented in a linear way, and oppose social concept.
200
Instead of calling it symbolism, what style were both Ezra Pound and Eliot said to use?
What is Imagism?
200
Tireseias is a combination of what two things in The Wasteland?
What is a man and woman?
300
What was the Criterion?
What is a British literary magazine?
300
True or False: The Modernism movement has an optimistic view.
What is false it is pessimistic?
300
What three literary devices are commonly used?
What are irony, satire, and comparisons?
300
What was considered the birth of Modernism?
What is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
300
The main character in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" does not have what?
What is confidence?
400
What award did Eliot win in 1948?
What is Nobel Prize for Literature?
400
What was Modernism a reaction to?
What is World War I, the Victorian era, and the New Industrial age?
400
What type of plot structure is used?
What is fragmented?
400
What was Eliot try to exemplify in his writing?
What is what is going on in the mind?
400
What does The Hollow Man exemplify?
What is what is happening in the mind?
500
What was the purpose of The Criterion?
What is to unify the European intellectual community?
500
What was the "catchphrase" of the Modernism movement?
What is "Make it new!"
500
Modernism was the rejection of what?
What are 19th-century traditions?
500
What did Eliot and other modernist writers write about?
What is the world they saw instead of a fictional world?
500
Who was "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" dedicated to?
What is Jean Verdenal, a close friend who was killed in the battle of the Dardenelles?