CLEP American Lit - the Modernists

All of the following are poets known for their work after World War II EXCEPT

the Grapes of Wrath is considered to be an American :

Carl Sandburg is famous for writing about Chicago as well as the biography of this president:

The poem "Mending Wall" explores neighbor relations but not whether it is good or bad. This literary tension is called:

Who wrote "Mending Wall?"

Though best known for the play, Trifles, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer for this play about Emily Dickinson:

According to Archibald MacLeish's modernist poem "Ars Poetic," "A poem should not mean, /but ...."

What is symbolized by “the valley of ashes” in Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gastby?

Writers & poets such as Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot who moved to Europe to live and write are referred to as..

Ernest Hemingway wrote the following novels except:

The Modernist Period was in

"The Walls Do Not Fall" and "The Flowering of the Road" were written by H.D. These initials refer to:

What is the name of the literary journal that was founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912 ?

The poem "Disillusionment of Ten O'clock" was written by:

William Faulkner,like James Joyce, uses this literary device which is focused on the mental-emotional life of characters

What famous 20th Century poet titled his first poetry collection A Boy's Will after the Longfellow poem:

By knowing the poet (Sandburg) and the poem, the words "harbor and city" probably refers to:

Which Harlem Renaissance poet's "I, Too, Sing America" is a response to Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"?

Which of these poets was NOT considered a modernist?

Ezra Pound's "A Station of the Metro" is an example of what poetic form that used clear language and precise images?

"I, too dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it," What does "it" represent?

"The Fog" by Carl Sandburg is an example of:

all of the following writers are considered part of the Harlem Renaissance EXCEPT:

Yoknapatawpha County appears in the works of

Writers and poets, such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot, who moved to Europe are referred to as

Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," Mrs. Mallard dying of heart disease-"of joy that kills" is an example of:

What modernist commonly used traditional forms to explore contemporary issues such as love and relationships?

One of the main themes this writer from Salinas Valley, California was social justice–specifically in regard to migrants

Eugene O’Nell's play, BoundEast for Cardiff was the first of his plays produced by this acting group started by Glaspell

What New York neighborhood became the center of African-American culture during the 1920s?

Who wrote "Mending Wall?"

"I shall grow old...I shall grow old.../I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled." Comes from this T.S. Eliot poem

Which of these writers was not part of "The Lost Generation"?

Which Eugene O’Neill play is an autobiographi- cal account of his Irish-American family?

Novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and Daisy Miller were written by:

William Carlos Williams rejected imagism. This term means the object allows poet to see the world critically and clearl

During this literary period, good literature became complex and preoccupied itself with its own meaning. Which era?

William Carlos Williams was not only a poet, but also a(n):

Which modernist poet is known for breaking poetic rules concerning: capitalization, line spacing, and punctuation?

Term refers to art that was bizarre, fantastic, or abnormal and symbolized being human in an inhumane world