Test: The Modern Age: 1915-1946

Wallace Stevens believed that ________a0 was the highest human activity.

Match the author with his work. E. E. Cummings

Hughes' work helped to provide a lasting place for black writers in __________ literature.

As a traditional poet, Frost believed that poetry should begin in __________a0 and end with wisdom.

Match the author with his work. Thornton Wilder

Pound was a central figure in the __________a0 movement.

The modernist movement saw truth as a matter of ____________a0.

Hemingway avoided _________ and focused on the weight of his nouns.

Frost's poems are replete with images of __________a0.

“The Unknown Citizen” is a _____________ of modern problems.

Match the author with his work. Wallace Stevens

Match the author with his work. Ernest Hemingway

Black writers of the Harlem Renaissance carried the rhythms of ______ a0 music over into various forms of literature.

Pound's most influential form of poetry was called ____________a0.

Match the author with his work. Ezra Pound

Match the author with his work. W. H. Auden

Match the author with his work. Carl Sandburg

Match the author with his work F ScottFitzgerald

According to Stevens, the imagination of ________a0 is that which shapes reality.

As an advocate of the ________ of Scripture J Gresham Machen was fundamentalism's “most prominent champion” in the 1930s

Ezra Pound's experimental techniques and forms had no regard for _______a0 ideas and approaches

Unable to find an answer to the world's problems in politics,W. H. Auden turned to _____________.

Ernest Hemingway's writing style is ______________.

The modernist style ________aO emotion and narration.

The poetry of _____________ captures the rhythms of jazz and blues.

Match the author with his work. Robert Frost

F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters are troubled by a(n) ____________ they cannot fill.

Match the author with his work. J. Gresham Machen

Hughes inspired other ____________ writers to take pride in their cultural roots.

Imagism focused on concrete _________a0 rather than abstractions.

Sandburg's use of ____________a0 verse form made his poems easy to grasp.

Christianity &Liberalism Machen's most well-known book argued ____ were not preaching gospel but created a new religion

Stage Man wants a copy of the play put in the cornstone of the bank so peo. 1000 yrs from now will know about Grove Corn

Carl Sandburg wrote about the struggles and triumphs of the ________a0 class.

Curtains and scenery are not used in ________________plays.

Match the author with his work. Langston Hughes

E. E. Cummings used experimental forms to view the _________a0 in a new way.