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#review quiz about authors in the #modern genre
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"The Red Wheelbarrow"
T.S. Eliot
E.E. Cummings
William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
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the Hemingway hero...
the new type of hero who is strong and independent
A man who suffers with grace
the anti-hero
the man who always wins the girl
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Most widely imitated America writer of the 20th century
William Faulkner
Katherine Anne Porter
Flannery O'Conner
Ernest Hemingway
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Uses the technique stream of consciousness
"Soldiers Home"
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
"A Rose for Emily"
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Felt that poetry had to be complex to express the complexities of modern life
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
E.E. Cummings
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot
E.E. Cummings
William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
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Who felt that Southern women were caught in a web of custom and obligation.
Katherine Anne Porter
Ernest Hemingway
Flannery O'Conner
William Faulkner
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"This is Just to Say"
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
E.E. Cummings
William Carlos Williams
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"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
Ernest Hemingway
Flannery O'Conner
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
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somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
E.E. Cummings
Ezra Pound
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Like a patient etherized on a table...
Is an allusion
Is an alliteration
Gives the setting
Adds tone/feeling to the poem
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Felt that poetry was an art of suggestion
E.E. Cummings
William Carlos Williams
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
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What is NOT part of the American dream?
America: land of bounty and unlimited promise
Triumph of the independent, self-reliant person
humans are subject to natural forces beyond their control
A belief in progress: optimistic outlook
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"The Leader of the People"
Ernest Hemingway
Katherine Anne Porter
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
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"A Rose for Emily"
Ernest Hemingway
Katherine Anne Porter
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
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His themes were cranky realism, self-reliance, spiritual independence.
John Steinbeck
William Carlos Williams
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
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"The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
T.S. Eliot
E.E. Cummings
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An anti-hero
Emily
Krebs
Granny Weatherall
Jody
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Known for his eccentric syntax and typography
E.E. Cummings
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
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"Soldier's Home"
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Katherine Anne Porter
William Faulkner
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The master of the Southern Gothic
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Flannery O'Conner
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Unaffected by Modernism, remained devoted to traditional forms and rooted in Am. Soil
Robert Frost
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
William Carlos Williams
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Was a teacher, librarian and editor
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
Marianne Moore
William Carlos Williams
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His moto was "Make it new!"
T.S. Eliot
E.E. Cummings
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
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A grotesque character
Jody
Hester Prynne
Walter Mitty
Tom Shilflet
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"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
Katherine Anne Porter
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
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what if a much of a which of a wind
E.E. Cummings
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
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He wrote about the common place and common people
E.E. Cummings
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
T.S. Eliot
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attraction to grotesque and violent grew from her passionate Christian view of secular society
Katherine Anne Porter
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
Flannery O'Conner
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He believed "no ideas but in things"
T.S. Elliot
William Carlos Williams
E.E. Cummings
Ezra Pound
