American Lit Quiz 1 Preparation

Which literary technique depicted the various thoughts and feelings of the mind through interior monologue?

Which of Robert Frost's poems is frequently misinterpreted?

The theme of alienation in modernist literature was a response to the shock of the violence of WWI.

A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement is called:

What was Amy Lowell's conflict with Ezra Pound?

Which modernist author was a medical doctor?

Who does Ezra Pound's narrator make a pact with?

Whose motto was to "make it new?"

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the modernist movement?

The period after WWI defined a society that was known as the:

Gertrude Stein used which of the following techniques?

Which author used formal patterns such as sonnets, stressed and unstressed syllables, and quatrain?

When was the modernist period of literature?

Who wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas?

In Venus Transiens, the narrator compares her description of beauty to which artist's depiction of beauty?

Which of the following techniques is NOT used in modernism?

Which of the following describes fragmentation in writing?

Who wrote "Chicago" and "Fog?"

Stories in modernist literature were written from a chronological and orderly manner that was always clear to the reader

"Chicago" talks about how Chicago is a horrible city of corruption and the shame its citizens should feel as a result.

Whose poetry used common everyday speech?

Gertrude Stein graduated from medical school.

One characteristic of modernism involves narrators with questionable reliability.

Which author said, "America is my country and Paris is my hometown?"

The Red Wheelbarrow and In A Station of the Metro are both examples of:

Who wrote The Red Wheelbarrow?

Robert Frost's The Mending Wall talks about repairing poor relationships.

A metrical line ending with punctuation such as a colon or a period is called:

A poetic line that ends without terminal punctuation is called:

Who tells Robert Frost's narrator to move along after he stops in the woods at a stranger's property?