Unit Two Review

What was the dominant style of art and literature during the Interwar Period?

This exodus of African Americans from the South helped bring about the Harlem Renaissance.

ID: But it will be a part of you, instructor. You are white-yet a part of me, as I am of you.

ID: Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It astonishes me.

ID: "Braggioni heaves himself into song. He scratches the guitar familiarly."

Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" highlights the dysfunction of this region.

ID: Far ahead on the road [she] saw a dark speck. She knew. She tried not to look . . . , but her eyes would not obey.

ID: "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head."

ID: She slips into some crumbling little church, kneels . . . and says a Hail Mary

This writer inspired the Iceberg Theory of Writing: writing that explores the surface of a situation or character.

Which historic movement led to the end of the Harlem Renaissance?

Which of the following is a defining characteristic of Modernist works?

ID: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"

ID: "'Judy Jones wasn't a prety girl, at all. She was a great beauty.'"

ID: "I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox."

ID: "Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada."

ID: I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

ID: "I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young."

ID: "He wanted not association with the glitering things . . . He wanted the glittering things"

The style of art and literature during the interwar period explores the loss of traditional society to the modern world.

ID: "'It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,’ the man said."

ID: "Elisa's voice grew husky. . . . 'I've never lived as you do, but I know what you mean.'"

ID: "Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,/ Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"