Modernism Test Review

Short/terse, minimal description writing style

Author of "Flight" and The Grapes of Wrath

Famous psychologist who believed that human beings' desires and motivations were virtually always of a sexual nature

How does the pig die in "Death of a Pig"?

Hemingway's dialogue in "Hills Like White Elephants" causes us to ______ even though he gives no descriptions.

"Ars Poetica" explains repeatedly what poems should be and then includes one line about...

In "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," Eliot repeatedly brings up the motif of a clock and time.

Hemingway's tone towards the man feels...

Author of "Heat"

Famous writing style of Faulkner's...

The Modernist period was an era of extreme pessimism

Why is the speaker so upset that this pig dies?

Stream of consciousness writing was inspired by whose research?

Fought in several wars and wrote a number of war-based novels

"The Red Wheelbarrow" employs a structure which is shaped like a...

The Harlem Renaissance was...

The last two examples demonstrate the principles of which era of poetry?

Mama weeps for Pepe because she knows he will not return is an example of...

How does the author of "Heat" express to the audience the thickness of the heat in his poetry?

A rule of imagism is "to concentrate as much as possible into the fewest words"

Author of "A Rose for Emily"

"Hills Like White Elephants" features either side of the Ebro River which demonstrate

The Modernist period is characterized by things like loss, absurdity, and individualism.

In "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," Eliot describes a woman walking through the streets in the late afternoon

Famous gangster from the Roaring 20s

Father of Modern Communism; believed that the working class would one day rise above the bourgeoisie

Pepe is compared to

"Hills Like White Elephants" contains abrupt shifts in the passage of time

Stream of consciousness writing included exposing taboo thoughts from a character to demonstrate their deepest desires

All EXCEPT which of the following was happening during the Modernist period?

Pepe's murder is ironic b/c he believes it will make him a man when instead it makes him appear immature.

Author of "Death of a Pig"

The description of Miss Emily in "A Rose for Emily" is similar to...

When is the Modernist period of literature?

"In a Station by the Metro" is supposed to sound like a train when you read the words out loud.

Immense concern with being honest in his writing, almost like documentary style or journalistic style of writing