American context 20s-40s

Question 1

The lost generation

Answer 1

1914 onwards

A generation in which aged and grew up during WW1 and became disorientated

Question 2

The gilded age

Answer 2

1870-1900s

A period of great economic boom and industrialisation

Question 3

Realism

Answer 3

1820-1920

A period in which literature and art presented the purest form of accounts

Question 4

When did Naturalism begin?

Answer 4

1870-1920

A style based on accurate depiction of detail

Question 5

When was the Civil war

Answer 5

1861-65

Question 6

When was WW1?

Answer 6

1914-1918

Question 7

The wall street crash?

Answer 7

1929

Question 8

When was Gatsby written?

Answer 8

1925

Question 9

When was The grapes of Wrath written?

Answer 9

1939

Question 10

When was the sun also rises written?

Answer 10

1925

Question 11

When was native son written?

Answer 11

1940

Question 12

When was the Harlem renaissance?

Answer 12

1918-37

Question 13

Individualism

Answer 13

1840-1920s

A moral stance used to emphasise the importance of one as an individual

Question 14

Muckraking definition?- Literary context

Answer 14

authors who searched for/exposed real of alleged corruption

Question 15

The progressive era

Answer 15

1890-1920

An era that aimed to readdress inequalities of the gilded age applying thought and philosophy to a series of reforms

Question 16

The Jazz age

Answer 16

1920s and 1930s

racial sexual and social boundaries were challenged

Question 17

Experimentalists - Literary context

Answer 17

Much of art and literature happened overseas- much of literature was a response to European surrealism

Question 18

Surrealism - literary context

Answer 18

A concept that prevailed throughout literature in the 1920s that sought to release the unbridled imagination

Question 19

The Southern Gothic - Literary movement

Answer 19

A sub-genre of gothic literature profoundly concerned with the nature of good and evil and other universal moral dilemmas

Question 20

Conspicuous consumption- literary term

Answer 20

A term which defines those who feel the need to display all means of wealth

Question 21

‘stream of consciousness’- literary device

Answer 21

commonly used in American literature- a narrative device used to present a stream of thoughts

Question 22

Impressionism - art and literary device

Answer 22

19th century

Artists who sought to record daily life through the effects of light and colour

Question 23

The populist party or populism

Answer 23

a socialist movement to empower the voice of the people

Question 24

When was the populist party established

Answer 24

1891

Question 25

When did America declare independence

Answer 25

1776

Question 26

When did Henry Ford found Ford cards?

Answer 26

1903

Question 27

When was My Antonià written?

Answer 27

1918

Question 28

When was the racial apartheid in America?

Answer 28

1877-1950s Began when Jim Crows racial segregation laws were in place and ended when the civil rights movement began

Question 29

Modernism was a response to what?

Answer 29

The wake of the industrial evolution and economic boom of the twenties

Question 30

Ezra pounds statement "make it new!" initiated the .....

Answer 30

modernist literary and arts movement

Question 31

A very common theme of naturalism was an examination of the philosophical side and how insignificant one

Answer 31

a person can be in his society