Modernism Test

Question 1

What is the Poetic Movement?

Answer 1

Imagism

Question 2

List 2 of Frost’s famous poems

Answer 2

The Road Not Taken
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Extras: A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Out,Out-

Question 3

A poem that tells a story, and it contains characters, a plot, conflict, and a setting

Answer 3

Narrative Poetry

Question 4

A poem that recreates an event through dialogue or monologue as well as the use of description

Answer 4

dramatic poetry

Question 5

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry (iambic, trochaic, dactylic, or anapestic)

Answer 5

Meter

Question 6

the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language

Answer 6

rhythm

Question 7

the repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables

Answer 7

rhyme

Question 8

words that have some correspondence of sound but not an exact one

Answer 8

slant rhyme

Question 9

In general, a discrepancy between appearances and reality. Dramatic, Situational, Verbal, Cosmic

Answer 9

Irony

Question 10

What is considered to be the most important poem of the century and who wrote it?

Answer 10

“The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot

Question 11

writing technique that lets readers know the character’s thoughts

Answer 11

stream of consciousness

Question 12

name of influential psychologist at the time

Answer 12

Sigmund Freud

Question 13

Where did the Harlem Renaissance happen and who was involved?

Answer 13

Harlem, New York. African American writers

Question 14

Name 2 major content concepts of the Modernist movement

Answer 14

dominant mood, alienation and disconnection, people unable to communicate effectively, fear of eroding traditions and grief over the loss of the past

Question 15

Name 2 authors who were able to earn major awards

Answer 15

Sinclair Lewis, T.S, Eliot, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner

Question 16

What were the 4 types of conflict?

Answer 16

Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Himself

Question 17

What is Fitzgerald known for capturing?

Answer 17

the gaiety and the emptiness of the roaring twenties

Question 18

What is Fitzgerald’s masterpiece?

Answer 18

The Great Gatsby

Question 19

What phrase did Fitzgerald coin?

Answer 19

“The Jazz Age”

Question 20

In Winter Dreams, Judy says, “I’m more beautiful than anybody else. Why can’t I be happy?”. What is the significance of this?

Answer 20

Judy is illustrating the Jazz Age. She feels entitled and perfect, yet she is so empty.

Question 21

What is the early 20th century called?

Answer 21

“Age of Eliot”

Question 22

What is surrealism?

Answer 22

a movement in art and literature that began in Europe during the 1920s. Surrealists wanted to replace conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind, which they considered to be more real than the “real” world.

Question 23

What is considered the most notable American dramatic monologue?

Answer 23

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Question 24

The most famous expatriate

Answer 24

F. Scott Fitzgerald or Ernest Hemingway

Question 25

Attended Harvard but quit after two years

Answer 25

Robert Frost

Question 26

Was the first American to win the Nobel prize

Answer 26

Sinclair Lewis

Question 27

Wrote “Birches”

Answer 27

Robert Frost

Question 28

Married Zelda Sayre from Alabama

Answer 28

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 29

Decided to become a writer at age 14 and would lock himself in his room

Answer 29

John Steinbeck

Question 30

wrote “Of Mice and Men”

Answer 30

John Steinbeck

Question 31

Famous for writing about laborers and the injustices of the Depression

Answer 31

John Steinbeck

Question 32

Believed poetry should be complex and difficult

Answer 32

T.S. Eliot