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VOCAB: Feigned

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v. Pretended; counterfeited; faked

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VOCAB: Levity

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n. Lightness (of mind, character, or behavior); fickleness; frivolity

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VOCAB: Supercilious

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adj. Disdainful; scornful; contemptuous; arrogant pride

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VOCAB: Fractious

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adj. Unruly; difficult to manage; peevish; quarrelsome

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VOCAB: Reciprocal

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n. Equivalent; counterpart

adj. Mutual; given or felt by each toward the other; given in return; matching;

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VOCAB: Languidly

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adj. Lacking vigor or vitality; lacking spirit or interest; indifferent; slow

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VOCAB: Unobtrusively

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adj. Not noticeable; inconspicuous; no obtrusive; unassertive

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VOCAB: Infinitesimal

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adj. Indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute

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VOCAB: Complacency

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n. A feeling of pleasure or security while unaware of a situation; self-satisfaction; smugness

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VOCAB: Extemporizing

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v. Improvising; inventing; ad libbing; devising

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VOCAB: Peremptory

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adj. Overbearing; authoritative; absolute; certain; commanding

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VOCAB: Prodigality

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n. Extravagance; exaggeration; excess; amenity; luxury

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VOCAB: Credulity

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n. Gullibility; willingness to believe something too quickly; belief; naivete

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VOCAB: Ascertain

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v. Find out definitely; to make sure; determine

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VOCAB: Vacuous

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adj. Without contents; empty

adj. Lacking ideas or intelligence

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VOCAB: Convivial

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adj. Friendly; fun-loving; agreeable; festive; jovial;

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VOCAB: Jauntiness

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n. Happiness; cheer; delight; lightheartedness; sportiveness

adj. Easy and springy

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VOCAB: Punctilious

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adj. Extremely attentive; careful; finicky; precise or exact in formalities

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VOCAB: Luadable

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adj. Praiseworthy; commendable; admirable

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VOCAB: Meretricious

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adj. Flashy; gaudy; alluring by a show of flashy attractions; adj. Based on deception and insincerity

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Who coined the phrase “The Jazz Age?”

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Fitzgerald

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Who coined the phrase “Lost Generation?”

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Gertrude Stein

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What character said, “And I hope she’ll be a little fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

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Daisy

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What character said, “I am one of the few honest people I have ever known.”

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Nick

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What character said, “I hate careless people. That’s why I like you.”

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Jordan Baker

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What character said, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”

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Gatsby

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What character said, “Start him! I made him!”

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Meyer Wolfshiem

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What character said, “You may fool me, but you can’t fool God…God sees everything!”

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Wilson

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What character said, “Her voice is full of money.”

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Gatsby

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What character said, “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

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Meyer Wolfshiem

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What character said, “Sophisticated- God, I’m Sophisticated!”

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Daisy

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What character said, “An Oxford man! Like hell he is! He wears a pink shirt!”

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Tom

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What character said, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us… And one fine morning-“

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Nick/Fitzgerald/Narrator

34
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What years did Modernism cover?

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1914-1945

35
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Modernists thought that _________ was just as important as content.

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Technique

36
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Who said, “A rose is as rose as a rose”?

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Gertrude Stein

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Who was Gertrude Stein?

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A modernist who was a huge influence on literature. She lived in Paris with Alice Toklas. She discovered many modernist artists like Picasso. She was friends with Fitzgerald and Hemingway.

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What art form had a deep connection to literature and why? What did it lead to?

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Photography; it inspired different points of view and literary perspectives. This lead to the ‘3rd person limited narrator.’

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Who was William Carlos Williams?

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He was a modernist poet who said, ‘No ideas but in things,’ and believed that everything is expressed through an object.

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What was modernism a huge break from?

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Modernism represented a huge break from the past and connections to traditions of Western civilization. It represented newness.

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What other movements sprang from Modernism?

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Cubism, Impressionism, Harlem Renaissance

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What technological advancements became prominent in the ‘20’s?

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Cars, electricity, radio, telephone, movies

43
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What prospered as a result of war?

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Business

44
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What term characterizes Modern literature?

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‘Disillusionment.’ This term came from WWI veterans coming home and being confused about jobs being taken with no homes or lives and not knowing what to do.

45
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What lead to crime in the ‘20’s?

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Prohibition

46
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Who were flappers?

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Women who were more boyish, had short hair, and wore short dresses. These women were strong, independent, and rebellious. They also wore pants and drank alcohol.

47
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What years did the Harlem Renaissance cover?

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1914- 1930’s

48
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What were some common themes in Harlem Renaissance art and literature?

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  • African American roots/culture (slavery &Africa)
    - sad parts
    - celebration/liberation —> New Negro
  • Struggle & optimism
  • New identities
  • Hope (for the future and progressing and improving)
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What technological advancement changed American Culture?

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Cars

50
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What was innovative about Modernist writing?

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Modernist writing was all about breaking away from the past and making things ‘new.’ It also dealt with multiple points of view and new perspectives.

51
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How is The Great Gatsby a Modernist novel?

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  1. The perspective/narration of the novel- everything is filtered through Nick and his opinions.
  2. The effects of a rapidly changing world on people (industrialism)
  3. It is a rejection of tradition and the past
  4. Development of technology
  5. Feminism
  6. Disillusionment
52
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Who were some Modernist/ Harlem Renaissance writers?

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Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen

53
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What are the differences/significance of East and West Egg?

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  • East Egg: Old Money, Buchanans, less flaunty, “I have money”
  • West Egg: New Money, Gatsby, more flaunty, “I get money”
54
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Who were the Nicholas Brothers?

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Famous dancers and singers who got their big break at the Cotton Club in 1932 and were in movies such as Stormy Weather. They also developed the ‘Classical Tap’ dance.

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Who was Langston Hughes?

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A writer from Missouri. He had a melancholy yet celebratory writing style. His first book of Poetry was ‘The Weary Blues.’ A famous piece of his was ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers.’

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Who was William H Johnson?

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A visual artist from SC who painted ‘Chain Gang’ depicted African Americans bound together by chains.

57
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Who was Claude McKay?

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A writer from Jamaica who wrote ‘If We Must Die,’ which deals with injustice and discrimination, and shows harsher sides of the struggle and anger.

58
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Who was Countee Cullen?

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A writer who wrote the poem ‘Heritage,’ which had a more peaceful tone, talking about the desire for both black and white cultures. He also married the daughter of WEB DuBois.

59
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When did the Charleston dance become popular?

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In 1923 in a musical called ‘Runnin Wild.’ It was considered very scandalous at the time.

60
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Who was Aaron Douglas?

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A visual artist from Kansas. He was the founder of the art department at Fisk University. His works include Aspects of Negro Life, The Negro in an African Setting, Boy With Toy Plane, and Aspiration.

61
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What amendment passed prohibition?

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18th

62
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What amendment was about women’s rights?

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19th

63
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Who was Duke Ellington?

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A musician who integrated gospel and jazz music and got inspiration from white bands. One famous work was “Satin Doll”.

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Who was Helen Johnson?

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A poet from Boston. She wrote in dialect. She is known for poems ‘My Race’ and ‘Bottled’. She was important because she was a woman writer and very influential.

65
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Who popularized the Lindy Hop?

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‘Shorty’ Snowden

66
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What was the Cotton Club originally called?

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‘Club Deluxe’ and was originally opened in 1920 by Jack Johnson

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Who was Zora Neale Hurston?

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A famous woman writer who wrote fiction novels as well as children’s stories. She wrote a lot about strong black women. She also wrote in dialect and used folklore.

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Who were the ‘Washingtonians’?

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Duke Ellington’s 12 member band who was the first ‘house’ band of the Cotton Club.

69
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Who was James Weldon Johnson?

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Executive director of the NAACP

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Who was Alain Locke?

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The intellectual who assembled works to go into ‘The New Negro’.

71
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Who was Jean Toomer?

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An american writer who was an important figure for the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism.

72
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What are some ‘push’ factors that are pushing Southerners (mostly Africans) North?

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  • Jim Crow Laws in South
  • Sharecropping is crappy
  • Boll Weevil infestation eating cotton
73
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What are some ‘pull’ factors that are pulling Africans North?

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Jobs (because all the white men are at war)

74
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What was so different about the Cotton Club?

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It had white patrons, but black entertainers

75
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Why were artists and writers fleeing to France?

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Because America was slowly becoming more strict, like with Prohibition, and Europe is much more free and open.

76
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Who were the two people who developed Negritude?

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Leopold Senghor (President of Senegal) and Aime Cesaire (from Martinique). They were trying to spearate African countries from European ‘owners.’

77
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What influenced Negritude?

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Alain Locke’s ‘The New Negro’

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