Review for Literature Test: Modernism Notes

This event was perhaps the most influential force on American writers of the early 20th century.

For many Americans, the war signaled an end to _______________________________

The 1920s, with its booming economy, became known as the ________________________

Many young people started to rebel as a group against ____________________________ and _____________________________________

True or false: people were able to spend more on goods and leisure activities with the rise in income.

The passage of the ______________________________ finally gave women the right to vote.

Female writers often wrote about the clash between _______________ and __________________ values, celebrating youth, independence and freedom from social constraints.

What time period was prohibition?

What was prohibition?

In defense, people drank in illegal nightclubs called ____________________

The __________________________ was a place where whites would go to hang out and listen to the great black jazz performers.

There were so many great black jazz performers, thus the name ________________

The good times came to an end when the stock market crashed in _______________

During the Great Depression, many banks failed, businesses floundered, and ____________________________

The ______________________ was a severe drought the began in the early 1930s that added to the nation's pain.

Some people traveled to _______________ to try and find work.

Franklin D. Roosevelt pledged to give the country a ________________________

New Deal programs were intended to give relief to the __________________ and _________________ recovery of ______________ and __________________

The 1920s was the first decade to be significantly shaped by the ________ _________

True or false: Mass media quickly became the ultimate source of the manufacturing of desire.

Some significant writers of the day began to criticize what they saw as Americans' ____________ and __________________

Writers of this period were influenced by exciting new ideas that were challenging Americans' _____________ ____________

In their work, poets began to explore the impact of _____________ ________________ and uncertainty on the individual.

Edger Lee Masters used ____________ ________________ TO probe the discontent beneath the apparent stability of small-town life in America.

Poets like Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost are called _______________ _____________ because they connect past traditions with modern thoughts.

________________________ rose as a direct response to the social and intellectual forces shaping the 20th century.

_______________________________ was a distinguishing characteristic of these writers.

The lack of ______________________ made any recognizable movement hard to sustain.

_____________________ sought to recreate an image, not comment or interpret it.

_________________ where poets let the objects they render speak for themselves.

Many poets today prefer to communicate through images rather than _________ _______________.

There was a period of great prosperity and economic growth in the ________ ___________ market.

These authors wrote short fragmented stories without traditional ______________ or __________________.

They left out ___________________________________________ leaving readers alone to figure out what might be going on or what a character might be feeling.

The WPA was created to create as many jobs as possible as quickly as possibly, including work for the ________________ __________________ and _______________.

Millions of black farmers and sharecroppers moved to the urban North in search of _____________________ and _______________________.

This National Association published writings form the younger generation of authors.

In this new generation, writers did not speak with only _______________.

The Harlem Renaissance was brought to a premature end by the _______________________________________________.