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What Is Modernism In Literature?

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1 Question
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Modernist writers, in general, rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from which century?


16th

18th

19th

2 Question
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The movement associated with Modernism _________.


Dadaism

Symbolism

Vorticism

3 Question
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Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in novels?


Medievalism

Theatre of the absurd

Narrative realism

4 Question
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The first characteristic associated with modernism is _________.


Stoicism

Nihilism

Solipsism

5 Question
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Modernism as a literary movement is typically associated with the period after _________.


Civil War

World War I

World War II

6 Question
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Disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be ___________.


Modernism

Disillusionment

Transcendentalism

7 Question
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A central ambiguity about Modernism lies in the understanding of the term _____, the meaning of the artistic realm as such.


Aesthetic

Artistic

Expressionism 

8 Question
30 seconds
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Who condemned Modernism as the ultimate representation of the alienation and dehumanization resulting from capitalism's cultural distortions?


William Empson

Karl Marx

Georg Lukács

9 Question
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Q.

Modernism is known for __________.


Conformity

Experimentation

Limited options

10 Question
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Q.

The rejection of moral and religious principles was compounded by the repudiation of all systems of beliefs.


True

False

11 Question
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The period from the 1920s to the 1950s is known as the __________ Renaissance.


Greek

Hispanic

Mexican

12 Question
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Modernism was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time.


True

False

13 Question
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Modernist literature addressed similar aesthetic problems as ___________.


Experimentation art

Contemporary artist

Contemporary modernist art

14 Question
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The term late modernism is sometimes applied to modernist works published after _______.


1999

1930

2000

15 Question
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Not all Modernist poets followed the writers who were making revolutionary changes to the world of poetics.


True

False