The Modernist Period (1910-1945)

The Harlem Renaissance is rooted in:

African American artistic expression

Langston Hughes’s poetry often focuses on:

The culture of African Americans

For which stylistic technique is Gertrude Stein best known?

Syntactic disruption

Which poet uses traditional poetic forms like the sonnet while subverting them with modernist themes of alienation and despair?

Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Which Modernist author often uses interior monologue to explore the subconscious mind?

William Faulkner

In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway’s characters often reflect:

Emotional detachment 

Which poet explores industrial urban life through direct, unadorned language in poems like “The Red Wheelbarrow?”

William Carlos Williams

Wallace Stevens’s poetry is best described as:

Philosophical and abstract

Which of the following authors is most closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance?

Langston Hughes

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford’s journey reflects:

The search for autonomy and voice in a patriarchal world

Which of the following is a defining trait of Modernist literature?

Experimentation with narration

Which literary device does William Faulkner use throughout “A Rose for Emily?”

Non-linear chronology

Which of the following authors is most associated with the phrase “make it new?”

Ezra Pound

Robert Frost’s poetry often contrasts with other Modernist poets because of its:

Traditional form and focus on rural New England life

Jean Toomer’s Cane blends poetry and prose to portray:

Black identity in the South