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Rothko

This artist’s work can be described as colors rectangularly placed on canvas

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Frank Wright

He was a famous architect that integrated design with surrounding landscapes dn responsible for the Guggenheim Museum in New York 

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Surrealism

Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, and Marc Chagall, were known for this artistic movement

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Africa

Cubism and Jazz were both inspired by this non western continents primitive art styles

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Existentialists

For these modern writers, life has no meaning

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Frida Kahlo

This surrealist Mexican artist was known for illustrating the subconscious mind and for being married to the famous muralist Diego Rivera

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Stravinsky

Arnold Schoenberd and _______’s use of atonal music and 12 tonality broke previous musical variations

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Duchamp

The artist repurposed ready made materials like the Fountain and raised the question “what is art?”

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Guernica

This Picasso masterpiece was the depiction of a Spanish town being destroyed during the Spanish Civil War

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Flags

This patriotic pop art piece was created by Jasper Johns in 1954

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Calder

This artist was known for the grace of movement in his metal mobiles

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Thesis

A sentence that states the main idea of a piece of writing found at the end of the introduction paragraph

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Modernism

Gertrude Stein and Franz Kafka are both authors from which literary movement 

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Tone

An author’s attitude toward the subject of the story or poem

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Parallel Structure

Repetition of words or phrases that convey the same idea within a piece of writing

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Semi colon

What punctuation mark should you use to combine the following sentence: “We can go to the museum to do some research Mondays are pretty quiet there.”

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Modernism

Which literary movement included authors breaking free of traditional writing styles, the expressing of individualism, and took place between WWI and WWII?

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Emily Dickinson

Who wrote the poem “Death is a Dialogue”?

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Subject

Person, place or thing that is performing the action of the sentence

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Predicate

The action of the subject of a sentence 

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Comma

What punctuation mark should you use to combine two complete sentences into one compound sentence?

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Surrealism

Writers and artists who focused on the release of the creative potential of the unconscious mind describes what literary and artistic movement?

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Extended Metaphor

This type of ______ goes on for multiple sentences, multiple paragraphs or even for the duration of the book, poem, or other work

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Stream of Consciousness

A character’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions given to the reader in a continuous flow and is uninterrupted by dialogue describes what type of literary technique seen in modern literature

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Gale

A strong wind or storm

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Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh was the communist leader of this divided nation 

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Stalemate

This was used to describe the western front during WW1 where neither side was able to make significant increase

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Mexican

This Latin American Revolution established a more equal government and land ownership

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Self determination

This was the concept that people with the same language and ethnic origin had a right to have their own form of government

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Pan

This term is used to describe the unification of people like _____-Africanism

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League of Nations

This _______ was a disappointment; created after WWI but did little to limit the aggressive actions leading to WWII

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Mandate

After WWII the countries of the Ottoman Empire made up this ______ system, where they were partnered with a European nation 

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Holocaust

Political conflict lead to an increase in genocides like

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Americanization

This threatens indigenous cultures as the world becomes more interdependent and the popularization of McDonalds, Nike, and Hollywood

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Japan

This Axis power forced people into labor camps in the pacific

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USSR

The US and this nation emerged as one of the great superpowers after WWII

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Juan Peron 

He was a Populist dictator of Argentina who became more popular due to his wife Eva

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Mao zedong

Similar to Stalin this leader use collectivization, persecuted intellectuals, and used propaganda

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Reds

They were the communist forces in the Russian Revolution

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