English unit test Modernism

Drama: Literature meant to be performed on stage

Aside: comment made by character not heard by other characters

Dialogue: words spoken by actors

Soliloquy: speech by a character alone on stage

Monologue: speech by one character (other characters on stage)

Antihero: unsympathetic or “unheroic” protagonist - often inactive – disillusioned

Disillusionment: people realize things are not as good as they seem

Psychology: the workings of the human mind

Fragmentation: Things break into pieces

Alienation: People feeling separated from each other - cannot connect

Lost Generation: The values and beliefs they inherited no longer seem real or relevant.

See US society as materialistic and fake, feel disconnected from it

stream of consciousness: imitate the workings of thought - flow from one idea to the next