Modernism Quiz 6 (60 MCQs)

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1. Master of realism
2. Aims to provide a textual equivalent to the stream fo a fictional character's consciousness
3. What is one thing that pulls the speaker of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" away from the woods?
4. What did Hart say about facebook being a new form of autobiography?
5. What is the name of Miss Emily's love interest?
6. According to paragraphs 3 and 4 of "Loneliness ..... an American Malady" by Carson McCullers, what paradox do people struggle with in life?
7. Which of these Art Movements developed during this time?
8. Which Postmodernist philosopher famously pronounced, "god is dead" ?
9. What is the belief that the world and human existence are without meaning, purpose, truth, or essential value.
10. According to Postmodernism, words are about things.
11. Who was thought the mother of the American modernism?
12. Define FORESHADOW.
13. ..... is a method of literary analysis that seeks to expose the underlying ideology of a text.
14. Postmodernists claim that the notion of subjective truth is used to oppress others
15. In the modernist period, a new type of character appears:
16. True or False:Satire is a popular technique to making social commentary in television
17. In contemporary society, you are increasingly controlled and monitored in ways that are not always recognised-CCTV and loyalty cards. Private companies and security guards are used in place of the police and prison service.
18. 3)Ma gic Realism
19. Which genre of literature is typically written in verse?
20. A sphere on which the map of the Earth is represented
21. Helen does not know how to hunt, so the helpers have to catch their dinner.
22. What is this an example of:I walk across sand And find myself blistering In the hot, hot heat
23. What is the goal of postmodernism?
24. What change took place in Miss Emily's relationship with the town for a period of several years when Miss Emily was in her forties?
25. According to this excerpt from "Loneliness ..... an American Malady" by Carson McCullers, what paradox do people struggle with in life?Consciousness of self is the first abstract problem that the human being solves. Indeed, it is this self-consciousness that removes us from lower animals. This primitive grasp of identity develops with constantly shifting emphasis through all our years. Perhaps maturity is simply the history of those mutations that reveal to the individual the relation between himself and the world in which he finds himself.After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
26. A generous donor
27. Which sociologist studied Identity and digital forms of communication
28. What occurred during the modernist era?
29. Artistic, literary and intellectual
30. The state lost its control over people
31. The response of the men to the women in the play "Trifles" suggests that the men think the women are
32. True or False:Parodies imitate the style and technique of something/someone
33. Which of the following is an element of Modernism?
34. First conceived by Pablo Picasso with his work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and in Georges Braque's works
35. Please fulfill the blanks to complete the sentence meaning:We're having a new carpet ..... in the hall next week.
36. The process of breaking apart into small pieces
37. Focus on irrational
38. DOROTHY WAKES UP IN HER BED AFTER CLICKING HER HEELS. WAS IT ALL REAL?
39. What isanintellectualmovementthat contendshumancommunicationisnotreallyaboutthingsbutabout theviews andmotivations ofthoseinvolvedintheconversation.
40. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
41. Jean-Francis Lyotard describing Postmodernism as an "incredulity towards ..... "
42. Modernists aimed to reflect .....
43. Which of these items is most likely an important symbol in the play "Trifles" ?
44. Language, according to postmodernism is:
45. What type of heroes do we find in writing during the time period of Modernism?
46. No connection with history or institutions Championship of the individual and celebration of inner strength Life is unordered Concerned with the sub-consciousWhat do these statements mean?
47. Roaring Twenties
48. Which Postmodernist philospher famously prounounced, "God is dead" ?
49. What did Bjorkland say about Facebook as an autobiography?
50. Which is a statement with a postmodernist style?
51. Makes things idealized, beautiful, grand, perfect
52. What did Modernist reject the existence of?
53. Modernists lament fragmentation while postmodernists celebrate it
54. True or False:According to Postmodernism, words are about things.
55. Modernism refers about .....
56. True or False:Postmodernism and middle-way Buddhism share a similar view of truth.
57. THE BAD WITCH HAS NIGHT TERRORS THROUGHOUT THE PLAY. SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHETHER SHE'S BEING TERRORIZED BY THE WIZARD IN HER DREAMS OR IN REALITY.
58. Positions the role of man amidst the industrial revolution. succeeds romanticism
59. The view that the world and human existence are without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value.
60. The denial of the existence or accessibility of an objective reality