Modernism Quiz 17 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the belief that the world and human existence are without meaning, purpose, truth, or essential value.
2. According to Postmodernism, words are about things.
3. Who was thought the mother of the American modernism?
4. Define FORESHADOW.
5. ..... is a method of literary analysis that seeks to expose the underlying ideology of a text.
6. Postmodernists claim that the notion of subjective truth is used to oppress others
7. In the modernist period, a new type of character appears:
8. True or False:Satire is a popular technique to making social commentary in television
9. 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.
10. 3)Ma gic Realism
11. Which genre of literature is typically written in verse?
12. A sphere on which the map of the Earth is represented
13. Helen does not know how to hunt, so the helpers have to catch their dinner.
14. What is this an example of:I walk across sand And find myself blistering In the hot, hot heat
15. What is the goal of postmodernism?
16. 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?
17. 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.
18. A generous donor
19. Which sociologist studied Identity and digital forms of communication
20. What occurred during the modernist era?