World War I, which was the source of much of the disillusionment associated with the modernist movement, spanned the following years:

In the opening scene of Faulkners Barn Burning, what does the Justice order Abner Snopes to do?

In 1916, ________________ moved to Greenwich Village in New York, wherefor two seasons as writer, director, and actor, and played an important role in a group that came to have a major influence on the development of American drama.

Far too broad and widespread to be understood as a single movement, modernism, nevertheless names a recognizable international movement, a wave of changes mounted against traditional authority in

This guy “eyed a khaki suit with loathing” and preferred the day of old!

The poet who wrote The Spoon River Anthology, poems based on the lives of people in a Midwestern town, was

In most naturalist writings, human’s occupy a privileged position because God favors his creation.

E. A. Robinson wrote “The Waste Land” in 1922.

“All along _______________ were such houses and such people: simple, commonplace souls al lclerks, managers, fairly successful craftsmen, like her father and Barton, excellent in their way but not like Arthur the beloved, the los tand here was she, perforce, or by decision of necessity, soon to be one of them, in some such street as this no doubt, forever and for the moment it choked and stifled her.”

If a character demonstrates hubris, the reader detects