Post-modernism is a rejection of and moving past Modernism.

Compared to Romanticism, we would say that Modernism is more?

In his artistic manifesto, Langston Hughes writes, “We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not their displeasure doesn’t matter either.” According to this passage, what answer best describes the “mountain” that may stand in the way of the black artist?

Put the artistic/historical movements in chronological order, oldest (1) to most recent (4):

Because plays lack narration, this technique that contrasts two characters is commonly used to develop characterization.

This 19th Century poet was known for the use of slant or off rhyme, ballad stanzas, and poetic “compression”?

Which type of story typically depicts a young character’s journey from innocence to experience?

Why did Harlem become the cultural center of Black America in the 1920s?

The writers Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner are often called Southern Gothic because of their interest in what?

Besides “Barn Burning,” this is also a coming-of-age story that centers around a young protagonist faced with making a difficult moral choice.