Unit 5:Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent (1914-1946)

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Unit 5Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent
(1914-1946)

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Modernism was born.- A major literary movement.

• Authors and musicians of the 20th century created
  a literary movement that would show that times
  were changing.
• All the writing of this period broke away from
  traditional writing.

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Harlem Renaissance was another literary movement
at the time.

• Started in 1920 to 1940.
• The Harlem Renaissance was focused on African
  American culture.
• It touched every culture medium such as politics,
  dance, literature, visual art, and music.
• African Americans used these cultural mediums to
  work for goals like civil rights and equality.
• This was happening in a couple of places like
  Paris, Manhattan, and in Harlem.
• Some of the people apart of the Harlem
  Renaissance were expatriates.
• The postwar disenchantment led to a number of
  American writers that were called expatriates.
  Some expatriates are F. Scott Fitzgerald and
  Ernest Hemingway.

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Modernism brought along Imagism.

• Imagism was a poetic movement that favored clear,
  sharp language and imagery-The descriptive or
  figurative language used in literature to create
  word pictures for the reader.
• Usually found in poetry because many poets did
  not want to follow the writings of poets from the
  nineteenth-century poets.

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Poetry

• Blank verse- Poetry written in unrhymed iambic
  pentameter. An iambic pentameter refers to the
  meter of a poem. The meter of a poem is the sound
  patterns of the verse.
• Pastorals are poems that deal with rural
  settings.
• The speaker is the voice of a poem.

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Metaphors

• Metaphors are usually found in poetry.
• A metaphor is a comparison of two unrelated
  subjects.
• An extended metaphor is a well described metaphor
  that extends to a great length.

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Stream-of-Consciousness

• A literary technique that was developed from
  psychology.
• It describes an individuals point of view by
  showing a characters thought.
• Stream-of-consciousness is a part of monologues
  especially interior monologues- when the actor
  speaks to himself or herself.
• A dramatic monologue is where the speaker is
  addressing an audience or a third person.
• Third person is anything or anyone other than the
  speaker.
• First person is when the speaker refers to
  himself or herself, or speaks to a group and
  includes himself or herself.

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• An Autobiography is a form of non-fiction in
  which a person tells his or her own life story.
• A flashback is a literary technique that takes
  the narrative from the present to an event in the
  past that relates to what is going on at the
  time.
• An allusion is a reference to a well-known
  person, place, event, literary work, or work of
  art.
• A character is a person or an animal that takes
  part in the action of literary work.
• Dialect- the form of language that is used by
  people in a particular area or group.
• Dialogue is a conversation between characters.

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An Authors Purpose

• Sometimes an author has more than one purpose of
  writing.
• Majority of the time an authors purpose is to
  persuade, entertain, describe, or instruct.