Age of Realism and Modernism Test

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Across
  1. 5. The first significant artistic movement of African Americans
  2. 6. Used clear, direct language to present ordinary everyday events
  3. 8. "Design"
  4. 11. Who wrote: "In this state I appeared before my master, humbly entreating him to interpose his authority for my protection."
  5. 15. Finding beauty in ordinary life and not fooling ourselves that there could be something more
  6. 16. "To Build a Fire"
  7. 17. "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
  8. 18. Post Civil War change where the country saw an increase in wealth and new status as a world power but produced unsettling social problems
  9. 21. "Song of Myself"
  10. 22. Type of writing that looked at the inner workings of the human mind
  11. 24. Who wrote: "But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely"
  12. 25. Breaking from this was a big part of the modernism literary movement
  13. 26. Literature that captures local vernacular
  14. 30. Who wrote: "When a piece was fired, a red streak as round as a log flashed low in the heavens, like a monstrous bolt of lightening"
  15. 32. An artistic movement that represented the struggle many had with the way that new ideas and discoveries challenged their previous lives during a time when tradition didn't seem important anymore
  16. 33. The problem with WWI
Down
  1. 1. Who wrote: "The road to Sand Bar...consequently seemed to offer some invitation to the emigrants--lay over a steep mountain range"
  2. 2. Style of writing to paint local scenes. Contains interesting, eccentric characters, and whimsical humor
  3. 3. Post Civil War change where people saw land and the potential for farms, ranches, and mines
  4. 4. Did not want to write to entertain, but rather write to preach or teach readers.
  5. 7. Post Civil War change when in response to the problems of industrialization, crowded cities, and inequality labor union formed and 'trust busters' broke up corporate monopolies
  6. 9. Youth culture who no longer felt patriotic, content, or safe
  7. 10. Anti-slavery activist, abolitionist, and supporter of women's rights and suffrage
  8. 12. What characteristic of regionalism is contained in the following quote: "'It's agin justice,' said Jim Wheeler, 'to let this yer young man...carry away our money'"?
  9. 13. Post Civil War change when U.S. population grew from 50 to 76 million by 1914
  10. 14. Changed his name after hearing someone announcing a water depth of two fathoms
  11. 19. Man is no longer centered around idealism and intuition, but now the frailty of life and the themes of ordinary life
  12. 20. Who wrote: "The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not the significances."
  13. 23. Who wrote: "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me...!”
  14. 27. An important change that sent the world into a tailspin
  15. 28. Nature is powerful and shows no mercy
  16. 29. Literature in modernism has what tone?
  17. 31. "Much of a what of a which of a wind"