Crossword: 20th Century Literature

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  1. 2. / An American actor. A cultural icon and actor. His most celebrated film was Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Clue: his first name was “James”
  2. 4. of consciousness / A narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator. Clue: 3 words
  3. 10. / A series of moving pictures, usually shown in a cinema or on television and often telling a story
  4. 11. / An intellectual movement that started around World War 1. They used nonsense, and protest in their works. It was against violence, war, and nationalism
  5. 12. Novels / It employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories
  6. 14. / A supernatural being or essence. Clue: Holy “......”
  7. 16. / A person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking
  8. 17. / A long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
  9. 19. / Intense, sharp, overmastering fear
  10. 22. / The state of being independent (a person or country)
  11. 24. / Strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusual
  12. 27. / An illustrator who combined art and mainstream aesthetics. Clue: his first name was “Andy”
  13. 28. / The practice by which a powerful country directly controls less powerful countries and uses their resources to increase its own power and wealth
  14. 31. / A continent (North or South) of the western hemisphere
  15. 32. / A style in art and especially architecture using exaggeration and distortion to create its effect (as of massiveness or power)
  16. 33. / U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949. Clue: his first name was “William”
  17. 34. / A 20th-century movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind
  18. 36. / The theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically desirable
  19. 38. Pride /
  20. 39. / A newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces
  21. 41. / a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements
  22. 43. / A prolific and influential Spanish artist. Clue: his first name was “Pablo”
  23. 45. / Spanish painter and illustrator. Clue: his first name was “Salvador”
  24. 46. / A permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state
  25. 47. / A continent of the eastern and northern hemispheres
  26. 48. / The binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation
Down
  1. 1. / A period during which a war is in progress
  2. 3. / American music developed from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms
  3. 5. / U.S. author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940) Clue: his first name was “Scott”
  4. 6. / Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901
  5. 7. / A generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz
  6. 8. / A piece of electronic equipment used for listening to radio broadcasts:
  7. 9. / A person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind
  8. 13. / The soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form
  9. 15. / The largest division of the United Kingdom, constituting, with Scotland and Wales, the island of Great Britain
  10. 17. / an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space
  11. 18. Art / Colorful movement based on the mass media
  12. 20. / A typical instance or product of Victorian expression, taste, or conduct
  13. 21. / U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954. Clue: his first name was “Ernest”
  14. 23. / A person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  15. 25. / British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965). Clue: his first name was “Winston”
  16. 26. / A rock 'n' roll singing group from Liverpool, England, that was phenomenally popular in the middle and late 1960s
  17. 29. / A person who falls within the ages of 13 to 19 years old
  18. 30. / A novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  19. 35. Empire / It comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom
  20. 37. Fiction / Based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes
  21. 38. / A totalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler as head of the Party in Germany
  22. 40. War / The state of hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the Western powers from 1945 to 1990
  23. 42. Theatre / Dublin theatre, established in 1904. It grew out of the Irish Literary Theatre
  24. 44. War / A war engaged in by all or most of the principal nations of the world. In the 20th century were two.