Topic 5

Topic 1: American Literature After The Civil War

Topic 2: W.E.B. Du Bois And Effective Arguments

Topic 3: Logical Fallacies And The Progressive Era

Topic 4: Writing An Argumentative Essay

Topic 5: Modernism (Part 1)

Topic 6: Modernism (Part 2)

Topic 7: Identifying The Speaker In Modernist Poetry

Topic 8: The Lost Generation

Topic 9: The Southern Renaissance

Topic 10: The Harlem Renaissance

Topic 11: Postmodernism

Topic 12: Civil Rights And Multicultural America

1. Do you know the major literary movements that were a part of the Modernist movements?

Imagism, Symbolism, Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism, and Dada

2. Can you explain the general theme of Modernist literature?

Willingness to try new forms of artwork, Absurdity, Pessimism, individual, Rejection of traditional thought and ideas

3. How did the social, political, and cultural movements in the United States shape modernism?

Harlem, southern-changing cultural values-undermine European. WW1

4. Identify and explain the elements of the TPCASTT model for poetry analysis?

title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title, theme

5. Can you explain the themes and content of Robert Frosts The Mending Wall and After Apple Picking?

Inevitability-societal dislocation, life and death

6. Can you explain the multiple types or grammatical uses of infinitives?

Nominal: That child needs me to look after her.
Adjectival: Im looking for a place to sit down.
Adverbial: To succeed, you have to work hard.