Contemporary and Postmodern Quiz

Experimentalism is...

• an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles

• the state of being outside

• the process of breaking apart into small pieces

• a scientific process

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Exteriority is...

• the state of being inside

• the state of being outside

• the process of breaking apart into smaller pieces

• an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Multiplication (as a literary term) is...

• the state of being inside or within

• the process of breaking apart into small pieces

• many; an increase in the number of something

• humorous or satirical mimicry

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

"Stream of consciousness" is...

• humorous or satirical mimicry

• increasing the number of something

• a literary style associated with Modernism in which a person's thoughts, feelings, and reactions to events are perceived as a continuous flow

• the state of being inside or within

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Parody is...

• the process of breaking apart into small pieces

• the state of being inside or within

• Taking humor out of the situation

• humorous or satirical mimicry

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Fragmentation is...

• the state of being outside

• putting thoughts back together

• the process of breaking apart into small pieces

• many; an increase in the number or amount of something

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Interiority is...

• a literary style associated with Modernism in which a person's thoughts, feelings and reactions to events are perceived as a continuous flow

• humorous or satirical mimicry

• the state of being inside or within

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

True or false:

Modernist authors focus on the inner thoughts of characters and often do so through a first-person narrator.

• True

• False

True or false:

Postmodernist authors focus on the society and exterior world in which the characters are embedded and often involve multiple narrative voices with “unique and often conflicting perspectives.”

• True

• False

Which World War created an unstable, alienating feeling for many modernist writers, which is reflected in their use of fragmented time and characters’ complicated inner worlds?

• WWI

• WWII