Modernism. Poetry. Eliot

When the movement of Modernism appeared?

• 1890-1900

• 1910

• 1870

• 1899

Who of the authors is NOT a representative of Modernism movement?

• Franz Kafka

• Samuel Beckett

• Salman Rushdie

• T.S. Eliot

Modernism’s roots are in the rapidly changing technology of the late 19 century and in the theories of such late 19-century thinkers as Freud, Marx, Darwin, and Nietzsche.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Poets of this Modernism movement variation were encouraged to “simply present” an image; “do not comment anything” (start with the capital letter)

(a)  

___ no uniform philosophical beliefs but did commonly express an aversion to moral prudery, a desire for greater social tolerance, and pacifism in the face of two world wars [1907-1930]

• Fin de siecle

• The Lost Generation

• Bloomsbury Group

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

What's that?

(a)  

T.S.Eliot won a Noble Prize in literature

• True

• Not true

Select an example of simile

• Bread is used to refer to food in general or money.

• Chaos is a friend of the legislator.

• April is the cruelest month of the year.

• The new teacher is as tall as a giraffe.

Thissentence is an example of:

1. The bride and groom were not surprised to hear the familiar sound of clinking glasses.

(a)  

The attribution of human characteristics to non-living objects

• • Pun

• • Hyperbole

• Personification

• • Paradox