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Provide a brief explanation of the literary device, how it was characteristic of Modernism, and provide an example. 

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Provide a brief explanation of the literary device, how it was characteristic of Modernism, and provide an example. 

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Explain how these events helped to shape American Modernism. WWI The Roaring 1920s The Great Depression

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Explain how these events helped to shape American Modernism. WWI The Roaring 1920s The Great Depression

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Fitzgerald's style was similar to the jazz age of writing. His writing brought to life flappers, tycoons, and other characters emblematic of the 1920's.

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What is the Time Period of American Modernism?  

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What is the Time Period of American Modernism?  

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American Modernism started at the beginning of the 20th century. They started in 1914 and ended in 1939.

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One example from James Joyce is by using stream-of-consciousness he brings the reader into close proximity with the characters actual thoughts as they're occurring. He creates an intimate perhaps even uncomfortably intimate knowledge of that characters struggle another famous practitioner of stream-of-consciousness narration was

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WW1 was able to see the prevailing assumptions about society reassessed.  People were scared, sad , worried . The way they thought made people question themselves.
Writers created more cynical works that reflected a prevailing sense of disillusionment

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Ernest Hemingway was considered the most influential of all the post World War 1 writers. He was famous for his Literary Style which affected the style of American prose fictions for several generations. He reduced the attraction of literary language to the bare bones of the truth it must express.

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What was important to the American people during this time period?

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What was important to the American people during this time period?

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American people during this time really believed that they should forget the past historical events and wanted to rewrite them. They also believed that function should always dictate form.

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Many modernist writers share a mistrust of institutions of power such as government and religion. They rejected the notion of absolute truths.

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One of his novel's is considered one of the most significant during the Great depression. The book was called "The Grapes of Wrath". It is about how a sad odyssey of the Joad Family went from a bulldozed tenant farm in Oklahoma to the indignities of California Labor camps.

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Identify and explain the characteristics of Modernism? 

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Identify and explain the characteristics of Modernism? 

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The characteristics of modernism were break with traditional writing, and changing it to make it new

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Stocks were worthless, banks and businesses were closed and formerly secure citizens lost their jobs. 12 million people were unemployed, homeless families lived in tents and shacks in camps called Hoovervilles.