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

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

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Stream of consciousness writing is associated with the early 20th-century Modernist movement. The term “stream of consciousness” originated in psychology before literary critics began using it to describe a narrative style that depicts how people think

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Modernist Writers: Briefly describe each author's contribution to the Modern literary period. - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Ernest Hemingway - John Steinbeck

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Modernist Writers: Briefly describe each author's contribution to the Modern literary period. - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Ernest Hemingway - John Steinbeck

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was able to reflect the mood and be able to capture the bold and romantic during this period. Ernest Hemingway had reflected a sense of life that was not going to live up to its promise. John Steinbeck's novels include a break from tradition and experimentation of new things .

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

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

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One of the events that helped with American Modernism is WW1. In this event it helped shape the american modernism because it changed the way these people see things. It affected a lot like business, art, to social commentary. Modernists display a level of self consciousness not seen in any other movements. Also being that the roaring twenties also was a boom in construction and also the rapid growth in consumer goods such as automobiles and electricity. The Great Depression devastated the US economy. Half of all the banks failed. Unemployment rose to 25% and homelessness increased. Housing prices plummeted by 30%. Prices fell 10% every year

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General Overview: Each -ism (i.e. Puritanism, Deism, Romanticism, Realism, and now Modernism) is a term that describes the American people and how they viewed and understood life. Provide a description of Modernism and use the following questions to help guide your response. 

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General Overview: Each -ism (i.e. Puritanism, Deism, Romanticism, Realism, and now Modernism) is a term that describes the American people and how they viewed and understood life. Provide a description of Modernism and use the following questions to help guide your response. 

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Literary modernism, or modernist literature, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. Modernism took place in the 1900s and modernism focused on architecture, literature, and philosophy. The beliefs of modernism was that there was no such thing as absolute truth, and they believed  that the world is created in the act of perceiving it, that is, the world is what we say it is.