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Take notes to help you remember key terms and concepts relating to modernism. Fill in the blanks
below or follow the directions to complete these notes. You can personalize the notes by adding your
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Modernism
• was both a________________ and a(n)________________ movement

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• developed in the________________ decades of the________________ century
• influenced literature in Europe, the________________ and parts of
________________ and ________________
Modernism in England
• began in the ________________; lasted until the early________________

• reinvented the________________ of literature, such as narration or poetic form

• Ulysses, by________________, is considered the peak of modernist fiction.

• Modernist poets, like________________, replace traditional stanza forms with

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________________.
Defining Characteristics of Modernism
• a sense of ________________

• rejection of ________________

• elevation of the ________________

• emphasis on ________________ and ________________ rather than social life

• use of stream of consciousness narration, in which ________________

• the emergence of ________________ as a deep-seated attitude, not just a literary

technique

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British Literature