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English | Graded Assignment | Semester Test, Part 2
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Graded Assignment
Semester Test, Part 2
Read each question carefully. Answer in the space provided.
Total score: ____ of 70 points
(Score for Question 1: ___ of 15 points)
1. Consider the poems, short stories, and autobiographical pieces you read from the first half
of the twentieth century during this semester. How did historical events and realities affect
writers who were working during this time? What common threads did you observe in the
works of these writers? Cite specific examples from various texts in your response.
Answer:
It is particular that the history of poems, short stories and autobiographical pieces cannot be
understood without reference to the coexistence in the first half of the twentieth century. It was
characterized by modernism as well as traditional approaches to literature gotten from the Victorian
period. During the first half of the twentieth century, the modernist writers reacted against realism in
fiction. Furthermore, they utilized the remains of Romantic sentimentalism in poetry through the
introduction of technical innovations that could be utilized to observe realities from the point of view of
the irrational, the subconscious, the anti-sentimental as well as the highly individualistic. Besides,
writers were greatly influenced by the new post-war order. They had to explain the new historical reality
and the position of individuals. The writers had to make a choice between traditional literary models
which was appropriate for the transmission of accurate portrait of the individual in a changing society
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