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What are the key features of modern literature?

broad scope of topics and techniques, experimentation, conversational idiom

broad scope of linguistic means, conventional topics, traditionalism

broad scope of characters, linguistic sophistication, monopolized narration

Which author was efficiently using polyphony to narrate the story of the South?

W. Faulker

Gertrude Stein

William Carlos Williams

What is naturalism?

a development of transcendentalism celebrating a person as the key creation of nature

regional short fiction placing specific emphasis on poetic descriptions of nature

an extreme form of fatalistic and pessimistic realism presenting people completely controlled by economic, social, or biological forces.

Which writer famously explored the topic of courage and resilience under pressure and individual victories?

Ernest Hemingway

Sherwood Anderson

William Faulkner

Which poet takes graphic experimentation to the extreme?

e.e.cummings

Gertrude Stein

William Carlos Williams

Which writers focused on the topics of industrialism and social alienation?

Upton Sinclair, Frank Norris

Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Mitchell

Which writer was the key depicter of the Roaring Twenties?

Van Wyck Brooks

Thomas Wolfe

F.S. Fitzgerald

Which of these writers are considered to be the leading naturalists in American literature?

Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson

Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Stephen Crane

Frank Norris, John Steinbeck, Upton Sinclair

The topic of the Civil War was explored by the following writers:

Frank Norris, Robert Penn Warren, Harrier Beecher Stowe

Ambrose Bierce. Stephen Crane, Margaret Mitchell

John Dos Passos, Amos Bronson Alcott, Theodore Dreiser