ENG 262 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
Modernist Principles? - Answers To make it new.
Modernism? - Answers A general term applied retrospectively, meaning after, to the wide range of
experimental and avant-garde, meaning new and unusual, trends in the literature of the early 20th
century.
Modernism breaks away from what? - Answers Established rules and traditions, while showing fresh
ways to look at a man's position, and it experiments in forms and styles.
Referring to the individuals who tried to move away from established modes of representation? -
Answers Modernism.
What idea does modernism reject? - Answers Positivism, meaning, Everything, including human
nature, could be explained and understood through science.
Cause of civilian deaths? - Answers starvation, exposure, disease, military encounters, and massacres.
What did the enormity of the war undermine? - Answers Humankind's faith in western society.
The war lost a generation of what? - Answers Young men.
Survivors reexamined bases of what? - Answers Certainty, structures of knowledge, and systems of
belief and authorities.
The war created feelings of what? - Answers Hopelessness.
Postwar modernist literature reflected a sense of what? - Answers Disillusionment and
fragmentation.
Karl Marx's view of historical progress? - Answers The Political struggle between two classes resulting
in a new socioeconomic order, the rich versus the poor.
Charles Darwin's new view of humanity? - Answers Ascended from apes rather than descended from
God; Darwin shifts humanity's concept of its place in the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche shifted cultural ideologies about religion and philosphy? - Answers He said "God is
Dead" and argued for the power of the human will.
Sigmund Freud stressed what? - Answers Subconscious motives and instinctual drives.
After Freud? - Answers Impossible to ignore psychological undercurrents of human behaviors.
Freud's view on writers? - Answers Writers deal with subconscious motivations.
Writers employs what from Freud? - Answers Stream of consciousness technique similar to Freud's
therapeutic tactic of free association.
Expressionism? - Answers Refused direct representation of reality, instead expressed inner vision,
emotion, and spiritual reality.
The Scream by Edvard Munch? - Answers Evokes spiritual agony through its expressionism.
Surrealism? - Answers Fuller awareness of human experience, both unconscious and conscious
states.
Themes of modernism - Answers Decentered, pessimistic, disaffected, a "literature in crisis", loss and
despair, violence and alienation, race relations, historical discontinuity, decadence and decay,
rejection of history, unavoidable change.
Modernist writing characteristics? - Answers Elevation of art over everything and avant garde,
meaning alienated from social reality and it is new and unusual.
What does Modernism reject? - Answers 19th century traditions, instead, it represents a stream of
consciousness.
Modernist writing explores what? - Answers The human subconscious.
Modernist writing searches for what? - Answers Truth.
How is time formatted in modernist writing? - Answers Circular rather than linear.
Modernist writing reacts against what? - Answers Realism and Victorian morality, find sexuality and
sexual desire as a subject.
Modernism is what one-word description? - Answers Disenchanted, meaning disillusion, or
something is not as good as it seemed.
Modernist writing experiments with? - Answers Points of view and narrative structure.
Modernist writing exhibits? - Answers Stream of consciousness and unreliable narrators.
Psychological Realism? - Answers Seeks to represent the character's thoughts, feelings, and
memories; his or her consciousness.
Modernist Principles? - Answers To make it new.
Modernism? - Answers A general term applied retrospectively, meaning after, to the wide range of
experimental and avant-garde, meaning new and unusual, trends in the literature of the early 20th
century.
Modernism breaks away from what? - Answers Established rules and traditions, while showing fresh
ways to look at a man's position, and it experiments in forms and styles.
Referring to the individuals who tried to move away from established modes of representation? -
Answers Modernism.
What idea does modernism reject? - Answers Positivism, meaning, Everything, including human
nature, could be explained and understood through science.
Cause of civilian deaths? - Answers starvation, exposure, disease, military encounters, and massacres.
What did the enormity of the war undermine? - Answers Humankind's faith in western society.
The war lost a generation of what? - Answers Young men.
Survivors reexamined bases of what? - Answers Certainty, structures of knowledge, and systems of
belief and authorities.
The war created feelings of what? - Answers Hopelessness.
Postwar modernist literature reflected a sense of what? - Answers Disillusionment and
fragmentation.
Karl Marx's view of historical progress? - Answers The Political struggle between two classes resulting
in a new socioeconomic order, the rich versus the poor.
Charles Darwin's new view of humanity? - Answers Ascended from apes rather than descended from
God; Darwin shifts humanity's concept of its place in the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche shifted cultural ideologies about religion and philosphy? - Answers He said "God is
Dead" and argued for the power of the human will.
Sigmund Freud stressed what? - Answers Subconscious motives and instinctual drives.
After Freud? - Answers Impossible to ignore psychological undercurrents of human behaviors.
Freud's view on writers? - Answers Writers deal with subconscious motivations.
Writers employs what from Freud? - Answers Stream of consciousness technique similar to Freud's
therapeutic tactic of free association.
Expressionism? - Answers Refused direct representation of reality, instead expressed inner vision,
emotion, and spiritual reality.
The Scream by Edvard Munch? - Answers Evokes spiritual agony through its expressionism.
Surrealism? - Answers Fuller awareness of human experience, both unconscious and conscious
states.
Themes of modernism - Answers Decentered, pessimistic, disaffected, a "literature in crisis", loss and
despair, violence and alienation, race relations, historical discontinuity, decadence and decay,
rejection of history, unavoidable change.
Modernist writing characteristics? - Answers Elevation of art over everything and avant garde,
meaning alienated from social reality and it is new and unusual.
What does Modernism reject? - Answers 19th century traditions, instead, it represents a stream of
consciousness.
Modernist writing explores what? - Answers The human subconscious.
Modernist writing searches for what? - Answers Truth.
How is time formatted in modernist writing? - Answers Circular rather than linear.
Modernist writing reacts against what? - Answers Realism and Victorian morality, find sexuality and
sexual desire as a subject.
Modernism is what one-word description? - Answers Disenchanted, meaning disillusion, or
something is not as good as it seemed.
Modernist writing experiments with? - Answers Points of view and narrative structure.
Modernist writing exhibits? - Answers Stream of consciousness and unreliable narrators.
Psychological Realism? - Answers Seeks to represent the character's thoughts, feelings, and
memories; his or her consciousness.
