Quiz Q 4 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Atrocity
A horrible or brutal attack
Hysteria
Uncontrolled excitement
Apocryphal
Of questionable authority, false
Alliances
Close associations entered into for mutual benefit
Intrigue
Scheming, plotting
Archaic
Old fashioned
Vindicated
Proved correct
Pauper
Extremely poor person
Circumvent
Avoid by cleverness or deceit
Virulent
Full of hate, venomus
Tranquit
Calm, quiet
Perverse
Odd, country
acrid
Bitter, irritateing
Deluge
Rush, flood
Myad
Almost beyond counting
Legacy
Money or property left to a person by the will of someone who has died
Grotesque
Strange, absurd
Revernetail
Deeply respectful
Pious
Devoted to ones religion
Inert
Sluggish, inactive
Trepidation
Anxious uncertainty
Modernism 1914-1939
Responce to ww1, wasteland, inner life of people, everyone starting over
The individual is iicolated from everyone else
Anti hero
Not a villian, but does not display action
Hemingway 1899-1961
“A soldiers home” bull fighting, selling his personality involved in spanish civil war and ww2.
Cultivated iceburg writing, and tight
Depressing moral + emotional wasteland after ww1