Key Terms

  • American Communist Party
  • Armistice
  • Arthur Miller
  • Countee Cullen
  • Cubism
  • Dixie Limited
  • Dramatic Monologue
  • Dust Bowl
  • e. e. cummings
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Ellen Glasgow
  • Epigraph
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Eudora Welty
  • Jean Toomer
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset
  • Langston Hughes
  • Low Modernism
  • “Make It New!”
  • Marianne Moore
  • Modernism
  • Modernist
  • Nella Larsen
  • Nobel Prize
  • Prose
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • Racial Inequality
  • Robert Frost
  • 1 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Fitzgerald Reader. New York: Scribner, 1963. Print., 239
  • 2 Ibid.
  • 3 “Arthur Miller Lecture.” NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities, 26 Mar. 2001. Web. 10 Dec. 2015
  • 4 Glasgow, Ellen. A Certain Measure: An Interpretation of Prose Fiction. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1938.
  • 5 “The Crisis.” Editorial. The Crisis. ed. Nov. 1910. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.
  • 6 “Excerpts from Countee Cullen’s Forward to Caroling Dusk.” Modern American Poetry Site. Ed. Cary Nelson and Bartholomew Brinkman. Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, n.d. Web. 10 July 2015.

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