Black humor mostly is employed to describe baleful, naive, or inept characters in a fantastic or nightmarish modern world playing out their roles in what Ionesco called a “____”, in which the events are often simultaneously comic, horrifying, and absurd.
A. tragic farce
B. epic
C. sonnet
D. American dream
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Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation in their works?
A. Fragmentation and alienation.
B. Courage and honor.
C. Tradition and faith.
D. Poverty and desperation.
Among the African American writers of the first half of the 20th century, ___ was the most durable and versatile: he was a poet, playwright, novelist, song writer, biographer, editor, newspaper columnist, translator and lecturer.
A. Counte Cullen
B. Cloude McKay
C. Jean Toomer
D. Langston Hughes
American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were“____” given by Gertrude Stein.
A. Beat Generation
B. Great Generation
C. LostGeneration
D. Beatles Generation
William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.
A. Eastern
B. Western
C. Southern
D. Northern