The Allies were the British Empire, France, and the Russian Empire. The United State eventually joined them.

The Central Powers were the British Empire, France, and the Russian Empire. The United State eventually joined them.

World War I damaged the belief that America was the Land of Opportunity.

The bootlegger, the speak-easy, the short-skirted flapper, the rhythms of jazz, and the dangerous but lucrative profession of the gangster are all associated with the Civil War.

Writer Toni Morrison gave the Jazz Age its name.

The New Deal was created by Roosevelt to ease the effects of poverty and unemployment.

The speaker in Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" could be described as

In Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the "yellow smoke" that covers the city streets is metaphorically described using the movements of

In Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" what can we infer about measuring time with "coffee spoons"?

In Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the speaker is mainly worried about

Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a dramatic monologue.

T.S. Eliot won a Nobel Prize.

"The Death of a Hired Man" was written by the famous poet, William Faulkner.

In "The Death of a Hired Man" we can infer that Warren is generally rude to people like Silas.

In "The Death of a Hired Man" Mary describes home as a place where they have to take you in, while Warren describes it as a place you haven't earned.

Silas walked 13 miles to their farm. Frost chose the number 13 as it in unlucky and represents Silas's future.

Robert Frost was a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Robert Frost has degrees from both Dartmouth and Harvard.

Silas returns to Warren and Mary's farm at the end of his life, because he has nowhere else to go, and it the only place that he considered home.

William Faulkner

In "A Rose for Emily" what emotions are readers expected to feel toward Emily?

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Faulkner says that “the human heart in conflict with itself” is the only thing worth writing about. How does “A Rose for Emily:” portray the human heart in conflict with itself?

How does Faulkner feel about the award he is receiving?

What is the setting of “A Rose for Emily”?

What inference can you make based on the strand of gray hair discovered at the end of “A Rose for Emily”?

Zora Neale Hurston is known for writing Their Eyes Were Watching God and Dust Tracks on a Road.

Why would Hurston's grandmother be afraid of her granddaughter's boldness in Dust Tracks on a Road?

What are Zora Neale Hurston's favorite books?

In Dust Tracks on a Road, when visitors come to her school, what do they bring?

Which of these actions indicates Hurston's desire to get away from her small town world?

Langston Hughes went to Columbia University, was part of the Harlem Renaissance, and got his start as the "busboy poet."

What are some of the injustices the people of Harlem remember, according to the speaker in the poem "Harlem"?

According to the speaker in the poem "Harlem," what did the man at the corner say?

According to the speaker in the poem "Harlem" why can't the people mentioned get jobs?

In the poem "Harlem" why does the speaker mention the price of items?

In the poem "Harlem" the word old is repeated many times. Why does Hughes imply with this repetition?

One major historical event we mentioned that influenced this time period was: