USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A group of writers that had survived WWI and were deeply affected by the horrors of war were called:
A
Harlem Renaissance
B
Great Migration
C
Lost Generation
D
Transcendentalists
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Known as the Lost Generation, writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and John Dos Passos expressed their hopelessness and despair by skewering the middle class in their work. They felt alienated from society, so they tried to escape (some literally) to criticize it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gertrude Stein is credited for the term Lost Generation, though Hemingway made it widely known.

Detailed explanation-3: -In literature, the “Lost Generation” refers to a group of writers and poets who were men and women of this period. All were American, but several members emigrated to Europe. The most famous members were Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S.

Detailed explanation-4: -The “Lost Generation” reached adulthood during or shortly after World War I. Disillusioned by the horrors of war, they rejected the traditions of the older generation. Their struggles were characterized in the works of a group of famous American authors and poets including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F.

Detailed explanation-5: -Though first intended to denote Americans brought to Europe by the First World War, the “Lost Generation” refers to writers and other artists from the United States who took up residence in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. The words themselves were first attributed to Gertrude Stein by Ernest Hemingway.

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