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Modernist literature broadly responded to which conflict?
AFirst World War
BCrimean War
CNapoleonic Wars
DBoer War
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. First World War
1. The 1914-18 war shattered Edwardian confidence.
2. Major modernist works of the 1920s absorb the trauma.
3. Form mirrors content: fragmentation echoing rupture.
_Source: Coverage brief — BA English Literature syllabus areas — "Modern + Postmodern (literary period 1900-)"_
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