1. Listening for main ideas.
2. Outlining main ideas.
3. Looking for key words.
4. Taking notes.
5. Weighing the evidence.
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World War 2 wasn't a major influence for modernist writers. Modernism was a cultural and artistic movement held in the between 1914 and 1945, so modernist writers wrote about the cruel consequences <span>in society </span>of World War 1 and the Great Depression, among other topics.