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Read the passage from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922):“April is the cruellest month,...

Read the passage from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922):


“April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land…”


What literary characteristic is illustrated?


A

Modernist fragmentation, juxtaposing cultural references to depict disillusion and decay.


B

Romantic idealization of nature, presenting spring as source of harmony and renewal.


C

Postcolonial resistance discourse, rejecting Eurocentric views of nature and literature.


D

Realist depiction of environment, describing natural cycles with precise scientific detail.


E

Classical Aristotelian poetics, emphasizing catharsis through tragic elements of fate.