参考答案：Briefly explain the following items:1、①Modernism is a comprehensive but vague term for a movement(or tendency), which began to get under way in the closing years of the 19th century, and which has had a wide influence internationally during much of the 20th century.②The term pertains to all the creative arts, especially poetry, fiction, drama, painting, music and architecture.③In England from early in the 20th century and during the 1920s and 1930s, in America from shortly before the First World War and on during the inter-war period, modernist tendencies were at their most active and fruitful. ④As far as literature i...